Recipe: Yummy Jumbo spicy raisin cookies

Jumbo spicy raisin cookies. This is the absolutely the best tasting raisin cookie I have ever made. I had lost this recipe a few yrs back and was thrilled to find it here. My husband and kids have already requested I make it a least once a week until further notice!! Also this recipe doubles very nicely. The exception I make is to delete the nuts.

Mix in the vanilla and sugar. Add the eggs and mix well. In a separate bowl, sift together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, ginger cinnamon and nutmeg. You can cook Jumbo spicy raisin cookies using 14 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Jumbo spicy raisin cookies

1. It's 2 cup of raisins.
2. Prepare 1 cup of water.
3. Prepare 1 cup of butter.
4. Prepare 3 of eggs.
5. It's 2 cup of white sugar.
6. Prepare 1 tsp of vanilla.
7. You need 2 tsp of salt.
8. It's 1 tsp of baking powder.
9. Prepare 1 tsp of baking soda.
10. It's 1 1/2 tsp of cinnamon.
11. You need 1/4 tsp of nutmeg.
12. You need 1/4 tsp of allspice.
13. It's 4 cup of flour.
14. You need 1 cup of chopped walnuts.

Jumbo Raisin Cookies "When I was growing up, my mother would make these soft and spicy raisin cookies once a month," writes Becky Melander of Clinton, Michigan. "Since the recipe makes a huge batch, she would freeze some to snack on later." Jumbo Raisin Cookies. Got this recipe from a local Hutterite colony. Measure and add baking powder, soda, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, and allspice; sift. Cream shortening, sugar, eggs (one at a time), beating well with each addition.

Jumbo spicy raisin cookies instructions

1. boil raisins in 1 cup of water until soft (about 10 min on low after water starts to boil).
2. cream butter, sugar, eggs and vanilla..
3. sift together all dry ingredients..
4. add dry ingredients to creamed mixture alternately with undrained boiled raisins (cooled).
5. add chopped nuts if desired - ok to leave out.
6. drop by spoonfuls onto greased cookie sheets - bake 10-12 min.
7. preheat oven to 400.

This is a prune and raisin filled cookie with chopped walnuts added if desired. In a medium bowl, cream the shortening and brown sugar. Sift together the flour, cinnamon and baking soda; stir into the creamed mixture. In a large bowl, beat butter and sugars with electric mixer until creamy. Add eggs and vanilla, and beat well.