Ingredients
Directions – preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spray donut pan w non-stick baking spray. Scoop batter into a large Ziploc bag. Cut out a small part of a corner of bag and squeeze dough into donut pan. Fill each 2/3 full. Bake 10 to 13 minutes.
The holidays are here and thus begins my holiday baking season. I also need to bake on NFL game day to ensure a Bills win. Cutout cookies are my favorite and although my decorating skills are subpar at best, people enjoy what I bake. Recently i found new extracts , like cookies n cream and chocolate, so i bought some. I used the cookies n cream first. I just basically took a sugar cookie recipe and instead of using vanilla, I used the cookies n cream. I also added crushed dark chocolate Oreos. I topped them with a homemade oreo filling and melted chocolate chips. Thanksgiving is Thursday, so I used my turkey, pumpkin, football and football helmet cookie cutters. 
Cookie ingredients
Directions – cream butter, cream cheese and sugar. Add egg and extract. Fold in 2 1/2 cups flour and salt. Add more flour if dough seems too sticky., cover and chill overnight in fridge. Preheat oven to 350. Roll and cut. Stagger on cookie sheet lined with nonstick baking liners.
Bake 9 minutes. (I made thick cookies). Cool completely.Oreo cookie filling ingredients
Directions – cream shortening, sugar, and powdered sugar. Add vanilla and water. You can add more powderd sugar or water to get the consistency you want. Fold in Oreos., place a blob on top of each cookie. 
Top with melted chocolate. (I microwaved 2 cups of,chocolate chips w 1 tbs shortening in 30 second increments until I could stir mixture smooth.)
, store in covered container.
I wanted something different and simple to make, and I had some oreos that are expiring soon so I thought of making some pies.
I figure mini pies would be easiest to eat, so I used cupcake liners. Some have a peanut butter cup filling with a milk chocolate topping, others have caramel with a dark chocolate topping. I am a little concerned the caramel ones may be a little gushy, but I am hoping some time in the freezer will help. Maybe people at work will still eat them 🙂
Oreo crust ingredients
Combine and press into cupcake liners that have been sprayed with butter spray. Freeze 10 minutes.
Peanut butter topping
Directions – in a microwave safe bowl, melt butter, peanut butter and brown sugar. Add powdered sugar. Add a tbs or two of milk if you think it is too dry. Press a tbs or two on top of crust.
Top with melted milk chocolate.
Store in covered container.
Caramel topping ingredients
Cook and stir brown sugar and butter over low-medium heat, until it begins,to bubble. Cook and stir 1 minute. Remove from heat. Add cream. Stir smooth. Cool 15 minutes. Pour a tbs or 2 over crust in cupcake liners.
Freeze 10 minutes. Top with melted chocolate.
Store in covered container in fridge
My beloved Buffalo Bills have 3 losses this season. There are only 3 Sundays i have not baked. So clearly, there is a correlation between a Buffalo win and my baking. I can not be responsible for another loss, so even though I am exhausted, I made a treat for tomorrow – no bake peanut butter bars. They are usually made with crushed Graham crackers, but I opted for Ritz crackers.
You could also probably use chocolate graham crackers or nilla wafers or a similar cookie too. I have 3 huge bags of nestle chocolate chips, so I used that for my topping. #GOBILLS!
Bar ingredients
Directions –melt butter and peanut butter in microwave for 30 seconds. Stir smooth. Add remaining ingredients. Press into 8×8 or 9×9 pan lined with foil and sprayed with cooking spray.
Topping – microwave 2 cups chocolate chips and 1 tbs shortening for 45 seconds. Stir smooth. (You may need to do another 20 seconds). Pour on top and smooth out.
Put in fridge for an hour. Cut. Store in covered container.
A nice little fall dessert – carrot cake, pumpkin cookies. I added some chocolate chips because I have 3 huuuuuge bags of nestle chips (thanks to Bjs, which keeps sending me baking coupons. You should see all the flour, sugar, and powdered sugar I have too). This is simple – I used a carrot cake mix, some canned pumpkin (not the pumpkin pie filling). You probably could use a white or yellow or spice cake mix too. I cheated on the frosting and used a can that I bought at walmart (time crunch today).
Ingredients
Directions – combine cake mix, puree, egg and butter. Fold in chips. Cover and chill at least a few hours. Preheat oven to 350. On a baking sheet lined with nonstick baking liners, ccoop out 1/4 cups of dough and stagger them on sheet. Bake 12 to 15 minutes. They will be lightly golden on bottom. They may be seem a little undercooked but will continue to cook on sheet once removed from oven.
Let cool. Frost with cream cheese or vanilla frosting.
Store in covered container.
I was anticipating having a ton of Halloween candy left over and what I would bake with it. We had over 300 candies – Reese’s pb cups,snickers, Hershey bars, smarties and charms blow pops (the last two items were for kids with food allergies). We had 3 pb cups leftover. We must have had 125 to 150 kids. Each got a piece of chocolate candy and a smarties or a sucker. I mean, I can’t do anything with a sucker or smarties package, so they needed to be given out. I think my favorite costume was a little Ghostbusters. There were also 2 Ralph the Rex kids, and to watch them try to walk was hilarious. Gracie did great. I gave out candy and Rob held her by the collar. All the kids loved her, except one little girl,who ran off the porch,when Gracie ran to the door and sat (she did not bark)
This treat combines a cake mix and cookie mix and is frosted with a texas sheet cake frosting and a few pieces have some cut up pb cups. You can use any flavor cake mix and any flavor cookie mix.
Ingredients
Directions
Preheat oven to 350. Mix cake mix, cookie mix, eggs, melted butter and vanilla. Press into 9×13 pan sprayes with baking spray. I used this wilton’s spray and it is awesome!
My other sprays were letting me down with cakes and brownies sticking to the pan. This wilton’s spray rocks! Press dough into prepared pan.
Bake 22 to 27 minutes. After bars are done, immediately start making the frosting.
Ingredients
Directions – melt butter. Add cocoa and 1 tbs milk. Cook and stir and bring to a boil. Remove from heat. Add powdered sugar and remaining 3 tbs of milk. Pour over warm bars. Top with cut up candy or crushed cookies. Frosting should be set after an hour.
Cut and store in covered container.
Halloween is less than a week away! I believe we have over 200 candy bars and I am nervous that may not be enough! So I probably in a panic, will buy at least another 2 bags. I can always bake with some of the leftovers, right? In addition to Reeses on cups, Hershey bars and snickers, we also have gluten free and peanut free options – and charms blow pops!
Today’s treat is another orange colored cookie ode to Halloween – orange velvet cookies. Basically I tweaked a red velvet cookie recipe and colored it orange and topped each with orange frosting. This recipe makes a TON of cookies, so you might want to cut it in half
Ingredients –
Directions – cream butter, oil, sugar and powdered sugar. Add water and eggs. Mix in food coloring. Fold in dry ingredients. Scoop out 2 tbs of dough and roll into balls, then roll in sugar. Slightly flatten. Chill a few hours or overnight. Preheat oven to 350. Stagger on cookie sheet lined with nonstick baking liners. Bake 8 to 10 minutes. They will be a little mushy on top,and light golden on bottom.
Cool on sheet 10 minutes. Cool completely.
Frosting ingredients
Directions
Cream butter and 3 cups powdered sugar. Add milk and vanilla. Blend in food coloring. You may need more powdered sugar or milk, depending on the consistency you want.
Frost cookies and store in covered container.
What’s better than a chocolate chip cookie? A giant chocolate chip cookie – big, puffy and soft (and a little gushy, if it is still warm). These use melted butter and need to be refrigerated for at least a couple of hours in order to be puffy!
One note on preheating your oven. I found out for our gas stove to get to the right temperature, it takes 20 minutes from when the oven is turned on. So I set the timer and then put cookies in 20 minutes later. A tech from LG told me after he came out to check the stove and hear me vent my frustrations that our new stove (in 2018) was not baking correctly. Stanley told me the 20 minute tip and he is right. That needs to be in the owners manual!
Ingredients
Directions
Mix butter, sugar and brown sugar. Add eggs and vanilla. Stir in baking soda, salt and cornstarch. Fold in flour. Mix in chips. Scoop out 1/4 cup of dough for each cookie and form into mounds. Chill at least 3 hours, preferably overnight. Preheat oven to 350. Stagger on a cookie sheet that has been lined with nonstick baking liners. Bake 10 to 13 minutes. There will be light golden patches on top. Bottoms of cookies will be a light golden brown. They may seem a little mushy, but will firm up. Cool on sheet 10 minutes.
Cool completely.
Store in covered container.
Chocolate chip cookies have to be one of the treats I receive the most requests for (which would explain why I have 3 bags of the BJ’s megasize bags of chocolate chips at my house at any given time. And even when I don’t need them, I buy them because BJ’s keeps sending me coupons). So I like to have several recipes in my “rotation” so I am not making the exact same cookies over and over. These cookies are a solid addition, sort of like when the Yankees added Mike Mussina in 2001. 🙂
* Note – These use cream of tartar, as well as powdered sugar in place of brown sugar and swaps out some butter for vegetable oil. I also chilled the dough for a few hours because I want puffy, large cookies. Flat cookies annoy me, as do small cookies.
*Note #2- remember to scoop flour from it’s container into your measuring cup using a large spoon or scoop, so you get the correct amount. Do the same with the powdered sugar.
Ingredients
Directions
Cream butter, oil, sugar and powdered sugar. Add egg and vanilla. Fold in dry ingredients. Blend in chips. Using a large cookie scoop or 1/4 cup measuring cup, scoop out mounds of dough, piled high. Chill for a few hours. Preheat oven to 350. Stagger on a cookie sheet lined with parchment paper or non stick baking liners. Bake 10 to 12 minutes. (Bottoms of cookies will be lightly golden). Let sit on cookie sheet ten minutes. Remove and Cool completely.
Store in covered container.
I love fall! The baking part, not so much the 35 degree mornings and dreading the impending winter. Right now, I am watching game 2, Yankees-Twins ALDS. My husband is at the game with a friend. I could never make it through a night MLB playoff game. I would be too cold!!! I am also watching the Sabres home opener, which is pretty cool. They are celebrating their 50th season and tonight is captains night, so many captains throughout the team’s history are there. I have made these pumpkin cookies, so the the house smells amazing, gracie is resting/sleeping on her bed,
and I am watching 2 of my 3 favorite teams play, so all is well. These cookies are part of the popular swig cookies,which I believe originated in Utah.
Cookie ingredients
Directions
Cream butter, oil, powdered sugar and sugar. Add egg, pumpkin and water. Fold in dry ingredients. Scoop 2 tbs of dough and roll into mounds. Chill a few hours. Preheat oven to 350. Bake 9 to 11 minutes. Cool.
Frost with your favorite vanilla or cream cheese frosting. (I colored mine orange)
Store in covered containee.
cookies by christine 