Quick and Easy Cookie Recipes - Drop Sugar Cookies and White Chip Apricot Oatmeal Cookies

If you love homemade cookies, but you just do not have much time to indulge in baking, here are some cookie recipes for you. Perhaps you have a young mother, or it just is not much free time, but you should love your children as your mother and / or grandmother to bake, are not you. These recipes are perfect for you. Drop Sugar Cookies enable you to make delicious sugar cookies without rolling, cutting and decorating. And take the White Chip Apricot Oatmeal CookiesOatmeal cookies on a new level! To get the ingredients, take the kiddos and have some baking fun.

DROP SUGAR COOKIES

2 cups all-purpose flour, sifted
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 / 2 teaspoon salt
2 large eggs
3 / 4 cup sugar + extra sugar for topping
2 / 3 cup canola oil
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1 teaspoon grated lemon peel

Preheat oven to 400 degrees.

In a medium bowl, seven together the flour, baking powder andSalt. Mix well. In a large mixing bowl with a whisk, whisk eggs until. Sugar, oil, vanilla and lemon rind, mix well. Stir the dry ingredients into the egg mixture until well. Chill, covered, minutes for at least 30. Drop cookie dough by rounded teaspoons about two inches apart onto baking paper type sheet. Mist the bottom of a 3-inch flat-bottom glass with water and dip glass in additional sugar. Press tops of cookies lightly with the glass, fogging with waterand immersed in sugar for each cookie. Bake until lightly browned, about 8 minutes. Cool on baking sheets for two minutes, then remove to wire racks to finish cooling. Store in an airtight container.

WHITE CHIP APRICOT Oatmeal Cookies

3 / 4 cup butter, softened
1 / 2 cup granulated sugar
1 / 2 cup packed brown sugar
1 egg
1 cup all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
2 1 / 2 cups rolled oats
10-ounce pkg Hershey's Premier WhiteChips
3 / 4 cup dried apricots

Preheat oven to 375 degrees.

The butter, granulated sugar and brown sugar in large bowl until fluffy. Add eggs and beat well. Flour and baking powder, beating until well combined. Stir in oats, white chips, and apricots. Loose form rounded teaspoons of dough into balls and on ungreased baking sheet. Bake 7 to 9 minutes or just until they are lightly browned. Do not overbake! Let cool, remove baking sheet to cool on a wire rackcomplete.

Yield: 3 1 / 2 dozen cookies.

Enjoy!

Christmas Cookie Baking Recipes

The first fine dusting of fluffy white snow makes me always in the mood for baking Christmas cookies. At this time of year I tend to spend longer in the kitchen, playing to massive baking batches of cookies and candies as holiday music and movies in the background. I love and have always loved the taste and smells that come from a kitchen filled with love at Christmas. Here are two recipes for traditional Christmas concert of my favorite cookie.

GingerbreadCookies

6 cups flour

1 teaspoon baking powder

1 teaspoon ground ginger

1 teaspoon ground nutmeg

1 teaspoon ground cloves

1 teaspoon ground cinnamon

1 cup shortening, melted and cooled

1 cup molasses

1 cup brown sugar

1 / 2 cup water

1 egg

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

In a medium bowl, sift the dry ingredients (flour, baking powder, ginger, nutmeg, cloves,Cinnamon). In a large bowl, mix the shortening, molasses, brown sugar, water, egg and vanilla. Mix well. Add dry ingredients into the mixture slowly and mix well. Divide the dough into 3 pieces to make into pieces no larger than 1 1 / 2 inch thick, wrap and refrigerate for 3 hours or more. The dough (about 1 / 4 inch thick) on a lightly floured board and cut them into shapes (smaller shapes work best) with this dough. Bake in a 350-degree oven for 10 to 12 minutes. Frost with powdered sugarIcing (milk or cream and powdered sugar). Word of warning to this recipe, it is a very large batch so I hope you will share a lot of family and friends with too.

Cookies (roll-out)

3 cups flour

1 cup sugar

1 / 2 teaspoon salt

1 1 / 2 teaspoon baking powder

1 cup butter, softened

1 beaten egg

3 tablespoons cream

1 teaspoon vanilla

Combine softened butter and sugar until light and stir. Add in egg, cream and vanilla.Sift together flour, salt, baking powder and add them into the liquid mixture. Chill for at least an hour. Roll out to about 1 / 4 inch thick, cut on a lightly floured surface and into your favorite Christmas cookie shapes. Bake in a 350-degree oven for about 10 minutes. If desired, place the red and green sprinkles on top of cookies before it in the oven. If you prefer to make it a project of the family, the cookies bake, let cool, and a powdered sugar icing (milkand powdered sugar). Divide the icing into several bowls and she colors with food coloring. Sprinkles, Chocolate chips, Red Hots, and mini M & Ms can help add fun to the glazing process.