Foothills House Sweet Dreams Cookies Recipes

Steps:

• Cream together butter and brown sugar; beat in egg and vanilla.
• Combine flour, baking soda, cinnamon, ginger and salt. Blend into butter mixture.
• Fold in chocolate chips and walnuts.
• Refrigerate until firm.
• Preheat oven to 375°.
• Lightly grease baking sheets.
• Break off small pieces of dough; roll between palms into 1-inch rounds. Dredge rounds in powdered sugar.
• Arrange rounds on prepared sheets, spacing at least 2-inches apart.
• Bake 10 minutes.
• Let cool 5 minutes on sheets. Transfer to racks and cool.
• Store in airtight container.

Steps:

• 1. Using mixer, cream butter. Beat in brown sugar, egg and vanilla. Combine flour, baking soda, cinnamon, ginger and salt. Blend into butter mixture. Fold in chocolate chips and nuts. Refrigerate until firm. (Can be prepared a day ahead.)
• 2. Preheat oven to 375. Lightly grease baking sheets. Break off small pieces of dough, roll into 1-inch rounds. Dredge in powdered sugar.
• 3. Arrange on cookie sheet, spacing at least 2 inches apart. Bake 10 minutes. Let cool at least 5 minutes on sheets. Transfer to racks and cool. Store in airtight container.

Steps:

• Cream butter and mix in brown sugar, egg and vanilla.
• Combine flour, baking soda, cinnamon, ginger and salt and blend into butter mixture.
• Fold in chocolate chips and walnuts (Sometimes I leave these out or substitute pecans.).
• Refrigerate until dough is firm.
• Preheat oven to 375ºF. Lightly grease baking sheets.
• Break off small pieces of dough and roll into 1" rounds. Dredge in powdered sugar.
• Arrange on prepared baking sheets at least 2" apart.
• Bake 10 minutes.
• Cool 5 minutes on the sheets before transferring to racks to cool completely.
• Store in airtight container.

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 275˚F (135˚C). Line 2 baking sheets with parchment paper.
• In a medium bowl, sift together the flour, salt, and baker's ammonia.
• In a separate medium bowl, cream together the butter and sugar with an electric hand mixer on low speed until light and fluffy, about 2 minutes.
• Add the vanilla and continue beating until fully combined.
• Add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients and beat to incorporate.
• Roll about 1 ounce of dough at a time in your hands to make walnut-sized balls. They will be small, about ½ inch (1 ¼ cm) wide. Place the balls of dough on the prepared baking sheets, leaving about 1 inch (2 ½ cm) of space between each cookie. Using a flat-bottomed measuring cup, gently press down on the cookies to flatten.
• Top each cookie with 3 chocolate chips, a single almond, or raisins.
• Bake the cookies for 30 minutes, or until the bottoms are light golden brown and the edges are crispy.
• Enjoy!

Steps:

• In medium mixing bowl beat together peanut butter, butter, brown sugar, 1/2 cup granulated sugar, egg and vanilla until creamy.
• Blend in flour, soda and salt.
• Cover. Refrigerate at least 1 hour.
• Form dough into 24 balls, each about 2-inches in diameter.
• Arrange about 2-inches apart on two cookie sheets.
• Flatten with fork dipped in granulated sugar to form criss-cross pattern.
• Bake in preheated 325°F degrees convection oven on racks 2 and 4, 10-12 minutes (or bake in preheated 350° degrees radiant bake oven 10-12 minutes) or until light golden brown.
• Cool on wire racks.

Steps:

• combine wet ingredients and blend well.1-2 minutes.
• sift dry ingredients together and combine with wet ingredients. Mix well.
• chill dough at least 1 hour for ease in rolling out.
• roll out on thoroughly floured surface -- to a little less than 1/2" thick.(if you like a thicker cookie).
• cut out with desired cutters, brush off excess flour. gently --.
• bake at 350* for 12 minutes.
• cool on sheets 5 minutes. Then remove to wire rack to cool completely.
• frost with your favorite icing.