Cookie Bonanza II - The Temple of Snacks

I've baked another round of Christmas Cookies.  Because nothing exceeds like excess.
 

Fruitcake Drop Cookies

This is based on a Paula Deen recipe but I changed the fruits to suit what I had.  I was a little troubled that there's no leavening in it but they turned out like I wanted them to so I it wasn't an error in the original recipe.  The end product is fruitcake bites and will be popular with people who like fruitcake.

1 1/2 cup sugar
1 stick butter
4 eggs
1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp vanilla
1/2 tsp cinnamon
3 cups flour
16 oz fancy fruitcake mix
4 oz chopped dried apricots
2 oz golden raisins
2 oz currants
16oz chopped pecans

Oven to 300

Cream butter and sugar.
Add eggs(one at a time), salt, vanilla and cinnamon.
Slowly add flour and mix well.
Fold in fruit and pecans.
Drop by rounded tablespoonfuls onto a greased cookie sheet.
Bake for 23 to 25 minutes.


Nutella Cookies

3 cups flour
1 tsp baking soda
2/3 cup butter
1 cup sugar
1 cup brown sugar
2 eggs
26.5 oz jar nutella
1 tsp vanilla

Oven to 375

Whisk flour and baking soda together in a bowl and set aside
Cream butter and sugars
Add eggs (one at a time), vanilla, and then nutella
Mix in the dry ingredients
Roll in sugar
Drop onto baking sheets
Bake 12 minutes

Peanut Butter Kiss Cookies
recipe from Joy of Cookin'

3 cups flour
1 tsp baking soda
2/3 cup butter
1 cup sugar
1 cup brown sugar
2 eggs
2 cups peanut butter
1 tsp vanilla

Hershey Kisses

Oven to 375

Whisk flour and baking soda together in a bowl and set aside
Cream butter and sugars
Add eggs (one at a time), vanilla, and peanut butter
Mix in the dry ingredients
Drop onto baking sheets
Roll in sugar
Bake 12 minutes
Top with kiss as soon as they come out of the oven.
*Don't unwrap too many kisses as once because unwrapped kisses are basically useless except for these cookies.


Gingersnaps
recipe from Joy of Cookin'

3 1/2 cups flour
1 1/2 baking powder
1/2 soda

5 tsp ginger
2 cinnamon
1/4 cloves
1 1/2 sticks butter
1 1/2 cups sugar
1/4 salt
1 tsp vanilla
2 eggs
1/2 cup molassas
orange/lemon zest
2 tsp juice

Oven to 350.

Whisk flour, soda, baking soda, ginger, cinnamon, and cloves in a bowl and set aside
 Cream butter and sugar
Add eggs (one at a time), salt and vanilla
Add in molassas, zest, and juice
Work in the dry ingredients
Drop onto baking sheets
Bake about 13 minutes

Chocolate-Cherry-Almond Cookies

2 sticks butter
1 1/2 cup sugar
2 eggs
2 tsp vanilla extract
2 cups all purpose flour
2/3 cup cocoa
3/4 soda
1/4 salt
1 cup mini choc chips
8 oz dried cherries
6 oz slivered almonts


Oven to 350.

Whisk flour, cocoa and baking soda in a bowl and set aside
 Cream butter and sugar
Add eggs (one at a time), salt and vanilla
Work in the dry ingredients
Mix in the chocolate chips and then the cherries and finally the almonds.
Drop onto baking sheets
Bake about 10 minutes
 
Oatmeal-Chocolate Chip-Walnut-Raisin-Currant Cookies

1 3/4 cups all purpose flour3/4 tsp baking soda
3/4 tsp baking powder
2 sticks butter (1 cup)
1/4 cup sugar
1 1/2 cup brown sugar
1/2 tsp salt
3 1/2 cups oats
1/2 cup golden raisins
1/2 cup currants
1/2 bag butterscotch chips
3/4 - 1 cup walnuts

Oven to 350

Whisk in a bowl flour, soda and baking powder
Cream together butter and sugar
Add salt, eggs(one at a time) and vanilla
Slowly add oats, raising, currants, butterscotch chips and walnuts
Place in golf ball sized amounts on a lined cookie sheet and bake 12-14 minutes.