Knottie Recipes

Peanut Butter Balls

This is a recipe we make every year for Christmas, I'm not sure where it came from. They're very easy to make, but it takes a while just because of the sheer size of the recipe. I would guess that I normally get 10 dozen from a batch.

1/2 lb. melted butter
6 c. powdered sugar
1 pint. peanut butter
12 oz. chocolate chips
3/4 cake of paraffin wax, shaved.

Mix butter, powdered sugar and peanut butter in a bowl. Form into balls.* Put a toothpick in the middle of each ball.

In a double boiler, melt the chocolate chips and wax. Once this is done being melted take a peanut butter ball and dip it into the chocolate.* Continue until all of the balls are covered.*

Notes:
*I think we normally make them about one inch balls
*We usually place wax paper over a cookie sheet and set the balls on them once they're made and then again once they are dipped in the chocolate. Saves a lot of time on cleanup duty! You might also want to have a spoon handy to fish any that fall off of the tootpick out of the chocolate.
*I normally have enough chocolate to dip them all twice and sometimes a little more that I just drizzle over the top.

two snaps and a kiss!

The evil Erica ;) (evil because she, the evil temptress Knottie rd3shny, posted this recipe early one morning and had me walking around craving them like a zombie all day until we could make them late that night) posted this without a title, but this is my adaptation of the recipe. I hope she approves!

• One bag of Snyder's of Hanover Snaps or other little square pretzels
• One bag of Hershey's Kisses

(Gotta love a recipe with TWO INGREDIENTS!)

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spread pretzels out on a cookie sheet. Place an unwrapped kiss on top of each pretzel. Bake for three minutes. Remove from oven and smoosh (yes, that's Erica's word, but it's very accurate!) another square pretzel on top of each kiss, making a little sandwich.

Variations: Kristy (Knottie kap60999) recommends substituting Hershey's Hugs (white and milk chocolates swirled) for the standard Milk Chocolate variety; I think the Rich Dark kisses would taste fabulous! Suzi (Knottie sms297) says to use minipretzels with a kiss then put an M&M on top instead of another pretzel. April (Knottie Luckystar2) says they're great with mint chocolate kisses. Ellen (Knottie ellenchris0506) says her mom makes yummy ones with red and green chocolate. And Jodi (Knottie jrfgirl) offers a version with Rolos instead of kisses and pecan halves instead of the top pretzel, baked for four minutes at 325.

Sugar Cookies

This is the recipe my family has used every year at Christmas time for as long as I can remember. We actually call them Aunt Bertha's cookies for some reason.

1/4 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. salt
2 tsp. vanilla
2 c. sugar
1 c. shortening
1 c. milk
5 c. flour
4 tsp. baking powder

Mix all ingredients together. Drop on cookie sheet and press flat with damp cloth on glass, or roll out on a floured surface and cut out with cookie cutters.