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Chocolate Buttersweets (24 to 30 cookies)

Part 1: ½ cup butter, ½ cup conf. sugar, 1 tsp. vanilla 1-1 ¼ cup flour,

Part 2: Creamy Filling…3oz cream cheese, 1 cup conf. flour, 2 tb flour, 1 tsp. vanilla,

Part 3: Chocolate Frosting…1/2 chocolate chips, 2 tb butter, 2 tb water, ½ conf. sugar

Cream the butter….add sugar and vanilla…cream well…Gradually add flour…shape by teaspoons into ball…Place on cookie sheet…Press hole in center of cookies….bake at 375 for 12 to 15 minutes.

Filling: soften cream cheese, blend in sugar…flour and vanilla…cream well…

Frosting: melt chocolate bits and butter…with water over low heat stirring…add sugar….beat smooth.

Pour over filling and cookies….you can add NUTS if you like.

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Traffic Jams

Yield: about 3 dozen cookies
Prep 45 mins
Chill 1 hr
Bake 350°F 8 mins to 10 mins

Ingredients
 1 3/4 cups  all-purpose flour
 1 teaspoon  baking powder
 1/4 teaspoon  salt
 3/4 cup  butter, softened
 1/2 cup  peanut butter or 1/4 cup butter, softened
 1/2 cup  granulated or packed light brown sugar
 1 large egg
 1/2 teaspoon  vanilla extract
 1/2 cup  apple jelly
 Green and yellow food coloring
 1/4 cup  strawberry jelly

Make It
1. Line three cookie sheets with parchment paper; set aside.

2. Combine flour, baking powder, and salt in a medium bowl. Beat butter, peanut butter, and sugar in a medium bowl with an electric mixer until light and fluffy, about 3 minutes. Add egg and beat until blended. Beat in vanilla extract until smooth, scraping down the sides. Gradually add in flour mixture. Cover and chill dough for 1 hour or until easy to handle.

3. Preheat the oven to 350 degree F. Shape dough into 3-inch logs. Place logs about 2 inches apart on the prepared cookie sheets. Flatten to 1-inch wide rectangles. Use the handle of a wooden spoon to make three indentations in dough to look like a traffic light. Bake cookies for 4 minutes, remove from oven, and re-press indentations. Bake another 4 to 6 minutes, until edges of cookies are golden and just firm. Transfer to a wire rack and cool completely.

4. Divide apple jelly between two small bowls and tint each with a different food coloring. Fill cookie indentations with jelly using a small spoon or, for a neater look, pipe them in using resealable plastic bags. Spoon the three colors of jelly into separate resealable bags. Snip a very small corner from each bag and pipe a dot of jelly into each indentation on the cookies in this order: green, yellow, red, with red at the top.

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Maple Sugar Buttons

Yield: about 36 cookies
Prep 45 mins
Chill 1 hr
Bake 350°F 10 mins to 12 mins
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Ingredients
 2 2/3 cups  all-purpose flour
 1/2 teaspoon  baking soda
 1/4 teaspoon  salt
 1/2 cup  (1 stick) unsalted butter, softened
 1/4 cup  maple syrup
 2/3 cup  lightly packed dark-brown sugar
 1 large egg
 36 colorful licorice laces (sold at candy stores)
Make It
1. Combine the flour, baking soda, and salt in a medium bowl. In the bowl of an electric mixer, beat butter, maple syrup, and brown sugar on high until light and fluffy, about 3 minutes. Blend in the egg. Gradually add the flour mixture, beating well between each addition.

2. Divide the dough in half and flatten into two disks. Wrap in wax paper and refrigerate until firm, about 1 hour.

3. Preheat oven to 350 degree F. Line 3 cookie sheets with parchment paper. On a floured work surface, roll out one disk until it's about 1/4 inch thick. Use a 1-1/2-inch-diameter glass or round cookie cutter to cut out as many circles from the dough as possible. Transfer the circles to cookie sheets, about 1 inch apart. Press a smaller glass or cookie cutter partway into the dough to create the button's rim. Use a straw or a toothpick to make the four holes in the center of each cookie.

4. Bake until golden, 10 to 12 minutes. Transfer to a wire rack and let cool completely. When ready to serve, thread licorice through buttonholes.

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Hot-Chocolate Shortbread
Yield: 32 cookies
Prep 25 mins
Bake 350°F 30 mins to 35 mins
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Ingredients
 Vegetable-oil cooking spray
 2 cups  all-purpose flour
 1/3 cup  instant hot-cocoa powder
 1/4 teaspoon  salt
 12 tablespoons  butter, softened
 1/2 cup  sugar
 1 egg
 1 tube (4.25 oz.) vanilla frosting
Make It
1. Preheat oven to 350 degree F. Line a 9x13-inch baking pan with aluminum foil and spritz with vegetable-oil cooking spray.

2. Combine flour, hot-cocoa powder, and salt in a medium bowl. Beat the butter and sugar in a medium bowl with an electric mixer on high until light and fluffy, about 3 minutes. Add egg and beat well. Gradually add the flour mixture and mix until just combined, scraping down sides of bowl.

3. Spread the dough evenly in the prepared pan. Bake until firm to the touch, 30 to 35 minutes. Transfer to a wire rack to cool for 5 minutes. Lift foil and shortbread cookie from pan and place it on a cutting board. Slice in half lengthwise. Cut each half crosswise into 3/4-inch pieces. After cookies have cooled, dot them with frosting. Let dry before storing.


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Caramel Pretzel Magic Bars


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Yield: 24 squares
Ingredients
1½ cup graham cracker crumbs
6 Tbsp butter, melted
1-14oz can sweetened condensed milk
50+ pretzels (I used Snyder's Snaps)
20 caramels, unwrapped & cut in fourths (*They now sell caramel bits at the store near the chocolate chips! So much easier than unwrapping & cutting up caramel squares. I would try 1 cup of caramel bits if you aren't using the squares.)
1 cup milk chocolate chips
1 cup sweetened coconut flakes

Instructions
Mix graham cracker crumbs with melted butter & press in a sprayed 13x9in pan.
Pour about half the can of condensed milk over crust.
Layer your pretzels as close together as you like over the condensed milk/crust.
Sprinkle caramels, chocolate chips, & coconut flakes.
Pour remaining half of condensed milk on top.

OPTIONAL BUT RECOMMENDED: Break up some extra pretzels & sprinkle a few extra chocolate chips on top so you can see all the colors & have crunchy pretzels above the condensed milk.
Bake at 350*F for 20-30 min until lightly brown. Let cool completely before cutting & serving.

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Almond Joy Cookies

Ingredients:
1 cup butter
1 1/2 cups white sugar
1 1/2 cups brown sugar
4 eggs
3 teaspoons vanilla
4 1/2 cups flour
2 teaspoons baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
5 cups chocolate chips
2 cups sweetened coconut
2 cups chopped almonds

Directions:
Pre-heat oven to 375°F Lightly grease cookie sheets.
Combine dry ingredients, set aside.
In a large bowl, cream the butter and sugars together. Beat in the eggs, one at a time, stir in the vanilla. Stir in the dry ingredients until well mixed then stir in the chocolate chips, coconut and almonds. Drop by rounded tablespoonfuls onto the prepared cookie sheets.
Bake for 8 to 10 minutes. Cool on baking sheet for 5 minutes before removing to a wire rack to cool completely.

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