Saturday, December 17, 2011

Saturday Oven Lovin'

Today we have another installment of Tiny Gardener's Oven Lovin!

Go over to her blog and post your recipe(s)......here's my contribution:

Pineapple Cookies

2 Cups Flour
1 tsp. Baking Powder
1 tsp. Baking Soda
1 tsp. Salt
1/2 Cup Butter or Margarine
1 Cup Sugar

1 Egg
1/2 tsp. Vanilla
1/2 Cup Crushed Pineapple (drain juice)
1 Tbsp. Sugar

Sift first for ingredients together, put aside.  Cream butter & sugar.  Add egg, vanilla, pineapple & 1 Tbsp. Sugar.  Gradually add dry ingredients & mix until combined.  Sprinkle with chopped Pecans (if you want, unless of course, you are alergic to them, then leave them off just a few of them so the rest of us can enjoy them.....sorry Gloria!)  Bake at 375 degrees for 12 minutes.

Mrs. Mund's Fruit Cookies

1 1/2 Cup Sugar
1/2 Cup Butter
2 Eggs
2 2/3 Cup Flour
1/2 tsp. EACH Cinnamon, Nutmeg, Cloves (powdered, not whole)
1 tsp. Soda
1 Cup Pecans or Walnuts (or Almonds...you know, if you're alergic to Pecans and Walnuts....Gloria!!)
1 Cup Dates, chopped
1 Cup (or the whole 8 oz. tub if you REALLY like those thingies) Candied Fruit & Peel
2 Tbsp. Wine

Combine flour, spices, soda.  Cream sugar & butter, then add eggs, & wine.  Gradually add flour mixture until combined.  Add nuts, dates and fruit thingies and mix.  Bake at 350 degrees for 12 - 15 minutes.


The Pineapple Cookies are from my Mom's recipe collection and the Mrs. Mund's Fruit Cookies came from Gloria's recipe book.  I am not a fan of fruit cake, but I DID enjoy (more than a few) the Fruit Cookies.  So if you're an avid Fruitcake-hater, try the cookies......they were yummy!

8 comments:

  1. mmmmm...those all sound delish! And who is caught snatching a cooking off that plate?!?! Hmm, are those poinsettias on the runner? VERY pretty if you ask me :-)

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  2. oh, now that's too funny, I have 2 table cloths I made out of that same Poinsettia material for myself and I also have 2 more and a table runner I made for my mother probably at least 30 years ago or more now. Yes, someone did get caught stealing a cookie, lol.

    Merry Christmas

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  3. Poor Gloria, chopped pecans sound like a perfect topping for the pineapple cookies!

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  4. Thanks for the post Carolyn! I will for sure be trying those pineapple cookies in the near future! And the fruit ones... Maybe... You did say that they are better than fruitcake...

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  5. Christine, that's not MY hand! And why yes, those are poinsettias! Maybe I should fold it away and put it in a drawer. (sorry everyone else, inside joke)

    Tombstone, my Mom made that tablecloth years ago. Must be at least twenty-five years old!

    Candy, yep. Gloria kept getting the short end of the mixing spoon.

    Tiny, if you REALLY don't like fruitcake, you may still not care for these, but I did. Maybe I'm a closet fruitcake eater and don't know it!

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  6. Who snitched? HMM?
    Looks delish. I think I like the thingies or maybe add chocchips? Thank you for the dear recipes and the pointsetters!

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  7. I am always happy to find new cookie recipes...I seem to be stuck in a cookie rut. I may try that fruitcake one using my home-made candied orange peel instead of the mixed fruit; I have the dates.

    Happy Holidays!

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  8. Nancy, that was NOT my hand, I repeat, NOT my hand!!

    gld, I was just thinking about making candied orange peel as I just bought a big ol' bag of oranges. Care to share the recipe? Maybe a blog post?? hint-hint?? hehe.

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