Iced Butter Cookies
Iced Butter Cookies
Perfect for Christmas and Thanksgiving
Ingredients:
Cookies:
4 sticks (1 pound butter)
1 cup sugar
1 egg
4 cups flour
Icing:
1 stick butter
1 box powdered (confectionary) sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
milk (as needed)
Directions:
1. Mix butter and sugar
2. Add egg
3. Mix in flour
4. Use cookie cutter to make into smallish cookies (about 1.5 inches in diameter).
Cook each batch at 375 degrees for about 10 minutes (lightly brown)
5. Let cookies cool slightly before icing
Icing:>p> Cream butter
add sugar and mix
Add milk as needed for spreadable consistency
Add vanilla
Ice the cookies
Hot Brie Wheel with Almonds
HOT BRIE WHEEL WITH ALMONDS
1 complete wheel of Brie – about 3 to 5 inch in diameter
1 2-3 oz package of sliced almonds
2-3 Tablespoons butter
1 loaf of french or sourdough bread
Saute almonds in butter over very low heat until golden brown. Be careful not to brown or burn butter.
Pour almonds and butter over wheel which has been placed uncut on a microwave safe plate.
Microwave for about 40 seconds, until inside of wheel is melted.
Serve with bread as a first course.
Christmas Mix
Christmas Mix
In a large bowl mix together:
3 cups of rice chex
3 cups of wheat chex
3 cups of plain cheerios
2 cups of tiny pretzel sticks
a pound of plain M&M’s
2 cups of peanuts (optional)
Melt one pound of white chocolate over LOW heat.
When the white chocolate is completely melted, pour over the snack mixture in the bowl.
Stir it all up until everything is lightly coated with the white chocolate.
Spread mixture out on wax paper until it dries. Then break it into pieces and store in an air-tight container.