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   Holiday
time is the best season for cookies! Families usually have their favorites, whether it's
chocolate chip, shortbread or pinwheels. Here's an Italian cookie recipe that I bake
thorough out the year. Biscottis are double baked cookies that are fabulous with milk or
any warm beverage- perfect for dunking! For Christmas I dip the ends of the cookies in
melted semi-sweet chocolate and allow to
harden. They are barely in the kitchen for two days after that! They make great gifts when
you combine them with the Cheerful
Cookie Box!!
What you need:
 3 large eggs- 3/4 cups of sugar
- 2 1/2 tablespoons of butter, melted
- 1 tablespoon of grated orange zest
- 1 tablespoon vanilla
- 2 cups plus 1 tablespoon of all purpose flour
(I like to use unbleached)
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 2/3 cup whole hazelnuts
- 1/3 cup unblanched whole almonds
What you do:
 Preheat
your oven to 350 degrees. Lightly grease 2 cookie sheets.- In a large bowl, beat the eggs and sugar with a wire whisk
until thick and pale yellow. Whisk in butter, orange zest, and vanilla and mix well. Sift
the flour and baking soda together and stir into the egg mixture, mixing well. Stir in the
nuts. The dough will be sticky.
- Using 2 spoons, divide the dough in half and place half the
dough on a greased cookie sheet. Shape it into a flat loaf 10 inches long and 4 inches
wide, tapering it slightly at the ends. Repeat with the remaining dough. Bake for 20
minutes, or until firm to the touch. Remove from the oven and let cool for 3-4 minutes.
- Transfer the loaves carefully to a cutting board and cut the
loaves on the diagonal into 1/2- inch slices.
- Place the cookies back in the oven and bake until the side
is brown and toasty, then turn the cookie to the other side to get brown and toasty.
Remove from oven and cool on cookie rack. Transfer the cookies to a rack to cool.
- They will keep in an airtight container for up to a month.
Marylina's Panetton Cakes
  This is a recipe from Marylina who has made a holiday tradition on
Christmas Eve with this recipe. It is a delightful blend of lemon and vanilla with
almonds, raisins and mixed dried fruits that will make a great addition to your holiday
table. She says, "This recipe I have made it for the last few years, for my children
and their families. We had it on vacation in Greece and wanted to share it with the
children. Now it is something we have Christmas Eve
when we have our annual hay ride out here at our small ranch in California."
Santa's Candy Sleigh
  Do you want to have Christmas parties
but don't know what to do? This is an edible sleigh from best-selling and award winning
author Wilhelminia Ripple who teaches you how easy it is to plan your party. It is
excerpted from her book, "Christmas Parties...What I Do. Simply pull the crackers and
candy canes apart to eat Santa and his sleigh. See this craft as well as a Christmas
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