Start your ovens and head over to cookie recipe headquarters at Jenn's Journal, for the full list of Cookie Exchange participants. Click around and find both some new recipes AND some new blogs.
And here's my contribution to Project Make Everybody's Butt 10 Times Bigger This Holiday Season:
Cinnamon Jumbles (my absolute most-favorite cookies in the whole world, mostly because they almost taste more like little cakes instead of cookies, and who doesn't love the idea of eating like, a dozen cakes in one sitting?)
For the cookie batter:
1/2 cup butter
1 cup sugar
1 egg
3/4 cup buttermilk
2 cups flour
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp vanilla
For the topping:
1/4 cup sugar
1 tbsp cinnamon
Mix butter, sugar and egg thoroughly. Stir in buttermilk and vanilla.
Mix dry ingredients separately and add to batter. Stir. Chill dough. (I usually chill it overnight, but I believe a couple hours would be enough as well.)
Heat oven to 400°. Drop rounded teaspoons of dough on greased cookie sheet, two inches apart. Sprinkle with cinnamon and sugar mixture. Bake 8 - 10 minutes until set and light brown around the edges. Consume.
Thanks!
Posted by: Jenn | December 11, 2006 at 09:02 AM
These are very similar to my favorite cookie, the Snickerdoodle. It's a ball of sugar cookie dough rolled in cinnamon sugar and baked. I'll go post it on the exchange!
Posted by: Elizabeth | December 11, 2006 at 10:19 AM
Oh snap I bet these would taste good under some ice cream.
Posted by: HollowSquirrel | December 11, 2006 at 10:34 AM
Those sound mighty tasty! I'm a big fan of cinnamon cookies in general. I may have to whip up a batch.
Posted by: Amy Jo Momma | December 11, 2006 at 11:24 AM
By golly, you really do learn something new every day. Amalah bakes! With real not-from-a-Betty-Crocker-box ingredients! Am highly impressed. :-) Amalah truly is the Queen of Everything!
Posted by: AmyM | December 11, 2006 at 11:48 AM
Yum! I've been searching for a Pecan Ball recipe if anyone would care to share.
Posted by: mdvelazquez | December 11, 2006 at 01:13 PM
These sound heavenly!
Also, mdvelazquez, I have a Pecan Finger recipe up on my site. Not a ball, but in close proximity.
Posted by: Mrs. Why | December 11, 2006 at 04:48 PM
Thank you, Mrs. Why. Blogger isin't letting me leave a comment on your site.
Posted by: mdvelazquez | December 12, 2006 at 04:26 AM
I have a spinach dip recipe, which is both fatty and festive. At least, it's fatty when you include two cups of parmesan cheese. Always back to the cheese!
(Green equals festive, right?)
Posted by: Frema | December 12, 2006 at 12:55 PM
Pony up, Frema. PONY. UP. WITH THE DIP.
Posted by: Amalah | December 12, 2006 at 09:49 PM
Fatty and Festive is going to be my holiday nickname.
Posted by: Mrs. Why | December 12, 2006 at 11:31 PM
Yes, Frema. Dish the dip, please.
Posted by: mdvelazquez | December 13, 2006 at 04:24 AM
I am going to a real life cookie-exchange on Friday, and now I have a new recipe to make! Thanks, Amalah!
And if anyone is interested, I just posted my family's traditional holiday coffee cake recipe over at my blog. If you need a good idea for Christmas morning breakfast, I've got you covered.
Posted by: Audrey | December 13, 2006 at 05:28 PM
I am SO filing this one away for the massive insane cookie bake for next year... yes... I bake 80 dozen cookies to mail to family and friends at Christmas. Am seeking help, no worries...
Posted by: PaintingChef | December 14, 2006 at 11:55 AM