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Chocolate Star Cookies
"This is my husbands grandma's recipe. It is my husband's all time favorite homemade cookie!"
photo by Chef-slim
- Ready In:
- 30mins
- Ingredients:
- 11
- Yields:
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36-48 cookies
ingredients
- 1 cup Crisco
- 1 cup sugar
- 1⁄2 cup brown sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 2 tablespoons water
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 3 cups flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
- 1⁄2 cup peanut butter
- 48 brach chocolate stars (also known as chocolate rosettes or chocolate buds)
directions
- Preheat overn to 375°.
- In a large mixing bowl, beat together Crisco, sugar, brown sugar, eggs, water and vanilla until well mixed.
- Add the flour, baking soda & salt to the mixing bowl and mix well.
- Cover and refrigerate dough for 30 minutes.
- Roll dough into 1-inch balls and place on ungreased cookie sheet.
- Place in preheated oven and bake for 9-11 minutes or until light brown.
- As soon as you remove the cookies from the oven, place a chocolate star on the top of each cookie.
Questions & Replies
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This recipe calls for 1/2 cup of peanut butter but does not state when to add it. Was the peanut butter possibly an optional ingredient to the recipe?
Reviews
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I didn't see where to add the peanut butter.
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These look yummy - but the picture looks like you used hershey kisses not stars? -
Yummy! Brach's chocolate stars are hard to find (usually only around the holidays), so when I saw a bag, I grabbed them and made these cookies! Really enjoyed this version instead of the usual peanut butter based cookie. Used butter instead of shortening, which yields a soft cakey cookie that's slightly crisp on the outside. The family inhaled them! Be sure to allow plenty of time to cool or store in single layer conatiners, the stars take a long time to harden after baking and will be a mess if stacked. Thanks for sharing the recipe!
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I <3 (heart) these cookies!!! they are very very VERY good. The cookies them selves are so soft almost like cake. For best results and ultimate satisfaction... eat while the chocolate is still warm and melty. -
I should have reviewed these long ago. They were one of the first recipes I printed and they are terrific. They always turn out great. I made them again this Christmas and as always, wonder why I don't make them more often. When I was doing my Christmas baking, I ran into problems: some things got overdone, others just didn't turn out, etc., but these cookies never let me down. I think they should be renamed "chocolate star go to cookies" because they are my "go to," reliably delicious cookie. Sorry I didn't post this earlier, when we've been enjoying these for so long!
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Tweaks
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Yummy! Brach's chocolate stars are hard to find (usually only around the holidays), so when I saw a bag, I grabbed them and made these cookies! Really enjoyed this version instead of the usual peanut butter based cookie. Used butter instead of shortening, which yields a soft cakey cookie that's slightly crisp on the outside. The family inhaled them! Be sure to allow plenty of time to cool or store in single layer conatiners, the stars take a long time to harden after baking and will be a mess if stacked. Thanks for sharing the recipe!
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Very good and so simple to make I used butter instead of crisco, will be making these often my family was eating them faster then i could make them. Thanks for a great recipe. -
These cookies are easy to make and so tasty and light! I substituted butter for the Crisco but otherwise followed the recipe exactly. I will make these often!
RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
Dine Dish
Shawnee, 55
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