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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

We’ve got a bunch of recipes for Chinese New Year cookies in our Chinese New Year Cookie Recipes section, check it out.

Chinese New Year is early this year, it takes place on January 26th, 2009. We will be going from the Year of the Rat to the Year of the Ox. Celebrate with some cookies!

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.

Check out our new section on cookie gifts in a jar mixes.

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.

4 Cups graham cracker crumbs
1 Cup peanuts (chopped)
1/2 Cup powdered sugar
1/4 Cup peanut butter
2 Cups chocolate chips
1 Cup evaporated milk
1 tsp. vanilla extract

Combine crumbs, peanuts, sugar and peanut butter using pastry blender or fork. In a saucepan, melt chocolate chips with evaporated milk over a low heat making sure to stir constantly until it becomes smooth. Remove mixture from heat and add vanilla extract. Remove 1/2 cup of mixture, setting aside. Pour the remaining chocolate mixture over the crumb mixture. Stirring until well blended. Spread mixture evenly in a well greased square baking pan (9 inches). Frost with the reserved 1/2 cup of chocolate.

Perfect for summer picnics, BBQ’s and get togethers, check out our Summer Cookie Recipes section.

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