Category: cookies

perfect cut out cookies

Perfect cut out sugar cookies~ they hold their shape, stay chewy, and are delicious. You see… I have made lots of cut-outs in my time… sometimes they come out in blobs after they’re baked, and other times they hold their shape, but they are way too crisp and dry.  And I happen to…

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chocolate malt sandwich cookies

Malt. Malted milk balls. Malted milk shakes. Now transform that into a cookie. You know what I’m talking about? Even if you don’t like malt, (like the hubby) you can just make these without the malt powder and they work. Because I did that. Yeah, I’m fond of my man enough to not…

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gingerbread scones

First of all- these are soooo easy. Second? When you bake them, people will swear you live in a gingerbread house. They smell that good. Go ahead, open your windows and make the neighbors hungry. For these you will take the folloing steps: In a bowl, combine: 2c flour                                                                               1/2 tsp salt 4tbs…

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Jack o lantern brownies

I don’t always do things from scratch…. today I used a mix! Just a basic mix… in muffin pans. I rolled the warm brownies in little balls (cake would work well, also…) like I said before, all that rolled fondant will appear for Halloween! This stuff is great- it makes a ton, and…

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cocoa spiderweb bites

[print_this] This recipe came from a Cooking Light magazine, I bake them every year. The recipe is by Elizabeth Tallaferro 1 cup flour 1/3 c unsweetened cocoa powder 1/2 tsp baking soda 1/2 tsp salt 1/3 c shortening 3/4 c sugar 1 tsp vanilla 1 egg white Mix the shortening and sugar until…

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my favorite chocolate chip cookies….

 Chocolate chip cookies… just a classic. I like em chewy and gooey… thats why this recipe has both butter and shortening in it. The shortening keeps em chewy and soft. And the butter gives them that richness. I apologize for making y’all : 1) hungry 2) plump The next cookies I will be…

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salted butterscotch nut bars

I got this recipe from a little Betty Crocker cookbooklet. It’s a keeper. salty, sweet, sticky, gooey…… one stick of butter, 1 1/2 c flour, 3/4 cup light brown sugar, and 1/4tsp salt mix all that gently until it looks like this …I used a pastry blender now, press it into a 9×13″…

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banana cake bar cookie

Do ya’ll remember I had TONS of bananas from one of my trees last week? I fed the kids, the turtles, the lizards and even the dogs… and still had about a dozen or so left…. they became this. I was trying to recreate a cake from a restaurant I used to work…

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vanilla sugar tea cakes

Now, aren’t these PURDEE?! I will tell you… they took ALL DAY. No, keep reading. It took all day because I was crazy busy yesterday… and really folks… I play with my daughter a lot more than I cook or bake. We went on a nice bike ride yesterday… then waited for the…

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as promised..sugar cookies!

Ok… sorry I didn’t update as much in the keys, but the wifi was slower than molasses (mmm… cookie idea) and I had to walk from my cozy cottage to get to an area to pick it up. So my apologies… I will have to post extra this week to make it up…

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oatmeal peanut butter chip bars

This is not what we had for dinner last night, but it was dessert. We had spinach stuffed flank steak, I just didn’t want to be redundant with the spinach thing. (sorry, Popeye) For this you’ll need:   1 stick melted butter   1 1/2 c white sugar   1 c brown sugar…

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