<p>Zoosermom,
I just found this thread. I know you posted on this a year ago, but would you mind sharing your mini pecan pie recipe? Thanks so much!</p>
<p>Patsmom, you can absolutely roll out the dough and use cookie cutters. I am doing that this year - using a snowflake cookie cutter and sprinkling with white granulated sugar.</p>
<p>Target has KitchenAid mixers on sale now for up to 25% off. My mom has had a KitchenAid for years and it works great. I think my electric toothbrush is more powerful than my Hamilton Beach $10 handheld mixer! When I use my cheap mixer I’m afraid it is going to blow up or catch on fire.</p>
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<p>I love my KitchenAid stand mixer…I have to admit it was the ‘best’ kitchen appliance I ever bought and it gets used the most. It’s probably at least twenty years old. I’ve been meaning to get a second bowl and I could use a replacement blade some to think of it.</p>
<p>Okay, I can put off getting a KitchenAid for right now. I am making cookies right now. What I did differently is GRADUALLY add flour/oatmeal to butter/sugar mix. Instead of dumping all in at once, I added flour mix a little at a time and it works way better with my light hand mixer. After mixing dough together, I used a wooden spoon instead of mixer to blend in raisins, white chocolate chips, and chopped dried apricots…everything didn’t get gunked up in my beaters this way. I’d still like a KitchenAid stand mixer someday, but I’ll get by without one for right now. </p>
<p>Anyone smell my cookies baking?</p>
<p>lizard - Don’t your recipes call for you to gradually add the dry ingredients? I can’t imagine trying to add them all at once, especially with the hand mixer. Glad that worked better for you. Your cookies sound yummy!!</p>
<p>They WERE good. My family has almost gobbled up all 4 dozen of them already before the cookies even got to cool off completely. I might need an even bigger mixer than a KitchenAid.</p>
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<p>Well, I’m glad that the shelves are UNUSED, lol! I’d feel a little creeped out with a mixer that had previously used shelves! ;)</p>
<p>On another tangent, is it my imagination or did someone post a recipe for a cookie with oatmeal, cranberries, and white chocolate chips? I’ve tried a search and came up empty. I could google and go potluck but an endorsed recipe is always better IMO.</p>
<p>My daughters have taken over the Christmas cookie baking. I bake cookies every weekend for our customers to eat in our shop , so I get a little tired of it. One of our family favorites is a recipe that I got from my childhood best friend’s mother.
It’s a thumbprint cookie , but it’s not like any I have ever had. There is chopped chocolate in the dough and the center is filled with ganache like chocolate</p>
<p>Patsmom, I just made Mary Todd Lincoln’s sugar cookies–I figured I’d try a new recipe for my Chanukah cookies, but the dough, even after chilling overnight, was much too soft to roll and cut with cookie cutters. The only thing I could do was roll the dough into balls and press them into circles directly on the cookie sheet. I confess that I added some almond extract because I thought the dough tasted bland; my son loved them, but I’ve never much cared for sugar cookies, and these didn’t do much to change my mind.</p>
<p>MLT’s sugar cookie dough doesn’t roll well without additional flour to stiffen it and then they are even more bland. I rolled balls and then dipped them into red or green sugar to give them a sweeter taste. DDs and H: thumbs up!</p>