Category: Dessert

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Double Chocolate Holiday Biscotti

https://www.foodnetwork.com/fnk/recipes/double-chocolate-holiday-biscotti-8869479

  • Level: Easy
  • Total: 1 hr 45 min (includes cooling time)
  • Active: 15 min
  • Yield: approximately 20 biscotti

 

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Line a rimmed baking sheet with parchment paper, dust with 1/4 cup flour and set aside.
  2. In a medium bowl, combine the sugar, butter, orange marmalade, orange zest and salt. Using a handheld mixer, beat on medium speed until the mixture is smooth, light and fluffy, about 2 minutes. Beat in the eggs one at a time. Add the remaining 2 cups of flour, cocoa powder and baking powder and beat until just blended. Using a rubber spatula, stir in the chocolate chips.
  3. On the prepared pan, form the dough into a 3-by-13-inch log. (Using a small offset spatula or dusting your hands with flour will help keep the dough from sticking to your hands.) Bake until the log is firm to the touch, cracked on top and looks dry, about 35 minutes. Cool for 30 minutes on the tray.
  4. Place the log on a cutting board and using a serrated knife, cut the log on a diagonal into 1/2-inch slices. Arrange the biscotti cut-side down on the tray. Bake until they are a dry and fragrant, an additional 20 to 25 minutes. Transfer the biscotti to a cooling rack and cool completely.

 

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Molasses Sandwich Cookies (The 2020 Remix)

Notes

These cookies were made for a cookie swap back in 2007. We loved them so much we thought they deserved a revival. The other cookies we revived for the “2020 Hindsight” pandemic cookie swap were these previously posted Chocolate Peanut Butter Surprise Cookies we made in 2010.

  • Author: Slightly Adapted from Everyday Food September 2006
  • Prep Time: 50 minutes
  • Total Time: 1 hour 30 minutes
  • Yield: 15 1x Category:
  • Dessert Method: Baking
  • Cuisine: American

Ingredients

For the Cookies

  • 1 ½ cups all-purpose flour (spooned and leveled)
  • ½ teaspoon baking soda
  • 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
  • ½ teaspoon salt
  • 1 cup packed light-brown sugar
  • ½ cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, room temperature
  • 1 large egg
  • ¼ cup light unsulfured molasses

For the Creamy Molasses Filling

  • 12 tablespoons (1 ½ sticks) unsalted butter, softened
  • 3 tablespoons light unsulfured molasses
  • 2 cups powdered sugar

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 350°. In a small bowl, whisk together flour, baking soda, cinnamon, and salt; set aside.
  2. In a large bowl, with an electric mixer, beat sugar and butter until combined. Beat in egg, then molasses, until smooth. On low speed, gradually add flour mixture until a dough forms.
  3. Drop rounded measuring teaspoonfuls of dough onto two ungreased (or parchment-lined) baking sheets.
  4. Bake until centers are dry to the touch, 12 to 15 minutes; rotate pans from top to bottom and front to back halfway through. Cool 1 minute on baking sheets; then transfer to a rack to cool completely.
    For the filling, whisk 12 tablespoons softened unsalted butter with 3 tablespoons light unsulfured molasses until smooth. Gradually whisk in 2 cups powdered sugar until smooth and spreadable.
  5. To assemble, spread a rounded measuring teaspoonful of filling on the flat side of a cookie; place another cookie on top, and gently press. Repeat until all cookies are filled.

Notes

  • Forming Cookies: Use a round, not oval, measuring teaspoon for scooping dough. Before scooping, dip spoon in water to make sure dough doesn’t stick.
  • Store cookies in an airtight container at room temperature up to l day, or refrigerate up to 3 days (cookies may soften during refrigeration).
  • Makes 30 individual (15 sandwich) cookies with about 1 ½ cups of filling.
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Grinch Cookies

Notes

Recipe taken from TastyEverAfter.com

Serving size is 1 cookie

These raspberry filled Grinch Cookies are perfect for Christmas and so easy to make with an easy homemade sugar cookie dough. Can use store bought dough for a time saver!

If you don’t have a heart cookie cutter, use a small paring knife to make the heart shaped center of the cookie.

Store leftover baked and filled cookies in the refrigerator for up to 5 days in tightly covered container.

Unfilled cookies can be frozen for up to 2 months after baking in a freezer proof container or bag.

Ingredients

  • 1 cup unsalted butter , softened
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 1 pinch salt
  • 1 egg , at room temperature
  • 1 ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 3–4 drops green food coloring
  • 2 ½ cups all-purpose flour
  • ¾ cup all-natural seedless raspberry preserves, jam, or jelly
  • green sugar sprinkles

Instructions

  1. Place butter, sugar, and salt in a large bowl. Using a stand-up mixer with a paddle attachment or a handheld mixer, cream ingredients together at medium speed until light and fluffy (about 4 minutes).
  2. Scrape down sides, add egg and vanilla, Beat for another 2–3 minutes, scraping down sides as necessary, until well combined. Add 3–4 drops of green food coloring and mix for another minute or until the green coloring is evenly distributed throughout dough and there are no streaks of color.
  3. Slowly add flour, ½ cup at a time, mixing well after each addition. Dough should be firm, not sticky, but still be soft. Divide dough in half and put each half between two pieces of heavy-duty freezer plastic wrap or parchment paper. Roll each piece of dough to ¼″ thick and place in refrigerator on flat surface for at least 30 minutes.
  4. Preheat oven to 350°F degrees. Line baking sheets with parchment paper or use a silicone baking mat.
  5. Remove one prepared dough sheet at a time from refrigerator. Remove top layer of parchment paper or plastic wrap and cut out 30 cookies using a round shaped cutter with a heart insert. Place on baking sheet and coat the top of each cookie with green sprinkles, if using. Take out other cookie dough sheet and cut out 30 cookies using just a round shaped cutter. Place on baking sheet.
  6. Bake 8–10 minutes, or until lightly brown on edges. Let cool for minute or two on baking sheet, then transfer to wire rack to cool.
  7. When cookies are completely cooled, take the round cookies and spread a little of the raspberry preserves on each one. At this point, if you haven’t used the green sprinkles, sift powdered sugar on top of each heart cut-out cookie. Lightly press it on top of jelled cookie.