DATE PINWHEELS

Happy Tasty Tuesday friends! That’s right! Tasty Tuesday is back for one very special holiday recipe! There are a couple of holiday sweet treats my mom makes, that I request every year. Those are her white sour cream fudge and these Date Pinwheels! This recipe is from one of my favorite cookbooks that I used to love browsing through when I was a little girl. They are just the right amount of soft cookie and chewy date filling!

I cannot even tell you how much I love these. And truth is, these photos are from last year when I forgot to share this recipe and I didn’t get enough of them because I was eating the cookies so fast. I have included a photo of the ingredients and my mom and I are happy to share the recipe with you.

She hasn’t made them for me yet this year but I am anxiously awaiting them and so are my taste buds. But she did take a pic of all the ingredients for these, you will LOVE them!!

 

What you'll need

DATE PINWHEELS
INGREDIENTS
3/4 lb pitted dates, chopped

1/3 cup granulated sugar

1/3 cup water

1 cup light brown sugar, packed

1/4 cup shortening

1/4 cup butter, softened

1 egg

1/2 teaspoon vanilla

1 3/4 cup all-purpose flour

1/4 teaspoon salt

DIRECTIONS

Cook dates, sugar and water, stirring constantly, until thickened; cool.
Mix brown sugar, shortening, butter, egg and vanilla until smooth. Stir in flour and salt. Divide dough into halves. Roll each half in a rectangle, 11x7 inches, on waxed paper. Spread half the date filling on each rectangle. Roll up tightly, beginning at 11-inch side. Pinch edge of dough into the roll to seal. Wrap and refrigerate at least 4 hours. Heat oven to 350 degrees. Cut rolls into ¼ inch slices. Place about 1 inch apart on ungreased cookie sheet. Bake until light brown, about 12 minutes. Immediately remove from cookie sheet. Makes about 5 dozen.

Hope you enjoy a sweet treat today my sweet friends!!

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THUMBELINA COOKIES

These precious Thumbelina cookies go way way back! I have fun memories of my mom and spooning the colored frosting into the little dents of the buttery and tasty cookies! Tasty Tuesday at it's best with cookies!

They always add that perfect touch of color to all my cookie platters and trays as well. They are so tasty that sometimes I pop the whole thing into my mouth as you can make them kind of tiny and almost bite sized!

Plus, I always loved the fairytale Thumbelina and these petite little cookies carry that name perfectly! They truly are so incredibly yummy. I make a couple other Dent cookies but these are definitely my favorite and one of the many baking traditions of the Christmas season!

THUMBELINA COOKIES

INGREDIENTS

1/2 cup butter, softened

1/4 cup white sugar

1 egg yolk, beaten

1 teaspoon vanilla

1 cup all-purpose flour

1/2 teaspoon salt

FROSTING

1/2 cup butter, softened

1 1/2 cup powdered sugar

2 tsp vanilla

red and green food colorings

DIRECTIONS

Preheat oven to 350°. Cream together the butter and sugar. Beat in egg yolk and vanilla. Blend in the flour and salt. Shape into 1-inch balls. Place on ungreased cookie sheet. Dent center of each ball. Bake for 5 minutes. Remove from the oven, dent center again, and bake for 8 to 10 minutes longer. Cool. For frosting, beat first 3 ingredients until fluffy. Divide frosting in half by placing in two different bowls. Tint each half, one with red food coloring and one with green food coloring to your desired color. Fill in dents with frosting.

Before frosting

My desired tints

So cute and delish!

Sorry, I did not post yesterday. I was in Chicago at a TV station and holiday luncheon with some blogging friends and will share more on Friday. Come back tomorrow for a sweet Style Six festive post and I hope you all have a fabulous day!

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BETH'S SPICY OATMEAL RAISIN COOKIES

This recipe is one of my oldest. Funny thing is I haven’t made them in years and Mr. Nine’s sister’s name is Beth but they are not named after her, lol! They are my favorite oatmeal raisin cookie in the entire world! I made a batch recently and this time, it will not be years before the next batch is made. So good! They go fast because they have the best flavor! 

What you'll need 

Beth’s Spicy Oatmeal Cookies 

INGREDIENTS 

1/2 cup butter flavored shortening

1/2 cup butter, softened

1 cup packed light brown sugar

1/2 cup white sugar

2 eggs

1 teaspoon vanilla extract 

1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour

1 teaspoon baking soda

1/2 teaspoon salt

1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon

1/4 teaspoon ground cloves

3 cups oats

1 cup raisins

DIRECTIONS 

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Blend the butter flavored shortening and butter together. Add the sugars and blend. Add the eggs and vanilla and mix again. Combine the flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon and cloves and stir into the sugar mixture. Stir in the oats and raisins. Drop by rounded teaspoonfuls onto unreleased cookie sheets. Bake 10-12 until light golden.Cool for a couple minutes before removing from cookie sheets. Store in an airtight container. Soooo Good!

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3 CHIP OATMEAL SCOTCHIES

Me want cookies. You know I love my sweets, but not just anything sweet, it has to be pop those tastebuds with pleasure good, if I'm going cash in my calorie bank on it. To me, there is nothing better than a homemade, soft cookie. One day I was cleaning out cupboards and found in ziploc baggies, several opened baking Chips bags. I had chocolate chips, white chocolate chips, butterscotch chips and I thought, well, it's time to throw together a cookie and utilize all these. Plus I love the word "SCOTCHIES" and when there's butterscotch chips in the mix, well, it's only right I add that word to the title so Hello "3 Chip Oatmeal Scotchies." 
Yum

I based this recipe off one I make at Christmastime, the Cinnamon Toffee Oatmeal Cookies. The flavors of the 3 different chips really mixes together well. I made these on a Saturday Morning and Wow, did these ever taste good with my morning coffee. I was good, I only had 3, lol. 

Cookie Craving satisfied!! 

What You'll Need

3 CHIP OATMEAL SCOTCHIES

Ingredients:
1/2 c. brown sugar

1/2 c. white sugar
1/2 cup softened butter
1 egg
1 tsp. vanilla
1/4 tsp. salt
1/2 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. baking soda
1 1/4 c. flour
1 1/4 c. oats, the quick oats
2/3 c. White chocolate chips
2/3 c. Milk Chocolate Chips
2/3 c. Butterscotch chips 

Directions:

Beat butter in mixer until soft. Add in sugars, eggs, and vanilla. In a separate bowl, whisk together the salt, baking powder, soda, and flour. Add to wet ingredients and mix.

Add your oats and then your chips. Drop by tablespoonfuls onto cookie sheets or a baking stone, which I prefer and have 2 of them. 

Bake at 375 for 10-11 minutes!  Don’t let them get too done…they are better when they are soft!

I scaled this down so it makes about 2 dozen or so cookies but you can easily double it.

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