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Can you believe it is that time of year again! It feels like I was just pulling out the recipe books for cookie baking, unpacking my favorite holiday mugs, and putting together a basket of Christmas stories to read by the fire. Yet here we are again…my favorite time of year! And thanks to New England Coffee I have some fun surprises in store. Just keep on reading for a tasty cookie recipe using their Mint Mocha coffee plus an AMAZING giveaway!
The years sure do fly by! Just look at New England Coffee who is celebrating 100 years of serving great coffee to extraordinary people (be sure to check out their #YouAreExtraOrinary campaign on Instagram and Facebook where they are honoring all the wonderful people who are both drinking and serving New England Coffee). After 100 years New England Coffee sure knows what they are doing. They have spent those 100 years dedicating themselves to making sure their passions for coffee matches yours. Whether you drink their classic blends, seasonal varieties or brew their single serve products, you will always enjoy exceptional taste sip after sip, cup after cup.
Just in time for the holidays, New England Coffee has released three seasonal flavors! Eggnog, Gingerbread, and Mint Mocha (used in the recipe below!) All three flavors are available in 11 oz bags at your local grocery store and the New England Coffee Shop at www.newenglandcoffee.com
This year I plan on celebrating the holidays by embracing all our favorite family traditions. I’ll also be sure to have a cup of freshly brewed New England Coffee near by while making new traditions with the extraordinary people in my life! The Eggnog coffee was a favorite especially while curled up in front of the fire reading Christmas stories. And if you are looking for a new family favorite cookie recipe then be sure to pick up a bag of New England Coffee Mint Mocha to use in these Spritz cookies!
Mint Mocha Spritz Cookies (makes about 2 dozen)
For the cookies:
1 stick softened butter
1/2 cup sugar
1 egg
1/4 tsp vanilla extract
3/4 tsp almond extract
1/2 tsp salt
1 1/4 cups flour
Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Using a stand mixer, beat together the butter, sugar, egg, vanilla and almond extract. Beat it for about 3-4 minutes; you want it to be light and fluffy. Add flour and salt and mix together on low speed until well combined.
Fill your cookie press with the dough and attach whatever disk you want to use to shape your cookies (refer to your cookie press instructions.) Use your press to shape the dough onto your parchment lined cookie sheet leaving about 1″ between each cookie.
Bake until set and just starting to turn golden around the edges, about 6-7 minutes. Let cool completely!
For the Mint Mocha Glaze:
– 1 cup semisweet chocolate chips
– 1 tsp shortening
-1 tsp corn syrup
-1 cup powdered sugar
-5 TBSP brewed New England Coffee Mint Mocha coffee
-3 candy canes, crushed
In a microwave safe bowl melt together the chocolate chips, shortening and corn syrup (about 1 minute). Stir in the powdered sugar and coffee.
Dip half of the Spritz cookies into the glaze. Put back on your parchment lined cookie sheet to set up, but before they completely harden make sure you sprinkle with your crushed candy canes!
And finally for the giveaway! New England Coffee and Keurig were kind enough to offer the opportunity for one of my readers to win this entire prize pack (yes that’s a Keurig Single Cup Coffee Brewer, a selection of New England Coffee bagged and K-Cup products, and a My K-Cup® Reusable Coffee Filter!) All you have to do is leave a comment answering this question:
“How are you planning on celebrating the holiday season with the extraordinary people in your life?”
With Love,
Jennifer
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we are planning a quiet family dinner and a movie for christmas this year
I am planning to spend the holidays on a wonderful cruise with my hubby! Can’t wait to spend Christmas in WARM weather for once! 🙂
I’m planning on baking cookies, lots of shopping together, holiday movies snuggled on the couch and taking more pictures than necessary with my sweet family.
We have a whole excursion to get trees complete with a tailgate after, cookie baking (I may add these to the mix. They look delicious) finishing off with an amazing 7 fish dinner at my Mom’s (Italian Christmas Eve thing).
Cookies are my favorite snacks! I am going to try baking these cookies for the holiday. I love easy and simple baking recipes. Thanks babe!
We always take a visit to the Christmas tree farm. ❤️❤️
We watch White Christmas every Christmas Eve. ❤️
Nothing special planned, just roasting chestnuts by the fire and spending time together. 🙂
Yes I plan on spending it will all my family, partner & friends! I love the holidays so much joy & memories to be made.
I plan on drinking hot chocolate/coffee while watching christmas movies and baking cookies with my family.
I’m planning on creating some new traditions for the hubs and I, baking lots of cookies (probably some of yours mentioned above!!) and enjoying family time! So excited!
I plan on celebrating the holiday with all my extraordinary family and friends! I wouldn’t want it any other way. Kjustice47@gmail.com
We are excited to spend our first Christmas as a family of four with family near and far!!! Good food, conversation and presents are all a part of the fun!
I plan on doing some traveling with my husband.
I am planning on celebrating the holiday season with the extraordinary people in my life by spending lots of quality time together & baking/cooking together!
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I will be celebrating with my whole family by having a nice dinner
I plan on spending the holiday being reunited with my family! I haven’t seen them in 4 months and cannot wait to cook meals together, enjoy hot chocolate and tea by the fire while watching a movie, and just be in their company! Happy holidays 🙂
Jennifer those cookies look absolutely delicious. You are my choice for this week’s Over the Moon Featured Blogger. Come back between Sunday and Thursday evenings and grab your Featured Blogger badge. Congratulations and thanks for partying with us.
It looks so delicious, I’m going to die! Posts like this make me want to cry because I can’t eat gluten (doctor’s orders!)… Maybe someday you can make a gluten free version 🙂
I will be spending time with my church family and then my family at my house. Everyone all comes together for the holidays. It’s my favorite part!
We usually spend the holidays with family and friends, however, we just moved across country away from our loved ones. So, we’ll be celebrating this holiday season by making new memories together in San Francisco!
We are spending time at home this holiday. The kids are helping me cook.
My seven year old daughter will wake up to Santa gifts Christmas Day and then around lunch time, we all head over to my mother in law’s home to spend the rest of the day cooking, eating and relaxing 🙂
WE CELEBRATE BY TAKING PICTURES, BAKING AND WATCHING MOVIES.
we are celebrating with books and cookies and crafts! each day of advent we open a book and the next day is a theme day around that book with food and crafts and fun and togetherness. it has really been awesome and we’re only 11 days in!
May I ask when this giveaway ends or ended?