Chocolate Haystacks
2 cups sugar
1/3 cup cocoa
½ cup milk
½ cup butter
Bring to a hard rolling boil.
Add:
3 ½ cups oats
1 cup coconut
½ cup chopped nuts
½ tsp vanilla
¼ tsp salt
Drop by teaspoonful on waxed
paper on counter. Cool and serve.
Peppernuts
This is a traditional German
Christmas cookie.
2 cups flour
1 tsp each cinnamon and salt
1/2 tsp nutmeg
1/4 tsp ginger
1/8 tsp black pepper
1/2 cup dark molasses
1/4 cup brown sugar
1/4 cup melted butter
1 egg
1 tbsp milk or cream
Mix dry ingredients.
Cream wet ingredients.
Blend into a stiff dough.
Make into 1/2" balls.
Leave in balls and bake on
unbuttered cookie
sheet 350' for about 20 minutes.
Cool to serve.
You can vary this by rolling
the cooled cookies in
powdered sugar.
Mace Cookies
½ cup sugar
1 egg
½ cup soft butter
½ tsp salt
2 tbsp water
1 tsp vanilla
2 cups flour
¼ tsp mace
Cream sugar, egg, butter,
salt and water. Add vanilla. Mix in flour and mace. Roll into 1/2” balls. Bake at 350’ on unbuttered cookie sheets
about 10 minutes. These taste like pound cake.
Peanut Butter
Nuggets
2 cups flour
½ cup butter
¼ tsp salt
½ cup sugar
1 cup peanut butter
1 cup chopped peanuts
1 tsp milk if needed
Mix all ingredients.
This should be a stiff dough. Use milk only if needed to hold it together. Roll into 1/2 “ balls. Bake at 350◦ on ungreased
cookie sheets about 10 to 15 minutes. These will not flatten out. They stay in a ball shape.
Mexican Wedding
Cookies
2 cups flour
2 cups sugar
1 cup butter
1/4 tsp salt
1 cup chopped nuts
1 tbsp vanilla
powdered sugar
Mix all ingredients
except powdered sugar to make dough. Shape into ½ ” balls. Bake on ungreased cookie sheet at 350◦ about 20 minutes. Roll in powdered
sugar and cool.
