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 This week's Cookie of the
Week features Lemon Bars. These are delicious and make a terrific holiday gift. Wrap
them up in an old fashioned cookie tin (can be bought at your local store) and you have
tasty homemade gift.
If you plan to send these cookies remember to pack them well- after putting them in a
cookie tin, place in a sturdy box and surround the tin with newspaper to make a snug
fitting.What
you need:
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 1/4 cup confectioners' sugar
- 1/4 cup butter or margarine
- 1 cup white sugar
- 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 2 eggs
- 3 tablespoons lemon juice
- 1 lemon rind, grated confectioners' sugar
What you do:
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
- To make Bottom Layer: Mix one cup flour and 1/4 cup
confectioners sugar. Melt the butter and add to flour mixture.
- Press flat and even into an 8 x 8 inch cooking pan. Bake for
20 minutes.
- While baking, make the top layer: Mix 1 cup sugar, 2
tablespoons flour, and the baking powder.
- Beat eggs and add to mixture, stirring well. Add lemon juice
and rind, mix again.
- Pour over bottom layer; bake at 350 for 25 minutes. Cool for
5 minutes, cut into squares while warm; dust with confectioners sugar.
Meet the Author
Gregg
Gillespie
"1001 Cookie Recipes"
and many other books
 Interview & FREE Banana Nut Muffin
recipe
  Gregg has written a
glorious salute to quick breads. Gregg has developed into one of America's foremost
bakers and cookbook authors. Currently he has over 4,000,000 books in print and is always
on the look out for writing another great book. His recipes are easy to prepare, yummy to
eat, and inspires everyone to take out their baking trays. 1001 MUFFINS is a beautiful book. Each recipe is accompanied by a beautiful color
photo of the finished product. Since there are 1001 recipes in Gregg' s book you get
the idea of how many photos there are.
See the interview and try out the FREE recipe. |
Nancy's
Chocolate Covered Cherries
 This dessert is brought to us by Nancy Burton. She always has good
ideas and tries to make meal time a special event for her family. Thanks Nancy for sharing
these desserts with us! If you like chocolate-covered cherries, try this recipe.
Cookie Lovers
Cookbook
by Elizabeth Wolf-Cohen
 
There's a color photo showing how each cookie should look, easy directions and
the recipes are for a wide assortment of cookie favorites. It's has interesting bits of
history and pictures of antique cookie jars. It would be a lovely gift for anyone.
Send
us your cookies!!!
 Starting
next week Dessert of the Week will welcome the December holiday season- Christmas,
Hanukkah, Kwanza- with our Cookie of the Week. It's our yearly tribute to holidays cookies
and other sweet confections. This is a terrific opportunity to send in your favorite
cookie recipes along with a little bit about yourself and why this cookie is your
favorite. We will feature it along with you in our Dessert of the Week feature here
on Families-First.com. This is our way of having a cookie swap so please join us : ).
Meet the Author
Anne Byrn
author of: "The
Cake Mix Doctor
interview
& FREE recipe:
Strawberry Cake
with Strawberry Cream Cheese Frosting
 Lemon bundt cake, chocolate cake, Mississippi Mud cake, Caramel cake
can all be yours in just minutes!! You can bake these delicious cakes from boxed
cake mixes and enjoy that wonderful home-made taste, slice after slice. See our interview
with the "Cake Mix Doctor" where she tells us how she received her
"medical" degree as well as a FREE recipe from her book. |
