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Please do not use your oven to heat your house. Beyond being an inefficient way to warm a room, a gas oven left running with the door open produces carbon monoxide indoors, and an electric one is a fire risk with anything nearby. If your home is not holding heat this winter, that is a job for furnace repair, not the kitchen.
Put the oven to its proper use instead and bake your favorite holiday dessert. Share your recipes for treats like fudge, cakes, cookies, rolls, and pies with us. Entries go up for voting on our website, with prizes for the top three.
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Homemade Polish Kolaczki
1 8 Oz. cream cheese
12 Oz of softened butter
3 cups all-purpose flour
Any filling from solo brand filling. Apricot. Prune, Strawberry etc
You can also take 8 Oz cream cheese softened
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 cup powered sugar (to your taste)
This can also be used as one of the fillings
For cookies:
Mix cream cheese, butter together until light and fluffy. Add 1 cup of flour at a time and mix well. Wrap dough in plastic wrap and refrigerate 1 hour.
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Roll out the dough onto a surface that has been dusted with granulated sugar and confection sugar, This is so the dough doesn’t stick to the surface. Cut into 2″ squares ( I use a ruler and pizza cutter) place 1/2 to 1 teaspoon of any filling (do not use pie fillings it’s too runny) to each squares. Overlap opposite corners on each square and pinch. Depending on oven, Bake 10-15 minutes. Light brown on corners. Cool and dust with powered sugar. Place into an airtight container and place 1 piece of white bread into the container; this keeps any cookie soft. Replace bread every day or every other day when bread becomes dried out. I use cheap off-brand white bread. Only white bread to be used, and don’t use heels. Enjoy!!!!
