Who’s ready for Christmas? Um, I kinda am… but I never fully feel like I’m ready for Christmas, I get to the point where it’s just Christmas and whatever didn’t get done, doesn’t get done! But, baking Christmas cookies can get crossed off my list (it’s one I have often skipped when short on time, gasp!). I recently went to a cookie exchange at a friend’s house. Note to self: next year, freeze all the cookies received so there is plenty for closer to Christmas. Since I was taking cookies to send home with 18 other people, I turned to my mom for suggestions. I made a little tweak and ended up with Neapolitan Cookies. Making these in a loaf pan and slicing before baking resulted in an easy way to make tons of cookies.
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It’s Day 11 and we have been in the kitchen making something sweet to share!
Neapolitan Cookies
The original recipe is by my Grandma Marj. And until I got my hands on the recipe, we called them Ribbon Cookies.
Why the change?
My kids are all allergic to artificial food coloring. It does make it hard to make cookies red and green for Christmas. Sometimes Tasha and I have done some experimenting with ways to naturally color things. Since I was planning on giving these cookies away, I wasn’t worried about using food coloring.
But, as I got ready to look and see if I even had food coloring, I came across a way to color the red or green layer without artificial food coloring.
Aldi offers orange and strawberry jello, something we have started to keep a few boxes of ever since I made Strawberry Pretzel Salad with it.
I was so excited… it didn’t even occur to me it would flavor the red layer strawberry!
Thankfully, it turned out to be a great and now I can easily make this recipe without food coloring.
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Ingredients
- 1 cup softened butter
- 1 cup white sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 tsp. vanilla
- 2 1/4 cups flour
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1 1/4 tsp baking powder
- 1 square unsweetened chocolate
- Strawberry jello (or red or green food coloring)
- Line a bread pan with enough wax paper to fold over the top of the pan.
- Cream the butter and sugar together. Blend in the egg and vanilla.
- In a separate bowl, sift together the flour, salt and baking powder.
- Mix the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients.
- Divide the dough into 3 equal parts.
- Melt the chocolate and add it to one third.
- Add the strawberry jello to another third.
- The final third stays plain.
- The dough goes on the bottom of the loaf pan, press it out flat to reach all the edges. Repeat with the plain and finally the strawberry dough, pressing each layer. Cover with wax paper and chill for several hours (or freeze if not baking for a few days).
- When ready to bake, remove from wax paper and cut the loaf into 3 long strips, then slice cookies 1/4 inch thick.
- Bake on an un-greased cookie sheet for 10 minutes at 350 degrees.
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