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The Chef Next Door: Rich Cinnamon Cookies. Happy Friday! I'm back with more delicious cookies for you! And today we're talking about rich cinnamon cookies. Yum. These cookies are crazy simple to make, with just a few ingredients that you should already have in your pantry. Crispy on the outside, soft in the inside, and rich in flavor. Well, unless your peeps don't like cinnamon. Rich Cinnamon Cookies Recipe written by The Chef Next Door Makes approx. 3 dozen cookies Ingredients: 1/2 cup unsalted butter, at room temperature 1 cup granulated sugar 2 eggs 1 Tbsp pure vanilla extract2 cups cake flour 2 tsp baking powder 2 tsp cinnamon 1/2 tsp salt In the bowl of your stand mixer, beat the butter and sugar together until light and fluffy and pale in color.

(Linkup closed) Cinnamon Cookies | Mogwai Soup. This recipe comes from a tiny pocket-book cookbook I bought 15 years ago, while still living in Croatia. Around that time, first Mexican restaurant opened in Croatia and popularity of Mexican food started to grow rapidly. This was a mini Mexican cookbook (Anne Wilson), translated and with basic simple things. It had 2 desserts in it, this is the one that didn't boggle my min at the time.

Simple Mexican wedding cookies. I don't know if they are or not, but that is what they called them, and they were different than any cookies we ever made in Croatia at the time so everyone really liked them. They are a nice change from typical kind of a chocolate chip cookie and cinnamon to me means holidays and cold weather, so they were a logical choice for a quick, I am out of sweets and it's the holidays moment. Seriously. Cinnamon Cookies 1 1/2 cup flour 1/2 cup ground almonds 1/4 cup brown sugar 1/4 cup sugar 1 egg 7 tbsp butter, room temperature 1 1/2 tsp baking powder 1 tsp cinnamon P.S. Cinnamon Cookies Recipe - Food.com - 48241. Chocolate Crinkles Recipe. Please welcome guest author Garrett McCord as he shares some of his best-loved holiday chocolate crinkle cookies.

~Elise One of the best parts about any holiday—be it Christmas, Thanksgiving, a birthday, Diwali, Columbus Day, whatever—is that you get an excuse to eat some of your favorite foods. For me, that means chocolate. Now, I’m generally not a big chocolate eater during the year, but when December rolls around it’s totally game on. The chilly weather and holiday spirit just make me crave it for some reason. That craving means I’m whipping up old favorites like chocolate peppermint bark cookies, truffles, and homemade hot chocolate. It also means it’s time to make those adorable looking cookie fiend favorites, chocolate crinkles. These chocolate crinkles are a holiday staple in winter, but are great any time of the year. Crinkles are easy-peasy to throw together and make for a flashy addition to any cookie platter.

If you want, you can jazzify these cookies in a number of ways. Spiced Mexican Wedding Cookies Recipes from The Kitchn. When she was still with us, my grandmother baked Mexican wedding cookies every Christmas eve. Today, these nutty, ping-pong ball shaped, powdered sugar-coated cookies take me back to her little house in San Fernando where the sun shone on most Southern Californian Christmases and I sensed that they were her way of giving us snow for Christmas. She had a heavy hand with the powdered sugar, and though I loved the nutty confections, I'd have a coughing fit with each bite as I inhaled — literally — the sweet dusty exterior. And then I'd take another. Though our family, with its way-back Mexican roots, called them Mexican Wedding (and Christmas) Cookies, it seems they are an international treat, known by names like Russian Tea Cakes and Italian Nut Balls. The association with Mexico comes from a theory that the recipe originally came from Arab people occupying Spain, and then by Spaniards to Mexico.

Spiced Mexican Wedding Cookies Makes 2 1/2 dozen Meanwhile, preheat oven to 350° F. Chocolate Cookies recipe.