‘Tis the season for lots of baking and delicious food. Holiday baking is a staple in many households and it’s a great way to spend time with your family. While we love to bake, and we love the cookies even more, A B Pest Control & Insulation knows that pests love the cookies and those crumbs as much as we do. Make sure your home stays pest free this holiday season by calling your Lake of the Ozarks pest control company. To get into the holiday spirit, here are two of our favorite cookie recipes from delish.com. These are sure to be a crowd favorite!
Santa’s Trash Cookies because even Santa has a naughty side – from Delish
Total Time: 25 minutes
Cook: 8 minutes
Level: Easy
Yield: 28 cookies
Ingredients
¾ cup unsalted butter – room temperature
½ cup sugar
½ cup brown sugar
1 large egg
2 teaspoons vanilla
2 ¼ cup all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
¼ teaspoon kosher salt
1/3 cup crushed potato chips
1/3 cup crushed pretzels
1/3 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
3 tablespoons red and green sprinkles
Flaky sea salt for garnish
Directions:
- Preheat your oven to 350 degrees and line two cookie sheets with parchment paper.
- Cream together the butter and sugars until light and fluffy. This normally takes about 3 to 4 minutes.
- Mix in the egg and vanilla.
- In another large bowl, whisk flour, baking soda, and salt. Add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients and mix until smooth. The dough will be thick.
- Gently stir in chips, pretzels, chocolate chips, and sprinkles.
- Make tablespoon size balls of dough. Slightly press them down onto the cookie sheet and sprinkle with sea salt.
- Bake until edges are just starting to get golden. This usually takes about 7 to 8 minutes.
- Remove from the oven and let them cool for 2 to 3 minutes and then transfer the cookies to a cooling rack to completely cool.
\Gingerbread Cookies – master this classic recipe and make gingerbread men worthy of Santa himself – recipe from Delish
Total time: 2 hours 25 minutes
Prep: 15 minutes
Cook: 10 minutes
Level: Easy
Yield: 3-4 dozen
Ingredients
¾ cup butter – softened
¾ cup brown sugar
1 large egg – room temperature
2/3 cup molasses
3 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
2 teaspoon ground ginger
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
½ teaspoon ground nutmeg
½ teaspoon ground cloves
½ teaspoon salt
Vanilla icing for decorating
Sprinkles for decorating
Directions:
- In a large bowl using a hand mixer, beat butter and brown sugar until it’s nice and fluffy. Add the molasses and egg and beat until it’s well mixed.
- Add flour, vanilla, spices, baking soda, and salt, and mix on low until the dough comes together. (it’s important to not overmix).
- Divide the dough in half and press down on each piece to create two discs. Wrap each in plastic wrap. Chill until firm, about 2 to 3 hours.
- Preheat over to 350 degrees. Line two large baking sheets with parchment paper. Place one disc of dough on a lightly floured piece of parchment paper. Roll out the dough to 1/8-inch thickness. If the dough softens quickly, freeze the full sheet of dough.
- Cut out gingerbread shapes and transfer to baking sheets. Repeat with remaining disc of dough.
- Bake until firm, this takes about 10 to 15 minutes, depending on the size of your cookie cutter. Cool completely on baking sheets.
- Decorate with white icing and decorate as desired.
Keep Your Home Pest-Free This Holiday Season
These are just two of our favorite holiday cookie recipes from delish.com. If you’re baking this holiday season, be sure to thoroughly clean up afterward and keep all ingredients and baked goods properly sealed and covered. Doing so will help prevent bugs and pests from invading your kitchen. If you have a pest problem, give A B Pest Control & Insulation a call! Your pest control company at the Lake of the Ozarks can help keep your holiday season pest free.
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