Mamas Finnish Wafers Recipes

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375F degrees.
• Wafers:In a mixing bowl beat the butter with an electric mixer for 30 seconds.
• Add the sugar, baking soda and lime zest, beat until combined.
• Beat in the lime juice.
• Beat in as much flour as you can with the mixer, stir the rest in with a wooden spoon.
• Drop rounded teaspoons of dough 2 inches apart onto ungreased cookie sheets.
• Bake for about 10 minutes until the edges are beginning to brown.
• Remove the wafers with a spatula and transfer to a wire rack to cool.
• For Glaze:In a small bowl beat together the sugar, butter and enought lime juice to make a mixture of glazing consistency.
• Dip the tops of the wafers in the glaze.
• Set the wafers, glaze side up on the wire racks and allow to set before serving.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
• Lightly grease cookie sheets,or line with parchment paper.
• Sift together flour and baking powder,set aside.
• Cream butter and sugar until fluffy.
• Beat in eggs,vanilla,lemon extract and lemon zest.
• Add dry ingredients.
• Drop by spoonfuls onto prepared cookie sheets,3" apart.
• Sprinkle with yellow sugar crystals.
• Bake 8-10 minutes,or until lightly browned.
• Cool on wire racks.

Steps:

• dissolve yeast in warm -not too hot- water with a small amount of sugar to feed the yeast. in a large pot,heat milk and butter until boiling. remove from heat and cool until lukewarm. beat eggs and sugar together. add salt, cardamom, flour and yeast mixture. kmead well on a floured surface. cover and let rise til double. separate dough into halves and then separate each half into 3 loaves.(6 loaves total) separate each loaf into 3 sections. roll each section between your hands into long tubular shapes. braid the 3 sections together and tuck ends. put loaves on a greased cookie sheet. let rise double again. bake at 325 for 15 minutes. remove from oven. brush top of loaves with a beaten egg mixed with a little sugar. sprinkle sugar over egg glaze. return to oven for 15 minutes more.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
• In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar.
• Add eggs and vanilla.
• Add flour and salt; mix well.
• Drop dough (the size of a marble) on greased cookie sheets leaving quite a large space between each.
• Press a pecan in the center of each.
• Bake 14 to 15 minutes.

Steps:

• Sift flour and baking powder.
• Cream butter, sugar,egg and vanilla.
• Add sifted flour and baking powder.
• Mix to combine.
• Stir in seeds.
• Line cookie sheet with parchment paper or aluminum foil.
• Spray with veggie oil.
• drop by small teaspoonfuls, leaving room for spreading.
• Bake at 350 for 6-8 minutes or until lightly browned.
• Cool on sheet, then remove to rack to cool completely.
• Store in an airtight container.
• (can use other types of seeds- flax- black sesame or white sesame).

Steps:

• cream butter and sugar. add eggs, vanilla and flour. work until smooth. put mix in a cookie tube dispenser. squeeze out any shape you like onto greased cookie sheet. bake at 325 til golden brown.