Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Oatmeal Christmas Cookies

Becky brought these to the cookie exchange...yumm-o!!


Cookie Ingredients:


1 cup Crisco

1 cup brown sugar firmly packed

1 egg

1 ½ cup flour

½ t. baking soda

½ t. salt

1 ½ cup oats

½ cup crushed peppermint candy


Glaze Ingredients:


1 cup powdered sugar

3 or 4 Tablespoons milk

¼ t. peppermint extract


Preheat oven to 375.


Cream Crisco and brown sugar together. Blend in egg. Combine flour, baking soda, and salt and then mix well with Crisco mix. Stir in oats and peppermint. Shape dough to form 1 ½ inch balls. Place about 2 inches apart on un-greased cookie sheet; flatten with tines of fork. Bake for 8 minutes. Cool one minute before removing from cookie sheet.


For glaze, combine all ingredients and mix well. Drizzle over cooled cookies


Makes 2 ½ dozen


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