Baking Chefs

Ingredients & Directions 1/2 c Shortening 1 Egg 1/2 c Sour cream 2 1/2 c Flour (sifted) 1 c Sugar 1/2 ts Soda 1/2 ts Salt 1 ts Vanilla Cream together shortening and Sugar. Add Egg and beat well then add Sour Cream. Add flour (sifted) , soda and Salt. Blend all and drop on […]

Ingredients & Directions -PASTRY- 1/2 c Sour cream 1/4 c Unsalted butter, softened 1 c Flour 1/4 ts Salt FILLING 2/3 c Apricot jam 2/3 c Walnuts, chopped 2 tb Raisins 2 tb Golden raisins Make the pastry: 1. With an electric mixer on medium speed, blend the sour crem and butter until smooth, about […]

Ingredients & Directions 1 Recipe vanilla sables; -(previous recipe) 1 Recipe chocolate sables; -(previous recipe) Make vanilla and chocolate sable doughs and chill at least 1 hour. Preheat oven to 325 degrees F. Roll out each dough to an even 1-inch thickness about twice as long as wide. Using a ruler and a sharp knife, […]

Ingredients & Directions 3/4 c Butter flavor Crisco 1 1/4 c Light brown sugar; packed 1 Egg 1/3 c Milk 1 1/2 ts Vanilla 3 c Quick oats; uncooked 1 c Flour 1/2 ts Baking soda 1/2 ts Salt 1/4 ts Cinnamon 1 c Raisins 1 c Walnuts; coarsely chopped Preheat the oven to 375 […]

Ingredients & Directions 2 1/4 c Unsifted all-purpose flour 3/4 c Vegetable oil 1/2 c Sugar 1 Egg 1/4 c Pure maple syrup 1/4 c Sorghum molasses 2 ts Baking soda 1 ts Ground ginger 1/2 ts Cinnamon 1/2 ts Ground cardamom 1/4 ts Salt Additional sugar for coating 1. Heat oven to 350 degrees. […]

Ingredients & Directions 1 c Water 2 c Raisins 1 c Shortening 1 3/4 c Sugar 2 Eggs, lightly beaten 1 ts Vanilla extract 3 1/2 c All-purpose flour 1 ts Baking powder 1 ts Baking soda 1 ts Salt 1/2 ts Ground cinnamon 1/2 ts Ground nutmeg 1/2 c Chopped walnuts Combine raisins and […]

Ingredients & Directions 1/4 ts Ground cardamom 8 sm Dried apricots; finely -chopped 1 Basic Cookie Dough I; -Vanilla 1/4 c Pecans; finely chopped 1. Mix cardamom and apricots into dough. Roll dough into 8″ log and slice into 16 pieces. Roll each into ball and coat with chopped pecans. put balls 1″ apart on […]

Ingredients & Directions 1/3 c Corn oil margarine 1/3 c Shortening 2 c Flour 3/4 c Sugar 1 Egg 1 tb Milk 1 ts Baking powder 1 ts Vanilla 1 ds Salt Beat margarine and shortening on medium speed until soft. Add half the flour. Add sugar, egg, milk, baking powder, vanilla and salt. Mix […]

Ingredients & Directions 2 1/4 c All-purpose flour, sifted -before measuring 2 ts Baking soda 1 ts Ground cloves 1 ts Ground ginger 1 ts Ground cinnamon 1 ts Ground salt 3/4 c Unsalted butter, softened 1 1/2 c Sugar 1 Egg 1/4 c Molasses 1. Heat oven to 375 degrees. Have ungreased baking sheet(s) […]

Ingredients & Directions 3 c Pumpkin 1 c Shortening 2 c White sugar 4 c Flour 2 ts Soda 2 ts Salt 2 ts Baking powder 2 ts Vanilla 2 Eggs 2 ts Cinnamon 1 lg Bag chocolate chips 1 Jar marichino cherries -chopped Cream together pumpkin, shortening, white sugar. Then add and mix flour, […]