BRUNCH WITH BINGO: A VERY MERRY COOKIE PARTY GIVEAWAY

WELCOME TO BOOKIN' WITH BINGO'S
"BRUNCH WITH BINGO DAY"
I AM EXCITED TO ANNOUNCE THIS SUNDAY'S
"BRUNCH WITH BINGO DAY"
FOOD BOOK CHOICE IS.....
VERY MERRY COOKIE PARTY
How To Plan and
Host A Yuletide Cookie Exchange
BY BARBARA GRUNES
AND VIRGINIA VAN VYNCKT
PHOTOGRAPHS BY FRANCE RUFFENACH

ABOUT THE COOKBOOK:Today's busy bake! rs want to have a gorgeous accumulation of delicious Yuletide cookies but spending days upon flour-smudged days mixing, rolling, as well as baking. Cookies shine during legal holiday time, as well as there's zero some-more gratifying than a communal cookie party. This is your guide to a Yuletide cookie exchange, where everybody shows up with a couple of batches of homemade cookies to swap. It's all a accumulation but a fuss! Recipes covering a classics (brownies, piquancy cookies, nut balls, slice-and-bake as well as more) along with cookie ornaments, recipes designed for stamps, molds, cutters as well as presses have been included. Tips upon all we need to know for a successful sell from invitations to presentation as well as packaging. Red-and-white striped edges have this adorable book look like a Yuletide present, with 120 recipes to select from, plus tips for decorating, planning, as well as throwing a party.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS as well as PHOTOGRAPHER:Barbara Grunes has written some-more than 45 cookbooks, including The Best Bake Sale Ever Cookbook. She lives in a Chicago area.

Virginia Van Vynckt is a writer, editor, as well as Web designer. She lives in a Chicago area.

France Ruffenach is a San Francisco-based photographer. RECIPES:STAINED-GLASS ORNAMENT COOKIESYield: Makes thirty cookies Use fruit-flavored Life Savers, sour balls, or identical hard candies for a "stained glass." It is fun to have your own pattern for a ornaments. For example, if we want to have a holly leaf or a dove, draw a shape upon a square of cardboardabout 3 inches in hole is a great sizeand cut it out. Edge a gingerbread strips around a pattern upon a cookie sheet. Continue until all a gingerbread has been used.

To vanquish a candies, use a food processor or place a candies between 2 pieces of waxed paper as well as vanquish with a rolling pin.

INGREDIENTS:
  • 3 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt
  • 3/4 teaspoon belligerent cinnamon
  • 1/2 teaspoon belligerent ginger
  • 1/8 teaspoon belligerent nutmeg
  • 3 tablespoons unsalted butter, during room temperature
  • 1/2 crater resolutely packaged dim brown sugar
  • 3/4 crater unsulfured molasses
  • 1/3 crater water
  • 6 ounces translucent hard candies in colors of choice, crushed
1. In a vast bowl, whisk together a flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, ginger, as w! ell as n utmeg. Set aside.
2. In a vast bowl, with an electric mixer, kick a butter upon middle speed until creamy. Add a sugarine as well as molasses as well as kick for 2 minutes. Beat in a water. On low speed, kick in a flour reduction until a soothing mix forms.
3. Gather a mix in to a ball as well as hang in plastic wrap. Refrigerate until firm, during slightest 1 hour or up to overnight.
4. Preheat a oven to 350F. Line cookie sheets with aluminum foil.
5. Divide a mix in to thirds. Divide any third in to 10 next to pieces. Using your palms, roll any square upon a easily floured work aspect in to a handle 1/4 to 1/2 inch in diameter. Gently snippet a pattern of your preference onto a prepared cookie sheets (a wooden ladle handle or chopstick works well for tracing upon foil). Outline any pattern with a handle of dough, pressing a ends together to seal securely.
6. Sprinkle a inside of any pattern with a crushed candies, dividing a candies uniformly between a outlined designs as well as creating an even layer.
7. Bake in a center of a oven or until a edges of a cookies have been golden as well as a candy has melted, 6 to 9 minutes. Let a cookies cold upon a cookie sheets upon handle racks until a candy hardens, about 5 minutes. Gently flay a foil divided from a cookies as well as send to a racks to cold completely. Cookie Exchange Tip: To have this cookie in to a tree ornament, insert a double back made from a mix to a tip of any cookie before baking. After a cookie is baked, thread a square of badge by a double back as well as tie a badge in a bow. To have these ornaments during a party, prepare a card patterns in advance.TOFFEE SQUARESYield: Makes 48 squares To heighten a toffee flavor, substitute toffee baking pieces for half of a chopped almonds.
INGREDIENTS: Crust
  • 1 crater (2 sticks) unsalted butter, during room temperature
  • 1 crater resolutely packaged light brown sugar
  • 1 vast egg yolk
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt
  • 2 cups all-purpose flour
Topping
  • 7 to 8 ounces divert chocolate, broken in to pieces, or 1 1/2 cups divert chocolate chips
  • 1 crater chopped almonds, toasted
1. Preheat a oven to 350F. Line a 9-by-13-inch baking vessel with parchment.
2. Prepare a crust. In a vast bowl, with an electric mixer, kick together a butter as well as sugarine upon middle speed until light, about 2 minutes. Beat in a egg yolk, vanilla, as well as salt. On low speed, progressively kick in a flour only until mixed. The mix will be stiff. Pat a mix uniformly over a bottom of a baking pan.
3. Bake in a center of a oven until dark bullion upon top, about twenty minutes.
4. Remove a vessel from a oven as well as separate a chocolate pieces uniformly over a crust. Return a vessel to a oven for 1 minute. Remove a vessel again and, using a knife, widespread a chocolate uniformly over a crust. Sprinkle uniformly with a almonds.
5. Let cold utterly in a vessel upon a handle rack. Using a sharp knife, cut in to small squares, then delicately remove from a vessel with a small equivalent spatula or an icing spatula. C! ookie Ex change Tip: This is another of those always-popular cookie-exchange selections: Toffee-laced squares appeal to only about everyone. Dress them up a small by weaving lengths of bullion lead badge by a stacked cookies. GIVEAWAYI HAVE ONE COPY MYSELF TO
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