Cinnamon sugar topped oatmeal cookies

I have not made good old fashioned oatmeal cookies in a while, so i thought it was time i did.   These use vegetable oil instead of crisco or butter.   Super easy to make and they come out pretty puffy as you can see.

Remember to scoop your flour from your flour bag into your measuring cup so you get the right amount.  Also chill the dough for a couple of hours.  And preheat your oven before baking.

  • Ingredients list
  • 1 1/2 cups oats (i used quick, you can also use rolled or old fashioned)
  • 1/2 cup sugar
  • 1/4 cup brown sugar firmly packed into measuring cup
  • 1 tsp baking soda
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 1 tsp cinnamon
  • 1 1/2 cups flour
  • 2 tsp vanilla
  • 2 eggs
  • 1/2 cup vegetable oil (any other oil would likely be fine too)

Directions- in a bowl, combine all the dry ingredients.  Mix in vanilla, eggs and oil.  Scoop out 2 tbs dough.  Sprinkle tops with cinnamon sugar.   Chill for a few hours.  When ready to bake, preheat oven to 350 degrees.  Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper.   I lined up cookies 3 to each row (they did not spread).  Bake 10 to 12 minutes, no longer.  Cool completely and store in covered container.

If you want, you could frost these too.

Combine, in a bowl, one cup powdered sugar, 1/2 tsp vanilla and 1 to 2 tbs milk. 

Peanut butter cookies stuffed with mini Mr. Goodbars

I had a bunch of extra mini mr goodbars and came up with the idea of stuffing them in peanut butter cookies.

It has been hotter than hell here the last 5 days, so i froze the dough to prevent too much spreading while baking.  

Remember to firmly pack your brown sugar into your measuring cup so you get the right amount.  Also, spoon 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 crisco
  • 1 cup peanut butter
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 1 cup brown sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 tsp vanilla
  • 1 tsp baking powder
  • 1 1/2 tsp baking soda
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 2 1/2 cups flour

In a bowl, cream crisco, peanut butter, brown sugar and sugar.  Add eggs and vanilla.   Blend in dry ingredients.   Scoop out 1/4 cups of dough. 

Divide into half. 

Place a mini Mr  goodbar on one half. 

Top with the other half

and seal edges. 

Freeze a few hours.  When ready to bake, preheat oven to 375 degrees.   Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper and stagger cookies on sheet.  

Bake 15 minutes.( No longer.)

  Cool completely.  Store in covered container. 

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

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

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

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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Payday peanut butter cookie bars topped with mini Mr. Goodbars

I wanted to go a little outside the box with incorporating candy into my treats, so i picked up some payday bars

And mini mr goodbars. 

I mixed in some cut up  paydays in a peanut butter cookie bar recipe, baked them and gently pressed in mini mr goodbars right after removing them from the oven. Perfectamundo, to paraphrase the Fonz, Arthur Fonzarelli.

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

  • Ingredients list
  • 1 cup butter, melted
  • 1 cup peanut butter
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 1 cup brown  sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 tsp vanilla
  • 2 cups flour
  • 1 tsp baking soda
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • Cut up payday bars
  • Mini mr goodbars,  unwrapped

Directions – preheat oven yo 350 degrees.  Line a 9×13 pan with parchment paper and set aside.  In a bowl, mix melted butter and peanut butter.  Blend in sugar and brown sugar.  Mix in eggs and vanilla.  Fold in dry ingredients, then cut up paydays. Evenly press into parchment lined pan.  Bake 23 to 30 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in center comes out with a few moist crumbs.  Immediately after removing from oven, gently press mini mr goodbars on top. 

Cool completely.   Cut and store in covered container.

Brookie Cookies

These are cookies for when you can’t decide if you want chocolate chip or chocolate chocolate chip.  This provides both for.   Really easy to make too!

Remember to scoop your flour from your flour bag into your measuring cup so you get the right amount.  I recommend chilling the dough for a few hours before baking, and preheat your oven before baking.

  • Ingredients list
  • 1 cup butter, softened
  • 1/2 cup crisco
  • 1 1/2 cups sugar
  • 1 tbs vanilla
  • 2 eggs
  • 3 cups all purpose flour
  • 1 cup bread flour (or you can use entirely all purpose flour)
  • 2 tbs flour
  • 1 1/2 tsp baking powder
  • 1 1/2 tsp baking soda
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 1/3 cup unsweetened baking cocoa
  • 2 cups chocolate chips

Directions – in a bowl, cream butter, crisco and sugar.  Add eggs and vanilla.  Blend in 3 cups flour, 1 cup bread flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt.  Divide dough in half and place one half  in separate bowls.  To one half, add the 2 tbs flour and 1 cup chocolate chips.  To other half, add cocoa and 1 cup chocolate chips.

Scoop out 2 tbs of chocolate chip cookie dough and 2 tbs chocolate chocolate chip cookie dough.   Roll into one large ball of dough, like below.

Chill individual doughs for 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 and store in covered container.

Chocolate s’mores cookies

What’s better than a humid 90 degree day?  Turning on your oven to bake cookies and heat your houseboat even more.   Although these have smores cookies, which are a summer staple, so perhaps that makes it all ok. 

I used chocolate graham crackers in these, but regular grahams are just fine.

These feature mini marshmallow bits.  I don’t recommend mini marshmallows because I think they would get all melty during the baking process.  If you don’t have or can’t find marshmallow bits, perhaps toast some marshmallows ans put them on top of cookies after baking.

I also used 1 cup of bread flour, but feel free to use entirely all purpose flour.

Remember to scoop your flour from your flour bag into your measuring. Up.  And chill the individual doughs before baking.

  • Ingredients list
  • 1 cup butter, softened
  • 3/4 cup sugar
  • 3/4 cup brown sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 tsp vanilla
  • 1 cup bread flour
  • 1 1/4 cups all purpose flour
  • 1 tbs cornstarch
  • 1 tsp baking powder
  • 1/2 tsp baking soda
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 1 1/4 cups crushed chocolate graham crackers
  • 1 cup milk chocolate chips
  • 1 cup marshmallow bits
  • 14 mini hershey bars, chopped

Directions- in a bowl, cream butter, sugar and brown sugar.  Add eggs and vanilla.  Blend in dry ingredients then graham cracker crumbs.    Fold in chips, bits and hershey bars.  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 11 to 13 minutes, no longer.  Cool completely.  Store in covered container

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Sabres game 4 victory treats #2 – sugar coated xl peanut butter cookies

The second treat for our game 4 win – extra large puffy peanut butter cookies rolled in sugar.   Sometimes in the playoffs, the victory treat game must be stepped up.

  • Ingredients list
  • 1 cup butter, softened
  • 1 1/2 cups sugar, firmly packed into measuring cup
  • 1/2 cup sugar
  • 1 cup peanut butter
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 tsp vanilla
  • 3 1/2 cups cake flour
  • 1 tsp baking powder
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 1 cup peanuts, finely ground
Perfectly puffy!

Directions – in a bowl, cream butter, sugar, brown sugar and peanut butter.  Add eggs and vanilla..  blend in dry ingredients then peanuts.  Scoop out 1/4 cups dough.  Roll in extra sugar.  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 14 minutes, no longer. 

Cool completely.

First playoff win in 15 years celebration bars

These are quite a concoction to honor the Sabres first playoff win in 15 years in our first playoff game in 15 years.  I wondered how nervous I would be, as I would be working in studio for Sunday night baseball on espn radio.  The answer – very.  I was extremely antsy, much like for Bills playoff games.  And for 52 minutes, I did not take a breath.  We were down 2-nothing, scored 4 unanswered goals and beat Boston 4-3 in game one.  What i loved seeing is all the videos of people inside Key Bank Center and at various places indoors and outdoors, watching.   It was just awesome.  i am not sure how far this sabres team will go, but it just feels different.

Because it was such an impressive comeback win, these treats are a doozy- chocolate chip cookie layer on the bottom, a layer of oreos, a layer of brownies, and pieces of mini hershey bars pressed into the bars immediately after taking them out of the oven.

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

  • Chocolate chip cookie layer
  • 3/4 cup butter, softened
  • 1/2 cup sugar
  • 1/2 cup brown sugar
  • 1 egg
  • 1 yolk
  • 1 1/2 cups flour
  • 1 cup chocolate chips

Directions – preheat oven to 350 degrees.  Spray a 9×13 pan with baking spray.   Place parchment paper on top of sprayed pan.  Set aside.   In a bowl, cream butter, brown sugar and sugar.  Add egg, yolk and vanilla.  Blend in flour.   Mix in chips.  Gently press into prepared pan.

Top with a layer of oreos.

  • Brownie ingredients
  • 1/2 cup butter
  • 1 cup dark chocolate chips
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • 1/2 cup flour
  • 1/4 cup unsweetened baking cocoa

Directions – in a microwave safe bowl, melt butter and chips in 45 second increments until you can stir melted.   Add sugar and eggs.  Blend in flour and cocoa.   Drop by large spoonfuls on top of oreo layer and spread evenly.

Bake 28 to 33 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in center comes out with a few moist crumbs.

Gently press Press pieces of hershey bars on top. 

Cool completely.    Store in covered container.