The nurses on my unit have an annual cookie contest. Last year our "Michael Jackson" cookies, as we call them, took only second place. I was shocked that there was a cookie someone considered to be better than these chocolate and melted marshmallow pieces of heaven. But the time has come for the cookie contest once again. The ladies who placed first and third are already talking smack; they each insist that I'm going down, but don't taunt each other.
I am sending a plea out there for the best cookie recipes you have. In order to win, I think it will have to be more than just delicious. It will have to be cute, perhaps slightly unusual, and have a clever name. If your recipe doesn't have a clever name, we can always create one. Last year we renamed the Michael Jackson cookies "Thrillers" since M.J. was not as cool in 2006 as he was in 1986.
Post your recipes. I already have Bob's amazing oatmeal cookies, but I just don't think they're flashy enough to take home the prize. I still proudly display last year's second place red ribbon.
3 comments:
Coconut Cream Cheese Pinwheels
This is a cookie that is shaped like a pinwheel (as suggested by the title) and they have a coconut, cream cheese, white chocolate filling. They always garner many ooooooos and aaaahhhhs.
Cookie:
1/2 cup butter
3 oz cream cheese
1 egg
2/3 c. sugar
1/2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp vanilla
Cream butter & cr. chse until fluffy. Add egg and 1 cup of the flour. mix till combined. add sugar, pdr and vanilla, mix on low till combined. gradually add the second cup of flour. Refrigerate while you make the filling.
Filling:
3 oz cream cheese
3 Tablespoons sugar
1 cup coconut
1/3 cup white chocolate chips
Combine all ingredients.
Assembly:
Roll out dough until 1/4 inch thick. If available, use a crinkle cutter to cut it into 3 inch squares. (you can also use a knife or a pizza cutter. just not quite as cute.) Place a small scoop of filling in the middle of each square. Cut each square from each corner toward the center, but not all the way through. Bring every other corner to the center of the cookie to make a pinwheel. Brush with an eggwash and sprinkle with sanding sugar. Bake at 350 for 10 to twelve minutes. Call me if you have questions, if you need my phone number send me an email at rosiedaysatmacdotcom.
Good luck, and thanks for the info on your scene setters. I've seen them in the Oriental trading catalogue and ordered them when I was the Programs Queen, but I've never noticed them at a party store. I'm going to keep my eye out.
Grandma’s Famous Kolacky Recipe
(pronounced: "Cole-atch-key)
1 pint vanilla ice cream, at room temperature
1 pound butter, at room temperature
4 cups flour
Fruit preserves (your favorite – Grandma likes raspberry)
Beat ice cream and butter until smooth. Add flour and mix well. Chill.
Roll out ¼ inch sheet of dough (dough will be sticky and may be hard to work with, but it is well worth your effort!). Cut out rounds or squares. Make a dent in the center with your thumb. Fill with about ½ tsp of preserves.
Bake in preheated 375 degree oven for 15-20 minutes or until light brown.
Remove from oven and cool on cooling racks. Dust with powder sugar.
These are my mother's "Hungarian Cookies". They're not really Hungarian--unless you say that Grandma Fercik was born in the Austro-Hungarian empire, which she was. So you might want to change the name. Yeast cookies, cooked in a crescent shape. Here's the recipe:
1/4 lb. butter
1 cup whole milk
2 yeast cakes (or equivalent)
4 eggs
4-1/2 cups flour
1/2 lb. walnuts, finely chopped
Heat butter, milk, and a spoonful of sugar to lukewarm. Add yeast. In a large bowl, add beaten eggs to flour and mix. Add this mixture to yeast mixture. Mix to a smooth dough. Refrigerate until double. Knead a small amount of dough at a time. Roll dough out about 1/4" thick, using sugar instead of flour when you roll out the dough. Cut in squares, spoon nuts diagonally across squares and roll from one corner to opposite corner. Curve ends to form crescent and place on cookie sheet. (Use waxed paper on cookie sheet, saves scouring baked sugar off sheet.) Cook at 350 degrees until barely light brown--about 10 to 12 minutes. Remove immediately from cookie sheet. Love, Toots
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