Best Cheddar Cookies Recipes

CHEDDAR CHEESE COOKIES

Steps:

• Mix all ingredients together with your hand.
• Make teaspoon size balls.
• Place 2 inches apart on ungreased cookies sheet.
• Refrigerate 1 hour.
• Bake at 400°F 15-20 minutes until set.

CHEDDAR PECAN COOKIES

Steps:

• Cream butter and cheese in food processor.
• Add flour, salt, and cayenne pepper.
• Add pecans.
• Roll into balls and flatten with a fork.
• Bake on an ungreased cookie sheet at 325 degrees for 25 to 30 minutes.

CHEDDAR COOKIES

Steps:

• Heat oven to 400°F. In food processor, place flour and butter. Cover; process until mixture looks like coarse meal. Add cheese and red pepper. Cover; process, using quick on-and-off motions, until combined. With food processor running, gradually pour water through feed tube; process just until dough forms a ball.
• Onto ungreased cookie sheets, drop dough by tablespoonfuls 2 inches apart. Flatten each cookie with bottom of drinking glass; gently press 1 pecan half into center of each cookie.
• Bake 12 minutes. Cool 2 minutes; remove from cookie sheets to cooling racks. Store cooled cookies tightly covered.

THUMBPRINT COOKIES (SAVORY CHEDDAR)

Steps:

• In food processor, pulse together Cheddar and Parmesan cheeses and butter until smooth.
• Add egg yolk and pepper; pulse until blended.
• Add flour; pulse just until soft dough forms.
• Place pecans on plate.
• Place 1 cup water in bowl.
• With hands, roll scant tablespoonfuls of dough into 1-inch balls.
• Wet balls with water; roll in nuts to coat pressing nuts lightly into dough ball.
• Place on ungreased baking sheet.
• With thumb or finger, make indentation in center of each.
• Refrigerate for 15 minutes.
• Bake in center of 350°F oven for about 15 minutes or until firm outside and lightly golden.
• Let cool on baking sheet.
• (Can be prepared to this point and frozen in layers separated by waxed paper in rigid airtight container for up to 2 weeks. Bake in 350°F oven for about 3 minutes to recrisp).
• Fill indentations with hot pepper jelly.

CHEDDAR CHEESE COOKIES

Steps:

• Mix well - work with your hands. Shape into logs and chill. Slice and place on cookie sheet. Bake at 350 degrees or until brown. A cookie press may also be used.

JALAPENO-CHEDDAR SHORTBREAD COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 300F. In a large bowl, cream butter until smooth, gradually beat in sugar until smooth and creamy. In smaller bowl, stir cheddar into flour, add pepper and salt. Stir flour mixture into butter mixture just until combined. Shape dough into 3/4" balls. Place on ungreased baking sheets, 1" apart. Flatten slightly before baking for 15-18 minutes, until cookies are light golden in color, and feel set to the touch. Cool on racks. Store tightly covered in fridge or freezer, up to several months.

APPLE CHEDDAR COOKIES

Steps:

• Cream the butter and sugar until light and fluffy, then stir in the egg and vanilla.
• Add the combined dry ingredients, blending well.
• Stir in the cheese, apples and nuts.
• Drop rounded teaspoonfuls of the dough onto an ungreased cookie sheet and bake at 375 degrees F. for 15 minutes.
• Remove from the cookie sheet and cool on a wire rack or plate.

CRISPY CHEDDAR COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F.
• Combine Flour and butter in a large bowl using a pastry cutter or 2 knives or your fingers until mixture resembles coarse crumbs.
• Add the rest of the ingredients and mix until blended.
• Shape dough into 3/4 inch or 1 inch balls and place 2 inches apart on an ungreased cookie sheet.
• Flatten slightly with a fork.
• Bake for 15 to 17 minutes or until golden brown.
• Transfer to wire racks to cool immediately.
• Makes 48 small ro 30 large cookies.

APPLE CHEDDAR COOKIES

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350°F. In a small bowl, sift together the flour, baking soda, salt, and nutmeg. In a large bowl, cream the butter, brown sugar, and cheese.
• Beat in the eggs and vanilla extract. Stir in the flour mixture. Add the oatmeal and applesauce, stirring well.
• Drop small spoonfuls of batter onto a lightly greased baking sheet. Bake 10 to 12 minutes. Remove from the oven and cool on a wire rack.

LOUISVILLE'S BEST CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES- CHEDDAR BOX

Steps:

• Preheat oven 350 degrees. Cream butter. Add sugars, vanilla and mix well. Add eggs. Add flour, salt and baking soda and mix well. Stir in nuts and chocolate chips. Use ¼ C. dough for each cookie, dropping on cookie sheet lined with parchment paper. (The cookies baked on an ungreased sheet without parchment were

CHEDDAR COOKIES

Steps:

• Put spices and butter in a pot.
• Stir while heating until it starts to bubble.
• Reduce heat.
• Stir in flour.
• Remove from pot and place in mixing bowl.
• Mix in cheese.
• Roll into log (refrigerate if necessary).
• Use cheese cutter to cut into medallions.
• Bake at 400 for 20 minutes.
• Remove from cookie sheet.
• Cool.
• Serve with Tabasco sauce.