White Chocolate Chip Cranberry Oatmeal Cookies

3/4 cup sugar
1/4 cup packed brown sugar
1/2 cup butter, softened
1 large egg
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 cup flour
1 1/2 cups oats
3/4 cup dried cranberries
6 ounces white chocolate chips

Preheat oven to 375 degree. In a large bowl, combine the sugar brown sugar and butter; mix well to cream together. Add egg and vanilla. Mix thoroughly. Add cinnamon, baking soda, salt and flour. Mix well. Fold in the oatmeal, cranberries, and white chocolate chips. Roll dough into 1 inch balls and place 3 inches apart onto a greased cookie sheet. Bake at 375 for 10-12 minutes, just until the edges are lightly golden.

Almond Fingers

Almond Fingers

16 sheets Fillo Dough
2 cups finely ground almonds
3 tablespoons sugar
1 tablespoon water
1 cup melted clarified butter
simple syrup or powdered sugar

Bring fillo dough to room temperature. Combine sugar, almonds, and water, set aside. Preheat oven to 325 degrees. On a flat surface, butter and layer two sheets of fillo dough, placing them lengthwise on top of each other. Fold the layered fillo in half lengthwise. Fillo should be 17 inches long and 6 inches wide. Place about 3 tablespoons of nut filling in a line across the 17 inch length. Roll up fillo, tightly and evenly, into a cylinder, beginning on the 17 inch side.

Brush entire outside of dough cylinder with butter. Cut into 5 fingers, equal in length. Place foil lined baking sheet. Repeat with remaining dough. Bake for 35-45 minutes until golden brown. Remove from cookie sheet and drizzle with syrup or sprinkle with powdered sugar and ground pistachios. Enjoy with tea or cold milk.

Jam Stripe Bars

Dough Ingredients:
3/4 cup butter
1/2 cup sugar
2 cups flour
3/4 cup chopped nuts
1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp ground cloves
1/2 cup jam
1 egg

Glaze ingredients:
1/2 cup powdered sugar
1/2 tsp vanilla
2-3 tablespoon milk

1. Grease 13 x 9" pan; set aside.
2. Beat butter, sugar, and egg in large bowl.
3. Stir flour, nuts, salt, cinnamon, and cloves into the egg mixture.
4. Press into prepared pan.
5. Make 7 diagonal indentations approximately 1/2 inch deep.
6. Spread jam into indentations.
7. Bake for 25-35 minutes at 350 degrees, until lightly browned.
8. Remove from oven.
9. Mix together glaze ingredients.
10. Drizzle glaze over bars. Cut into squares when cool.

Windmill Bar Cookies Recipe 9

The kids were craving a sweet, satisfying afternoon snack today. It's still really cold in our area of the country, so I decided to use the oven. The recipe was found in the Taste of Home Cookies and Bars, January 10, 2005 magazine.

Ingredients:
1 cup butter, at room temperature
1 cup sugar
1 egg, seperated
2 cups flour
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
1 cup almonds, sliced (I didn't have sliced almonds, so I chopped up whole almonds)

Cream butter and sugar in a large mixing bowl. Add egg yolk and mix well. Add flour, cinnamon, baking soda. Mix until crumbly.



Press mixture into 15x10-inch greased pan.



Wash with egg white and sprinkle on almonds. Bake in 350 degree oven for 20-25 minutes. Remove from oven and let rest for 10 minutes. Slice into bars.



These were wonderful. They remind me a little of the Swedish Tea Cakes my family makes at Christmas, without the powder sugar. Even my non-cookie eating child really loved the taste and texture of these. YUM!