Cookie Countdown Day 6

COOKIE COUNTDOWN  Day 6!

'Tis the season to be baking!  

Seems like everyone I know is in the holiday baking mood... the grocery store is crazy busy and Facebook is all a-buzz with posts about baking-this and baking-that!

I am doing the desserts for a holiday party tomorrow night, and have been in my kitchen ALL day.  Well, except to run to the grocery store a couple of times, and to do a couple of other errands.  My feet are soooo tired!  I am baked-OUT!  

When these goodies all run out, my family is eating Oreos.  Seriously.  Or Chips Ahoy.  Whatever they want to buy, when THEY go to the store.

I think I am going to just go back to sewing.  

(Oh, and I gotta wrap christmas gifts...)

OK. Well. Ready for another recipe?

These are just called 3-Layer Cookies.  Yummy!

First, LAYER #1:
2 cubes butter (one cube = one stick = 1/2 cup!)

1/2 cup sugar
1/8 tsp salt
2 cups flour
1/2 cup cornstarch
Mix and press into a cookie sheet. Bake at 300 for 15 minutes.

There's been some confusion...am I the only one (besides my mom!) who says CUBES of butter?  A cube is a stick. You know, a 1/2 cup of buttery goodness.  In a cube. 

Liz made me buy a REAL  mixer a couple of years ago when she was visiting. Thank you Liz, I would have DIED today without my fun red KitchenAid!

I have made 12 pans of various cookies like this in the last couple of days. My fingers hurt from all that pressing!

NEXT, Layer #2:

3 cups brown sugar
4 eggs
4 Tbsp flour
1/2 tsp baking powder
2 tsp vanilla
2 cups chopped nuts (I used pecans)
Small pkg coconut (about 7 oz)
Mix and pour over crust. Bake at 300 for 15 min, then raise to 350 for 15 min more.

The BEST vanilla.  From Trader Joe's.

I was almost done chopping all those pecans when I remembered
I had this cool chopper. I should cook more often...I forget what's in those cupboards!

THEN, Layer #3:
1 cube butter
1 lb powdered sugar
8 oz cream cheese
1 tsp vanilla
Mix together and 'frost'. Chill and cut into 1" squares.

I am really really good at making icing. I lost count of how many bowls of various kinds of icing I made today! By the end of the day, I couldn't even THINK about licking the spoon.  Blech.

Just spread a big ol' thick layer of frosting on there!

Chillin' in the fridge.  Sorry no pic of the little bite size cookies all cut up and cute on a plate. I am going to bed!

This is what I look like after all day of being in the kitchen.  Scary.

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Here's the recipe...Happy Baking! 

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Cookie Countdown Day 4

COOKIE COUNTDOWN! Day #4

In our house, these are just known as...

the white cookies

All four of my boys love them.  They will eat pretty much everything, but they ASK for these.

They might be everyone's favorite.

(But here's a lil' secret...

they are also the easiest to make!)

It's not an old family recipe, at least not from my family. My mom (known affectionately as 'Mama C' in Quilt Market circles!) got this recipe from her friend Martha. (She was a wonderful quilter too!)  And so all of her quilter friends call these cookies "Martha's cookies".

We just call them "THE WHITE COOKIES".

And my boys know what I'm talking' about.

Here's the recipe:

2 cubes softened butter 

2/3 cup sugar 

2 tsp vanilla 

1/4 tsp salt 

2 cups flour

1. Mix all of the ingredients together to make the dough and press into a cookie sheet.

2. Spread powdered sugar on top (as much as you want, I use LOTS, about 2 cups!) and press into dough. A lot of it will still be "loose" on top.

3. Bake 350 18-19 min. Cut into squares while still warm.

YUM!

On a  scale of 1 to 10.... 

these cookies are about a 1 for easy!

and definitely a 10 for DeLisH-ish-NeSs!

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we'll post it here.

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Cookie COUNTDOWN! Cookie #1

Welcome to our 

MERRY CHRISTMAS COOKIE COUNTDOWN!

We're gearing up for a FUN week of baking and 

sharing.  If YOU have recipes to share, PLEASE do!

Leave a comment with your recipe, or send an email

to us at lizziebgirls@gmail.com.

NOW....LET'S GET THIS PARTY STARTED!

First up....is the cookie my kids are anxiously waiting for.

It's one my mom used to make for Christmas and was

definitely MY favorite growing up. 

I asked her where she got

the recipe and she thinks she

clipped it out of the newspaper 

back in the 70's.  

I think that's the equivalent of finding a recipe on a blog and 

pinning it to Pinterest.

Anyhoo!  She never had a name for them.  They were the 

no-bake cookies.  So, my sister and I decided, a few years ago,

to deem them with a name.  We call them...

"Grammy Grahams"

Would they win a grammy?  Sure, if cookies could, they would 

definitely be a top runner!  But no, we use the word to lovingly 

describe my mom, who is Grandma to these other two lovely 

ladies posing with me in these pics.

And "Grahams" because the basic yumminess has to do with 

graham cracker crumbs!

BTW...these pics were from a photo shoot last 

year as the recipe was featured in the Nov/Dec issue 

of the Mark Lipinski's Christmas 365 magazine.

NOW...they are the feature cookie in OUR 

Dream. Laugh. Create. eMagazine!  

To get the recipe....

Simply click on Issue 3 over there 

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on the right sidebar.

The recipe is on page 27!

And enjoy some fun Holiday crafts as well!

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Have fun hoppin'! And come back for more cookie

sharing tomorrow!  I'm off to buy some mini-marshmallows....