Cafe Viennese Crinkles

How can you go wrong with chocolate, coffee and cinnamon?

Cafe Viennese Crinkles
1/3 cup softened butter
1 cup packed brown sugar
2/3 cup good quality cocoa powder
1 tablespoon instant espresso powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon cinnamon
2 large egg whites
1/3 cup vanilla yogurt
1 1/2 cups flour
cinnamon sugar for rolling

Preheat oven to 350.

Cream butter till soft in the mixer, about 3 minutes. Add brown sugar. In another bowl, mix cocoa powder, instant espresso powder, baking soda and cinnamon.  Add to butter/sugar mixture.  Mix egg whites and yogurt with a whisk in a small bowl. Add to mixture in mixer.  Add flour and blend in well.

Using the medium cookie scoop, scoop out dough and roll in the cinnamon sugar and place 2 inches apart on a parchment lined baking sheet.

Bake for 12 to 14 minutes.

Makes about 2 dozen.

These are soft, cake like cookie. They are not crunchy.

You Put the Lime in the Coconut

I had some purchased lime curd that needed to be used, soon.  Coconut and Lime!
YUM!

Lime Coconut Bars
1 cup all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 cup butter
1 large egg
1 jar lime curd
TOPPING:
1 large egg, well beaten
3/4 cup sugar
1 cup coconut

Preheat oven to 350
Combine flour, and baking powder in a mixing bowl. Cut in butter with a pastry blender or your hands till it resembles crumbs.

 this is before mixing

Add egg and mix well. Press mixture into a greased (buttered) 9 inch  square pan.

Spread with curd.

Make topping:

In a mixer bowl, beat egg till foamy, gradually add sugar. Continue beating till light and fluffy and it holds soft peaks.  Fold in coconut

Spread over curd

Bake for 25-30 minutes

Just in the oven

Cut into bars when cool.

I baked this in a foil pan as I am giving them away. :)

Freckles

They looked sort of like freckles to me.  Lon has told me they are great!  I was wondering what to make today, and went to see what I had in the pantry. I had some bits of butter toffee, coconut and mini chips.  I think I can work with that!

Freckles

1 cup shortening
1/3 cup butter
1 cup granulated sugar
1 cup packed brown sugar
2 large eggs
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
3 cups flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
1 cup bits of toffee
1 cup toasted coconut
1 cup mini chocolate chips

Heat oven to 350

As oven is heating up, spread coconut out on a baking sheet. One with rims helps alot.  I used frozen coconut and it took about 7 minutes as the oven heated up to get the coconut toasty. Stir it often. Do not just set the timer and walk away!

Set coconut aside to cool

Mix butter and shortening in a mixer till well blended. Add sugars, eggs, and vanilla. In this cookie I added 1 teaspoon of Princess for 1 teaspoon of the vanilla

In a separate bowl, mix flour, baking soda, and salt. Add to the butter mixture.

Stir in the toffee, coconut, and mini chips --the chips give them the freckles!

Put parchment down on your baking sheets, the toffee makes the cookies stick a bit.

Drop by medium scoop onto lined baking sheets  

Bake for 10 to 12 minutes or until golden brown. They are slightly chewy with bits of crunch. The toasted coconut will add a nutty flavor without adding nuts

Sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you don't

These cookies taste like mounds bars! Yummy!  I adapted this cookie from the Southern Living book of Christmas Cookies (1986). The original recipe said it would make 6 dozen. I got exactly three dozen. These are so good, I when I make them again I will double it to get those 6 dozen!

Island Delights

3 (1 ounce) squares of unsweetened chocolate

1/4 cup strong coffee

1/2 cup shortening

1 cup firmly packed brown sugar

1 large egg

2 cups all-purpose flour

1/2 teaspoon baking soda

1/2 teaspoon salt

2/3 cup sour cream

1/2 to 3/4 cup coconut -- I used more, I like coconut!

Chocolate Frosting (recipe follows)

Preheat oven to 375. Line baking sheets with parchment paper.

Melt chocolate and coffee together in the top of a double boiler (or the microwave -watching closely!) until chocolate melts. Stir often for a smooth mixture. Set aside to cool.

Cream shortening, add brown sugar, beating well. 

Add egg and chocolate mixture; beat well.

In another bowl, combine flour, soda and salt.

Add to creamed mixture alternately with sour cream, beginning and ending with flour mixture.

Stir in coconut

 Use the medium cookie scoop to drop onto prepared cookie sheets
Bake 15-17 minutes.
Let cool slightly before frosting

Chocolate Frosting
1 1/2 squares unsweetened chocolate squares
1/4 cup sour cream
1 tablespoon butter
1 1/2 cups sifted powdered sugar
Toasted coconut

Melt chocolate and butter on top of the stove over a double boiler.  When chocolate is just about all melted add sour cream and stir till heated through.
Remove from heat and put into the bowl of a mixer, add powdered sugar and beat until smooth.
It says it will frost all the cookies, but I doubled it and only had a bit left
Spread the frosting on the cookies and sprinkle with toasted coconut



Cry Babies

I got this recipe from an old book of Colonial Recipes. I have no idea why they are called Cry Babies. There was no explanation of that.  They are good molasses ginger cookies!

CRY BABIES

1 cup butter

1 cup sugar

1 cup molasses

1 large egg

4 cups all-purpose flour

1 teaspoon baking soda

1 teaspoon ground ginger

1 cup milk

GLAZE

1 1/2 cups powdered sugar

1/2 cup water mixed with 1/2 teaspoon lemon extract

small dash salt

Preheat oven to 350

Cream butter and sugar until light. Add molasses and egg; beat until smooth.  In another bowl, stir together flour, soda and ginger. Add to creamed mixture alternately with milk, beating after each addition.

Drop by teaspoonfuls onto a greased or parchment lined cookie sheet.

Bake for about 10 minutes.

Makes 5 dozen.



Cool cookies completely. Sift powdered sugar, add dash salt,  add enough water/lemon extract mix to make a thin glaze. Drizzle over cooled cookies. 

Jam Bars

This week's cookie of the week is a day early! We have places to go this week, so I made cookies to take with us.  A small batch, just enough to take along in the car.

Jam Bars

1/2 cup packed light brown sugar

1 cup all-purpose flour

1/4 teaspoon baking soda

1/8 teaspoon salt

1cup rolled oats

1/2 cup butter, softened

3/4 cup jam.  Any kind will do, what ever you want

Preheat oven to 350

Grease an 8 inch square pan.

Combine brown sugar, flour, baking soda, salt and rolled oats.

Rub in butter with your hands until mixture is crumbly. Like little peas.

Press 2 cups of the butter into the bottom of the prepared pan









Top with the jam. Then sprinkle the rest of the crumbles on the top

Bake for 35 to 40 minutes in the preheated oven, or until lightly browned. Allow to cool before cutting into bars.

Just enough to take on a short day trip! 



Raspberry Delight Cookies!

I saw oatmeal cookies made with aplets in the Aplets and Cotlets catalog. I had a bag of raspberry delights that needed something done with them, other than me eating them!   I used my standard oatmeal cookie recipe with just one modification. These are yummy cookies!
For those of you who do not know what an aplet is, it is very similar to turkish delight.  There were brothers who moved to Cashmere, Washington in the 1920s and started a candy factory. They based their candy recipe on what they remembered from their homeland, but using the fruits from around Cashmere. Apples and Apricots, then later on expanding to other fruits.  It is a fun place to visit www.libertyorchards.com.

Raspberry Delight Cookies

1cup chopped raspberry delight candies (or any other flavor!) I  quartered mine
1/2 cup water
3/4 cup shortening
1 1/2 cups sugar
2 large eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 teaspoons Penzey's cake spice (or 1 teaspoon cinnamon and 1/2 teaspoon cloves)
2 cups rolled oats

Preheat oven to 400
Mix shortening, sugar, eggs, and vanilla (I used princess emulsion). Add 1/2 cup water
In another bowl, stir together flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt and spice.
Blend into sugar mixture
Add oats. Mix well.  Add raspberry delight candies.  I took a bit of the flour and coated  the candy so it would not be one giant lump of candy
Drop by medium cookie scoop onto parchment lined cookie sheet.

Bake for 12 minutes or until lightly browned. Let sit on parchment for about 2 minutes before moving to a wire rack to cool.
Makes about 4 dozen (slightly less)