The Way to a Man's Heart- Lemon Drop Cookies #recipe #goodeats

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Lemon Drop Cookies

This is one my husband's favorite recipes, especially to fix at the holidays as part of our traditional treat buckets for family and friends and they're super easy to make. They are a very soft chewy cookie. In fact, though we use lemon cake mix, you could most certainly substitute a different cake flavor and come up with your own unique cookie, which I've thought about doing with chocolate cake or strawberry.

Preheat oven to 350º

Ingredients-
Lemon Cake Mix
1 Egg
1- 8 oz Cool Whip
Powdered Sugar

Directions-

1. With a mixer, blend together the cake mix, egg and whipped topping. It will have a thick fluffy and sticky consistency.
2. Using large Tablespoons, scoop the mixture into balls just slightly smaller than or around the size of a golf ball and drop them into a bowl of powdered sugar and coat them enough to handle and gentle roll them into a better ball, placing them on a cookie sheet a couple inches apart.
3. Taking a flat bottom glass, dust the bottom with powdered sugar and lightly press cookies out, leaving them about 1/2 inch thick. Bake 8-10 minutes, keeping a close eye on them as they can brown quickly. They will also spread out a little more as they bake. They should be lightly brown around the edges.
4. Let cool a few minutes before removing from cookie sheet with spatula.

The Way to a Man's Heart~ Momma's Sugar #Cookies #recipe #sweetsforthesweet

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Momma's Sugar Cookies

Ingredients

3/4 cup part butter, part shortening- softened

1 Cup sugar

2 Eggs

1- teaspoon Vanilla

2 1/2 Cups of Flour (self-rising)

 

1. Pre-heat oven to 400º
2. Mix all ingredients, adding vanilla last
3. Chill in refrigerator for 1 hour
4. Flour countertop, roll out and cut with favorite cookie cutters (mine happen to be butterflies)
5. Bake for 6-8 minutes, keeping a close eye on them as they brown QUICKLY

Frosting options-
BEFORE BAKING- Brush with egg whites and sprinkle with colored sugar or favorite sprinkles
~OR~
Forgo egg white wash and sugar and use Powered Sugar Icing recipe AFTER baking the cookies, recipe listed below—

POWDERED SUGAR ICING

1-2 Tablespoons Milk
2 Tablespoons Butter
Powdered Sugar until desired consistency is achieved.

The Way to a Man's Heart~ Applesauce Cake & Caramel Drizzle #recipe

Applesauce Cake & Caramel Drizzle

Happy Derby Day! I'm running late again this weekend as I seem to be doing a LOT here lately in all aspects of my daily routines. Today, here in Kentucky it's the Run for the Roses, wonderfully big and beautiful hats and sipping mint juleps at the racetrack.

I've never attended the Derby and this year will mark the first time ever in my life I won't get to watch it because our switch from satellite to using just a converter box cut us off from having an NBC station we can pull in (plus hubby and I are going to see Iron Man 3~ SQUEE!)— but today I will leave you with something sweet and decadent to enjoy- a double recipe- cake AND topping!

It's not a mint julep, but it's some good southern style decadence in it's own right. ENJOY!

Ingredients-

½ cup butter

1 cup white sugar
1 cup chilled applesauce

2 cups all-purpose flour

1 teaspoon baking soda

1 teaspoon ground cinnamon

¼ teaspoon ground cloves

½ cup raisins

½ cup chopped walnuts

Directions-

1. Cream butter or margarine with sugar.
2. Add applesauce and beat well.
3. Stir in flour, baking soda, and spices.
4. Add nuts and raisins.

Pour the batter into a greased and floured 8 inch square pan. Back at 350º for 40 minutes or until done. Serve warm with Brown Sugar/Caramel Icing (recipe follows)

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Brown Sugar Icing (aka Caramel Icing)

Ingredients-

Stick butter

1 cup packed Brown Sugar

2 cups Powdered Sugar

¼ cup Milk

1 teaspoon Vanilla

1. Melt butter in saucepan
2. Add Brown Sugar, boil for 2 minutes
3. Add Milk and bring back to a boil
4. Remove from heat and cool until lukewarm
5. Beat in Powdered Sugar and Vanilla
6. Drizzle over cake (poke small holes in cake if you wish)

(this icing is also good over nutty cakes or yellow cake)

The Way to a Man's Heart- Pecan Sandies

Pecan Sandies

Not too sweet, but with a wonderfully buttery and nutty flavor, this cookie, I've often heard called a "Wedding" cookie, is a suitable treat anytime and disappear quickly!

Ingredients-

1 Cup of Butter (2 sticks)

1/3 Cup Sugar

2 Teaspoons Vanilla

2 Cups All Purpose or Self-Rising Flour (either)

1 Cup Chopped Pecans

¼ Cup Powdered Sugar (confectioner’s sugar)

2 Teaspoons Water

Directions-

1. Preheat oven to 325º

2. Beat Butter for 30 seconds

3. Add Sugar and beat until fluffy

4. Add Vanilla and 2 teaspoons water; beat well

5. Stir in flour and pecans

6. Shape into balls(about 1 inch balls)

7. Place on ungreased cookie sheets

8. Bake for about 20 minutes

9. Cool completely and shake a few at a time in a Ziploc bag with powdered sugar