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Lemon cookies with crushed lemon oreos and lemon frosting

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For Sabres game night and MLB opening night, I made 2 treats – lemon frosted lemon brownies wuth crushed lemon oreos…and these lemon cookies with crushed lemon oreos and lemon frosted I am a huge fan of adding crushed cookies to cookie dough…. so when I saw these lemon oreos, I bought them and knew I could add them to a  lemon cookies recipe. 

I used a mix of cake flour and all purpose flour in these, but you can use entirely all purpose flour if you want.

Remember to scoop your flour from your flour bag into your measuring cup so you get the right amount.  Chill the dough a few hours before baking.  And, preheat your oven before baking

  • Ingredients list
  • 1 cup butter, softened
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 2/3 cup brown sugar,  firmly packed into measuring cup
  • 1 egg yolk
  • 1 egg
  • 1 1/2 tsp lemon extract
  • 2 tbs lemon juice (I used bottled)
  • 2 1/4 cups all purpose flour
  • 1 cup cake flour
  • 1 tbs cornstarch
  • 3/4 tsp baking soda
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 16 lemon oreos, finely crushed

Directions – in a bowl, cream butter, sugar and brown sugar.  Add egg, yolk, extract and lemon juice.  Blend in dry ingredients.   Mix in crushed oreos.   If dough seems a little dry, add a tbs or 2 of water.   Evenly divide dough into 10 tall mounds. 

Chill a few hours.  When ready to bake, preheat oven to 400 degrees.  Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper.   Stagger cookies on sheet.

Bake 9 to 11 minutes, no longer.   Cool completely. 

If you want, you can frost these.  Store in covered container. 

  • Frosting ingredients list
  • 1 1/2 cups powdered sugar
  • 2 tbs lemon juice

Combine these ingredients in a bowl.  If frosting seems too thick, you could add a tsp or 2 of water. Frost cookies. 

Store in covered container

Blondies with chocolate chips

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These are a request from my goddaughter Sara.  Blondies with chocolate chips.  She has the same taste in treats that rob does – chocolate chip cookies, blondies and brownies.

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

  • Ingredients list
  • 1 cup vegetable oil
  • 3 tbs water
  • 1 cup brown sugar, firmly packed into measuring cup
  • 1/2 cup sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 tsp vanilla
  • 2 1/2 cups flour
  • 1 tsp baking soda
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 2 cups chocolate chips

Directions – preheat oven to 350 degrees.  line a 9×13 pan with parchment paper. Set aside.  In a bowl, mix oil, brown sugar and sugar.   Add eggs, vanilla and water.  Fold in dry ingredients.   Mix in 1 cup chips. Evenly spread dough into pan.   Sprinkle remaining chips on top and gently press down.  Bake 18 minutes, no longer.  Cool completely.   Store in covered container

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Frosted chocolate sugar cookie bars

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These were a request from one of my goddaughter, Lyndsey.  A chocolate sugar cookie dough, with chocolate chips, in bar form and frosted with vanilla frosting.

Remember to scoop your flour from your flour bag into your measuring cup.  Same goes for the powdered sugar.

  • Ingredients list
  • 1 1/2 cups butter, softened
  • 3/4 cup sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • 3 tbs water
  • 1 tsp chocolate extract
  • 3 cups flour
  • 1/2 cup unsweetened baking cocoa
  • 1 cup powdered sugar
  • 2 tbs cornstarch
  • 1 1/2 tsp baking powder
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 1 cup chocolate chips

Directions – preheat oven to 350 degrees.  Line a 9×13 pan with parchment paper and set aside.  In a bowl, cream butter and sugar.  Add eggs, water and extract.  Mix in dry ingredients, then chips.  For this next step, I moistened my hands.   Evely press dough into prepared pan.  Bake 18 minutes, no longer.  Cool completely.

  • Frosting list
  • 1/2 cup butter
  • 4 cups powdered sugar
  • 1 tsp vanilla
  • Milk

Directions – in a bowl, cream butter and powdered sugar.  Add vanilla and enough milk to get the consistency you want.  Frost bars.  Store in covered container.

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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.

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Frosted oatmeal cookie bars

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I didn’t have time to make oatmeal cookies, so I made them in bar form.   And I frosted them with a simple vanilla frosting.  Perfect for Sabres game day and our ESPN Radio broadcast of the Big 12 title game tonight.

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 butter, melted
  • 2 cups brown sugar, firmly packed into measuring cup
  • 1/4 cup molasses
  • 1 tsp vanilla
  • 2 eggs
  • 2 cups quick oats
  • 1 tsp cinnamon
  • 1 tsp baking powder
  • 1 1/2 cups flour

Directions – preheat oven to 350 degrees.  Line a 10×15 pan with tin foil and spray with pam. Set aside. In a bowl, mix butter and brown sugar.  Add molasses and vanilla.  Mix in eggs.  Stir in remaining ingredients.   Evenly press into prepared pan (I moistened my hands with water to do this).  Bake 20 to 24 minutes, no longer.  Cool completely.

  • Frosting ingredients list
  • 1 1/2 cups butter
  • 3 to 4 cups powdered sugar
  • Heavy cream or milk (enough to get the consistency you want)
  • 1 tsp vanilla

Directions- combine ingredients in a bowl.  Frost bars.

Cut and store in covered container

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Go Sabres!

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.

Melted butter sugar cookies

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I needed to bake something for my non chocolate loving,  non peanut butter loving friends.  So a sugar cookie is perfect.  Plus everyone loves a sugar cookie.  With or without frosting.

  • Ingredients list
  • 1/2 cup butter, melted
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 1 egg
  • 2 tsp vanilla
  • 1 1/2 cups flour
  • 1 cup bread flour
  • 1/2 tsp baking powder
  • 1/2 tsp salt

Directions – in a bowl, mix sugar and melted butter.  Add egg and vanilla.  Blend in dry ingredients.    If dough seems too dry, add a tbs or two.  Scoop out 3 tbs of dough,  roll into balls then in extra sugar. Chill a few hours.    Preheat oven to 350 degrees.  Bake 7 to 9 minutes.  Cool completely.

  • Frosting ingredients
  • 1/4 cup butter, softened
  • 1 1/2 cups powdered sugar
  • 1 tsp vanilla milk

Frost and 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.

Peanut butter cookie mix /cake mix bars with Reese’s hearts

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I need to use up my Reese’s hearts so I can buy the Reese’s eggs, so I decided to use a peanut butter cookie mix,

a yellow cake mix,

some eggs, melted butter and one cup peanut butter.  Tossed in about 20  of these and made bars.

  • Ingredients list
  • 1 peanut butter cookie mix
  • 1 yellow cake mix
  • 3 eggs
  • 1 cup butter, melted
  • 1 cup peanut butter
  • Reese’s hearts, chopped into large pieces

Directions – preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line a 9×13 pan with tin foil and spray with baking spray.  Set aside.  In a bowl, mix cake and cookie mixes together.  Add eggs and melted butter.  Blend in peanut butter.  Mix in Reese’s hearts.   Evenly spread into prepared pan.   Gently press extra Reese’s hearts on top. 

Bake 19 to 24 minutes (edges will be golden).  Cool completely.   Cut into squares and store in covered container.

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Melted butter, no chill sugar cookies

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I wanted to bake a treat for my non peanut butter, non chocolate loving work friends.  And I needed to make them quickly after running errands, so I opted for sugar cookies using melted butter.  The dough does not need chilling.  The cookies come out nice and soft and thick.

I used a combo of all purpose flour and bread flour.  You can entirely use all purpose flour.  Scoop your flour from your flour bag into your measuring cup so you get the right amount.  Also preheat your oven before baking.

  • Ingredients list
  • 1/2 cup butter, melted
  • 3/4 cup sugar
  • 1 egg yolk
  • 2 tsp vanilla
  • 3/4 cup plus 2 tbs flour
  • 1/4 cup bread flour
  • 1/2 tbs cornstarch
  • 1/4 tsp baking powder
  • 1/4 tsp salt

Directions – preheat oven to 350 degrees.  Line a cookie sheet with nonstick baking liners.  In a bowl, mix melted butter and sugar.  Blend in yolk and vanilla.  Stir in dry ingredients.  Scoop out 1/4 cups of dough.  Roll into balls and slightly flatten.  Stagger on prepared cookie sheet.  Sprinkle tops with extra sugar.  Bake 11 to 14 minutes, no longer.  (Bottoms will be light golden).  Cool completely.  Frost with a simple vanilla frosting, if desired.

  • Frosting ingredients
  • 2 tbs butter, melted
  • 2 cups powdered sugar
  • 1 tsp vanilla
  • Heavy cream or milk

In a bowl, combine butter, powdered sugar and vanilla.  Add enough milk or cream to get the consistency you want.  Frost cookies.  Store in covered container.