Christmas Favorite Cookie Recipes

Ingredients: -

• 2 large eggs
  
• 2 cups all-purpose flour
  
• 1/2 cup shortening
  
• 1/2 cup light brown sugar, firmly packed
  
• 1/2 cup margarine
  
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
  
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
  
• 1 1/4 cups finely chopped pecans
  
• 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
  
• Jam or preserves
  

Procedure: -

Cream together the brown sugar, shortening and margarine. Beat in egg yolks and vanilla. Stir in baking soda, flour and salt. Shape the dough into 1-inch sized balls. The next step would be to beat the egg white and dip the balls into it and roll it in finely chopped pecans. The cookies should be placed about an inch apart on the ungreased baking sheet. Press the thumb deeply into the center of each cookie.

Bake it for about 10 minutes till it turns light brown. After you are through with this, remove them from the cookie sheet and let it cool. Fill the thumbprints with jam and desired preserves. This is likely to produce 5 to 6 dozen thumbprint cookies.

Snowman Cookies: -

Ingredients: -

• Vanilla Wafers
  
• White Frosting
  
• Raisins, Shoe String Licorice, Chocolate Chips, Pretzel Sticks
  

Procedure: -