Saturday, December 16, 2017

Granini's Shortbread Sugar Cookies with frosting

Granini's Shortbread Sugar Cookies with Frosting


Ingredients

 3/4 cup margarine
1 cup sugar
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 1/2 cups flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
3/4 teaspoon salt

 Directions:


  1. Sift together the dry ingredients.
  2. Mix the margarine and sugar together until creamy.
  3. Add a large spoon full of the dry ingredients to the margarine/sugar mixture.
  4. Add in the eggs, one at a time, until fully blended together.  Add in the vanilla.
  5.  Then slowly add into the wet ingredients a little at a time until fully incorporated.
  6. Put plastic wrap over your dough and chill for at least an hour.
  7. Using 1/3 of the dough at a time, roll dough out about 1/4 inch thick onto a heavily floured surface. Don't roll the dough out too thinly. Cut into shapes with cookie cutters. Place on parchment paper - lined cookie sheets and bake for 7-8 minutes.
  8. Cool on a rack until completely cooled. Then frost!





I will have lots of other cookie recipes to share this holiday season...
but thought I'd start with one of my all time favs!

Here are a few more:

Granini's Yummy Treats

Salted Caramel Apple Cakeballs
Lemon Crinkle Cookies
Oreo Truffles (Oreo cakeballs)
Peanut Butter Rice Krispie Treats with chocolate on top
Pecan Tassies (Mini Pecan Pies)
Raspberry Thumbprint Cookies
Shortbread Sugar Cookies with frosting (one of my all-time-favs)
Snowballs
Sugar Cookies
Thin Mint Truffles (Thin Mint cakeballs)





Rocky Road Fudge               Sugar Cookies

Granini's Desserts and Sweet Treats



(From left to right: Shortbread sugar cookies with frosting, oreo cookie truffles dipped in white chocolate, white cakeballs dipped in white chocolate, butterscotch fudge,  butterscotch chocolate chip fudge, lemon cookies, snowballs, rice krispie peanut butter bars, Rocky Road fudge, Girl Scout thin mint truffles, gingersnaps)



(From left to right: Girl Scout thin mint truffles, candy cane fudge, butterscotch chocolate chip fudge, lemon cookies, white cake balls, short bread sugar cookies, Rocky Road fudge, rice krispie peanut butter bars, a mixed row of 1/2 pecan tassies (mini pecan pies) and 1/2 peanut butter gooeys dipped in chocolate, and finally a mixed row of oreo cookie truffles dipped in white chocolate and caramel apple cake balls). The salted caramel apple cakeballs are a white or yellow cake mixed with homemade applesauce and formed into balls, then dipped into salted caramel coating.

DELISH!

* * * * *

For those of you anxiously awaiting book number 2, it is currently on hiatus until the holiday season has passed. I am knee-deep in holiday bliss at the moment, and Jack and his friends are just going to have to wait until January to pick up where we left off ... scrambling around chapter 8.

Meanwhile, if you *HAVEN'T* yet read Jack Diamond book number 1, you can buy it below. Click on the picture, and it'll pop you straight over to Amazon where you can buy the paperback (great stocking stuffer!) or  you can buy a copy for your kindle!

Now who doesn't love to read a great murder mystery while snuggled up under the Christmas tree, cocoa in hand, fire blazing away?

* * * * *

I not only bake and cook, I write murder mysteries too!

Both books are available in paperback and kindle versions

Diamonds for Diamond 
(Book 1 in the Jack Diamond Mystery series)
and
No One Noticed
(Book 2 in the Jack Diamond Mystery Series)

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Sunday, December 10, 2017

Granini's Holiday Dessert Platter


Granini's Holiday Dessert Platter


Yummy Treats

Salted Caramel Apple Cakeballs

(From left to right: Girl Scout thin mint truffles, candy cane fudge, butterscotch chocolate chip fudge, lemon cookies, white cake balls, short bread sugar cookies, Rocky Road fudge, rice krispie peanut butter bars, a mixed row of 1/2 pecan tassies (mini pecan pies) and 1/2 peanut butter gooeys dipped in chocolate, and finally a mixed row of oreo cookie truffles dipped in white chocolate and caramel apple cake balls).





Rocky Road Fudge               Sugar Cookies

Desserts and Sweet Treats




* * * * *

For those of you anxiously awaiting book number 2, it is currently on hiatus until the holiday season has passed. I am knee-deep in holiday bliss at the moment, and Jack and his friends are just going to have to wait until January to pick up where we left off ... scrambling around chapter 8.

Meanwhile, if you *HAVEN'T* yet read Jack Diamond book number 1, you can buy it below. Click on the picture, and it'll pop you straight over to Amazon where you can buy the paperback (great stocking stuffer!) or  you can buy a copy for your kindle!

Now who doesn't love to read a great murder mystery while snuggled up under the Christmas tree, cocoa in hand, fire blazing away?

* * * * *

I wrote a murder mystery!  Here is the link so you can buy it:



You can buy my book in both e-book and paperback on Amazon here:  


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Thursday, December 7, 2017

Gingerbread Christmas Cards

Gingerbread Christmas Cards




So I finally finished this year's Christmas cards.  Whew!

I made each wee little gingerbread house through paper piecing. And yes, those wee little gum drops were hand sprinkled with sugar. Yep. Sugar.

Here are some more photos...








Next up on the Christmas To Do List is making tags for all the treats under the tree!!

Then it's on toward making a gingerbread house, and platter after platter of Granini's Christmas Treats!

Here's a peek at one of last year's platters...

Then we'll be left with wrapping presents and eating, and drinking, and eating, and drinking...

* * * * *

For those of you anxiously awaiting book number 2, it is currently on hiatus until the holiday season has passed. I am knee-deep in holiday bliss at the moment, and Jack and his friends are just going to have to wait until January to pick up where we left off ... scrambling around chapter 8.

Meanwhile, if you *HAVEN'T* yet read Jack Diamond book number 1, you can buy it below. Click on the picture, and it'll pop you straight over to Amazon where you can buy the paperback (great stocking stuffer!) or  you can buy a copy for your kindle!

Now who doesn't love to read a great murder mystery while snuggled up under the Christmas tree, cocoa in hand, fire blazing away?

* * * * *

I wrote a murder mystery!  Here is the link so you can buy it:



You can buy my book in both e-book and paperback on Amazon here:  





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