Cookie Party: Friends and One Basic Recipe--Dozens Of Cookies

Friday, March 1, 2002

Cookie Party: Friends and One Basic Recipe—Dozens of Cookies a (NAPSA)—Imagine offering your holiday guests an assortment of rich, home-baked cookies with chocolate, nuts and more. Don’t think you have timeto create such sweet treats? That’s what friends are for. Organize a cookie baking party with two or three friends—the ones you’ve been promising to get together with for months. Andrea MacAlpine, contributor to  magazine suggests this super easy, basic cookie recipe with four scrumptious variations to get you started: EASY MIX COOKIES Basic Dough: 2 cups butter, softened 1 cup sugar 4 cups flour MIX butter and sugar until well blended.Stir in flour. ROLL, shape or cut dough as desired into about 2-in. pieces. Place on an ungreased cookie sheet. BAKE at 350F for 10-14 min- utes or until lightly browned. Cool on cookie sheet 5 minutes. Remove cookies and cool on wire racks. Yield: About 3 dozen cook- ies (recipe can be halved or doubled) FLAVOR VARIATIONS Jam Thumbprints: SHAPEbasic dough into 1in. balls and flatten slightly. Indent centers and bake. Fill baked cookies with your favorite jam orjelly. Almond Crescents: STIR in a few spoonfuls of ground almonds. Form rounded With just three basic ingredients and your imagination, you can create a delicious variety of holiday cookies. tsp. of dough into 2-inch crescent shapes and bake. Cool. Dip one end of each crescent into melted BAKER’s Semi-Sweet Chocolate. Place on wax paper to dry. JELL-O Flowers: USE 2 packets (3 oz. each) of JELL-O Gelatin Dessert instead of sugar. For two different flavors, divide recipe in half and use 1 packet strawberry for half and 1 packet lime for the other half. Roll out dough and cut into flowers or other shapes. Peanut Butter: ADD %cup smooth peanut butter to butter and use brown sugar instead of sugar. Stir in a handful of chopped nuts. Pat dough into four 8-in. circles on cookie sheet and cut into 16 wedges. Leave wedges in the circle and bake for 15 min. To decorate, drizzle each wedge with melted BAKER’S Semi-Sweet Chocolate. Party Tips Mix up at least one batch of dough a day in advanceto give the party a headstart. About 30 minutes before guests arrive, slip a DIGIoRNO RIsING CRUSTpizza in the oven. While youre eating, read over recipes and decide how baking duties will be divided. Play festive music to get everyone in the holiday spirit. Plan on doinga little taste testing during the evening. Be ready with a pot of MAXWELL Housecoffee ready to brew. For extra holiday spice, sprinkle cinnamonover the coffee in the filter before brewing. Remember to have everyone bring cookie tins or freezer containers to take the sweets home. And give each guest a copy of the recipe. For more holiday entertaining ideas, see the current issue of  magazine. To receive a free copy of  magazine, visit kraftfoods.com/magazine. we eeeOi eee Editor’s Note: To learn more about the Kraft Kitchen’s experts, please visit kraftfoods.com / kitchenprofiles.

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