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Kris Kringle Cookies

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KRIS KRINGLE COOKIES

Course: after church coffee hour, Cookie, Dessert
Cuisine: American
Keyword: christmas, cookie, cooky

Ingredients

  • 1 cup butter
  • 2 cups sugar
  • 3 eggs
  • 1 ½ teaspoons baking soda dissolved in 2 tablespoons milk
  • 1 ½ teaspoons cream of tartar
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • 4 ½ cups flour approximately

Instructions

  • Cream butter and sugar together.
  • Add vanilla, milk, soda, and eggs, then salt and cream of tartar sifted with 3 cups flour.
  • Add enough additional flour to make a dough that may be rolled. (Chilling helps in handling.)
  • Roll on lightly floured board to desired thickness.
  • Cut and bake on an ungreased cookie sheet in 400° oven 8 to 15 minutes, depending on thickness.
  • Various flavors of dry gelatin are excellent as top decorations for cookies.
  • Spread cookies lightly with a little egg white and sprinkle with gelatin (or colored sugar) before baking.

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Neapolitan Cheesecake

Neapolitan Cheesecake… new from Stella Mitsak of Youngstown, Ohio. One layer is chocolate, one vanilla on a butter crust.

So, TIL that there was never an Ann Pillsbury. She was a made-up face of the Pillsbury company- much like Betty Crocker was the made-up face of the company “named” after her.
There was a Stella Mitsak though. Her recipe was submitted to the Pillsbury Company and was printed in newspapers (January 1963)` and possibly in at least one of the Pillsbury Bake-Off Books (I’ll be honest, it’s late and I don’t feel like digging through my books).
I’ll admit I sometimes do wonder what happened to the people whose recipes I post- a quick Google (and FamilySearch) indicates that Stella lived until she was almost 84 (dying in 2002).

Neapolitan Cheese Cake
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Neapolitan Cheese Cake

Cook Time15 minutes
Total Time4 hours
Course: after church coffee hour, Dessert
Cuisine: American
Keyword: cheesecake
Servings: 9
Author: Stella Mitsak adapted by Ann Pillsbury

Ingredients

Crust

  • 1 cup all-purpose flour
  • ½ cup pink candy after dinner mints crushed
  • 1 tsp Vanilla
  • ½ cup Butter

Filling

  • 6 oz semi-sweet chocolate morsels
  • ⅓ cup sugar
  • ¼ tsp salt
  • 1 envelope unflavored gelatin
  • ¾ cup milk
  • 2 egg yolks slightly beaten
  • 8 oz cream cheese
  • 1 tsp vanilla
  • 2 egg whites
  • ¼ cup sugar
  • 1 cup whipping cream

Instructions

Crust

  • Combine 1 cup flour, ½ cup crushed pink candy after-dinner mints, 1 tsp vanilla in a mixing bowl.
  • Cut in ½ cup butter until fine.
  • Place in bottom of 8"x8"x2" or 9"x9"x2" pan.
  • Bake at 400° for 12-15 minutes.
  • Cool.

Chocolate Vanilla Filling

  • Melt 6-oz of Semi-Sweet Chocolate Morsels or Chips over hot water, cool.
  • Combine ⅓ cup sugar, ¼ tsp salt, 1 envelope unflavored gelatin in 2-quart saucepan.
  • Add ¾ cup of milk and 2 slightly beaten egg yolks.
  • Cook, stirring constantly until mixture boils.
  • Remove from heat.
  • Blend in 8 oz package of cream cheese and 1 tsp of vanilla; beat until smooth.
  • Cool.
  • Beat two egg whites until mounds form.
  • Gradually add ¼ cup sugar; beat until stiff.
  • Fold in cheese mixture.
  • Beat 1 cup whipping cream until thick.
  • Fold into cheese mixture.
  • Divide mixture in half.
  • Fold melted chocolate into one half of mixture.
  • Spoon over baked crust.
  • Spoon vanilla filling over chocolate filling.
  • Cover with plastic wrap.
  • Chill at least two hours.
  • Sprinkle with crushed candy after dinner-mints before serving.

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Crispy Clusters

 

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CRISPY CLUSTERS

Course: after church coffee hour, Cookie, Dessert
Cuisine: American
Keyword: caramel, glazed nuts, marshmellow
Author: unknown

Ingredients

  • 28 caramel candies
  • 1 tablespoon water
  • 3 cups bite-size rice squares
  • 1 cup miniature marshmallows
  • 1 cup coarsely chopped nuts

Instructions

  • Melt caramels with water over low heat, stirring until smooth.
  • Pour over combined cereal, marshmallows, and nuts; toss until well coated.
  • Drop by tablespoonfuls onto greased cookie sheets; let stand until firm.
  • Makes about 2 dozen.

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Pound Cake

 

Pound Cake
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Pound Cake

Cook Time1 hour 30 minutes
Course: Dessert
Keyword: cake, pound cake

Ingredients

  • 1 cup shortening
  • 1 cup butter
  • 2 cup sugar
  • 10 egg yolks well beaten
  • ¼ cup lemon juice
  • 10 egg whites stiffly beaten
  • 4½ cup flour
  • ½ tsp salt
  • 1 tsp baking powder
  • 2 tsp nutmeg

Instructions

  • Cream shortening, butter and sugar
  • Add yolks and lemon juice, beat thoroughly.
  • Fold in egg whites and sifted dry ingredients.
  • Bake in a wax paper lined loaf pan at 350° for 90 minutes.

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