I am participating in a virtual cookie exchange where I am going to post my favorite cookie recipe, and it will be shared across the universe. I sure wish I had taken a photo of the ones I made last week, but we ate them already.
Russian Tea Balls
Preheat oven to 400
3/4 C. chopped pecans
1 C. butter (margarine does not work)
1/2 C powdered sugar
1 tsp vanilla
1/4 tsp salt
2 1/4 C flour
Roll into one inch balls. Bake 12-15 minutes, watch closely as they like to burn
Before they are cool, roll them in powdered sugar.
I usually refrigerate them, but they are best eaten at room temp.
Here is the link to the exchange. I thought Possum Manor should make a showing, even if the cookies are already gone. Virtual Cookie Exchange.
December 15th, 2009 at 4:29 pm
my favorite cookie recipe is this:
go to the bakery department at the grocery store
buy cookies…the big soft ones with frosting are the best.
just a by the way….little snarkmuffin, the six pound foster attack poodle, got adopted today.
December 15th, 2009 at 7:23 pm
Thank you for this recipe. It sounds really yummy. From reading your header, it sounds like you and I are a lot alike. I too grew up in the city and now live in the country on 10 acres surrounded by turkeys, deer, possums, raccoons, chickens, geese, dogs and cats. I wouldn’t trade it for all the world.
I’ll be back to read more of your blog.
December 15th, 2009 at 7:35 pm
I just got your website from HBHW when I looked at the recipe for the Russian Tea Cakes…I love those cookies…We are in southeast Tennessee…Please visit our website to see a little bit of our neck of the woods…
Merry Christmas!!!!
December 15th, 2009 at 9:50 pm
no cookie recipes to share yet but YEAH for snarkmuffin!!
December 16th, 2009 at 3:39 am
I will share my all time favorite cookie recipe! I am making a couple of batches this week sometime. YAY!!
Peanut Butter Kisses
2.5 Cups plain flour
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp salt
1 Cup (2 sticks) butter, softened
1 Cup Peanut Butter (the regular stuff not the natural or no-sugar stuff)
1 Cup sugar
1 Cup brown sugar, firmly packed
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla extract
extra granulated sugar for rolling
Unwrapped Hershey’s Kisses
~In a bowl, combine the first 4 ingredients.
~In another bowl, cream together the butter and both sugars. Beat in eggs and vanilla to butter mixture.
~Slowly add flour mixture to butter mixture.
~ Wrap dough in plastic wrap and refrigerate for 1 to 2 hours.
~Heat oven to 350 degrees
~Shape dough into 1″ balls, roll balls in sugar to coat evenly and place on a cookie sheet at least an inch apart
~Bake for 12 minutes.
~The minute the cookies come out of the oven, press an unwrapped Hershey’s Kiss into the top center of each cookie.
~Let stand on baking sheet for 1 minute or so before moving to cooling rack.
~Cool completely and then devour!!!! Or, ya know, give them as gifts or whatever. LMAO
December 16th, 2009 at 5:04 am
Becky, my favorite part of those is the baked kisses. I steal them from the top. More than one Christmas argument was started over that habit when I was a still at home.
Pam, you will miss that little biter. I am willing to bet that.
December 16th, 2009 at 10:31 am
Becky, those are about my all time favorite cookies. You are welcome to come here and make them anytime.
Kathie, yup, i miss her already. However i got up and did NOT have to put on shoes to keep my feet safe for the first time in months… so it’s kind of a trade off, you know?
December 16th, 2009 at 6:18 pm
Kathie - you can use walnuts in place of pecans. They taste soooooo good too. I have made them both ways. I too make the peanut butter kisses. Not only did my girls like to eat the kiss before the cookie, I did too. I would eat the kiss if it fell off in the cookie jar and leave the cookie. One would be surprised how mad people got when there was not a kiss on their cookie. lol