As promised... the winner of the First Annual Fox40 Morning Show Cookie Rumble...
First Place: Me "Thumbprint Cookies"
Second Place: Photographer Mark Willis' wife "Snickerdoodles"
Third Place: A Tie between Jamie Soriano "Cranberry Oatmeal Cookies" and Producer Tiffany Yasus "Cookie Sandwiches"
Congratulations to all 8 contestants. But as predicted... I win. That's how the cookie crumbles my friends... so brush that (chocolate) chip off your shoulder.
Below are recipes for my cookies and Jamie's...
Natalie's Thumbprint Cream Cheese Cookies Recipe
Ingredients:
1 c. sifted confectioner's sugar
2 c. flour
1 8-oz. pkg. cream cheese, softened
2 sticks butter
*******Allow butter and cream cheese to soften slightly before beginning. Cream butter and cream cheese together. Gradually add confectioner's sugar and flour. Chill a bit to firm up dough. Roll into balls the size of walnuts. Make a thumb-print indentation in center of ball. Fill hole with a tiny bit of jelly, jam or preserves (we used baby food spoons in a couple of little custard cups with about 2 Tbsp. of jam in each cup). Bake at 375°F for 10 min. They will not be brown. I used the tiniest measuring spoon I could find to make the little imprints in the dough. I bought whipped buttercream icing to put in the center when the cookies cooled. On top, I put a small strawberry slice and blueberry. Yum! People at work said they tasted like a pastry with a light icing. The fruit on top made it very summery.
JAMIE'S CRANBERRY OATMEAL COOKIES
Ingredients
1 1/2 cups flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 cups butter or margarine, softened
2/3 cup brown sugar, firmly packed
2/3 cup granulated sugar
1 large egg
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 cups Grape-Nuts cereal
2 cups quick-cooking oat
1 cup dried cranberries
Directions:
Preheat oven to 375°.
Mix flour, baking soda and salt in a small bowl.
Beat butter or margarine in a large bowl, with sugars until light and fluffy.
Beat in egg and vanilla.
Gradually add flour mixture, beating well after each addition.
Stir in cereal, oats and cranberries.
Drop by rounded tablespoons on ungreased cookie sheets.
Bake 8 minutes or until lightly browned.
Have fun!