I was thinking. Wouldn't it be cool to have a recipe exchange? I am always looking for new recipes and ideas for cookies and dinner and everything in between. I'd love to exchange one recipe a month with everyone, try each recipe, then comment on it. I'm not too sure how to make this work, though. Let's just try it out and see how it goes.
This month, let's exchange desserts. And since it's a month before Valentine's Day, let's focus on desserts that can be used for V-Day. I will post my recipe below, then you all can post your recipe in the comments. Next month, I will create a post per recipe so we can all add our comments to the corresponding recipe.
Fruit Dream Cookies
1/2 cup butter, softened
1/2 cup shortening
1 cup granulated sugar
1/2 cup sugar-sweetened cherry drink mix
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp baking soda
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla
2 1/2 cups flour
1 1/2 cups white chocolate chips
Colored or coarse sugar
Preheat oven to 375 deg. In a large mixing bowl beat butter and shortening with an electric mixer on medium to high speed for 30 seconds. Add granulated sugar, drink mix, baking powder, and baking soda. Beat until combined, scraping sides of bowl occasionally. Beat in eggs and vanilla until combined. Beat in as much of the flour as you can with the mixer. Stir in any remaining flour and the white chocolate chips. Cover and chill dough about 30 minutes or until easy to handle.
Shape dough into 1-inch balls. Dip balls in colored or coarse sugar. Place balls 2 inches apart on an ungreased cookie sheet, sugar side up. bake for 9-11 minutes or until edges are just set (centers will be soft). Let stand for 2 minutes on cookie sheet. Transfer to a wire rack and let cool.
I made about 4 batches of this recipe this past Christmas season. The guys at Jabon's work loved them! I hope you do, too. You can use any flavor of drink mix you want, as long as it's sugared. Cherry just works well for Valentine's day, as well as Christmas.
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4 comments:
These are killer cookies by the way!
I'd love to do this. First I have to find a recipe I can use since my baking generally consists of "what's on sale at the bakery counter." I'll check back with you about this later!
These are yummy and I usually only make them at Christmas, but they could totally be chocolates for Hearts Day!
Peanut Butter Cup Balls
2 cubes butter
2 cups peanut butter
1 lb powdered sugar
3 or 4 pkgs graham crackers, broken into crumbs
dipping chocolate
Mix all ingredients together and roll into small balls (ping pong ball sized or smaller). Cool in refrigerator until set (overnight). Dip in dipping chocolate, melted chocolate chips, or chocolate melt-a-ways. Makes about 120 balls. After they have set up, drizzle tops with white or red to make them Valentiney looking!
I don't make deserts very often. So I don't have a recipe. You that have lived in CO know how hard it is to find recipes for baking that work in this altitude. With all the failures, I'm burnt.
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