Photo & Recipe Emailed to Me by Kristen J.
One of my favorite things about this time of the year is baking cookies. I love baking cookies to give away to friends and family. There was one year when money was so tight that the only gift we gave to friends and family was cookie trays. (I made 18 different types of cookies that year!) To me, sometimes homemade gifts like this are treasured more than gifts you buy and wrap. Typically, what I do is bake lots of cookies over one or two days. I then freeze them until we get closer to Christmas. I then thaw all the cookies and make cookie trays to give away once the week of Christmas is upon us.
Every day between now and Christmas Eve, I will post 25 Days of Christmas Cookies. I would love your help! If you have a favorite cookie/bar to make this time of year, I would love for you to email me a picture of the finished product as well as a step by step recipe for it. I will then post your recipe and thousands of Addicted to Saving readers will get the chance to try out your recipe! Email me at addictedtosaving at hotmail dot com (all one word).
Day 1 of 25 Days of Christmas Cookes: Rainbow Cookies
Kristen J. emailed me the recipe for these yummy Rainbow Cookies. I’m excited about this recipe because I have bought these cookies at many Italian bakeries throughout my life but have never tried making them. And from the recipe below, I can see that this recipe is actually not that difficult!
Ingredients
4 eggs
1c sugar
1c all purpose flour
1tsp grated orange peel (can be optional)
3tsp Almond or vanilla extract (almond is the best)
2tbs Amaretto (optional)
2 sticks melted margarine
1 jar apricot preserves
1 bag semi sweet morsels
red, green, yellow food coloring
Directions
1. Mix eggs and sugar together. Then add flour, orange peel, extract and amaretto, and melted margarine. Mix well.
2. In 3 separate bowls pour in approx. 2 laddles of the mix in each one. Add red food coloring to one bowl mix it to get the color you want. Do the same with the other 2 bowls and colors.
3. Pour a mixes into 3 different long shallow cake pans that are pre greased. Bake 375 degrees for 8 minutes. Do not let edges get brown.
4. Melt the morsels
5. When cakes are done and cooled remove from pan. Place one layer on a big cutting board or whatever you have available, spread with thin layer of the apricot preserves. Place the 2nd layer on top and spread preserves onto that. Then place the 3rd layer ontop of preserves. Pour melted chocolate on top of the 3rd layer.
6. Place in refrigerator until slightly hard. Cut into squares and serve
Day 1 of 25 Days of Christmas Cookies Recipe: Peanut Butter Blossoms
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My name is Liza and I began my money-saving journey in the Spring of 2009 as a way to stretch a limited household income. I had lost my job and my hubby was self-employed. I launched Addicted to Saving in November of 2009 and it has grown by leaps and bounds. Since then, my hubby and I have struggled with the ups and downs of two failed adoptions and are now LOVING being parents to our little man Asher who we brought home from Ethiopia in August of 2013. I feel incredibly blessed to be able to help you save money. My goal is that you will have FUN and become empowered to save more and more money each week..
I cannot wait to try these! they look great!
This look good, but I’m not a big fan of apricot… can anyone suggest a substitute???
Thanks