Yay! It’s Christmas cookie time again. It’s the time of year when you make all of your favorite holiday treats. Every year my family has a Christmas cookie baking day. We makes six types of cookies each year: Colleen’s Candy, Almond Bark Pretzels, Star Cookies, Spritz Cookies, Cut-Out Sugar Cookies, and Carmel Chocolate Swirl Fudge. We have varied the cookies some years by deleting some and adding others, but for the most part the list has stayed the same for about 15 years. We have a master list of ingredients we use to buy the supplies for this cookie baking day, which is shown at the bottom of this post. This list makes checking your pantry for ingredients or buying the supplies easier. You can also divide the ingredient list among the people coming to the cookie baking day to make it less of a burden for any one person. In this post I will have a link for each cookie and a printable master ingredient list at the end of the post. On the cookie making day we make enough cookies for three families so you could adapt this for a cookie exchange party with three friends or you can just use the recipes that follow for your holiday baking. Choose one or two this year and start your own tradition.
This is a delicious cookie that combines two of my favorite things: raisins and cinnamon! It has a buttery flavor that you will love. This recipe is an old favorite of mine. It is one of the three cookie recipes that my sister and I would bake on snowy days when we were bored. We would make this cookie because it was easy to make and we usually had all of the ingredients on hand. We would alternate between this recipe, Peanut Butter Cookies, and chocolate chip cookies. My sister would spend all day trying to make the perfect chocolate chip cookie, which is something she still tries to do to this day. You can tell this Cinnamon Raisin Cookie recipe takes me down memory lane, and after you make it you will see why. So let’s get out the ingredients, because you won’t want to miss out on this wonderful cookie.
You will need an egg, softened butter, brown sugar, vanilla, water, flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, and raisins.
Break the egg into a bowl and whisk the egg until it is light and foamy.
Now get out a large mixing bowl and add the softened butter and brown sugar.
Cream the shortening and brown sugar together.
Pour the beaten egg into the creamed mixture.
Add the vanilla and the water.
Stir the mixture until you have a smooth creamy batter and set the mixing bowl aside. Measure the flour, baking soda, and salt in a separate bowl.
Pour about half of the flour mixture into the creamed sugar mixture and stir it in.
Then stir the second half of the flour into the batter. Next measure and sprinkle the cinnamon over the batter and then stir it in.
Then dump in the raisins and stir them in the batter.
Drop spoonfuls of batter on a parchment lined cookie sheet.
Bake in a 375 degree oven for 10-12 minutes. Cool cookies on a wire rack.
Now it is time to enjoy this buttery, and yummy cookie. If your kids are bored this winter, they may want to try this recipe out.
Break the egg into a bowl and whisk the egg until it is light and foamy. Now get out a large mixing bowl and add the softened butter and brown sugar. Cream the shortening and brown sugar together. Pour the beaten egg into the creamed mixture. Add the vanilla and the water. Stir the mixture until you have a smooth creamy batter and set the mixing bowl aside. Measure the flour, baking soda, and salt in a separate bowl. Pour about half of the flour mixture into the creamed sugar mixture and stir it in. Then stir the second half of the flour into the batter. Next measure and sprinkle the cinnamon over the batter and then stir it in. Then dump in the raisins and stir them in the batter. Drop spoonfuls of batter on a parchment lined cookie sheet. Bake in a 375 degree oven for 10-12 minutes. Cool cookies on a wire rack.
Yay! It’s Christmas cookie time again. It’s the time of year when you make all of your favorite holiday treats. Every year my family has a Christmas cookie baking day. We makes six types of cookies each year: Colleen’s Candy, Almond Bark Pretzels, Star Cookies, Spritz Cookies, Cut-Out Sugar Cookies, and Carmel Chocolate Swirl Fudge. We have varied the cookies some years by deleting some and adding others, but for the most part the list has stayed the same for about 15 years. We have a master list of ingredients we use to buy the supplies for this cookie baking day, which is shown at the bottom of this post. This list makes checking your pantry for ingredients or buying the supplies easier. You can also divide the ingredient list among the people coming to the cookie baking day to make it less of a burden for any one person. In this post I will have a link for each cookie and a printable master ingredient list at the end of the post. On the cookie making day we make enough cookies for three families so you could adapt this for a cookie exchange party with three friends or you can just use the recipes that follow for your holiday baking. Choose one or two this year and start your own tradition.
