Christmas Cookies! 🎄 Oatmeal, Ginger Molasses Cookies & Church Windows #ChristmasCookieExchange2022

Need some Christmas Cookie recipe ideas? Well, you've come to the right place! In this video, I'm sharing my recipes for Old Fashioned Oatmeal Cookies, Ginger Molasses Cookies, and Church Windows. This video is part of a collaboration put together by Lou Ann of @HeartFilledKitchen and there are several great ladies sharing their favorite Christmas cookie recipes with you. For the full playlist, go here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL51z0E9DW4SgeURoYV0gALZTIkO7N8O8j&jct=EsqkU_TpLI7Nze_26DsadXZLeFJiwg

I have lots of Christmas (and Thanksgiving recipes) in a playlist here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcGWpets42Y&list=PLcyZYj2Dr9a4wv2xCsN8zZXYZWqSVFfWC

In this video, I'm sharing three of our family's favorites:

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OLD FASHIONED OATMEAL COOKIES 👵🏻

INGREDIENTS

1 cup butter
3/4 cup white sugar
3/4 cup brown sugar
1 egg
1 tsp. vanilla
1/4 cup water
1 1/2 cup flour
1/2 tsp. salt
1/2 tsp. baking soda
3 cups oatmeal

INSTRUCTIONS

For best results, wrap cookie dough in rolls in sheets of wax paper and refrigerate for a few hours before baking.

Bake ~12 to 13 minutes (or longer, if necessary) in a 350º oven. If you have refrigerated them first, they should start to brown around that time. At that point you can decide how done you want them before you pull them out of the oven. Get a nice glass of milk, a plate of warm cookies, and enjoy!

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CHURCH WINDOWS ⛪️

INGREDIENTS

2 cups semisweet chocolate chips
1 stick of butter (1/2 cup) butter
1 package colorful miniature marshmallows

INSTRUCTIONS

1. In a large pot, melt chocolate chips and butter over low heat; stir until smooth.
2. Take melted mixture off the heat, give it a stir.
3. Add in marshmallows and mix them in.
4. Put mixture into roll shapes on wax paper and refrigerate for a few hours.
5. Slice and enjoy!

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GINGER MOLASSES COOKIES 🎄

INGREDIENTS

1 stick (1/2 cup) of softened butter
1/2 cup light brown sugar
1 egg
3/4 cup molasses
3 cups flour
1/4 tsp. salt
1/2 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. ground ginger
1 tsp. ground cinnamon
1/2 tsp ground cloves
1/2 tsp ground nutmeg
Decorative or large granule sugar for decorating (or you can use this cookie dough recipe to make gingerbread men!)

INSTRUCTIONS

1. Preheat oven to 350º.
2. Mix all ingredients.
3. Chill dough until it's firm enough to roll out.
4. Roll out dough to about 1/4" thickness and use your favorite cookie cutters to cut them into shapes. (I just used circle cookie cutters.)
5. Dust tops with decorator sugar or wait until they come out of the oven and then decorate with icing.
6. Enjoy!

Holly Pond Hill Christmas Treasury (out of print)
https://amzn.to/3izf09U

Want to make your own vanilla extract? Go here:
http://bit.ly/homemade-vanilla-extract

My cookie cutters (affiliate link)
https://amzn.to/3Ut98fJ