Christmas Cookies

Another one of my favorite things...

Christmas Cookies!!

When we moved into our house 13 years ago, we started a tradition, I baked lots of cookies with the help of my husband :) and we delivered them to our neighbors on Christmas Eve. I should say that my husband and the kids delivered them. Now that the kids are older, it's hubby on his own in his Santa hat. The territory has enlarged too, we've expanded to other parts of the lake community we live. HOWEVER, this year I have NO OVEN!!! Hello, how do you bake with NO OVEN!!! So, the tradition will have to take a break this year and there will be no cookies. We have found ourselves apologizing to the various cookie recipients and telling them there will be no cookies. I will keep you posted on the oven chronicles as we figure out whether to fix it or get a new one. Anyway, the following is a recipe of one of the cookies I put in the cookie bags for the neighbors, enjoy!!!!

Secret Kiss Cookies

1 cup Soft Butter

1/2 cup Sugar

1 tsp Vanilla

2 cups Flour

1 cup Walnuts (Chopped)

Powdered Sugar

Hershey Kisses

Cream butter, sugar and vanilla. Blend in the flour and walnuts to form a dough ball. Form about 1 tsp of dough around a Hershey Kiss and bake at 350 degrees for about 12 minutes or until golden (do not overbake) While the cookies are hot, roll in powdered sugar and let cool.

YUMMY!!!!!!!

The pic below are simple cutouts, you can use ready made dough like Pillsbury and roll and cut your favorite shapes and decorate. This is fun to do with kids.

Happy Baking.

11 days till Christmas...