From Julie Arduini:
Merry Christmas from Julie Arduini! As I type this we are 85% decorated and our shopping is well underway. We’re excited because our entire Wisconsin family (we’re a blended family so we have two adult children there, their spouses, and our three grandchildren) driving before Christmas to kick off the week. I’ll also be seeing my Upstate NY family. I look forward to lots of food, board games, and laughs!
I can’t think of a better way to get into the Christmas mood than Christmas romances AND cookies! Today Nancy Naigle is here sharing not only her newest release, Christmas Angels, but also a recipe for Snickerdoodles. Yum! Thanks, Nancy, for stopping by! Update: I could not get the link to work, so the recipe is within the post. Enjoy, and thanks for your patience!
From Nancy Naigle:
I’m so excited about how much readers are enjoying my latest novel, Christmas Angels. Thank you so much for telling your friends about this story. I’m so grateful for your help. I thought y’all might enjoy the delicious Snickerdoodle recipe from the book. Nothing like some warm cookies to nibble on while you read.
USA Today bestselling author Nancy Naigle’s Snickerdoodle recipe:
Christmas Angels Snickerdoodles
Recipe from Nancy Naigle, author of CHRISTMAS ANGELS (2019)
This recipe makes about 18-24 cookies. Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
Cookie Ingredients
1 cup butter (softened, not melted) 1 tsp cream of tartar
½ cup brown sugar ½ tsp kosher salt
1 egg, plus 1 yolk 1 tsp ground cinnamon
1 tablespoon vanilla
1 tsp baking soda
¼ tsp allspice
¼ tsp nutmeg
2 ¾ cup flour
Cinnamon Sugar Mixture
1/4 cup granulated sugar
1 tablespoon ground cinnamon
1 tablespoon of allspice
Instructions:
1. Preheat oven. Line baking sheet with parchment paper and set aside.
2. Mix butter, sugar, and brown sugar together on medium speed until light and fluffy, 2-
3 minutes. Add in the egg, the extra yolk, vanilla, baking soda, cream of tartar, salt,
cinnamon and allspice. Mix for 1 minute, scraping the sides as you go.
3. Turn mixer to low and add in flour a little at a time, mixing until just combined. Do
not overmix.
4. In a separate small bowl make your Cinnamon Sugar by combining cinnamon, allspice
and sugar.
5. Make dough balls about 2 tablespoons. Then roll each cookie dough ball into the
cinnamon sugar mixture until coated.
6. Place on baking sheet about 2-inches apart. Bake for 10-12 minutes, turning cookie
sheet halfway through baking.
Bake only until the edges are slightly golden, the middle may seem soft. If
you want a crunchier version, then cook 1-2 minutes longer.
7. Allow the cookies to cool on the baking sheet for 3-4 minutes before transferring to a
wire rack to cool completely.
HAPPY BAKING!
Psst ~ Remember, the best part is sharing
Christmas Angels by Nancy Naigle/provided
About Christmas Angels:
A heartwarming Christmas story filled with the magic and miracles of the holiday season by USA Today Bestselling author, Nancy Naigle. Growing up, Liz Westmoreland dreamed of taking over her grandparents inn located in the small mountain town of Antler Creek only for it to be sold before she ever got the chance. While browsing the internet, she stumbles upon a listing for what looks to be the picturesque inn and it’s set to go to auction. Liz places a bid, and by a miracle, wins the auction. But when she gets there she finds the property in significant disrepair. When Matt Hardy narrowly lost the inn and property that butted his land, he just hoped it wasn’t another city slicker coming to make matters worse after the previous owners gutted the place for an art gallery. But the minute he recognized the sweet, freckle-faced girl from his childhood and heard her plans to reopen the inn, he jumps at the chance to help his childhood crush restore a place where he made so many fond memories. While working on repairs, Liz and Matt discover her grandmother’s collection of angels in one of the cabins. When the angels start mysteriously showing up all over the inn, she begins to look at them as reassurance—that restoring the inn is what she’s meant to do. But when an accident leaves Liz feeling like she made a mistake, will Matt—and the residents of Antler Creek—be able to show Liz that she’s found a home? And possibly true love as well?What Readers are Saying:
“This book is just like a great Hallmark Christmas movie, even down to town light shows, snickerdoodles and hot chocolate!” —Deborah K. “Another superbly crafted and thoroughly entertaining novel by a master of narrative driven storytelling, Nancy Naigle’s Christmas Angels is certain to be an immediate and enduringly popular addition to community library collections.” –Midwest Book Reviews “This is a Christmas story with the theme of sharing one’s gifts being the best gift of all. Perfect for fans of Hallmark movies and all things Christmas.” —Mary H.
Book Links:
Amazon https://amzn.to/35bDBFU
B&N https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/christmas-angels-nancy-naigle/1130016141?ean=9781250312624#/
Kobo https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/christmas-angels-7
iTunes https://books.apple.com/us/book/christmas-angels/id1455108902
GooglePlay https://books.google.com/books/about/Christmas_Angels.html?id=iCqLDwAAQBAJ
Available in print, digital and audio!
USA Today bestselling author Nancy Naigle writes small-town love stories and women’s fiction. Having published over twenty-five novels, in 2018 two of her novels, Christmas Joy and Hope at Christmas, became Hallmark Original Movies. Nancy also wrote the two novelizations of the Christmas in Evergreen Hallmark Originals. This year Nancy released Christmas in Evergreen: Letters to Santa, The Christmas Shop and on October 15th Christmas Angels will make it to bookstore and e-tailers everywhere. A native of Virginia Beach, she now calls North Carolina home.
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Julie:
Thanks, Nancy, for sharing your recipe! Okay, who’s ready to eat cookies and read? I know I am. But first, what’s your favorite Christmas cookie? I love a cookie I grew up with called Crinkles. Leave a comment and have a very Merry Christmas! See you in 2020!
Julie Arduini loves to encourage readers to surrender the good, the bad, and ---maybe one day---the chocolate. She’s the author of ENTRUSTED: Surrendering the Present, as well as ENTANGLED: Surrendering the Past. The last book in the series, ENGAGED: Surrendering the Future, is coming soon. She also shares her story in the infertility devotional, A WALK IN THE VALLEY. She also blogs every other Wednesday for Christians Read. She resides in Ohio with her husband, two children, and chocolate stash. Learn more by visiting her at http://juliearduini.com.
I was wondering what a Snickerdoodle was as we don’t have them here but the page to the recipe isn’t working. Will check back later
I do love sugar cookies, especially at Christmas time.
I love Snickerdoodles! I have never been able to get my family excited about them. So sad…
Thanks, AusJenny! I’m working on it. Not sure what happened. I wonder if they are an American favorite cookie?
Sugar cookies are amazing! Have a Merry Christmas, Mary!
Sally,
It is the same here. Their loss, right? Have a Merry Christmas!
We love snickerdoodles, but my favorite Christmas cookie is a sugar cookie.
Grandkids love making painted sugar cookies. We use new washed small paint brushes and then paint rolled out sugar cookies with yolk and food color and a tiny bit of water. They look glazed when they bake. I love peanut kisses, peanut butter cookie with Hershey kiss on top.
My family favorite cookie is shell tassies!
I think they are An American and parts of Europe.
I remember a few years ago a friend had an exchange student from Finland and she made a special treat they eat at Christmas and it was so yummy but I forget the name.
While I make gingerbread shapes and some other cookies I don’t eat. I think the yoyo bickies (cookies) I make are my favourite. They are easy to make and a little like a shortbread recipe.
I need to do some cooking for Christmas gifts (I have a afternoon tea on Tuesday I have to take food to). I plan to cook something today (Hopefully)
Thank you for the recipe!! I’m going to have to try it!!
I confess since my husband received his dad’s recipes for Italian cookies, I haven’t baked. I sure have ate, though!
Sugar cookies are definitely a Christmas cookie. Snickerdoodles I’ think of as a year-round cookie. They are all good, though! Have a Merry Christmas!
That sounds so fun! I like those Pb cookies. My husband calls them pb blossoms. Have a Merry Christmas!
Paula, you need to clue me in! I have no idea what these are! I’m so curious, Lol!
Trudy, let me know how they are! I’m glad Nancy was able to share. Have a wonderful Christmas season!
You have to have a favorite Christmas cookie?? How about all of them, lol!
I think one of my favorite ones this time of year is the shortbread cookies you get in a tin or package at the store. There are a variety of flavors and I think my top ones are the powdered sugar coated ginger snaps. YUM!! I love gingersnaps in the first place so to coat them with the powdered sugar is pure heaven in my book :-) I also love soft molasses, peanut butter, oatmeal (no raisins) or monster cookies. Really any cookie, I’m not picky when it comes to one of my favorite sweet treats. Thanks for the snikerdoodle recipe, I haven’t made those in a long time. Mine come out just crisp on the outside and soft in the middle.
Now I’m seriously craving cookies and I don’t have any….lol!
Trixi, I know exactly what cookies you mean from the tin. I remember eating those growing up. If you make the snickerdoodles, let me know how they turn out. Merry Christmas!