Linda Cicero's Holiday Treats Recipe Card
A 1989 Cook's Garner recipe features Linda Cicero and the Thal brothers sharing a rich cookie dough and filling process. Cream cheese and butter form the base, rolled with preserves and nuts, baked until golden, yielding about 144 cookies with nutrition notes.
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Almond brittle substitute recipe with nuts and sugars
For almond brittle, substitute dry roasted almonds for peanuts and almond extract for vanilla. Pecans macadamia nuts or cashews also work well. Mix sugar and corn syrup, microwave, add nuts, butter, vanilla, baking soda, then pour onto pan and cool. Makes about 1 pound 30 servings.
Easy Baked Toffee Bars With Pecans And Chocolate
Butter and brown sugar are melted to form a toffee then baked with pecans. After 15 minutes the surface is topped with chocolate chips and remaining pecans, cooled, and broken into about 60 pieces. Per piece nutrition listed.
Cake Mix Yummies: Chewy Bars From Readers Corner
Cook's Corner shares a simple doctored cake mix bar cookie recipe with yellow cake mix, cream cheese, butter, nuts, and chocolate chips. Variations include orange cake mix with dried fruits and cranberries. The method yields 36 bars with calories and nutrition per serving.
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Limey Wafers Cookies From Imaginative Doughs
A playful recipe notes lime zest and juice for limey wafers, with orange zest option and cocoa espresso variant. Includes butter sugar dough, refrigerate, roll, bake 350F about 12 minutes, coat while warm, and store up to two weeks.
Pistachio Thumbprint Cookies Variation
Pistachio thumbprint cookies with optional almond or walnut substitutions mix butter sugar vanilla and finely chopped pistachios, then beat in flour and form dough. Chill, portion, press thumb indent, fill, bake 12 to 15 minutes, cool and dust with confectioners sugar for about 3 dozen cookies.
Spiced Nuts Recipe Card
Steps bake spiced nuts with egg white sugar and cinnamon. Mix coating and bake at 275 degrees for 30 minutes until crisp. Cool separate and store up to a month. Yields about 16 servings with 135 calories per serving and nutritional details.
Scottish Shortbread Method From 1984 Burns Dinner
Isabella Buchanan teaches a Scottish shortbread method for a Robert Burns dinner. Readers suggest an alternate forming style using two 8 inch pans, pressed dough, baked at 300 degrees, cut into wedges for 24 servings with detailed ingredients and nutrition per cookie.
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Isabella Buchanan
Miriam Lincoln
Forgotten Cookies Recipe Sparks Reader Interest
A 1995 recipe request for forgotten cookies drew reader interest. The simple meringue like treats are baked then left overnight in a 325 degree oven with the door closed. Variations include cocoa, cherries, dried fruit, or butterscotch chips with egg whites and cream of tartar.
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