Scottish Lace Cookies Recipes

GRANDMA'S LACE COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Line a baking sheet with aluminum foil.
• Melt butter in a microwave-safe bowl in a microwave. Add sugar and stir to combine. Add beaten egg and mix well. Stir in oats, flour, vanilla extract, salt, and baking powder.
• Drop teaspoonfuls of dough onto the prepared baking sheet.
• Bake in the preheated oven until edges are golden brown, about 8 minutes. Let cool completely before removing cookies from foil.

LACE COOKIES (FLORENTINE COOKIES)

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Line a baking sheet with a silicone liner (such as Silpat®).
• Place almonds into the bowl of a food processor; alternate pulsing and running at full speed every few seconds until finely chopped and crumblike. Be careful not to go too far; you don't want them too fine and pasty.
• Combine butter, brown sugar, and honey in a saucepan over medium heat. Stir a few times and cook until melted and dissolved. Bring to a boil, then carefully remove from the heat.
• Add vanilla extract, salt, and flour, and whisk until smooth. Add chopped almonds and mix with a spatula until everything is combined.
• Drop eight uniformly sized, rounded spoonfuls of batter (each about 2 teaspoons, or 15 grams) onto the prepared sheet. Fine-tune the cookie shapes and make sure they are evenly spaced.
• Place in the center of the preheated oven and bake until golden brown and a bit darker around the outsides, 10 to 12 minutes, rotating the pan halfway through.
• Remove from the oven and slide the silicone liner off the baking sheet and directly onto the countertop. Allow to sit until cool and crisp, 3 to 5 minutes, then gently peel cookies off the liner. Repeat to bake remaining batches.
• Spread melted chocolate over the flat side of one cookie. Place a second cookie, flat-side down, on top to make a sandwich and press very gently to seal. Repeat to form remaining cookies. Let sit until chocolate has firmed up, about 30 minutes.

NORWEGIAN LACE COOKIES

Steps:

• Pour melted butter over oats.
• In another bowl, beat egg until light, then beat in sugar.
• Add baking powder and flour, blending well.
• Combine with oat/butter mixture.
• Drop by teaspoonfuls onto parchment paper covered (or greased & floured) cookie sheet, 2 - 3 inches apart. This is important as they spread a lot.
• Bake in 350°F oven for 6-8 minutes. We like them completely brown, thus very crispy.
• Cool 1 minute before removing from pan.

CHOCOLATE LACE COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• Melt butter in large microwave-safe bowl.
• Add sugar and mix thoroughly.
• Add cocoa powder, baking soda, salt and vanilla. Mix until smooth.
• Add eggs and mix until smooth.
• Stir in flour, nuts and chips. (If using electric mixer, use low speed.).
• Place 12 SMALL rounded teaspoons of dough on well-greased baking sheet, spread as far apart as possible. They flatten during baking. If too large, they run together.
• Bake at 350 degrees for 11 minutes.
• Cool on baking sheet for 2 minutes, then remove to wire rack to completely cool.
• Multiple cookie sheets cuts down waiting between batches.

BRANDY LACE COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°f.
• Lightly grease and flour cookie sheets.
• In small saucepan combine sugar, margarine, and corn syrup.
• Bring to boil over medium heat.
• ,stirring constantly.
• Remove fom heat.
• Stir in flour, pecans and brandy.
• Drop 12 evenly spaced half teaspoonfuls of batter onto prepared cookie sheets.
• Bake 6 minutes or until golden.
• Cool 1 to 2 minutes until cookies can be lifted but are still warm and pliable; remove with spatula.
• Curl around handle of a wooden spoon;slide off when crisp.
• If cookies harden before curling, return to oven to soften.
• If desired, drizzle with melted chocolate.
• If time is limited, curling of the cookies is optional.

FRENCH LACE COOKIES

Steps:

• Heat oven to 375.
• Sift flour and Blend with nuts.
• Bring corn syrup, shortening, and sugar to boil in saucepan over medium heat, stirring constantly.
• Remove from heat; gradually stir in flour and nuts.
• Drop batter by level teaspoonfuls about 3 inches apart on baking sheet covered with wax paper (Bake only 8-9 at a time).
• Bake 5-6 min; allow to stand 5 minutes before removing.

LACE COOKIES

Steps:

• In a food processor, combine chopped pecans and sugar; cover and process until nuts are ground. Transfer to a small bowl; add flour, baking powder and salt. In a bowl beat egg; add butter and vanilla. Stir into pecan mixture. , Drop by teaspoonfuls about 3 in. apart onto lightly greased foil-lined baking sheets. Place a pecan half in the center of each cookie. Bake at 325° for 8-10 minutes or until golden brown and lacy. Allow cookies to cool completely before carefully removing from foil.

SCOTTISH LACE COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325 deg F.
• Cream together shortening and sugar. Beat in eggs, then extract. Gradually blen in oats and salt.
• Drop dough by spoonfuls 2 in apart on cookie sheets. Flatten cookies with the bottom of a glass dipped in flour. Bake 12-15 min until golden brown. Transfer to wire racks for cooling.