Oh So Easy Raisin Filled Recipes

RAISIN-FILLED COOKIES

Steps:

• In a large bowl, cream sugars and butter. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in vanilla. Combine the flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt and nutmeg; add to creamed mixture alternately with buttermilk. Cover and refrigerate until easy to handle. , For filling, in a saucepan, combine the cornstarch, flour and brown sugar. Stir in water until smooth. Add raisins. Bring to a boil over medium heat; cook and stir and cook for 3 minutes or until thickened. Cool. , On a floured surface, roll out dough into 1/8-in. thickness. Cut with floured 3-in.-round cookie cutters. Spoon 2 teaspoons filling on top of half the circles and top each with another circle. Pinch edges together and cut slit in top. , Place 2 in. apart on ungreased baking sheets. Bake at 350° for 10-13 minutes or until lightly browned. Remove to wire racks to cool.

OH SO EASY RAISIN FILLED

Steps:

• 1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• 2. You will need muffin tins mini or regular whatever you have. Spray your tins with cooking spray.
• 3. Divide sugar cookie dough in half. Pinch off a bit of sugar cookie dough from one of the halves and form it into the bottom of the muffin tin and up the sides. You should be able to get 8 to 12 raisin filled depending on the muffin tin.
• 4. Fill the dough with raisin pie filling as full as you like.
• 5. Take the other half of the dough and pinch off pieces for as many filled muffin tins as you have. Flatten each piece with a glass or your hand and lay on tip of the raisin filling tucking it in to the dough from the bottom.
• 6. With a pastry brush brush the milk over top of the dough and sprinkle with sugar.
• 7. Bake for 18-20 minutes until done. Let cool completely before eating or you will burn you mouth.

RAISIN FILLED COOKIES

Steps:

• 1. COOKIE DOUGH: Sift flour, baking soda and baking powder together and set aside. Cream sugar and butter. Add eggs, milk and vanilla.
• 2. Add sifted dry ingredients. You may have to add up to 4 cups of flour to get a workable dough.
• 3. Chill dough
• 4. Roll chilled dough out on floured surface to desired thickness for each cookie. Cut with round cookie cutter. I use the pampered chef biscuit cutter.
• 5. Place cookie circles on sprayed baking pan. Add small amount of cooled raisin filling (see recipe below) to each cookie. Do NOT overfill or your cookies will leak while baking. Top with a remaining cookie cirle. Seal edges.
• 6. Bake at 350 degrees until lightly brown. Cool
• 7. RAISIN FILIING: Boil raisins in water for 5-10 minutes. Add sugar and vanilla.
• 8. Combine dry ingredients and slowing stir into boiling raisins. Stir and cook until thickened. COOL BEFORE PLACING BETEEN LAYERS OF COOKIE DOUGH
• 9. TIP: These cookies are rich. You can also fold a single circle in half to create a half moon to create a smaller cookie.

OLD FASHIONED CHRISTMAS RAISIN DELIGHTS

Steps:

• To Make The Dough: Sift the flour, baking powder, and salt together; set aside.
• Cream the butter with 3/4 cup of the brown sugar and the white sugar. Beat in the eggs, milk and vanilla. Mix at high speed for 2 minutes, then reduce speed and gradually blend in the flour mixture. Cover and refrigerate dough for at least 3 hours.
• To Make Raisin Filling: Grind the raisins. In a medium saucepan combine the ground raisins, 1 cup brown sugar, 1 cup water, salt and lemon juice. Bring to a boil, and simmer for 3 minutes.
• Combine the cornstarch and 2 tablespoons of the water and mix until smooth. Add to the raisin mixture and continue to simmer until thick. Remove from heat and let cool. Once cool, stir in the chopped nuts.
• Preheat Oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Lightly grease baking sheets.
• On a floured surface, roll out the chilled dough to 1/8 inch thick. Cut into 2 3/4 inch rounds. Place rounds on the prepared baking sheet. Place a heaping teaspoon of the raisin filling on the cookie round and top with another round. Crimp the edges closed.
• Bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for 8 minutes. Allow cookies to cool on sheet until just barely warm.

OLD-FASHIONED RAISIN PIE

Steps:

• In a bowl, beat eggs. Add sour cream. Stir in raisins, brown sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg and salt. Place bottom pastry in a pie plate; pour in filling. Top with a lattice crust. , Bake at 450° for 10 minutes. Reduce the heat to 350°; bake until filling is set, about 25 minutes longer. If desired, sprinkle with nutmeg.

RAISIN FILLING

Steps:

• Cook first five ingredients until thickened, then add butter, vanilla, and black walnuts.
• Use as filling between layers of cake.

EASY RAISIN CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Lightly grease one 10 x 10 inch baking pan.
• In a large saucepan boil the raising with the water for 10 minutes. Add the butter or margarine and let cool.
• In the same pan add the flour, soda, salt, sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, and chopped nuts (optional), mix well and pour batter into a lightly greased 10x10 inch baking pan
• Bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for 35 minutes. Serves 8 to 12.

OLD-FASHIONED RAISIN-FILLED COOKIES

Steps:

• Filling:.
• Cook raisins with sugar and water for 10 to 15 minutes, or until thick, stirring occasionally.
• Remove from heat and add lemon juice and butter.
• Let cool while preparing dough.
• Cookie Dough:.
• Cream sugar and butter; add egg and mix well.
• Combine flour, baking powder, and salt, and add alternately to sugar mixture with milk and vanilla extract.
• Roll out a portion of the dough to 1/8-inch thickness and cut into rounds with a biscuit cutter.
• Place a teaspoonful of filling on the center of a round, then cover with another round and press edges together.
• Bake at 350 degrees F until golden brown (10 to 15 minutes).

RAISIN PIE FILLING

Steps:

• In saucepan, mix sugar, cornstarch and salt.
• Stir in water, corn syrup, and raisins.
• Cook and stir until bubbly; cook 2 minutes more.
• Remove from heat; stir in lemon juice and butter.
• Pour filling into pastry-lined pie plate (filling will be thin).
• Cover with top crust; cut slits for steam.
• Bake at 425* for 10 minutes; reduce heat to 375* and bake for 30 more minutes, or until crust is golden brown.

RAISIN FILLING FOR HEART POCKETS

Steps:

• Combine the raisins, water, sugar, flour, lemon zest, and cinnamon in a small saucepan over medium heat. Bring to a simmer. Cook, stirring frequently, until most of the liquid is absorbed, 3 to 5 minutes. Transfer to a food processor. Process until smooth. Refrigerate filling until cool and thickened slightly, about 1 hour.

APPLE RAISIN FILLING

Steps:

• In a bowl stir together filling ingredients until combined well.