COOKING

Coconut Cookies

4 Tb. Butter
½ C. sugar
2 eggs
2 C. coconut
1 C. flour
2 tsp. baking powder
1/8 tsp. salt

Cream butter, eggs and sugar.
Slowly add flour, baking powder and salt.
Mix in coconut.
Bake at 375 for 12 minutes.

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Dirty Snowballs

¾ C. butter
¼ C. brown sugar
3-4 Tb. chocolate syrup
¼ C. milk
1 egg
1 tsp. vanilla
2 C. flour
1 tsp baking powder
¼ tsp. salt
¼ tsp. baking soda
Confectioner’s sugar
(1 C. chopped nut, if desired)

Beat butter and brown sugar at medium speed until fluffy.
Add chocolate syrup, egg, vanilla, and milk and mix well.
Add remaining ingredients (except confectioner’s sugar)
And blend well.
Chill for 1 hour.
Roll into 1 inch balls and bake at 350 degrees for 8 to 10 minutes.
Keep dough in refrigerator between baking batches.
For best results it has to be cold when rolling into balls.
Sprinkle with confectioner’s sugar.

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Basic Cookie Recipe

2 ½ C. unsifted flour
1 tsp. baking powder.
Sift the two ingredients together.
¼ tsp. baking soda
1 ¼ C. sugar
½ C. butter or margarine
1 egg
½ C. milk

Mix well and add anything your heart desires. Maybe some chopped nuts? Raisins? Peanut butter, chocolate, butterscotch chips? Coconut? The little M & Ms? Sprinkle with little pieces of caramel? Have fun and make this recipe your own!

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Mollie’s Molasses Cookies

1 C. sugar
1 C. molasses
1 C. butter (softened)
1/3 C. water
2 tsp. ginger
1 tsp. cinnamon
1 tsp. soda
4 C. flour

Mix sugar, molasses, butter and water in a large mixing bowl.
Mix together ginger, cinnamon, soda and flour.
Add dry ingredients to the molasses mixture ¼ at a time.
Roll out and cut into 2” cookies.
Place on a cookie sheet and bake at 375 for about 12 minutes.

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Oatmeal Butterscotch Cookies

1 ¼ C. all purpose flour
1 tsp. baking soda
½ tsp. salt
½ tsp. cinnamon
1 C. butter (softened)
¾ C. sugar
¾ c. brown sugar
2 eggs
1 tsp. vanilla
3 C. quick oats (do not cook)
1 (12 oz.) package butterscotch morsels
In a medium mixing bowl combine; flour, baking soda, salt, and cinnamon.
In a second medium mixing bowl combine; butter, sugar, brown sugar, eggs, and vanilla.
Gradually add the flour mixture (1/4 at a time) to the butter mixture and mix well.
Stir in the oats and the butterscotch morsels.
Drop by teaspoonfuls on to a cookie sheet.
Bake at 375 for 10 minutes.

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