WE baked cookies on Sunday afternoon and will have another big cookie baking day when my youngest granddaughter comes home from college. She's looking forward to making cookies. My oldest granddaughter who lives out in Midland emailed me and said she was going to bake the Orange Chocolate chippers on Sunday, it would be the first time my great granddaughter would be old enough to help out (if a 2 1/2 year old can be any help)...
This is my family's favorite cookie recipe. It has spread all around the US with our growing family network. I baked some cookies and sent to soldiers serving in Iraq. I even got request for the recipe then. I revised the recipe a few years back. My granddaughter had also revised the recipe, too, so one day we got together and baked up both of the revised recipes. Everyone there liked mine best, so it became he official family recipe.
Orange Chocolate Chippers – Revised - Dec. 2012 (makes about 6 dozen)
My mother (who passed away in 2004) took this recipe from the Recipe of the Month section of a Better Homes and Gardens magazine back in the early 1950’s. It has been a family favorite ever since. When the family gets together, out come the cookies sheets and a batch of these cookies is baked for all to enjoy.
The original recipe called for a 3 oz, package of cream cheese and only made 3 dozen cookies. Many grocery stores no longer carry the 3 oz package of cream cheese and this recipe is so good that 3 dozen cookies is never enough, so I adjusted the recipe to use an 8-oz package of cream cheese and make 6 dozen cookies. This is truly the Queen of cookies – the best cookie recipe hands down. I am always asked for the recipe.
2 cups shortening (do not use butter)
2 cups sugar
1 8-oz. Package cream cheese
4 eggs
5 or 6 tablespoons finely chopped orange peel, use mirco plane zester for fine peel
4 1/4 cups flour
2 teaspoons salt
2 12-oz bags semi sweet or milk chocolate chips (1 of each is best)
Cream shortening, sugar and cream cheese together. Stir in eggs, one at a time. Add orange peel and vanilla. Mix well.
(Note: I grate the orange peel with a micro planner, it is a very fine grate. This gives the cookie a more intense orange flavor)
Sift flour and salt together. Add to creamed mixture. Add the chocolate chips and mix well.
Drop by teaspoon full, 2 inches apart on cookie sheet lined with parchment paper. Bake at 350 degrees for 12 minutes or until edge of cookies just start to brown. Remove from oven and cool on cookie sheet a minute, then move to wire rack to cool.
Watch closely as these cookies burn easily.
Here is another favorite cookie recipe that I tore out of a magazine back in the 1960's/ Makes a very attractive cookie with all the colorful gumdrops and the kids love this recipe.
Carol Ann's Gum Drop Cookies 12-6-2013
1 cup butter
1 cup white sugar
1 cup brown sugar
2 eggs
2 teaspoons vanilla
3 cups sifted flour
1 teasp salt
1 teasp baking soda
4 cups chopped Spice Gum drops
1 cup chopped nuts
Cream butter and sugars together until smooth, add eggs, one at a time, beating well. Add vanilla and mix well. Sift flour with the salt and soda. Add to butter-egg mixture, mixing well. Add 2 cups of the spice drops and all the chopped nuts working them into the dough. The dough will be stiff. Reserve the remaining 2 cups of chopped gum drops for topping the cookies.
Place by teaspoonful on parchment paper lined baking sheet. Place extra chopped gum drops on cookies. Leave plenty of room as the cookies spread out. Bake at 375 degree for 10 -12 mins, makes 6 doz cookies
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Chopped gum drops for top of cookies Takes lots of extra, try to put about 1 to 2 tablespoons of chopped gum drops on each cookie, press lightly into dough. The extra cut gum drops on top make the cookie colorful. Plus it tastes mighty good!
Note: this recipe will use about 1 1/2 of 22 oz. Containers of spice drops
Also: Make sure to get spice drops, not regular gum drops
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