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    Gingerbread Snickerdoodles

    Can you do that? Can you flavor snickerdoodle cookies to your taste buddies’ request? I did.. and my buddies were craving gingerbread. I found gingerbread cookie ice cream at Dominick’s last week n it’s all i’ve been eating lol (safeway select brand, recommend it)   Anyway. made mine a little too big so some of them got stuck together. but that’s ok, still taste great. Served with a scoop of gingerbread ice cream lol I used Martha Stewart’s Recipe, used a stick of butter and a stick of margarine instead, also added 2 teaspoons cocoa powder, 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract and 2T gingerbread spice to the batter (vanilla goes in…

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    Gingerbread Pound Cake

    …and still no new mixer… So I made this by hand. I used Paula Deen’s pound cake recipe, and added my fall twist on it. Her Ingredients are: 1/2 pound (2 sticks) butter, plus more for pan   1/2 cup vegetable shortening   3 cups sugar   5 eggs   3 cups all-purpose flour, plus more for pan   1/2 teaspoon fine salt   1/2 teaspoon baking powder   1 cup milk   1 teaspoon vanilla extract I used margarine instead of butter. You will also need 4T cocoa powder and 1T gingerbread spice (i make mine from cinnamon, ground ginger, allspice, nutmeg, ground cloves, in big batches, about 1/2…