Fudge - Lime Milk Fudge

By Strange 12-11-10

Chocolate Delice

From Favorite cookie Recipes by Lou Seibert Pappas

375F – Yield 3 Dozen

10 oz Semi-sweet Chocolate

6 eggs, separated at room temperature

1 tsp Vanilla

¼ cup sugar

2 tbsp All-purpose flour

¼ tsp Salt

½ cup Butter, at room temperature

Preheat oven to 375F

Melt chocolate in double boiler over hot water (or in Microwave, stirring every 30 seconds until melted)

Beat egg yolks until light and pale yellow in color

Beat in vanilla, 1 tablespoon sugar, flour, salt and butter,

Stir in chocolate and mix until smooth.

Beat egg whites until soft peaks form.

Add remaining 3 tbsp sugar.

Continue beating until stiff.

Fold beaten egg whites into chocolate mixture.

Turn into buttered 9x13 baking pan.

Bake in 375 F oven for 15 minutes or until the center is barely set. Let cool, then chill.

Cut into squares.

Let warm to room temperature before serving.
Cut so fit into cupcake paper and put in those for delivery

Cinnamon Maple Rings | Mrs. Fields Cookie Book

REFRIGERATE
325F
Bake: 16-17 minutes

Ingredients:
2 cups flour
1/4 cup white sugar
1 cup butter, chilled& cubed
1/4 cup maple syrup - chilled
2-4 tbsp ice water

Filling:
1/4 cup white sugar
4 tsp ground cinnamon

Topping:
1/4 cup maple syrup

1. Combine flour and sugar in medium bowl. Add butter and mix until dough forms small pea-sized pellets. Add chilled maple syrup and 2 tbsp water, and mix until dough can be formed into a ball. Do not overmix or pastry will be tough.
2. Separate dough into 2 balls and flatten. Wrap dough tightly in plastic wrap or in plastic bags and refrigerate for 2 hours.
3. Preheat oven 325* F. 
4. To Prepare the filling: Combine sugar and cinnamon in small bowl.
5. Using a floured rolling pin on a floured board, roll one piece of dough into a rough rectangle 10" x 15" and .125" think. Sprinkle dough with half of the cinnamon-sugar filling. Starting with smaller side, roll dough up tightly into a cylinder. Dampen edge with water and seal. Repeat with remaining dough. Wrap each roll in plastic and refrigerate for 1 hour.
6. Using a sharp, thin knife cute .25" slices from each roll. Place slices on ungreased baking sheets, 1" apart.  Brush tops with .25 cup maple syrup. Bake for 16 minutes until light golden brown. Immediately transfer cookies to a cool, flat surface with spatula.

Makes 4 dozen.

Cinnamon Oatmeal Cookies - by Nikki

350F - 10 to 12 minutes

Ingredients:
1 cup soft butter
1 cup sugar
1 cup packed brown sugar
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla extract
 1 1/2 cup flour
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp ground cinnamon
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
3 cup quick-cooking oats

Directions:
In a large bowl, cream butter and sugars until light an fluffy. Beat in eggs and vanilla. combine flour, baking soda, cinnamon, baking powder and salt. Gradually add to creamed mixture and mix well. Stir in oats. Shape into 1 1/2 inch balls. Place 2 inches apart on ungreased baking sheet. Bake at 350 for 10-12 minutes or until golden brown. Cool for 1 minute before removing.

David's Famous Chocolate Chips

 375^oF

by David Donley

8 - 10 min.                         YIELD: Full: 10 dozen / Half: 5 dozen

Preheat oven to 375F ....................... Half Recipe:

Combine in medium Mixing Bowl:                             

·      4-1/2 cups flour............................................ 2-1/4 cup

·      2 tsp baking soda................................................ 1 tsp

·      2 tsp Salt.............................................................. 1 tsp

Beat together:

·      2-1/2 cups Butter, Softened =5 sticks.......... 1-1/4 cup

·      1-1/2 cup granulated sugar............................. 3/4 cup

·      1-1/2 cup brown sugar (dark or light).............. 3/4 cup

·      2 tsp Vanilla......................................................... 1 tsp

Combine both bowls and one at a time add

·      4 eggs............................................................... 2 eggs

Mix well together.

Add:

·      2 cups Nuts of your choice................................. 1 cup

·      3-1/2 cups chocolate chips.......................... 1-3/4 cup

Line cookie sheets with parchment paper.

Drop by tablespoon about 1 inch apart

Bake for ONLY 8-10 minutes depending on oven. Cool slightly on tray before removing.

This should make 10 dozen cookies depending on size of each cookie. 

Sugar Plums - Candied

Made by Strange 2010

2010 Results

Here we go folks -
The official total for this year as follows: (name(s) refer to person making / baking them)
1. Sugar Plums - Strange
2. Carmel Slice - Sami / Boug
3. Pink Piggys  & Blue Piggys - Emme / Cari
4. Pinwheels - Kaitlin
5. Kiefel - Con / Vicki
6. Swiss Chocolate - Boug
7. Chocolate Cookie Slice - Sami / Emme
8. Chocolate Crinkle - Connie
9. Lime Fudge - Strange
10. Hershey Mini Kiss Blossoms - Sami
11.Chocolate Gooey Butter Cookies - Con/Vic
12. Lemon Lace - Kaitlin/Strange
13. Speculaas - Boug
14. Apple Oatmeal Cookies - Kaitlin
15. Snickerdoodle - Vicki
16. Leonards Oatmeal - Sami
17. Bacon Chocolate Chip - Kaitlin
18. Cinnamon Oatmeal - Nikki
19. Itty Bitty Chocolate Chip Cookie - Kaitlin/Strange
20. Candy Cane Crisps - Strange / Sam
21. Mint Meltaways - Cari
22. Peppermint Patties - Arly
23. Carmel Pecan Cookies - Sami
24. Chip & Dip - Strange / Sami
25. Chocolate Covered Cherry - Cari / Kaitlin
26. Yoda Chocolate Spritz - Kaitlin / Cari
27. Angie's Figgy Cookies & Angie's Treasures (surprise) cookies - Strange/Sam/Alli
28. American Sugar Cookies - Emme/Cari
29. Cinnamon Maple Rings - Kaitlin
30. David's Famous Chocolate Chips - Alf
31. Almond Galattes - Boug/Alf
32. Baklava - Strange & Sami
33. Heath Chip - Cari

34. Red Velvet - Emme, Cari
35. Mock Macaroons - Boug
36. Nut Rugaleh - Boug
37. Smore Bars - Boug
38. Sugar Cookies roll out - Vicki
39. Marshmallow Treats - Cari
40. Chocolate Delice - Strange/Emme
41. Carmel Pecan Tarts - Boug/Sami/Strange

Strange, Boug, Emme & Kaitlin got there Friday about 5:30 - headed out to dinner after unloading supplies at at a favorite Mexican Restaurant with Connie & Sami. (Vic had to work)
Back at the Ranch after dinner, we started on our refrigerator doughs and Strange did her Lime Fudge.
Headed to bed around Midnite to be ready for Saturday.
Saturday - did eggs, bacon and hash browns on the griddle - made the bacon for the bacon chip cookies.

Started baking and making new doughs.
Cari arrived with more supplies.
Throughout the day, various guest chef's arrived -
Vicki's friend Nikki -
Amy & Arli & Zana - Con's friend and her daughter & daughters friend.
Sami's friend Alli.
Family friend Alfie.

Most motivating was a tie between Sami / Kaitlin / Alfie.
Sami was totally up for this - kept us all cooking.
Kaitlin kept finding new and different recipes to try.
Alfie got there when we were all starting to tire & got us all going again.
Special Kudo's to the Anderson women - Con, Vic, Sami for the great job organizing and cleaning the house. Another successful year - lots of goodies and lots of fun.
Thanks everyone!!

WHAT TO BRING!

Recipe to make
*** special ingredients specific to recipe ***
Containers to take home cookies
*and please - TAKE HOME COOKIES! we end up with tons of them. more than half the fun is baking them...
Basic ingredients to throw into the mass production
-Flour
-Sugar
-Vanilla
-eggs

Apron
Hairnet
Relaxed & happy attitude

Options: Please label with PERMANENT MARKER any of your utensils you want back
Mixing bowls
Cookie sheets
spoons
mixers
beaters (colored electrical tape works to label these - I have some if you need)

Cookie 'Day' Schedule - tentatively

Hello all -
Here is a tentative schedule for Cookie Day - based on past episodes....

Friday December 10th:
~4pm - Jump in vehicle & head south to the CDC (Cookie Day Central)
~4:30pm - get frustrated by lots of traffic, and sing bad songs loudly along the way
~7pm - rally up the troops at CDC - head out for some dinner - possibly Mexican food?
8:30pm - Organize ingredients in boxes/bins at CDC
9pm - start making refrigerated doughs
9:01pm - partake of adult beverages - ONLY a tablespoon!
11pm to midnite - head to bed.

Saturday December 11th: (C-Day)
8am-ish - breakfast
9-10am Heat the Viking
start putting the doughs from last nite on sheets & baking them - 
Start making the old traditional recipes, new recipes, all the fun ones -
Bake!

12-1-ish - Lunch - Homemade Turkey Soup and or sandwiches

Back to work -
General Jobs:
-Making doughs
-Dish Duty - wash up bowls, mixers, beaters as needed
-Oven Duty - watch the cookies & pull out as ready. REMINDER - do NOT use on bottom rack
-Cooling rack Duty - move cookies from Cooling racks into holding pans (usually Oven person can cover this
-Camera Duty - grab cameras and get photos of going on's

6pm-ish - grab some real food to eat - group consensus - more soup/sandwich or order Chinese??

Continue baking until we run out of steam - typically 11pm-ish

Sunday December 12th:
9am-ish - breakfast
Finish any last minute baking - if necessary
Do final cookie distribution - sort into containers, divvy out

11am-ish head on home, trunks full of goodies, new recipes, and fun!