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Baby food carrot cake cookies with mini chocolate chips and cream cheese frosting

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For Sabres victory treats, Rob chose carrot cake cookies with mini chocolate chips and cream cheese frosting.  Grating carrots is not my favorite thing, so I used baby food carrots!

I used a combo of bread flour and all purpose flour.  You can use entirely all purpose flour.  I ran out of time to chill the dough, so they spread more than I prefer.   I recommend chilly individual mounds of dough for a few hours before baking.  Also preheat your oven before baking.

  • Ingredients list
  • 3/4 cup shortening
  • 1 1/2 cups sugar
  • 1/4 cup brown sugar, firmly packed into measuring cup
  • 1 egg
  • 1 tbs vanilla
  • 2, 4 oz jars carrot baby food
  • 1 cup all purpose flour
  • 1 cup bread flour
  • 1 1/2 tsp baking powder
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 1 1/2 tsp cinnamon
  • 1/4 tsp nutmeg
  • 1 cup mini chocolate chips

Directions – in a bowl, cream crisco, sugar and brown sugar.  Add egg and vanilla.  Blend in dry ingredients then baby food.  Stir in chips.  Evenly divide into 12 doughs.  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 12 minutes, no longer.

Cool completely.  

  • Frosting ingredients
  • 6 oz cream cheese, softened
  • 3/4 cup butter, softened
  • 4 cups powdered sugar
  • 1 tsp vanilla

Directions – in a bowl, cream butter and cream sugar.  Blend in powdered sugar, slowly.  Add vanilla.  Frost cookies. 

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.

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

Brown butter triple chip cookies

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Triple chip cookies, starring brown butter and semisweet, milk chocolate and white chocolate chips.  I didn’t chill these as long as I usually do, so they are a little flatter than i prefer.  But rob said they are good, so that works for me!

I used a combo of bread and all purpose flour for these.  You can use entire all purpose flour, but either way,  remember to scoop it from the flour bag into your measuring cup so you get the right amount.

Chill the scooped out dough for a few hours and preheat the oven before baking.

  • Ingredients list
  • 1 1/4 cups butter, browned and cooled until it solidifies (might take an hour or so for that to happen)
  • 1 1/2 cups brown sugar, firmly packed into measuring cups
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 tsp vanilla
  • 2 tbs water
  • 1 cup bread flour
  • 1 2/3 cups all purpose flour
  • 3/4 tsp baking soda
  • 1 1/2 tsp baking powder
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 1 tbs cornstarch
  • 1  cup semisweet chocolate chips
  • 1/2 cup white chocolate chips
  • 1/2 cup milk chocolate chips

Directions – in a bowl, cream solidified brown butter and brown sugar.  Add eggs, water, and vanilla.  Blend in dry ingredients. Mix in chips.  Scoop out 1/4 cups of dough and chill a few hours. When ready to bake, preheat oven to 350 degrees.  Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper or nonstick baking liners.  Stagger cookies on sheet. 

Bake 10 to 12 minutes, no longer. Cool completely.  

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.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

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!

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.