Chocolate Chip Cinnamon Cookies

Chocolate Chip Cinnamon Cookies

Author: Seawaters of California

Ingredients

  • 1/2 cup rolled oats
  • 2-1/4 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1-1/2 teaspoons baking soda
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
  • 1 cup 2 sticks butter, softened
  • 3/4 cup brown sugar packed
  • 3/4 cup granulated sugar
  • 1-1/2 teaspoons vanilla
  • 1/2 teaspoon lemon juice
  • 2 eggs
  • 3 cups semi-sweet chocolate chips
  • 1-1/2 cups chopped walnuts

Instructions

  • Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grind oats in a food processor or blender until fine. Combine the ground oats with the flour, baking soda, salt and cinnamon in a medium bowl. Cream together the butter, sugars, vanilla, and lemon juice in another medium bowl with an electric mixer. Add the eggs and mix until smooth. Stir the dry mixture into the wet mixture and blend well. Add the chocolate chips and nuts to the dough and mix by hand until ingredients are well-incorporated. Spoon rounded 1/4-cup portions onto an ungreased cookie sheet. Place the scoops about 2 inches apart. You don't need to press the dough flat. Bake for 16-18 minutes or until cookies are light brown and soft in the middle. Store in a sealed container when cool to keep soft. For the best results, chill the dough overnight in the refrigerator before baking the cookies.

 

Holiday Punch

Holiday Punch

Author: chanelsmile112298 of Cleveland Ohio

Ingredients

  • 1 quart cranberry juice
  • 1 c. sugar
  • 2 c. orange juice
  • 1 c. pineapple juice
  • 3/4 cup lemon juice or frozen lemonade
  • 2 c. chilled ginger ale
  • 1 pint sherbet optional

Instructions

  • Stir all the ingredients together in a large punch bowl.

Notes

I put frozen strawberries instead to keep the punch cool plus they taste great as they thaw!)

 

Cinnamon Christmas Trees

Cinnamon Christmas Trees

Author: Rob of Kentucky

Ingredients

  • 1 12.4-oz. can Cinnamon Rolls with Icing
  • 4 candied cherries cut into quarters

Instructions

  • Heat oven to 375 F. Grease cookie sheet. Remove cinnamon rolls from can. Arrange 3 whole cinnamon rolls in triangle in center of greased cookie sheet. 2.Cut remaining rolls in half. Arrange to look like tree (3 halves on each side of triangle and 1 for trunk). Loosely place 30x1-inch strip of foil around outside edges to prevent excessive browning.3.Bake at 375 F. for 13 to 19 minutes or until deep golden brown. Loosen tree carefully with pancake turner. Carefully slide onto serving platter. Frost warm rolls. Decorate as desired with cherries.

 

Uncooked Chocolate Bars

Uncooked Chocolate Bars

Author: Kelly Ann of Swansea, UK

Ingredients

  • 50 g 2oz of butter or margarine
  • 200 g 7oz plain chocolate
  • 3 tablespoons of golden syrup
  • 250 g 8oz digestive biscuits, crushed

Instructions

  • Place the butter or margarine, chocolate and syrup in a saucepan and heat gently until melted. Stir in the biscuits and mix thoroughly. Turn into a greased and lined shallow 18cm (7inc) square tin and smooth the top with a palette knife. Leave to set, then cut into bars!!

 

Tastes Like Fruitcake Cookies

Tastes Like Fruitcake Cookies

Author: Seawaters of California

Ingredients

  • 1 1/4 cups yellow cake mix
  • 1/4 cup packed brown sugar
  • 1/2 cup butter flavored shortening at room temperature
  • 1 egg
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1/4 teaspoon almond extract
  • 1/4 cup dried cherries
  • 1/4 cup white raisins
  • 1/4 cup chopped dried apricots or pineapple
  • 1/4 cup chopped walnuts
  • 1/4 cup chopped almonds
  • 1/4 cup chopped pecans

Instructions

  • Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. In a large bowl, blend cake mix, brown sugar. Add to dry mixture, the shortening, egg, vanilla and almond extract. Fold in cherries, raisins, apricots or pineapples, walnuts, almonds, and pecans or your favorite nut. Blend mixture well. Drop cookie dough (dough should be sticky, doughy, not too wet), if too wet add a couple of spoonfuls of leftover cake mix to give it the right consistency) by spoonfuls, about 2 inches apart on an ungreased cookie sheet. Bake for 15 to 20 minutes or until golden brown.

 

Mulled Wine

Mulled Wine

Author: trackrebel of Germany

Ingredients

  • 1 bottle red wine
  • 60 g/2oz demerara sugar
  • 1 cinnamon stick
  • grated nutmeg
  • 1 orange halved
  • 1 dried bay leaf
  • 60 ml/2fl oz sloe or damson gin optional

Instructions

  • Put the wine in a saucepan with the orange, sugar, bay leaf and the spices. 2. Heat gently until the sugar has dissolved. Taste to see if you want the wine sweeter, and add more sugar to taste. 3. Off the heat, stir in the damson gin if you are using it. 4. Strain into heatproof glasses and serve at once.

 

Blackberry Cream Coffee Cake

Blackberry Cream Coffee Cake

Author: Seawaters of California

Ingredients

  • 1-3/4 cups all purpose flour
  • 1/2 cup granulated sugar
  • 3/4 cup butter softened
  • 2 eggs
  • 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • 1/4 cup granulated sugar
  • 8 ounces cream cheese softened
  • 1 egg
  • 1 teaspoon grated lemon peel
  • 10 ounce jar blackberry preserves
  • 1/3 cup powdered sugar
  • 3 teaspoons lemon juice

Instructions

  • Preheat oven to 350. Grease and flour bottom and sides of a spring form pan. Combine flour, sugar, butter, eggs, baking powder, baking soda, salt and vanilla. Beat at medium speed scraping bowl often until well mixed about 2 minutes. Spread batter on bottom and up sides of prepared pan. Combine 1/4 cup sugar, cream cheese, egg and lemon peel in large mixer bowl. Beat at medium speed scraping bowl often until smooth about 3 minutes. Pour over batter in pan then spoon preserves evenly over filling. Bake 45 minutes then cool for 20 minutes. Loosen sides of cake from pan by running knife around inside of pan then remove side of pan. Stir together powdered sugar and lemon juice until smooth then drizzle over warm coffeecake. Serve warm or cold.

 

Carrot Pineapple Cake

Carrot Pineapple Cake

Ingredients

  • 2 C. white sugar
  • 1 ½ C. Oil
  • C. Brown Sugar
  • 1 can crushed pineapple with juice
  • 3 C. sifted flower
  • 3 Eggs
  • 2 tsp. baking powder
  • tsp. salt
  • 2 C. Grated raw carrots
  • 1 C. Raisins
  • 1 C. nuts
  • 1 tsp. cinnamon
  • 2 tsp. vanilla

Instructions

  • Cream together sugar and oil. Add eggs one at a time and beat well after each. Add pineapple with juice. Sift flour and dry ingredients and add to creamed mixture. Add all other ingredients. Pour into a well greased pan and bake at 325 for 70 minutes.