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Halloween is just around the corner, here’s an excellent Halloween bar cookie recipe:

Double Delicious Halloween Bars

1/2 Cup margarine or butter
1 1/2 Cups graham cracker crumbs
1 14 Oz. Can sweetened condensed milk
1 12 Oz. Package milk chocolate chips
1 Cup peanut butter chips

Preheat oven to 350 degrees (325 degrees for glass dish). In 13 x 9 inch baking pan, melt margarine in oven. Sprinkle crumbs evenly over margarine; pour sweetened condensed milk evenly over crumbs. Top with chips; press down firmly. Bake 25 to 30 minutes or until lightly browned. Cool. Cut into bars.

We’ve amassed our best cookie recipes appropriate for these back to school days. Whip up a batch for your child’s lunch box, backpack or as a great after school snack or treat:

Back to School Cookie Recipes

We’ve just updated our summer cookie recipes section with more recipes, including s’mores cookie bars, lemon drop cookies and strawberry cookies (they don’t contain strawberries, but are shaped like them!). Check it out:
http://www.cookie-recipes.net/summer-cookie-recipes.htm

Whether you’re looking for cookies for your summer parties, tea parties, backyard BBQ’s, sleepovers, camp outs or whatever else you plan this summer, don’t forget to pack some cookies!

It’s getting near that time again, Mother’s Day is just around the corner. What better way to tell Mom you love her than to bake her some cookies with your own hands? It’s a heartfelt gift that she’ll love! Check out all of our:
Mother’s Day Cookie Recipes

We have just launched our newest section of the site:

No Bake Cookie Recipes

It’s that time of year again! Valentine’s Day is coming up quickly, and what better gift from the heart than homemade cookies made with love and care by your own hands? Check out our special section of recipes for this romantic day:

Valentine’s Day Cookie Recipes

It’s that time of year again, time to bake some cookies for Christmas! Check out our section on cookie baking with cookie decorating tips as well as cookie frosting and cookie icing recipes.

Don’t forget to check out our Christmas Cookie Recipes section as well as our extensive and recently updated sugar cookie recipes page, loaded with over 50 different recipes for sugar cookies.

Here is a recipe that is richer, denser and more moist than your typical sugar cookie. If you didn’t tell someone that sour cream was in it, they wouldn’t know. These are perfect with just some red and green colored sugars sprinkled on top before baking or use a thin icing for the top. They can also be iced and decorated with frostings like other sugar cookies, but they are a little more durable than some recipes that use butter. Try them for Christmas in place of the butter or shortening type sugar cookie recipes:

Sour Cream Sugar Cookies

1 cup White sugar
1/2 cup Butter (softened)
1/2 cup Sour cream
1 1/2 tsp Vanilla extract
1 Egg
2 1/2 cup All purpose flour
1 tsp Baking powder
1/2 tsp Baking soda
1/2 tsp Salt
1/2 cup Sugar (to roll dough in)

Preheat oven to 400 degrees F. Mix together the sugar, butter, sour cream, vanilla extract and egg together. Stir in the remaining ingredients except for decorating sugar. Drop the dough by rounded teaspoons into the decorating sugar, rolling gently but firmly until it is completely coated with the sugar. Place cookies approx. 2″ apart onto ungreased baking sheets. Flatten cookies to about 1/4″ thickness with the bottom of a glass. Bake for about 7 to 8 minutes or just until set. Cool for a few minutes before removing from baking sheets.

We’re proud to announce our newest section of Christmas related recipes, the Cookie Gifts In A Jar Recipes section. Loaded with gift ideas that you can put together easily and with most ingredients already in your kitchen pantry. These gifts are economical and fun to assemble, not to mention thoughtful. These are perfect gifts for families.

1/4 cup sugar
1 tbsp cinnamon (ground)
1 1/2 cups sugar
1/2 cup shortening
1/2 cup butter or margarine (softened)
2 eggs
2 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
2 tsp cream of tartar
1 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp salt

Preheat oven to 400 degrees F. Combine 1/4 cup sugar and cinnamon, setting aside. Beat the 1 1/2 cups sugar, shortening, butter and eggs in large mixing bowl at medium speed, or mix by hand with wooden spoon. Stir in the flour, cream of tartar, baking soda and salt.

Shape dough into 1 1/4 inch balls. Roll in the sugar and cinnamon mixture. Place dough balls about 2 inches apart onto ungreased cookie sheets. Bake approximately 10 minutes or until centers are almost set. Remove from cookie sheet to wire rack to cool completely.