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what are some good sugar-free cookie recipes?

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What are a few other good cookie recipes for my holiday cookie mix?

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What are your favorite vegan cookie recipes?

Looking for some cookie recipes? The Internet is the ultimate place to searching the web for exquisite cookie recipes. You will find most sites offering some great cookie recipes. Some recipes are quite simple. You can surprise your family and friends by preparing cookies with these types of recipes. Thanks to individuals websites, all the present cookie recipes should at your fingertips. Whether it is chocolate brownie cookies, blarney stone cookies or peanut-butter cookies, online cookie recipes may help you make them perfectly. Not only that, you will also find sugar-free cookie recipes for those who experience diabetes. Sugar is also strictly prohibited for individuals who want to waste weight. For those cookie lovers, it’s fairly painful to resist the temptation.

Sugar-free cookie recipes will produce people an option to enjoy cookies without being nervous close to calories and carbohydrates. These types of cookie recipes use artificial sweeteners. The use of artificial sweeteners is the real problem area, as artificial sweeteners can leave a nasty flavor in your mouth. Nevertheless, cookies serves to remain popular. If you want to give somebody a gift, you can do that with cookies. It’s really impracticable for anyone to dislike cookies. That’s why cookie recipes are pretty popular worldwide. During the holiday season, the requirement for cookie recipes will be sky high.

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Cookie Recipes

HERSHEY’S CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES

1 cup butter, softened
3/4 cup granulated sugar
3/4 cup packed light brown sugar
1 tsp vanilla extract
2 eggs
2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
2 cups (12 oz pkg) semi-sweet chocolate chips
1 cup chopped nuts, optional

Preheat oven to 375 degrees.

In a large mixing bowl, beat butter, granulated sugar, brown sugar, and vanilla until creamy. Add eggs; beat well. Stir together flour, baking soda and salt; gradually add to butter mixture, beating well. Stir in chocolate chips and nuts, if desired. Drop dough by rounded teaspoonfuls onto ungreased cookie sheet. Bake 8 to 10 minutes or until lightly browned. Cool slightly on pan then remove to wire racks to cool completely.

Yield: Approximately 6 dozen cookies

To make bar cookies, prepare as above but spread dough into a greased 15 1/2 x 10 1/2 x 1-inch jelly-roll pan. Bake at 375 degrees for 20 minutes or until lightly browned. Cool completely in pan on a wire rack. Cut into bars.

CHOCOLATE-PECAN COOKIES

4 oz unsweetened chocolate
12 oz semisweet chocolate
1/4 cup butter
1 1/2 cups sugar
4 eggs
2 tsps vanilla
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
2 tsps baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
1 cup chopped pecans

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Combine the unsweetened chocolate, semisweet chocolate and butter in a double boiler over hot water. Heat, stirring often, until melted and well blended. Carefully pour into a bowl. Add the sugar and mix well. Add the eggs to the chocolate mixture, 1 at a time, mixing in well after each one. Beat in vanilla. Add the flour, baking powder, and salt; mix well. Stir in pecans. Line cookie sheets with foil and spray with nonstick cooking spray. Drop dough by 1/4 cupfuls onto the cookie sheets about 2-inches apart. Bake for about 12 minutes or until firm. Cool about one minute before removing to wire racks to cool completely.

Enjoy!

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Cookie Recipes for Chocoholics

SWEDISH HEIRLOOM COOKIES

I could not find a date on the old cookbook from where I first got this recipe. It did have a price of 15 cents factory printed on the front cover so it is obviously very old.

Bake at 325 degrees for 15 to 18 minutes.

Cream……1 cup butter. Gradually add 1 cup unsifted confectioners’ sugar and 1/2 tsp salt, creaming well.
Add……..1 1/4 cups almonds, ground, and 1 tablespoon vanilla.
Blend in…2 cups sifted all-purpose flour* gradually, mix thoroughly.
Shape……dough into balls or crescents, using a rounded teaspoonful for each cookie
Place on ungreased baking sheets. If desired,sprinkle with colored candies
Bake…….in 325 degree oven 15 to 18 minutes. Cookies will not be brown when done.

*If you are using self-rising flour (sold in parts of the south), omit the salt.
If you did not decorate the cookies, you may roll them in confectioners’ sugar while they are warm.
Makes about 4 1/2 dozen.

BANANA OATMEAL COOKIES

Go back to this old-fashioned recipe for a cookie to make for the kids. It is tasty, nutrious, and much better for your family than chocolate chips and/or candy bits.

3/4 cup butter, room temperature
1/2 cup packed brown sugar
1 1/2 cups flour
1 tsp salt
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1 cup oats, dry
2 large ripe bananas, coarsely mashed
1/2 cup sugar
1 egg, room temperature
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp nutmeg
1/2 tsp cloves
1 tsp vanilla

Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Grease cookie sheets. In a large mixing bowl, cream butter and both sugars. Add egg and beat until fluffy. Sift together flour, baking powder, salt and spices; add to butter mixture and mix well. Stir in oats, vanilla, and banana. Drop by tablespoon two inches apart on cookie sheets. Bake 12 to 15 minutes until golden in color. Cool on a wire rack.

Enjoy!

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Good Old Fashioned Cookie Recipes

Store bought chocolate chip cookies are good, but nothing beats hot melt in your mouth chocolate chip cookies straight from the oven. You can find all kinds of chocolate chip cookie recipes that can satisfy your chocolate chip cookie cravings, but maybe you would a chocolate chip cookie recipe that’s a little out of the ordinary. The two chocolate chip cookie recipes I have put here are a bit different then what you would usually see and I think you’re going to enjoy them both.

Hawaiian Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe
This is a chocolate chip cookie with a Hawaiian twist.

Ingredients You Need:
1 cup Shortening (preferably butter flavored variety)
3/4 cup Sugar
3/4 cup Brown sugar
1 Egg
1 tsp Vanilla extract
1 1/2 cups Flour
1 tsp Baking powder
1 tsp Baking soda
1/8 tsp Salt
2 cup Quick oats
1 cup Coconut (shredded)
1 cup Macadamia nuts (chopped coarsely)
1 cup Chocolate chips or chunks

How To Prepare:
Preheat oven to 325 degrees F. In electric mixer, cream together shortening and sugars until light and fluffy. Add egg and vanilla, beating well. Sift together flour with baking powder, baking soda and salt. Mix flour mixture into creamed mixture. Stir in oats, coconut, nuts and chips. Shape into 1 1/2 inch balls. Place on un-greased cookie sheets and flatten with bottom of a glass dipped in flour. Bake for about 14-16 minutes or until lightly browned.

Double Mint Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe
Keep your breath smelling fresh with these great tasting mint chocolate chip cookies.

Ingredients You Need:
3/4 cups Margarine
1 1/2 cups Brown sugar firmly packed
2 tbs Water
2 cups Chocolate chips
2 Eggs
2 1/2 cups Flour
1 1/4 tsp Baking soda
1/2 tsp Salt
12 oz Andres mint candy (2 boxes)

How To Prepare:
Melt margarine, add chips and stir until partially melted. Remove from heat and stir until chips are completely melted. Pour into large bowl. Add brown sugar and water and cool slightly. At high speed, beat in eggs one at a time. Reduce to low speed and add dry ingredients. Stir until blended. Chill dough. When ready to bake, line cookie sheets with foil. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Roll dough into very small balls (about 1/2 teaspoon per ball). Place 2 inches apart and bake for 10 minutes. Remove from oven and while cookies are still on pan, place half a candy piece on each cookie. Remove to waxed paper, wait about a minute and swirl the candy pieces across top of cookie.

These two chocolate chip cookie recipes show that you can do different things with this well loved cookie and make it even better.

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Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipes With a Difference

OATMEAL RAISIN DROP COOKIES

1 cup all-purpose flour

1 cup uncooked rolled oats

1 tsp baking powder

1 tsp ground cinnamon

1/2 tsp ground nutmeg

1/2 tsp baking soda

1/8 tsp ground cloves

3/4 cup frozen apple juice concentrate, thawed

3 tbsp egg substitute

2 tbsp margarine, melted

2 tsp vanilla

1/2 cup raisins

Preheat oven to 375 degrees.  Spray baking sheets with nonstick cooking spray.  Combine flour, oats, baking powder, cinnamon, nutmeg, baking soda, and cloves in a large bowl.  Combine remaining ingredients in a medium bowl; blend well.  Add to dry ingredients; blend well.  Cover and refrigerate for 20 minutes.  Remove from refrigerator and drop 2 tablespoonfuls dough 2 inches apart onto prepared baking sheets.  Bake 20 minutes or until lightly browned.  Cool completely on wire racks.

Yield:  28 cookies

 ORANGE DROP COOKIES

1 cup butter, softened

1 1/2 cups Splenda

1/2 cup sugar

3 eggs

1/3 cup unsweetened orange juice

1 tbsp grated orange peel

4 cups flour

2 tsp baking powder

1 tsp baking soda

In a mixing bowl, cream butter, sugar, and Splenda together.  Beat in eggs, orange juice, and orange peel.  Combine the flour, baking powder, and baking soda.  Gradually add the flour mixture to the creamed mixture and mix well.  Drop by teaspoonfuls 2-inches apart onto greased baking sheets.  Bake at 350 degrees for 12 to 14 minutes or until edges begin to brown.  Remove to wire racks to cool.

Yield:  8 dozen

Note: These cookies do contain a small amount of sugar.  Remember this when working them into your diet.  Do not over indulge!

Enjoy!

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Drop Cookie Recipes for Diabetics

There are so many Christmas cookie recipes around but often so little time to bake during the busy holiday season.

The solution? A great tasting basic cookie recipe that quickly and easily turns into such a variety of easy to make Christmas treats, friends and family will think you poured over all your favorite Christmas cookie recipes.

Let’s start with the basics:

Basic Cookie Dough Recipe

1/2 cup (or 1 stick) butter (or margarine) at room temperature

1/2 cup brown sugar, lightly packed

2 tablespoons sugar

1/2 teaspoon baking powder

1 large egg

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour

In a large bowl, combine all the ingredients except the flour. Beat with an electric mixer, scraping the sides of the bowl several times, until the mixture is light and fluffy. With mixer at a low speed, add the flour gradually, beating just until everything is well blended.

Place the mixture on a baking sheet using a tablespoon measure and press down with a spoon to flatten a bit. Or roll our and cut into shapes with a cookie cutter. Bake at 350ºF for about 12 to 15 minutes, until golden.

This basic cookie mixture is also the base for the following cookie recipes (all baked in a preheated oven at 350ºF).

Orange Cookies

(Makes about 32)

Add 1 tablespoon of grated orange zest to the recipe. Shape into a log that is about 1 1/2″ in diameter and refrigerate for 4 hours.

Slice dough into 1/4″ thick slices. Place on cookie sheet. Cookies can be decorated with candies, rolled in colored sugar, or cut into pretty holiday shapes before baking. Bake in preheated oven for 12-15 minutes, until lightly browned.

Cherry Coconut Chocolate Squares

(Makes about 54 squares)

In addition to the basic dough you will need:

1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder

3 large eggs

1 1/2 cups granulated sugar

1 teaspoon almond extract

1/2 teaspoon baking powder

3 cups flaked coconut

1/2 cup maraschino cherries, well drained and coarsely chopped

Line a 13″x9″ baking pan with foil.

Stir cocoa powder into basic dough mixture. Press evenly into the prepared pan. Bake for 10-15 minutes or until the crust looks dry.

In a medium bowl whisk together eggs, sugar, almond extract and baking powder until well blended. Stir in coconut and cherries. Pour over the baked crust.

Bake for 30-35 minutes, until top just begins to brown and a toothpick inserted near the center comes out clean. Cool in the pan on a wire rack. Lift it out on to a cutting board using the foil ends and cut into 1 1/2″ squares. Squares can be stored in an airtight container for up to 3 weeks.

Coconut Pineapple Cookies

(Makes about 36)

In addition to the basic dough you will need:

1 1/2 cups sweetened flaked coconut

1/3 cup pineapple preserves (use raspberry or apricot if you prefer)

Add 1 cup of the flaked coconut to the basic dough mixture and mix well. Shape the dough into 1 1/2″ balls and roll in the remaining coconut to coat them. Place the balls 1″ apart on lightly greased cookie sheets. Make a deep indentation in the center of each cookie with your fingertip.

Bake for 12-15 minutes until the cookie is firm and the coconut is lightly toasted. When cooled, fill each hole in the center of the cookies with the preserves.

You can vary this basic dough to make a wide variety of Christmas cookie recipes. Add other flavorings like maple, ginger or cinnamon. Add chopped dried fruits like apricots or dates. Or bake them plain in holiday shapes and decorate with colored icing.

Christmas is such a wonderful time of year. Here’s hoping these quick and easy Christmas cookie recipes help keep the pressure off the cook.

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Easy Christmas Cookie Recipes One Recipe – Many Variations

Homemade cookies are fun to make and there’s just nothing better.  With school starting, cookies are always handy to have around.  They are perfect in lunchboxes and they make great after school snacks.  Try these recipes soon for some delicious treats from your oven.  The Coconut Chews are bar cookies with a Citrus Icing and are very good.  Hello Dolly is also a bar cookie.  Both are easy and delicious.

COCONUT CHEWS WITH CITRUS ICING

3/4 cup shortening
3/4 cup confectioners’ sugar
1 1/2 cups flour
2 eggs
1 cup brown sugar
2 tbsp flour
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp vanilla
1/2 cup chopped walnuts
1/2 cup flaked coconut
Orange-Lemon Icing (recipe follows)

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Cream shortening and confectioners’ sugar; blend in 1 1/2 cups flour. Press mixture into the bottom of ungreased 13x9x2-inch pan. Bake 12 to 15 minutes. Mix together the remaining ingredients, except icing, and spread over the hot baked layer. Bake 20 minutes more. While warm, spread with the orange-lemon icing.

Orange-Lemon Icing:

1 1/2 cups confectioners’ sugar
2 tbsp butter, melted
3 tbsp orange juice
1 tsp lemon juice

Mix the butter, orange juice and lemon juice into the confectioners’ sugar. Use to spread over the warm Coconut Chews.

HELLO DOLLY

This is a recipe from a lady I did volunteer work with at the elementary school my oldest daughter attended many years ago. I hope you will enjoy it as much as we did.

1 stick margarine
1 cup graham cracker crumbs
1 cup coconut
1 cup chopped nuts, optional
1 cup chocolate chips
1 can sweetened condensed milk

Preheat oven to 300 degrees. Melt the margarine in a 9-inch square pan. Put the graham cracker crumbs over the melted margarine, then layer the coconut, chopped nuts (if using), and the chocolate chips. Pour the sweetened condensed milk over the top of the layers. Bake at 300 degrees for 30 minutes. Allow to cool before cutting.

Enjoy!

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