Honey Sugar Cookies

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Honey Sugar Cookies are soft dough cutouts perfect for holiday decorating. These cookies bake up fast and will be a new Christmas favorite.
Honey Sugar Cookies
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I’m a big fan of cookies.

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I’d rather have a cookie than a piece of cake or any other dessert. As much as I love baking cookies, I hate making roll outs.
I could never get the dough right. Too dry, too sticky, baked too hard, crumbly, just not good. So I’d get my roll outs in cookie swaps or buy them outright.
So because of my lack of roll out cookie expertise, I never decorated cookies with icing. Can you believe it? Ha!
Well that changed when I found this recipe for sugar cookies that also added honey. If you are roll out cookie challenged like me then you will love this recipe. I included an easy Royal icing recipe to make frosting these gems a breeze.
I love baking cookies on this Silpat sheet. It easily withstands the heat. Love the fact you save on greasing the sheets. I honestly think cookies bake more evenly too with the Silpat silicon sheet.
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Honey Sugar Cookies

Honey Sugar Cookies

Honey Sugar Cookies

Prep Time: 10 minutes

Cook Time: 20 minutes

Total Time: 30 minutes

Yield: 18 to 24 cookies

Serving Size: 1 each

Honey Sugar Cookies

Add at least 2 hours for dough chill time.

Ingredients

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  • 2 1/2 cups flour
  • 3/4 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt
  • 2 sticks butter
  • 1/2 cup sugar
  • 1/4 cup honey
  • 1 egg
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla (I used Adams)
  • icing
  • 2 tablespoons meringue powder
  • 1 lb box powdered sugar
  • 5 to 6 tablespoons water
  • Sprinkles optional (I used frozen-Sprinkle Pop )

Instructions

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  • beat butter and sugar until fluffy. Add egg, honey and vanilla.
  • In a separate bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder and salt. Add to wet mixture to form soft dough. Divide dough in half. Wrap each piece in plastic wrap and refrigerate until firm.
  • When dough is ready, position oven racks into top and bottom thirds. Preheat oven to 350. Line baking sheet with Silpat.
  • Roll out dough on floured surface and cut into desired shapes. Bake on top rack 10 minutes the switch to bottom rack for approximately 10 minutes until cookies are golden brown on the bottom. Cool on sheet several minutes before transferring to rack to finish cooling.
  • icing
  • Whisk together powdered sugar and meringue. Add water a tablespoon at a time until desired consistency is reached. Decorate as desired.
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Peppermint Cookie Dough Truffles

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Peppermint Cookie Dough Truffles

Peppermint Cookie Dough Truffles offer delicate peppermint flavor with mini chocolate chips truffle in a candy shell. No eggs and no bake recipe.

Peppermint Cookie Dough Truffles

Welcome to Day 1 of #ChristmasCookieWeek recipe event and giveaway!

Thank you Ellen from Family Around the Table and Christie at A Kitchen Hoor’s Adventures for hosting our Festive Foodies Christmas Cookies event December 3rd thru December 7th!
Follow the hashtag, #ChristmasCookies for more delicious recipes from the Christmas Cookies Week bloggers!

If you know me, you know I have a weakness for cookies! Store bought are okay, but homemade rocks the house. Here’s two of my favorites.
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So when I had the opportunity to join in #ChristmasCookies event, I was all in.

These cookie dough truffles are actually made by “cooking” the flour.

Why cook the flour? 

Normal baking kills many food borne pathogens. Baking the flour to a light brown color and thoroughly heated makes no-bake recipes with flour safer to eat.

You should still store your edible cookie dough in the refrigerator for best results. The white chocolate and cool peppermint flavor should never go to waste!

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Peppermint Cookie Dough Truffles

Prep Time: 30 minutes

Cook Time: 10 minutes

Total Time: 40 minutes

Yield: 36

Serving Size: 1 each

Peppermint Cookie Dough Truffles

Ingredients

  • 1/2 cup butter, softened
  • 3/4 cup packed brown sugar
  • 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract (I used Adams Vanilla flavor)
  • 1/2 teaspoon peppermint extract (I used Adams Pure Peppermint)
  • 2 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 can (14 ounces) sweetened condensed milk
  • 1/2 cup miniature semisweet chocolate chips
  • 1 11-ounce bag white chocolate chips
  • 1 tablespoon vegetable shortening
  • 1 jar Sprinkle Pop sprinkles (I used Frozen sprinkle mix)

Instructions

  • Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spread flour onto a cookie sheet. Bake flour for approximately 10 minutes until lightly toasted, stirring occasionally. Cool.
  • In a large bowl, cream the butter and brown sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in vanilla. Gradually add flour, alternately with milk, beating well after each addition. Stir in chocolate chips and walnuts.
  • Shape into 1-in. balls; place on parchment paper-lined baking sheets. Loosely cover and refrigerate for 1-2 hours or until firm.
  • In a microwave, melt chips and shortening; stir until smooth. Dip balls in coating; allow excess to drip off. Place on waxed paper-lined baking sheets sprinkle with Sprinkle Pop sprinkles. Refrigerate until firm, about 15 minutes. If desired, remelt remaining coating and drizzle over candies. Store in the refrigerator.

Notes

Add 1 to 2 hours chill time to recipe.

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Food for Thought…Do you make no bake cookies? How about edible cookie dough? I’d love to hear your thoughts in a comment below!

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Welcome to Christmas Cookies Week Recipes and Giveaway!

This post is sponsored on behalf of #ChristmasCookiesWeek. The generous sponsors, YumGoggle, Sprinkle Pop, Silpat and Adams Extracts have provided us with products for recipe creation and a giveaway for our readers. As always, all opinions are my own.

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Thank you to Ellen at Family Around the Table and Christie at A Kitchen Hoor’s Adventures for hosting #ChristmasCookiesWeek.

 

Prize Package #1:

 

From Adams Extracts comes a selection of baking delights including their prize-winning pound cake mix, pure vanilla extract, pure peppermint extract, double strength pure vanilla extract, pound cake flavor extract and vanilla cinnamon sugar.

 

Adams traces its beginnings back to Battle Creek, Michigan, when John A. Adams began making and selling his Green Plant Sarsaparilla extract, Adamur, in 1888. In 1905, he moved his family to Beeville, TX. At the time, most vanilla was sold to pharmacies and was often labeled “Do not bake or freeze.” John A. Adams, whose imagination was stirred by his wife’s yearning for a flavoring that wouldn’t bake or freeze out, announced that he could produce a better vanilla than the one his wife was currently using. Working with just $6.71 worth of materials on top of an old icebox, John A. Adams discovered the formula he wanted.

 

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YumGoggle is giving away a variety of holiday and Christmas cookie cutters. The winner of this prize package will receive a sleigh, large ornament and two cookie cutter sets. The first is a mug/ sweater set called Ugly Sweater Specialty Cookie Cutter Set and the second is a Santa/ reindeer set called North Pole Specialty Cookie Cutter Set. Each set includes 2 cookie cutters, 2 templates, 2 instruction cars and 4 bonus templates.

 

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The winner of this Sprinkle Pop prize package will get their choice of 3 sprinkle varieties, at $35.00 value. Winner will be contacted by or need to contact Sprinkle Pop for fulfillment.

 

Sprinkle Pop offers trendy sprinkle mixes that you won’t find anywhere else. Fun fact: Over 50% of their sprinkle mixes are dyed in house, making each experience one of a kind. Sprinkle Pop also creates one of a kind confetti shapes that are unique to their mixes. Make every occasion a festive one with these fun sprinkle creations.

 

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One winner will receive an 11 5/8 inch x 16 1/2 inch Silpat® baking mat which is perfect for all of your cookie baking throughout the year. Reduces the need for parchment and is reusable.

 

The original silicone baking mat made from a dedicated silicone with reinforced fiberglass mesh. Nothing sticks to Silpat® which means you’ll spend less time cleaning and more time enjoying your baking creations. Silpat® replaces the need for butter, grease, oils, and sprays.

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  • No cooking sprays, oils or parchment paper needed.
  • Not to be used as a cutting surface.
  • Can be used in the oven, microwave and freezer.

 

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Disclaimer: Thank you #ChristmasCookiesWeek sponsors: Adams Extract, Sprinkle Pop, YumGoggle and Silpat for providing the prizes free of charge. The #ChristmasCookiesWeek giveaway is open to U.S. residents, age 18 & up. All entries for the winner will be checked and verified. By entering you give the right to use your name and likeness. The number of entries received determines the odds of winning. Four (4) winners will be selected at random from entries received. The prize packages will be fulfilled by and sent directly from the giveaway sponsors. #ChristmasCookiesWeek bloggers are not responsible for the fulfillment or delivery of the prize packages. Bloggers hosting this giveaway and their immediate family members in their household are not eligible to enter or win the giveaway. No purchase necessary. Void where prohibited by law. This promotion is in no way sponsored, endorsed or administered by, or associated with Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, Twitter or any other social channel mentioned in the #ChristmasCookiesWeek posts or entry.

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5 Gift Ideas for BBQ Lovers

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Hey BBQ lovers! If you love barbecue or know someone who does (who doesn’t) then I have some gift ideas for you!

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I chose to give the rack a test run in my oven. Chicken legs basted in BBQ sauce sounded pretty good to me!

It has a deep drip pan for catching all those delicious juices. The unit is dishwasher safe too.

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