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Victory treats for game 4 – sabres  sugar cookies

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For our game four win in Montreal last night, which tied up the series 1-1, I present Sabres sugar cookies.  What makes them Sabres sugar cookies – the blue and yellow sugar sprinkled on top.

Last night was stressful, but the result was worth it.   A lot of penalties called.  Our guys need to be more disciplined moving forward, for sure.

These are easy to make and require no chill time.   They do use cake flour though.

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

  • Ingredients list
  • 1 cup shortening
  • 1/2 cup sugar
  • 1/2 cup powdered sugar
  • 1 tsp vanilla
  • 1/2 egg
  • 2 cups plus 3 tbs cake flour
  • 1/4 plus 1/8 tsp baking soda
  • 1/4 plus 1/8 tsp baking powder
  • 1/4 tsp salt

Directions – preheat oven to 375 degrees.  Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper.   In a bowl, cream shortening, sugar and powdered sugar.  Add 1/2 egg and vanilla.  Mix in dry ingredients.   Scoop out 1/4 cups dough, roll into balls and slightly flatten.  Stagger on prepared sheet.  Sprinkle with sugar.

Bake 10 minutes, no longer.  Cool completely and store in covered container.

Thanks for stopping by!  Go Sabres!

Frosted malted blondies with mini chocolate chips and malted frosting

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I wanted to make another recipe using my malted milk powder, so I opted for blondies with mini chocolate chips and topped with malted milk frosting.

Remember to scoop your flour from your flour bag into your measuring cup so you get the correct amount (do not pour from flour bag because that packs it in and can result in a dry blondie).  Also firmly packed your brown sugar into your measuring cup.  And preheat your oven before baking.

  • Ingredients list
  • 1/2 cup butter, softened
  • 1/4 cup crisco
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 1/2 cup brown sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 tsp vanilla
  • 1 1/2 cups flour
  • 1/2 tsp baking powder
  • 1/2 cup malted milk powder
  • 1 cup mini chips

Directions – preheat oven to 350 degrees.   Line a 9×9 pan with tin foil and spray with baking spray.   Set aside.   In a bowl, cream butter, crisco, sugar and brown sugar.  Add eggs and vanilla.  Blend in flour, baking powder and milk powder.  Stir in chips.   Spread evenly into prepared pan. 

Bake 30 to 33 minutes, until golden on top, no longer.   Cool completely.

  • Frosting ingredients
  • 1/2 cup butter, softened
  • 2-3 cups powdered sugar
  • 1/4 cup malted milk powder
  • 1 tsp vanilla
  • 2-3 tbs heavy cream

Directions – in a bowl, cream butter, milk powder and powdered sugar.  Add vanilla and heavy cream.  You may need to add more powdered sugar and /or heavy cream to get the consistency you want.  Frost bars.  

Store in covered container. 

Perfect and puffy chocolate chip cookies

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Another chocolate chip cookie recipe.  Why not?  There are so many ways you can tweak a ccc recipe.  These use an instant vanilla pudding mix (mix only, you do not make the pudding with milk). 

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

  • Ingredients list
  • 1/2 cup butter, softened
  • 1/2 cup butter flavor crisco
  • 3/4 cup brown sugar, firmly packed  into measuring cup
  • 3/4 cup sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • 2 tsp vanilla
  • 2 tbs water
  • 1 instant vanilla pudding mix
  • 3 1/2 cups flour
  • 1 1/2 tsp baking soda
  • 3.4 oz instant vanilla pudding mix
  • 2 cups chocolate chips

Directions – in a bowl, cream butter, butter crisco, brown sugar and sugar.  Add eggs and vanilla.  Blend in pudding mix, then dry ingredients.  Fold in chips. Scoop out 1/4 cups of dough.  Form tall mounds, like below.

Chill a few hours.  When ready to bake, preheat oven to 350 degrees.  Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper.  Stagger cookies on sheet.  Bake 10 to 12 minutes, no longer.

Remove from oven.  Cookies will be gushy, but will firm up.  Cool completely.

   Store in covered container.

Peanut butter cookies with crushed nutter butters and Reese hearts

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Continuing in with my trend of adding finely crushed store bought cookies in my homemade cookies, I present XL  peanut butter cookies with crushed butter butters

and Reese hearts (i had to use those up so I could buy reese’s eggs)

  • Ingredients list
  • 1 cup crisco
  • 1 cup peanut butter
  • 1 cup brown sugar, firmly packed into measuring cup
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 tsp vanilla
  • 2 1/2 cups flour (scooped from flour bag into measuring cup so it is not packed in)
  • 1 tsp baking powder
  • 1 1/2 tsp baking soda
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 15 nutter butters, finely ground
  • Reese’s hearts, cut up into cubes

Directions – in a bowl, cream crisci, peanut butter, brown sugar and sugar.  Add eggs and vanilla.  Blend in dry ingredients. Mix in ground nutter butters then cubed Reese’s.   Scoop out 1/4 cups dough. Chill a few hours.  When ready to bake, preheat oven to 350 degrees.   Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper, stagger cookies on sheet.

Bake 13 to 14 minutes, no longer.  Cool completely.  

Store in covered container.

Shamrock cutout cookie sandwiches.

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Another holiday means another opportunity to make cutout cookies to celebrate that holiday.   Ahead of St. Patrick’s day tomorrow, I made cutout shamrock cookies, using this multi shape cookie cutter that someone gave me a million years ago (I actually have 2 for some reason)

And I just happened to have green colored sugar to sprinkle on top!

Also, I only had time to bake half of these today, so the rest will be baked and brought in tomorrow to work.

  • Ingredients list
  • 1 1/3 cups crisco
  • 1 1/2 cups sugar
  • 2 tsp vanilla
  • 2 eggs
  • 3 tbs milk
  • 4 cups flour
  • 3 tsp baking powder
  • 1/2 tsp salt

Directions – in a bowl, cream crisco and sugar.  Add eggs and vanilla.  Mix in dry ingredients.  On a floured surface, roll dough to desired thickness, cut out cookies.  I chilled the cutouts overnight before baking.  When ready to bake, preheat oven to 350 degrees.  Line a cookie sheet with nonstick baking liners.  Stagger cookies on sheet.   Sprinkle colored sugar on top, if you want. 

Bake 8 minutes, no longer (trust me).  Cool completely. 

  • Frosting/filling ingredients
  • 4 tbs butter melted
  • 2-3 cups powdered sugar
  • Milk
  • 1 tsp Vanilla
  • Food coloring (opt)

Combine butter and 2 cups powdered sugar.  Add a few tbs of milk and vanilla.  Add more powdered sugar or milk to get desired consistency.  Frost,

or make sandwich cookies. 

Store in covered container.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

2 kinds of chips cookies with crushed cookie dough oreos

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On this Friday,  I present milk chocolate and semisweet chocolate chip cookies with crushed cookie dough oreos.   (I wanted to use up the oreos I had left).  These are large and puffy and spectacular!

Remember to scoop your flour from your flour bag into your measuring cup so you get the right amount.   And chill the individual doughs for a few hours before breaking.  As always, preheat your oven before baking.

  • Ingredients list
  • 1 cup butter, softened
  • 1/2 cup crisco
  • 1 1/2 cups brown sugar, firmly packed into measuring cups
  • 3/4 cup sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • 2 tsp vanilla
  • 3 3/4 cups flour
  • 2 tsp baking soda
  • 1 tsp baking powder
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 1 cup crushed cookie dough oreos
  • 1 cup milk chocolate chips
  • 1 cup semisweet chips

Directions- in a bowl, cream butter, crisco, sugar, and brown sugar.  Add eggs and vanilla.  Blend in dry ingredients, then crushed oreos.  If dough seems a little dry, add a tbs or 2 of water.  Mix in chips.  Scoop out 1/4 cups dough.  Chill a few hours. When ready to bake, preheat oven to 350 degrees.  Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper.  Stagger cookies on sheet. 

Bake 13 to 15 minutes, no longer.   Cool completely.

   Store in covered container.

Chocolate chip cookies with crushed chips ahoy

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I am a big fan of adding crushed cookies or crushed nuts to treats to take it up a notch.  These chocolate chip cookies have some finely crushed chips ahoy mixed in the cookies and sprinkled on top before baking. 

I chilled the individual mounds of dough for a few days and they stayed nice and puffy.   Remember to scoop your flour from your bag into your measuring cup so you get the right amount.  And, preheat your oven before baking

  • Ingredients list
  • 1 cup butter, softened
  • 1/2 cup crisco
  • 3/4 cup sugar
  • 11/2 cups brown sugar, firmly packed into measuring cup
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 tsp vanilla
  • 3 3/4 cups flour
  • 2 tsp baking soda
  • 1 tsp baking powder
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 2 cups finely crushed  chips ahoy
  • 1 cup chocolate chips (I used mini in these)

Directions – in a bowl, cream butter, crisco, sugar and brown sugar.  Add eggs and vanilla.  Mix in dry ingredients, then crushed chips ahoy.  Stir in mini chips.  Scoop out 1/4 cups dough. 

Roll tops and sides of individual doughs  in extra crushed chips ahoy.

Chill a few hours.  When ready to bake, preheat oven to 350 degrees.  Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper, stagger cookies on sheet. 

Bake 13 to 15 minutes, no longer.  

This is what happens when you forget to set the timer and have to keep checking the bottoms of the cookies with a spatula

Cool completely.   Store in covered container.

Valentine’s Day Cutout cookies

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With Valentine’s day approaching, I am trying to make as many different varieties of cutout cookies using my heart cookie cutters.  These use crisco in the cookies and you can leave them plain, sprinkle sugar on top before baking or frost them, after they are completely cooled,with a simple vanilla frosting.

  • 1 1/3 cups crisco
  • 1 1/2 ,cups sugar
  • 1 egg
  • 1 1/2 tbs plus 1 tsp milk
  • 2 cups flour
  • 11/2 tsp baking powder
  • 1/4 tsp salt

Directions – preheat oven to 350 degrees.  Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper.  Set aside.  in a bowl, cream crisco and sugar.  Add egg, milk and vanilla.  Blend in dry ingredients.  Sprinkle a clean, flat surface with flour. Cut out cookies and stagger  on prepared sheet. 

Bake 7 to 9 minutes, no longer.  Cool completely.  

 

Chocolate peanut butter cookies

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While trapsing through the grocery store today, I stumbled up JIF chocolate peanut butter.   So I used it in one of my peanut butter cookie recipes and topped them with melted hershey kisses.

Remember to scoop your flour from your flour bag into your measuring cup so you get the right amount.  Also, firmly packed your brown sugar into your measuring cup.  And preheat your oven before baking.

  • Ingredients list
  • 1 cup crisco
  • 1 1/2 cups chocolate peanut butter
  • 2/3 cup sugar
  • 2/3 cup brown sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • 4 tbs milk
  • 2 tsp vanilla
  • 2 cups all purpose flour
  • 1 cup bread flour
  • 2 tsp baking soda
  • 1 tsp salt

Directions- preheat oven to 375 degrees.  Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper.   In a bowl, cream crisco, chocolate peanut butter, sugar and brown sugar.  Mix in eggs, milk and vanilla.  Blend in dry ingredients.  Scoop our 1/4 cups of dough and roll tops in extra granulated sugar.  Stagger cookies on sheet.  Bake 10 minutes, no longer.  Cool completely.  Top cookies with melted hersey kisses.

Store in covered container.

NFL Sunday sunday week 16 – Traditional Christmas cut out cookies

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For my last Christmas cutout cookies recipe for this season, here are the traditional sugar cookies.  I made most of  them into cookie sandwiches so people can actually tell what they are. 

This is  a recipe from a family friend, one that brings back so many wonderful memories.   I used a traditional buttercream frosting recipe. 

Remember to scoop your flour from your flour bag into your measuring cup so you get the right amount.   Make sure you flour your surface enough to roll out the dough and sprinkle flour in your cookie cutters too.  And preheat your oven before baking.

  • Ingredients list
  • 1 1/2 cups crisco
  • 1 1/3 cups sugar
  • 4 eggs
  • 1 tbs vanilla
  • 4 cups flour
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 1 tsp baking powder

Directions – in a bowl, cream crisco and sugar.  Blend in eggs well.  Add vanilla.  Mix in dry ingredients.  You can chill the door in a covered container for a few hours if you want.   Or bake them right away.  When ready to bake, preheat oven to 350 degrees, and line a cookie sheet with parchment paper.   Flour a flat surface with flour.  Roll dough to desired thickness and cut.   Place on cookie sheet.  Bake 7 to 8 minutes, no longer.  Cool completely.

  • Buttercream frosting/filling ingredients
  • 1/2 cup butter, softened
  • 1 tsp vanilla
  • 4 cups powdered sugar (scooped from container into your measuring cup so you get the right amount)
  • Milk

In a bowl, cream butter and vanilla.  Carefully blend in powdered sugar, a cup at a time.  Add enough milk to get consistency you want.  Frost or fill sandwich cookies. 

Store in covered container.

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