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Holiday Baking Traditions -- Heath Bar Crunch Cookie Recipe

by on ‎12-11-2014 12:43 PM

As stressful as the holidays can be, we always make time for the traditions that mean the most to us. Some of us spend hours decorating our homes and trees, while others invest creativity into the perfect gift and the prettiest packaging to go along with it.


Baking cookies around the holidays is one of my favorite traditions that brings all of us together. (My mom, sisters, and our kids)



(This is my nephew and the newest member of our family!)


We use the same recipes each year and like to add in a new one here and there. What hasn't changed for as long as I can remember is my Mom's mixer. It was pretty ironic, as I was ordering myself our KitchenAid TSV offered last Sunday, I was at my Mom’s house baking Christmas cookies with her 55 year old mixer!



My mom received her mixer as a wedding gift and has used it ever since. When I posted the photo to my Facebook page, so many of you commented and shared stories about your own mixer. Isn’t it funny that something as simple as a hand mixer becomes part of our lives and our traditions? One of my Facebook friends, Peggy, said “it would be like giving up a friend,” in regards to parting with hers. Another Facebook friend said that her parents also received a mixer as one of their wedding presents 54 years ago. Her mother then passed it on to her and she STILL uses it!


Needless to say, there is a lot of tradition involved when it comes to baking cookies around the holidays and it is something that we look forward to each year! Now I want to share the final product with you! {#emotions_dlg.biggrin}


This year we made Heath Bar Crunch Cookies! They are delicious and very easy. Here is the recipe:



Ingredients:


½ cup butter


¾ cup brown sugar


1 egg


1 teaspoon vanilla extract


1 ½ cups all-purpose flour


½ teaspoon baking soda


½ teaspoon salt


1 cup chopped heath bar


Directions:


 


1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease baking sheets


2. Beat butter and sugar with an electric mixer in a large bowl until creamy. Beat egg and vanilla extract into the butter mixture.


3. Sift flour, baking soda, and salt together in a separate bowl; stir into the butter mixture. Fold chopped heath bar into the mixture. Drop batter by the teaspoonful onto prepared baking sheets.


4. Bake in preheated oven until golden brown, 12 to 15 minutes. Cool on baking sheets for 5 minutes before transferring to cooling racks to cool completely.


5. Enjoy {#emotions_dlg.biggrin}


 

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