Hello everybody, it’s Drew, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, icebox cookies. One of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Keeping a log of cookie dough in your fridge or freezer is the true genius move. It let's you have dessert ready in just a moment. She still makes them and sends us home with the dough so that we can make more whenever we want, I love to make a fresh batch when company drops in. —Chris Paulsen, Glendale, Arizona Cranberry Icebox Cookies These crisp cookies are especially popular at Thanksgiving and Christmas with a cup of hot tea or coffee. It's convenient to bake a batch, too, because you can store the dough in the fridge until needed. —Gloria Anderson, Paso Robles, California All icebox cookies recipes (aka refrigerator cookies or slice-and-bake cookies) require rolling the dough into a log before going into the fridge.
Icebox Cookies is one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It is appreciated by millions every day. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. They are nice and they look fantastic. Icebox Cookies is something that I’ve loved my whole life.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have icebox cookies using 7 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Icebox Cookies:
- Prepare 125 g Butter *softened
- Make ready 1/3 cup Caster Sugar
- Prepare 1 & 1/4 cups Plain Flour
- Get 1 Egg
- Take 6 Dried Halved Apricot *cut into 5-6mm pieces
- Take 1 tablespoon Cocoa Powder
- Get 1/4 cup Sliced OR Chopped Almonds
If that's not holiday magic, we don't know what is. After making the dough, shaping it into a log, and chilling it for a few hours, you have a perfect cylinder of pecan-chocolate chip shortbread that is ready to slice and bake. Not what I was looking for in an ice box cookie. I wanted more of a butter cookie and didn't care much for the cinnamon.
Steps to make Icebox Cookies:
- Beat softened Butter and Sugar until well combined. Beat in Egg and mix well. Add Flour and mix well, then divide the dough in half.
- (A) Add Apricot to a half of the dough. (B) Add Cocoa Powder and Almonds to the other half of the dough.
- Place each dough on a lightly floured surface or baking sheet. Shape into logs about 12cm long. Wrap in plastic wrap, refrigerate for 2 hours or until firm.
- Preheat oven to 180ºC. Line baking tray with baking paper.
- Remove and discard plastic wrap on each dough and slice into 1cm thick rounds. Place on the prepared tray. These cookies won’t spread much, so you only need 1 to 2cm room between them.
- Bake for 15 to 20 minutes. Set aside on the tray to cool slightly before transferring to a wire rack to cool completely.
Not what I was looking for in an ice box cookie. I wanted more of a butter cookie and didn't care much for the cinnamon. But for the walnuts it was just like those my mom made when I was a child. Being from the south pecans are the nut of choice.. Icebox cookies are indispensable for busy bakers: Keep a ready supply of dough on hand for instant sweet gratification.
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