Frosted Sugar cookies bars

January 23, 2026Christine Lisi Uncategorized Leave a comment

Instead of making cutout cookies, I opted for sugar cookie bars. The recipe is easy, it makes thick bars, with the texture of a fudgy brownie. A simple vanilla frosting, with unicorn graffiti sprinkles in the bars and on top of the frosting.

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

Bars ingredients list
1/2 cup butter, softened
1 cup sugar
2 eggs
1 tbs vanilla
2 1/2 cups flour
3/4 tsp salt
Unicorn graffiti

Directions – preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line an 8×8 pan with parchment paper. Set aside. In a bowl, cream butter and sugar. Add eggs and vanilla. Blend in flour and salt. Stir in unicorn graffiti. Even spread into prepared pan. Bake 15 minutes, no longer. Cool completely.

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

In a bowl, cream butter and vanilla. Blend in powdered sugar. Add enough milk to get the consistency you want. Sprinkle unicorn graffiti on top.

Store in covered container. Thanks so much for stopping by.

Halloween Cutout Sugar cookies

October 19, 2025Christine Lisi Uncategorized Leave a comment

This is the sugar cookierecipe I use for all my holiday cutout cookies – halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Valentine’s Day, Easter, football ( i know football is not a holiday but if i have cookie cutters for something, it is a holiday for me) This recipe is from a friend of my family. They bring back a lot of wonderful memories of baking with my mom when I was younger. And these were my dad’s favorite cookies and he loved the dough too!

Remember to scoop your flour from your flour bag into your measuring cup so you get the right amount. Also, preheat your oven to 350 degrees 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 – preheat oven to 350 degrees. in a bowl, cream butter and sugar. Add eggs and vanilla. Slowly blend in dry ingredients. Sprinkle flour on your countertop and roll out dough to desired thickness. Cut out cookies. Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper. Stagger cookies on sheet. Bake 8 minutes, no longer. Cool completely.

Frosting ingredients
1/2 cup butter, softened
3 cups flour
1 tsp vanilla
1 to 3 tbs heavy cream (depending on consistency you want)
Food coloring or sprinkles

In a bowl, combine ingredients. Frost cookies and sprinkle with sprinkles. Store in covered container.

Frosted funfetti cookies, Halloween style, and happy birthday Rachel!

October 18, 2025Christine Lisi Uncategorized Leave a comment

These are a request from my coworker friend Rachel for her birthday. These are funfetti cookies, Halloween style. I used these Halloween sprinkles in the cookies.

And used these on top of the frosting.

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

If you don’t have cake batter extract, you can substitute vanilla for it.

Ingredients list
1 cup butter softened
1 1/2 cups sugar
2 eggs
2 tsp cake batter extract
1 tsp vanilla extract
3 cups flour
2 tbs cornstarch
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp salt
1/4 to 1/2 cup sprinkles

Directions – in a bowl, cream butter and sugar. Add eggs and extracts. Fold in dry ingredients. Mix in sprinkles. Scoop out 1/4 cups of dough. Chill a few hours. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper. Stagger cookies on it. Bake 11 to 13 minutes. They will likely be a little gushy on top. Pop them in the fridge to firm them up.

For the frosting i added 1/4 cup homemade white chocolate powder (ground up chocolate chips, powdered milk, powdered sugar and granulated sugar). Of course, you can leave it out.

Frosting ingredients
1/2 cup butter softened
2 cups powdered sugar
2 tsp cake batter extract (or vanilla)
2 tbs heavy cream or milk

Combine and frost cookies. Sprinkle with sprinkles!

Store in covered container.

Frosted Cake Batter Cookies

April 6, 2025Christine Lisi Uncategorized Leave a comment

I am always looking for ways to tweak recipes and, while walking in the baking aisle, I noticed cake batter extract, so i added it to my flavoring collection (vanilla, almond, lemon, maple). And today, instead of making vanilla flavor cookies, I went with cake batter. Cake batter frosting too. Some are topped with sprinkles, others with mini m&ms (bc the mini m&ms bag lasts forever).

Of course if you don’t have cake batter flavoring, vanilla is just fine.

Remember to scoop your flour from your flour bag into your measuring cup so you get the right amount. I also chilled the individual doughs overnight to keep them from spreading too much.

Cookie ingredients
1 1/2 cups butter, softened
1 1/2 cups sugar
3 eggs
2 tsp cake batter extract
4 1/2 cups flour
3 tsp baking powder
1 tsp salt

Directions – in a bowl, cream butter, sugar, eggs and extract. Blend in dry ingredients. Scoop our 1/4 cups of dough. Chill, in a covered container, a few hours or overnight. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper or nonstick baking liners. Stagger on prepared sheets. Bake 13 to 15 minutes. (Bottoms will be lightly browned). Mine were a little gushy on top, so I popped them in the fridge to firm them up. Cool completely.

Frosting ingredients
1 cup butter, softened
3 cups powdered sugar (scooped from your container into your measuring cup so you get the right amount)
1 tsp cake batter extract
4 tbs milk

Directions- in a bowl, blend all ingredients well. Frost cooled cookies. Top with sprinkles or m&ms. Store in covered container. (I put mine back in fridge)

Thanks so much for stopping by today!

Funfetti cookies stuffed with golden oreos

August 4, 2024Christine Lisi Uncategorized Leave a comment

I broke out of the chocolate box with these treats – funfetti cookies stuffed with golden oreos.

Even my chocolate loving friends will enjoy this very sweet treat! They have sprinkles!

It is humid, again, so they spread way more than I prefer, so I cut them in half (my work friends would do that anyways 😀). Next time, I may freeze the individual doughs to try and prevent as much spreading.

This recipe made a lot of cookies! But is that ever a bad thing?

Remember to scoop your flour from your flour bag into your measuring cup so you get the right amount. Also freeze the individual doughs to prevent spreading, if you want. And preheat your oven before baking.

Ingredients list
1/2 cup butter, softened
1/2 cup crisco
2 cups packed brown sugar
2/3 cup sugar
2 eggs
2 tsp vanilla
3 cups flour (scooped from flour bag into measuring cup)
1/2 cup baking powder
1/4 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1 cup sprinkes
Golden oreos

Directions – in a bowl, blend butter and crisco. Add sugar and brown sugar. Mix in eggs and vanilla. Stir in dry ingredients. Fold in sprinkles. Scoop out 1 1/2 tbs dough.