Easter Baking Recipes and Specials


Because it's another baking season for all you cookie fans, and we've found some great specials on baking supplies, today we bring you this special edition of the Christmas-Cookies.com newsletter. No, it's not Christmas, but we are all baking special recipes just the same!

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In this issue:

Easter Treats
by Jill O'Connor
96 pages, Soft Cover

Celebrate Spring Fever in style with the festive recipes and craft ideas in Easter Treats.

$14.95  Buy
Order books and baking supplies by March 21st for Easter delivery with Standard shipping!

Save $60 and get Free Shipping on the KitchenAid Professional Stand Mixer
$369.95 Buy
For all the cookies, cakes and pastries you'll be making, this 6-Qt. Stand Mixer will certainly come in handy this Easter. Comes with attachments including a dough hook for making bread. Ten speeds!

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Great price on a 7-piece set of Easter cookie cutters

$8.95 Buy
For crafting cookies, pancakes or sandwiches, these cutters come in your favorite characters: 2 bunnies, 2 flowers, 1 chick, 1 egg and 1 April showers umbrella!
Also available: Easter Decorating Set

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Exopat Baking Mat on Sale

$24.00 $19.95 Buy
This nonstick mat browns your cookies without burning and cleans up perfectly. Good for up to 3,000 uses!

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More Cookie-Baking Items on Sale!

Cuisinart Hand Mixer with Bonus Bowl
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Calphalon Cookie Sheets
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Stackable Cooling Racks
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Le Creuset Spatula Set
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Glass Mixing Bowl Set
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100-piece Cookie Cutter Set
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Set of 3 Copper Beating Bowls, with whisk
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Save 20% on Calphalon Bakeware and Cookware

Save up to 58% with Today's Deals in Bakewear and Baking Tools

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Meringue Nests

3 large egg whites
3/4 cup granulated sugar
1/4 teaspoon cream of tartar
3 large eggs
1/4 cup fresh lemon juice
1/4 cup fresh lime juice
1 tablespoon grated lemon peel
1 tablespoon grated lime peel
3/4 cup chilled butter, cut into small pieces
1 cup granulated sugar
multicolored jelly beans

Preheat oven to 275º F. Line a baking sheet with waxed paper. Using a 3" round cookie cutter, trace 6 circles, 2" apart, on the waxed paper. To prepare meringue, beat together egg whites and cream of tartar at high speed until foamy. Beat in sugar, 1 tablespoon at a time, until stiff peaks form. Spoon meringue mixture into a large pastry bag fitted with a star tip. Trace around each circle, then fill the circles. Pipe 2 layers of meringue around outside edges of circle, forming a nest shape. Bake meringues for 45 minutes or until firm and dry. Turn off oven; let meringues stand in oven with the door closed for 2 hours or overnight. To prepare filling, in the top of a double broiler set over simmering (not boiling) water, beat eggs and sugar until light and fluffy. Stir in lemon juice, lime juice, lemon peel, and lime peel. Cook, stirring constantly, until mixture thickens slightly, 15 to 20 minutes. Remove from heat add butter, stirring until melted. Pour the filling into a bowl and cover with plastic wrap. Press the wrap onto the surface of the mixture. Chill 2 to 3 hours. Spoon filling evenly into meringue shells. Garnish with jelly beans.

Koulourakia
Traditional Easter cookies from Greece

1-1/2 cups butter
6 eggs plus 1 egg yolk
2 cups sugar
6 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
juice of 1/2 lemon
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
2 pounds all-purpose flour
1 cup toasted sesame seeds or 1 cup powdered sugar

Beat butter and sugar. Add eggs, one at a time. Beat until sugar has dissolved and batter is smooth. Stir baking powder and baking soda into 2 cups flour and add to batter. Add the remaining ingredients, but do not add all the remaining flour at once. When you get a soft, elastic dough that doesn't stick to fingers, stop adding flour. You may not use all the flour. Let the dough rest for 30 minutes at room temperature. Preheat oven to 350 F. Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper. Take heaping tablespoonfuls of dough, roll in sesame seeds (if desired), and form into S or O shapes. Place cookies onto prepared baking sheet. Beat 1 egg yolk with 1 teaspoon water and brush over cookies. Bake until golden brown. Remove from oven and, if you did not use the sesame seeds, roll cookies in powdered sugar while still warm.


Tips: Scrumptious Easter Menus

Whether your plans are to host an intimate Easter brunch, a casual lunch or a sit-down dinner for many, Cooking.com's Easter Menus are complete with ideas and recipes both traditional and new. Try:
Traditional Easter Menu
Cooking Light's Easter Menu
Easter Buffet Around the World
Sunday Easter Brunch


Collecting Antique and Vintage Cookie Cutters

Antique and vintage cookie cutters are very collectable right now. If you have some old cookie cutters in the back of your kitchen drawer, perhaps it's time to get them out and start using them! Or, you can sell them for a fairly good price at the popular auction site eBay. Cookie cutters range in price from $40-1,550 in Kovels' Antiques & Collectibles Price List for 2001. These are for the very rare or extremely old ones, of course. Even common older cookie cutters can fetch a few dollars. If on the other hand you'd like to build up your collection of unusual cookie cutters, eBay is a great place to start. They always have a huge selection of new, used, vintage, and antique cookie cutters and even large lots of cookie cutters starting at a few dollars. And right now, there are many hard-to-find Easter cookie cutters for sale. Check out eBay and build your cookie cutter collection.

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