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Lemon blondie bars with Lemon glaze

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Another lemon treat, this time, lemon blondies.   Made in an 8×8 pan, with lemon glaze.   Tangy, yet sweet.  Very soft too!

Remember to scoop your flour from your flour bag so you get the right amount.  Also, Preheat your oven before baking.

  • Ingredients list
  • 1/2 cup butter, softened
  • 3/4 cup sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 tbs lemon extract
  • 1/4 cup lemon juice
  • 1 cup flour
  • 1/2 tsp baking powder
  • 1/2 tsp salt

Directions  – preheat oven to 350 degrees.  Line an 8×8 pan with parchment paper or tin foil and spray with pam.  Set aside.  In a bowl, cream butter and sugar.  Add eggs and extract.  Mix in dry ingredients amd lemon juice.  Evenly spread into prepared pan.  Bake 18 to 20 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in center comes out with a few moist crumbs.  Cool completely.

  • Lemon glaze ingredients
  • 1 1/2 cups powdered sugar
  • 2 tbs lemon juice
  • Enough water to get consistency you want.

Ice blondies.  Store in covered container.

Tweaked tollhouse cookies

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The tollhouse cookies recipe for me, like for most people, was the first ever chocolate chip cookie recipe made.  Lots of great memories of making them with my mom,  but the cookies always came out super flat, which isn’t how I want my cookies to turn out.  So I took the classic recipe on the nestle chocolate chips bag and tweaked it.  These are the result.  Not as puffy as I want,  but not flat like pancakes.  Perhaps I add a little more flour next time. 

I used a combo of all purpose and bread flour in these.  If you do entirely all purpose flour, I would go with 3 cups.  And if dough seems dry before adding chocolate chips, add a tbs or 2 of water.  Also, scoop your flour from your flour bag into your measuring cup so you get the right amount. 

Also freeze the individual doughs before baking and bake these directly from the freezer.   Also preheat your ovem to 325 degrees before baking. 

  • Ingredients list
  • 3/4 cup butter, melted and cooled at room temp until it solidifies
  • 1 cup brown sugar
  • 1/2 cup sugar
  • 1 egg
  • 1 egg yolk
  • 1 tbs vanilla
  • 2 cups all purpose flour
  • 2/3 cup bread flour
  • 1 tsp baking soda
  • 1 tbs cornstarch
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 1 1/2 cups chocolate chips (i used a mix of semisweet, milk and white)

Directions – in a bowl, cream butter, sugar and brown sugar.  Add egg, yolk and vanilla.   Mix in dry ingredients.  Fold in chips.  Scoop out 1/4 cups dough.  Form into tall cylinders. 

Chill or freeze several hours.  When ready to bake, preheat oven to 325 degrees.  Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper.   Stagger cookies on sheet. 

Bake 12 to 15 minutes. 

Tops will be gushy, but bottoms will be golden brown.  I let these cool and then popped them in the fridge to firm up. 

Store in covered container.

Smashed chocolate sugar cookies with 3 different kinds of frosting

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Frosting 1 -peanut butter with melted hershey bars (and orange m&ms

Yesterday, I made smashed lemon sugar cookies with lemon frosting.  So today, I made a chocolate version with 3 types of frosting – peanut butter, chocolate chip cookie dough and chocolate.  I wanted to frost some with vanilla frosting, but I made too much chocolate frosting, so i just used that.

Remember to scoop your flour from your flour bag into your measuring cup so you get the right amount.  Chill your individual doughs before baking and preheat your oven before baking.

  • Ingredients list
  • 1/2 cup butter
  • 1/2 cup vegetable oil
  • 1 cup greek yogurt
  • 1 tsp vanilla
  • 3/4 cup baking cocoa
  • 3 1/2 cups flour
  • 1 tsp baking powder
  • 1 tsp salt

Directions – in a bowl, cream butter, oil and sugar.  Add greek yogurt and vanilla.  Blend in dry ingredients.   Scoop out 1/4 cups dough and roll into balls.  Spray  the bottom of a glass with pam and dip im sugar.  Lightly flatten cookies.  Chill several hours.   Preheat oven to 350 degrees.   Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper.  Stagger cookies on sheet.  Bake 10 to 12 minutes, no longer.  Cool completely.

  • Frosting ingredients
  • 1/3 cup butter, softened
  • 2 cups powdered sugar
  • 1/3 cup baking cocoa
  • 1/4 cup heaby cream
  • 1 tsp vanilla

Directions – in a bowl, cream butter and powdered sugar.  Blend in remaining ingredients.   Frost cookies. 

Frosting 3 – chocolate chip cookie dough with melted hershey bars

Store in covered container

Smashed lemon sugar cookies with lemon frosting

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Everyone seems to love lemon.  So, I decided to make lemon cookies with lemon frosting.   (I have several other flavors of this recipe – chocolate, regular sugar cookie, gingerbread, oatmeal chocolate chip).   These are fun because after scooping out dough and rolling each one into a ball, I gently smash it with the bottom of a glass dipped in sugar.  Then I bake and frost them after they are cooled.   These should not bake longer than 12 minutes.  They seem underbaked, but they should be that way.  Pop them in the fridge to cool.  And after frosting then, chill them again.

Scoop out your flour into the measuring cups so you get the right amount.  chill the individual doughs for several hours before baking.  And preheat your oven before baking.

Also, I had something very cool happen today..  while running errands, i was wearing my Bills hat that Rob designed for me and someone yelled “go Bills!”  That was pretty awesome!

  • Ingredients list
  • 1/2 cup butter, softened
  • 1/2 cup vegetable oil
  • 1 1/2 cups sugar
  • 1 cup greek yogurt
  • 3 tbs lemon juice
  • 3 tsp lemon extract
  • 4 1/2 cups flour
  • 1 tsp baking powder
  • 1 tsp salt

Directions – in a bowl, cream butter, sugar and oil.  Blend in green yogurt,  lemon juice and extract.  Blend in dry ingredients.   Scoop put 1/4 cups dough.  Spray the bottom of a glass with pam and dip in sugar.  Slighly flatten cookies.  Chill several hours.  Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper and stagger cookies on sheet.  Preheat oven to 350 degrees.  Bake cookies 10 to 12 minutes, no longer. Cool completely.

  • Lemon frosting
  • 1/4 cup butter, softened
  • 1 1/2 to 1 3/4 cups powdered sugar
  • 2 tbs lemon juice
  • 1 to 2 tbs milk

Directions- in a bowl, combine ingredients and frost cookies.

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Mini chip snowball cookies (Italian version)

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The mini chip snowball cookies I make are a big hit with family and friends and so easy to make.  I made some for my youngest goddaughter Sara’s high school graduation Friday and for her grad party yesterday.  Rob wished he had brought home one, so i whipped up another batch today.  These are an Italian wedding cake cookies version, instead of using powdered sugar, they use regular granulated sugar.  It does make them a little more tender and fragile, but Rob deemed them still very good!

I recommend scooping your flour from your flour bag into your measuring cup so you get the right amount.  Also chill (or freeze) the individual doughs for  a few hours before baking, preheat your oven before baking.  And, sprinkle powdered sugar on before baking, right after they come out of the oven and after they cool for 3 times the sweetness!

  • Ingredients list
  • 1 cup butter, softened
  • 1/2 cup sugar
  • 1 tbs vanilla
  • 2 cups flour
  • 1 cup mini chocolate chips
  • Powdered sugar

Directions – in a bowl, cream butter, sugar and vanilla.  Blend in flour, then mini chips.   Scoop our 2 tbs of dough, roll into a ball then thick disc.   Dip each side in powdered sugar.   Chill or freeze doughs a few hours.  When ready to bake, preheat oven to 320 degrees.   Line a cookie sheet with a nonstick baking liner or parchment paper.   Place cookies on sheet (i fit 3 to a row, these did spread a little because I only chilled them an hour).   Bake  18 to 22 minutes (bottoms will be light golden).    Remove from oven and immediately sprinkle with powdered sugar. 

Cool completely.   Sprinkle with more powdered sugar and store in covered container.

Chocolate chip cookies to celebrate a perfect summer day – Bristol farms version

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Today was breathtakingly beautiful here- around 80 degrees,absolutely no humidity, plenty of sunshine, warm but not too warm.   So i decided to whip up a batch of chocolate chip cookies.  This is one of more than a dozen chocolate chip cookies recipes, so here is another one for you to try.

Remember to scoop your flour from your flour bag into your measuring cup so you get the right amount.  After scooping out 1/4 cups of dough, freeze them for an hour or so, and preheat your oven before baking.  

  • Ingredients list
  • 1 cup butter, softened
  • 3/4 cup brown sugar,  firmly packed into measuring cup
  • 1/2 cup sugar
  • 1 egg
  • 2 tsp vanilla
  • 2 1/2 cups flour
  • 1 tsp baking soda
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 2 cups chocolate chips

Directions – in a bowl, cream butter, sugar and brown sugar.  Add egg and vanilla.  Blend in dry ingredients.   Mix in chips.  Scoop our 1/4 cups of dough and freeze and hour or two.  When ready to bake, preheat oven to 375 degrees.  Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper and stagger cookies on sheet. 

Bake 12 minutes, no longer.  (edges will be golden brown)

Cool completely.  

Store in covered container

Frosted Cake mix/Brownie mix cookies

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I used the same recipe for 2 different kinds of cookies.  One used a brownie mix,

the other a french vanilla cake mix. 

And I frosted them. 

A two-fer tuesday treat.

I put funfetti sprinkles in the vanilla ones.

  And I forgot to add chips to the chocolate ones! Hence, the frosting.

  • Ingredients list
  • 1 cake or brownie mix
  • 1/4 cup flour
  • 2 eggs
  • 1/4 cup vegetable oil
  • Chocolate chips (1/2 cup) or sprinkles

Directions  – preheat oven to 350 degrees.  Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper.   combine ingredients in a bowl.  Scoop out 1/4 cups of dough. 

stagger on prepared sheet. 

Bake 12 to 14 minutes, no longer.

  • Frosting ingredients
  • 1/4 cup butter
  • 1 1/2 cups powdered sugar
  • 1 tsp vanilla
  • 2 to 4 tbs heavy cream

Directions – Blend ingredients in a bowl and frost cookies.

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Frosted Lemon cake mix bars

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The sun is out, so i thought i would make some lemon cake mix bars.   Super easy, just a few ingredients, olus they are frosted!

  • Ingredients list
  • 2 lemon cake mixes
  • 4 eggs
  • 1 1/3 cups mayo or miracle whip (i used a light kind)
  • 3 tbs lemon juice

Directions – preheat oven to 350 degrees.  Line a 9×13 pan with tin foil and spray with baking spray.  Set aside.  In a bowl, combine cake mixes, mayo eggs and lemon juice.  Evenly spread into prepared pan.  Bake 25 to 30 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in center comes out with a few moist crumbs.  Cool completely.  

I couldn’t resist and put a tiny bit of frosting on the warm bars.  I find it makes treats even sweeter!

  • Frosting ingredients
  • 1/2 cup butter, softened
  • 3 to 4 cups powdered sugar
  • 6 tbs lemon juice

In a bowl, using a hand mixer, blend well.  Frost bars and store in covered container. 

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