Holiday Cookies
Stephanie Ashcraft
101 Things To Do With A Cake Mix
http://www.recipes-101.com
Here is the basic recipe:
1 box yellow or chocolate cake mix
1/3 cup oil
2 eggs
Mix all ingredients well.
Drop by spoonfuls using small cookie scoop.
Bake for 10-12 minutes at 375 or until done.
That is the basic recipe...the variations are what make it special. Use small part of dough (1/6 of it) to make 6 to 8 cookies of the variation. This gives you a large tray of cookies when you use 2 or 3 cake mixes.
Variations:
1. Add chopped or finely ground nuts. Knead into dough.
2. Mix one part cinnamon and four parts sugar in small bowl. Drop balls of dough into mixture and shake around (use yellow cake mix)..these taste like snickerdoodles.
3. Wrap scoop of dough around candy bar pieces, such as andes mints, Hersheys Treasures, snickers, milky way, caramels, etc. and you will get a surprise when you bite into cookies.
4. Knead chopped up candy bars, reeses pieces, m & m's, raisins, etc into ball of cookie dough.
5. Roll dough with hands into snake ropes. Drop into red sugar crystals and intertwine with yellow cake rope and make candy canes. Or use green and make wreaths and decorate with red hots.
6. Zest a lemon or orange into dough.
7. Roll them out and you can make sugar cookies with cookie cutters. Sprinkle with colored sugar crystals
8. Make sandwich cookies...take two of the cut outs and place frosting in between. Chocolate stars with sugar on top and lemon zested frosting (white canned frosting with lemon zest) in between are really good.
9. Make a filled cookie with cut and seal...fill with strawberry or apricot preserves.
10. Wrap chocolate dough around a cherry.
11. Make cookie tarts with your mini muffin pans and tart shaper. Fill with miniture reeses cup or chocolate chips and bake...can even use Decorator to fill the empty tarts with a mousse or pudding.
12. Make a bar cookie in the 9 x 13.
13. Make cookies with plain dough using a cookie press!
From my Kitchen to Yours, Merry Christmas!