Breakfast Cookies Penzeys Catalog Spring 2012 Recipes

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C).
• In a very large bowl, mix together the sugar, peanut butter, butter, water, vanilla and eggs until smooth. Combine the flour, baking soda and salt; stir into the batter. Mix in the oats and raisins, then carefully stir in the cereal. Drop 1/2 cupfuls of dough onto ungreased cookie sheets, spacing cookies about 4 inches apart. Flatten cookies to 1 inch thick.
• Bake for 12 minutes in the preheated oven, until cookies are lightly browned at the edges. Let stand on the cookie sheets for 5 minutes before removing to wire racks to cool completely. Store at room temperature. I like to put each cookie into a sandwich bag which makes them easy to grab on the way out the door.

Steps:

• Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees.
• Sift the flour into a large bowl.
• Cut the shortening in with a knife.
• Add sugar, cloves, nutmeg, cinnamon, baking powder, baking soda, cocoa, and nuts.
• Mix well.
• Add milk gradually and mix thouroughly.
• Drop dough by teaspoon 1 1/2 inches apart on a large, greased cookie sheet.
• Bake at 350 degrees for 8-10 minutes.
• Let cookies cool before frosting.
• Frosting:.
• Mix all ingredients together until smooth.
• Frost cooled cookies.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400°F.
• Divide butter evenly between two 9-inch pie plates and put them in the oven to melt the butter. Coat the bottom and sides of plates.
• Use a 4 cup measuring cup for the mixing bowl, if available. Beat eggs, flour, milk and salt on medium speed of a mixer for 1 minute.
• Arrange 1/2 of the apple slices in each pan. Pour 1/2 of the egg mixture over the apple slices in each pan.
• Mix the cinnamon and sugar together and sprinkle over the batter in each pan.
• Bake until puffed and golden brown, 20-25 minutes. Serve immediately, while still puffy, with warm syrup.

Steps:

• In a bowl, cream butter and sugar. Add egg and vanilla; mix well. Combine flour, baking soda and salt; add to creamed mixture and mix well. Stir in oats and wheat germ. Fold in cheese and bacon. Drop by rounded teaspoonfuls onto ungreased baking sheets. Bake at 350° for 15-17 minutes or until light brown.

Steps:

• For bars:.
• Preheat oven to 350°F.
• Cream butter.
• Add brown sugar, eggs, pumpkin, and vanilla; mix well.
• In separate bowl, sift all of dry ingredients together.
• Gradually add to the wet mixture and mix well.
• Pour into a greased 9x-inch13 pan and bake for 15-20 minutes.
• Let cool then top with brown butter icing.
• Icing directions:.
• In a heavy bottomed pan, heat butter over low heat until it is a light brown color.
• Remove from heat and add powdered sugar, vanilla, and milk.
• Whisk until smooth and well blended.

Steps:

• Remove the sheets of puff pastry from the box, let thaw. Preheat oven to 350 . Lightly grease a 9x13" cookie sheet. Unfold one sheet of puff pastry, roll lightly with a rolling pin until the sheet is a bit bigger than the cookie sheet. Be careful not to tear the sheet. Flour isn't necessary when rolling puff pastry.
• Place the sheet of puff pastry on the cookie sheet. With a mixer blend sugar, room temperature cream cheese and vanilla together on medium speed until creamy Spread over the pastry sheet, leaving the outer inch or so uncovered.
• Roll out the second sheet of pastry to roughly equal the size of the first sheet,then lay it on top. Tuck the bottom edge up and under, then pinch the sides firmly all the way around with your fingers.
• Beat the egg white until foamy-about I minute on medium speed, Brush the crust with the egg white, then sprinkle on CINNAMON-SUGAR and nuts If desired.
• Bake in preheated 350' oven for 25-30 minutes, until the pastry crust is puffy, golden brown and flaky. Remove from oven and cool for at least 15 minutes before serving. The pastry will lose some of its puffiness as it cools.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease cookie sheets or line with parchment paper.
• In a large bowl, stir together the brown sugar, oats, flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt and cinnamon. Make a well in the center and pour in the canola oil, prune puree, water, egg whites and vanilla. Mix until well blended. Stir in the raisins, walnuts and apricots. Scoop cookies using an ice cream scoop, or roll into golf ball sized balls. Place cookies 2 inches apart onto the prepared cookie sheets and flatten to 1/2 tall with wet hands. These cookies do not flatten very much while baking.
• In the preheated oven, bake 8 minutes for chewy cookies 10 to 12 minutes for dry cookies. Cookies will not get crisp. Remove from cookie sheets to cool on wire racks.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350. Cream butter and sugars until fluffy. Add eggs and extracts and beat well. Add dry ingredients and mix. fold in remaining ingred. and stir. Bake for 14-16 minutes.