Christmas spice cookies
72 servings
Ingredients
| Quantity | Ingredient | |
|---|---|---|
| ¾ | cup | Sugar |
| ⅔ | cup | Butter or margarine -- |
| Softened | ||
| ¼ | cup | Orange juice |
| ½ | cup | Corn syrup, dark |
| ½ | cup | Dark molasses |
| 4½ | cup | All-purpose flour |
| ¾ | cup | Wheat flour, whole-grain |
| 2 | teaspoons | Ground ginger |
| 1 | teaspoon | Baking soda |
| 1 | teaspoon | Salt |
| ½ | teaspoon | Ground cloves |
| ½ | teaspoon | Ground allspice |
| ½ | teaspoon | Ground nutmeg |
Directions
In mixing bowl, cream sugar and butter. Blend in orange juice, corn syrup and molasses. Combine flours, ginger , baking soda, salt, cloves, nutmeg and allspice. Add to creamed mixture; mix well. Chill 4 hours. Roll a portion of the dough on a lightly floured surface to ¼" thick. Cut into desired shapes. Place 2" apart on greased baking sheets. Repeat with remainig dough. Bake at 350 deg for 12-15 minutes. Cookies will be chewy baked 12 minutes or crunchy baked 15 minutes. Makes 6-7 dozen.
Recipe By : Ethelda's Collection by Taste of Home