Refrigerator Cookies @MaddieDayAuthor #ChristmasRecipe #giveaway

MADDIE DAY here, with a cookie recipe I've been making since I was a young child at my mother's side, and an apology.

I saved making this recipe and documenting it with pictures for this week. But a respiratory infection has laid me low, and I didn't have the energy to assemble dough and bake.

This is the recipe card I've had in my recipe box since high school. My mom made long rolls of cookie dough every year, and now I do, too.

I have modified the recipe a bit for clarity and health (I haven't gone anywhere near Crisco in decades...). Also, I have no idea why nuts are listed. My mom never put nuts in these cookies.

Refrigerator Cookies

Ingredients

1 cup softened butter

1 cup brown sugar

1 cup sugar

1 teaspoon salt

2 eggs

3 cups all purpose or unbleached white flour

½ teaspoon baking soda

Directions

Blend butter and sugars. Beat in eggs one at a time. 

Stir in flour mixed with salt and soda.

Lay a sheet of wax or parchment paper on the counter. Near one long side, shape part of the dough into a roll 2 inches in diameter. Wrap the closest paper over and squeeze into a cylinder, then wrap in the rest of the sheet and twist the ends of the paper. Repeat until dough is gone.

Refrigerate or freeze for an hour or overnight.

When ready to bake, preheat oven to 375 degrees F. Line baking sheets with parchment paper. Cut 1/4 inch slices and place half to an inch apart. I borrowed this photo from a similar recipe Cleo shared here fifteen years ago!

Decorate with green and red sugars for a holiday look or with white sugar for any time of year.

Bake for 8-10 minutes. Cool on a rack. Believe me, they are yummy!

Option: Divide dough in half. Color one half with red food coloring and the other with green. Flatten dough lengthwise along half the paper. Roll other color on top, and then roll as above. When cut before baking, the cookies reveal a spiral.

Readers: What's your favorite holiday dessert? I'll send one of you a collection of my Christmas novellas.

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Maddie Day (aka Edith Maxwell) is a talented amateur chef and holds a PhD in Linguistics from Indiana University. An Agatha Award-winning and bestselling author, she is a member of Sisters in Crime and Mystery Writers of America and also writes award-winning short crime fiction. She lives with her beau and sweet cat Martin north of Boston, where she’s currently working on her next mystery when she isn’t cooking up something delectable in the kitchen.