Family Cookie Exchange

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Every year around this time, we get to work making cookies. We have to feed Santa, after all. These cookie recipes have been in our family since my mother was a child. They bring back the fondest memories or my grandmother who I miss desperately. I will say these are not traditional royal icing sugar cookie recipes. In fact, most would see these as standard every day cookies! I agree with you! At Christmas time I get particularly sappy when making them but they are delicious 365. I am so excited to share them all with you today! I am sharing 3 cookie recipes total:

1. Grandmother Mahoney’s Oatmeal Cookies

2. Cinnamon Sugar Cookies

3. Chocolate Chip Cookies

So hard to pick a favorite of mine. I would say it is a toss up between Grandmother Mahoney’s and Cinnamon Sugar…

Courtesy of The Dish Story

Grandmother Mahoney’s Oatmeal Cookies

Preheat Oven: 350

Ingredients:

• 3 Eggs (well beaten)

• 1 c. Raisins

• 1tsp. Vanilla

• 1 c. Shortening

• 1 c. Brown Sugar

• 1 c. Granulated Sugar

• 2 1/2 c. Sifted Flour

• 1 tsp. Salt

• 2 tsp. Baking. Soda

• 1 tsp Cinnamon

• 2 c. Oatmeal

• 1/2 c. Walnuts

Directions:

Combine eggs, raisins and vanilla. You can add a splash of brandy if you like! Let mixture set for one hour. Preheat oven to 350. Thoroughly cream shortening, brown sugar and granulated sugar. Sift flour, salt, baking soda and cinnamon into sugar mixture. Mix well. Blend in egg/raisin mixture, oatmeal and nuts. Dough will be stiff. Push dough from heaping teaspoons into an ungreased cookie sheet or roll it into small balls, flatten between hands and place on cookie sheet. Bake 10-12 minutes or until lightly brown.

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Cinnamon Sugar Cookies

Preheat oven: 400

Ingredients

• 1 c. Shortening

• 2 Eggs

• 1 tsp. Baking Soda

• 1/2 tsp. Salt

• 1 1/2 c. Sugar

• 2 1/2 c. Sifted Flour

• 2 tsp. Cream of Tartar

• 1 tsp. Vanilla

Directions:

Cream shortening, sugar and unbeaten eggs. Sift dry ingredients and ass to creamed mixture. Add vanilla. Roll into small balls the size of walnuts. Roll in a cinnamon and sugar mixture so the entire ball is coated. Place o an ungreased cookie sheet Bake for 10 minutes.

Note: sifted flour- flour usually comes sifted. Check the bag. Don’t resift before measuring

Photo courtesy of @macarraf

Chocolate Chip Cookies

Preheat oven: 375

Ingredients:

• 2 1/4 c. Shifted Flour

• 1 tsp Baking Soda

• 1 tsp Salt

• 1 c. Softened Butter

• 3/4 c. Granulated Sugar

• 3/4 c. Firmly Packed Brown Sugar

• 1 tsp Vanilla

• 1/2 tsp Water

• 2 Eggs

• Chocolate Chips (you decide how many you like)

Directions:

Sift together flour, baking soda and salt. Set the mixture aside. Best together butter, granulated sugar, brown sugar, vanilla and water until creamy. Beat in two eggs. Add flour mixture in and mix well. Stir in chocolate chips. Drop well mounded teaspoons on to a greased cookie sheet. Bake 10-12 minutes.