Orange Sugar Cookies

Easy to make, but tastes great. This orange cookie holds it’s shape well and can be used with figured boards or cookie molds and stamps. Dust with confectioners’ sugar after baking for an elegant finish.

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Cracked Sugar Cookies

This is a family favorite sugar cookie recipe handed down to me from my mom. When my husband was deployed to Iraq, he was always excited to receive a box of these in the mail. I always make sure to watch these closely and take them out of the oven before they brown. If they brown, they will end up too hard and crunchy.

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Poinsettia Cookies

These pretty cookies are fairly labor intensive, but boy, are they worth it. A few of these festive blossoms on top of my Christmas cookie trays really make a festive presentation.

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Brown Rim Cookies

These cookies are a multi-generational tradition. Great with a glass of milk! Butter flavored shortening gives them a wonderful new flavor. This recipe is a double batch- enough to go around!

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Simple Sugar Cookies

One of the simplest sugar cookies ever! When baked, they are delicious and it’s hard to keep them in the cookie jar for long…because everyone eats them too quickly.

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Mom’s Sugar Cookies

These cookies are great rolled out or you can put them through the bar cookie disc of a cookie press to make thin cookies. (Using a cookie press is much faster than rolling them out.)

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Anise Seed Borrachio Cookies

You must find some time to make these cookies because are simply delicious; one of my best friend’s favorites. They are classic sugar cookies with the blended flavors of vanilla, anise and rum.

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Swedish Cookies (Brunscrackers)

          

This is a recipe that my husband’s nana has made for years. They are the easiest cookies I have ever made. The ingredients were harder to find than it was to make the cookies. They are like potato chips, you cannot eat just one!

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Bachelor Buttons II

Yummy little tidbits, a cookie that is dark, lightly sweet, and not heavy tasting. Very yummy!!! I got this recipe from a dear friend back when we graduated from high school and it has become a family favorite. For variety, add chocolate chips or candied fruit.

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