Looking for ways for your children and your whole family to eat more nutritiously for the New Year but you are not quite sure where to being? You can always start with healthy children treats that will please your children and your whole family.

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Author: Ganka
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Overview

KitchenAid Artisan stand mixer is a rugged kitchen machine, and has a 325-watt motor. You can depend on the solid, durable, full-metal construction for all your cooking and baking needs for years to come.

• There are three attachments that are included with your KitchenAid Artisan stand mixer: a wire whip, a dough hook and a flat beater. The wire whip introduces enough air in your whipped mixtures to make your whipped cream fluffier. You can mix and knead yeast dough using the dough hook, eliminating the need for tedious and time-consuming hand-kneading. You can mix normal to thick batters using the flat beater.
• The polished 5-quart stainless steel bowl handles large amounts of mixtures with ease. The handle is ergonomically designed, giving you a firm grip as you lift and pour.
• The pouring shield that is included is fitted onto the bowl, and enables you to add ingredients as the mixing process is on. It prevents wet liquids from splashing out of the bowl while the mixer…

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Cocoa Kiss Cookies are another recipe that I love to make since I am an avid chocolate lover. This also comes from New Hampshire from an inn called The Darby Field Inn. It is a super simple cookie recipe that is great for gift giving (although these do not ship well either,but make great gifts packaged in decorative tins and given to friends and family locally. My family loves these as well and they were received well also when I brought them to work in one of my treat trays. I work in a happy place and like everyone who works there to be happy also during this time of year. The Hershey kiss on the top of each cookie remains soft after the cookie has cooled so it gives a great burst of chocolate when you bite into this cookie. Truly a chocolate lover’s cookie!

Cocoa Kiss Cookies

1 cup (2 sticks)of butter
2/3 cup sugar
1 tsp vanilla
1 2/3 cups all purpose flour
1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
1/2 tsp salt
1 cup finely chopped walnuts (if desired)
1 package (9 oz) Hershey Kisses,… (Read the rest of this article at the following article source link for the full story)

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This is a wonderful holiday cookie recipe that I have come to love over the years. The Raspberry Almond Shortbread Cookies come from New Hampshire from The Forest which is a quaint country inn located there. I got it from my magazine Holiday Cakes and Cookies by Family Circle from 1999. They are super simple to make and the recipe makes quite a bit of cookies. It is versatile in that you can use any berry jam, I really like the raspberry and one year I made it with cherry jam and it was very good too. With the almond glaze, this makes it a very decadent cookie for any occasion. My family loves them, I usually end up making at least 3-4 batches a year for Christmas cookies. I may have to make more this year since I took some to work and they were received very well by my fellow co-workers. This is not one of my Grandma’s recipes but, it is just a good cookie to have around!

Raspberry Almond Shortbread Cookies

2/3 cup sugar
1 cup (2 sticks) of butter, at room temperature
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