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Dixie's Peanut Butter Cookies

Lemonade Drops

No-bake Peanut Butter Cookies

Lemon Bars

Shelley's Chocolate Chip Cookies

Southern Tea Cakes

Cream Cheese Bars

Cranberry Bars

Auntie's Molasses Crinkles

 

 
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Whether for lunch boxes, after school snacks or just when you get the urge for something sweet, cookies satisfy. (especially with a cold glass of milk!)The variety of cookies are endless. Here are a few of our favorites.

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~Aunt Dixie's Peanut Butter Cookies~
From Dixie Gill, my husband's aunt.
 
1 c. brown sugar
1 c. white sugar
1 c. peanut butter
1 c. shortening
1 T. soda
3 eggs
2 T vanilla
3 c. flour
1-1/2 c. nuts (peanuts?)

Cream sugar, shortening, and peanut butter. Add eggs, flour and soda. Add nuts and vanilla. Bake balls and place on cookie sheet. Press with fork. Bake at some temperature (try 350 degrees) until done.

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~Lemonade Drops~

1 cup butter, softened
1 cup sugar
2 eggs
2 3/4 cup flour
3/4 tsp. soda
1 (6 oz.) can frozen lemonade concentrate, thawed
1/2 cup pecans
additional sugar for topping

Cream butter and sugar together until light and fluffy. Add eggs one at a time, beating until mixture is smooth and pale in color. Add flour and soda alternately with 1/2 cup lemonade. Fold in nuts. Drop by tablespoons onto ungreased baking sheet. Bake at 400 degrees for 10 minutes or until edges are browned. Remove to wire racks and lightly brush with remaining lemonaide and sprinkle lightly with sugar.

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~No Bake Peanut Butter Cookies~

1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup white syrup
1 cup peanut butter
3 cup Corn Flakes

Heat sugar and white syrup in the microwave for 2 minutes or until sugar is dissolved. Add peanut butter. Stir until well mixed. Add Corn Flakes. Stir until flakes are well coated. Drop by spoonfuls onto waxed paper

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~Lemon Bars~

1 cup butter, softened
1/2 tsp. salt
1/2 cup powdered sugar
2 cups flour

Combine ingredients and mix well. Press into greased 9x13 pan. Bake 15 minutes at 350^.

Lemon Filling:
4 eggs
2 cups white sugar
1/2 cup flour
1/2 tsp. baking powder
6 Tbls. lemon juice

Beat eggs and sugar until thick and smooth (about 10 minutes.) Add rest of ingredients, mix well. Pour over baked layer and bake for 20 minutes. Cool and sprinkle with powdered sugar.

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~Shelley's Chocolate Chip Cookies~

These are my most requested cookies.

Preheat oven to 375

1 cup butter flavored Crisco
1 cup white sugar
1 cup brown sugar, packed
2 eggs
2 tsps real vanilla
1 tsp soda
1 tsp salt
2-1/2 cups flour
1 large bag semi sweet chocolate chips
3/4 cup chopped pecans

Cream Crisco with sugars. Add eggs and beat until thick and light. About a FULL five minutes. Add vanilla. Gradually add dry ingredients and mix well. Fold in chips and nuts. Drop by tsps. onto an ungreased cookie sheet. Bake at 375 for 10-12 minutes. Do not overbake. Cool. Make about 5 dozen.

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~Southern Tea Cakes~

1 cup real butter
2 cups sugar
4 eggs, beaten
1 level tsp. soda dissolved in...
1 T. water
1 tsp. vanilla 3-1/2 cups flour

Cream butter and sugar; add eggs, vanila and soda water. Beat again and then stir in flour, a little at a time. Roll out onto a lightly floured board. Cut into fancy shapes. Place on light greased cookie sheet and bake for 10 minutes in a 350 degree oven. Cool and frost if desired. Makes about 6 dozen small cookies.

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~Cream Cheese Bars~

2 tubes Pillsbury chocolate chip cookie dough
2 packages (8 oz. each) cream cheese, softened
2 eggs, beaten
1/4 cup sugar
1 tsp. vanilla

Remove wrapper and cut one tube cookie dough into 24 slices. Arrange in the bottom of a greased and floured, 9-by-14-inch pan.
In a bowl, beat together cream cheese, eggs, sugar and vanilla. Spread over sliced cookie dough in pan. Cut second tube of cookie dough into 24 slices. Arrange over cream cheese layer. Bake at 350 degrees for 40 minutes. Cool, then cut into bars.

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~Cranberry Bars~

1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 1/2 cups quick cooking oats
3/4 cup packed brown sugar
1 teaspoon finely shredded lemon peel
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
3/4 cup butter or margarine -- melted
1 16-ounce whole cranberry sauce
1/4 cup finely chopped pecans or walnuts

In a large mixing bowl, stir together the flour, rolled oats, brown sugar, lemon peel and baking soda. Stir in the melted butter or margarine and mix thoroughly.

For topping, reserve 1 cup of the oat mixture. Set aside.

For crust, press the remaining oat mixture into the bottom of an ungreased 13x9x2-inch baking pan. Bake in a 350F oven for 20 minutes.

Carefully spread the cranberry sauce evenly over the partially baked crust. Stir the pecans or walnuts into the reserved topping. Sprinkle over cranberry sauce. Lightly pat topping into sauce. Bake in a 350F oven for 25 to 30 minutes more or till top is lightly browned. Cool in pan on a wire rack. Cut into bars.

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Auntie's Molasses Crinkles

3/4 c. shortening
1 c. brown sugar
1 egg
1/4 c. molasses
2 1/4 c. flour
2 tsp. baking soda
1/4 tsp. salt
1/2 tsp. cloves
1 tsp. cinnamon
1 tsp. ginger


Mix first four ingredients well. Stir in the remaining ingredients. Chilldough. Heat oven to 375 degrees. Roll dough into balls the size of walnuts. Dip the tops in sugar. Place three inches apart on greased cookie sheet.Sprinkle each cookie with 2 or 3 drops of water for a cracked surface. Bake 10-12 minutes (just until set, but not hard.) Store covered.

Always more to come!

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