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Celebrating another team USA win

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I wanted to bake to celebrate the US men’s hockey team gold medal game victory, but there is also a super winter storm coming and I am staying at the Doubletree hotel near work tonight, and time is of the essence.  Rob asked for doubletree cookies.  I found the recipe put out by doubletree and tweaked it.   Another higher level treat will be made at a later date for our US hockey  men.  Hoping we don’t lose power so the treat can be made later this week!!!

The game was stressful.  So much play was in our end.  When Jack’s game winner went in, I couldn’t believe it!  And it was so wonderful to see the late Johnny Gaudreau honored and that 2 of his kids were on the ice for the team picture.

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

These bake at 300 degrees, per doubletree. 

  • Ingredients list
  • 1 cup butter, softened
  • 3/4 cup plus 1  tbs brown sugar, firmly packed
  • 3/4 cup sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 tsp vanilla
  • 1 cup bread flour
  • 1 1/4 cups flour
  • 1 tsp baking soda
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 1 tbs cornstarch
  • 1/2 cup oats (either quick or rolled)
  • 2 cups chocolate chips

Directions – in a food processor, place oats, flour, baking soda, salt and cornstarch.    Process 1 minute.  Set aside.  in a bowl, cream butter, sugar and brown sugar.  Add eggs and vanilla.  Blend in oats mixture.  Fold in chips.   Scoop out 1/4 cups dough.  Chill an hour or 2.  When ready to bake, preheat oven to 300.  Line a cookie sheet with nonstick baking liners or parchment paper.  Stagger cookies on sheet.  Bake 20 to 23 minutes.  Cool completely.  Store in covered container.

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Celebrating a Team usa men’s hockey win  and gameday for Team USA women’s hockey

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These are for another Team USA men’s hockey win (featuring a goal by Buffalo Sabres forward Tage Thompson) and for gameday for the US women’s hockey team vs Sweden.

A while back, I found a recipe that had some sort of marshmallow swirl in brownies.  Of course I can’t find thst recipe, but it go me thinking of making a vanilla version of a treat with crushed golden oreos

and fluff. 

And instead of vanilla flavoring, I used cake batter extract for a different flavor.  For the frosting, I used some crushed oreos, fluff and cake extract too.

Remember to scoop your flour from your flour bag into your measuring cup so you get the right amount.  (Same for the powdered sugar for the frosting).

  • Ingredients list
  • 3/4  butter, softened
  • 3/4 cup sugar
  • 1 1/2 eggs
  • 1 tsp cake batter extract (you cam use vanilla instead)
  • 2 tbs water
  • 2 1/4 cups flour
  • 11/2 tsp baking powder
  • 5 tbs marshmallow fluff
  • 10 golden oreos, finely crushed

Directions – in a bowl, cream butter and sugar.  Add egg and a half, water and extract.  Blend in dry ingredients.   Mix in fluff then crushed oreos.  Scoop out 1/4 cups dough.  Chill a few hours.  When ready to bake, preheat oven to 350 degrees.  Line a cookie sheet with nonstick baking liners or parchment paper.  Stagger cookies on sheet. 

Bake 11 to 13 minutes.  No longer.  Cool completely.

  • Frosting ingredients list
  • 6 tbs butter, softened
  • 2 1/4 cups powdered sugar
  • 2 tbs cream
  • 5 tbs fluff
  • 1 tsp cake batter

In a bowl, cream butter and powdered sugar.  Mix in cream, fluff and extract.  Frost cookies.

  Store in covered container.

Smores cookies

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Like so many other people, we have had a brutal stretch of cold weather…. making most of us dream of summer.  And what says summer more than smores!   So I made smores cookies.   I didn’t have mini marshmallow bits, so I chopped up the marshmallow pieces from Lucky Charms cereal. 

I put some crushed graham crackers in the cookies and some milk chocolate chips.  And I topped them with melted hershey kisses and more crushed graham crackers.

Remember to scoop your flour from your flour bag into your measuring cup so you get the right amount.  I chilled these individual doughs for an hour before baking, so you don’t have to.   And preheat your oven to 350 degrees before baking.

  • Ingredients list
  • 1/2 cup butter
  • 2/3 cup brown sugar
  • 1 egg
  • 1 tbs water
  • 1 tsp vanilla
  • 1 tsp cornstarch
  • 1 tsp baking soda
  • 1 1/2 cups flour
  • 2/3 cup finely crushed graham cracker crumbs
  • 1 cup marshmallow bits
  • 1/2 cup milk chocolate chips

Directions- in a bowl, cream butter and brown sugar.  Add egg, water and vanilla. Mix in dry ingredients.   Stir in graham cracker crumbs, then mix in marshmallow bits, and chips.  Scoop out 1/4 cups of dough.  Chill an hour.  When ready to bake, preheat oven to 350 degrees.   Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper.  Stagger cookies on sheet.  Bake 10 minutes, no longer.  Cool completely.   I topped these with melted hershey kisses and extra graham cracker crumbs.

  Store in covered container.

Turtle cookies

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Something a little different today – turtle cookies – a chocolate cookie with chocolate chips, chopped up pieces of caramel and finely ground pecans. 

Remember to scoop your flour from your flour bag into you measuring cup so you get the right amount (same goes for the baking cocoa).  I chilled these for about an hour before baking.  And preheat your oven just before baking.

  • Ingredients list
  • 1/2 cup butter, softened
  • 1/2 cup brown sugar
  • 1/2 cup sugar
  • 1 egg
  • 1/2 tbs corn syrup
  • 1 tsp vanilla
  • 1/4 cup unsweetened baking cocoa
  • 1 1/4 cups flour
  • 1 tsp cornstarch
  • 1/2 tsp baking soda
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 1/2 cup milk chocolate chips
  • 1/2 cup finely chopped caramel
  • 1/2 cup pecans, finely ground

Directions – in a bowl, cream butter, sugar and brown sugar.  Add egg, corn syrup, and vanilla.  Blend in dry ingredients.  Fold in chips, chopped caramel and nuts.   Scoop out 1/4 cups of dough.  Chill and hour. When ready to bake, preheat oven to 350 degrees.  Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper.  Stagger cookies on sheet (these don’t spread too much).  Bake 10 minutes, no longer.  Cool completely.  Store in covered container.

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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.

Frosted Snowball bars

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Another frigid day, so another baking day for me.  Instead of making snowball or mini chip snowball cookies, I opted for bar form.   One half contains mini chocolate chips, the other side is plain.  And I frosted them. 

Remember to scoop your flour from your flour bag into your measuring cup so you get the right amount (same goes for the powdered sugar).  Preheat your oven to 350 degrees before baking.

  • Ingredients list
  • 1 cup butter, softened
  • 1/2 cup sugar
  • 1/2 cup powdered sugar
  • 1 egg
  • 1 tsp vanilla
  • 2 1/4 cups flour
  • 1/2 tsp baking powder
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 1 cup mini chocolate chips

Directions – preheat oven to 350 degrees.  Line and 8×8 pan with tin foil and spray with baking spray.  In a bowl, cream butter, sugar and powdered sugar.  Add egg and vanilla.  Mix in dry ingredients.  Scoop out 1/2 of dough and evenly spread into one  side of the prepared pan.  Add mini chips to rest of dough.   Spread evenly into other side of pan.

Bake 25 minutes, no longer.  Remove from oven and sprinkle powdered sugar on top.  Cool completely.    I then frosted them with vanilla frosting.  

Store in covered container.

Massive peanut butter cookies

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The other day I made huge chocolate chip cookies, so today I decided to made some pretty big peanut butter cookies. 

These use a combo of bread and all purpose flour, but you can use just all purpose flour if you want.

Remember to scoop flour from your flour bag into your measuring cups so you get the right amount.  

  • Ingredients list
  • 1 /2 cup butter, browned
  • 1/2 cup peanut butter
  • 3/4 cup brown sugar, firmly packed into measuring cup
  • 1/4 cup sugar
  • 1 egg
  • 2 tsp vanilla
  • 2 to 4 tbs heavy cream
  • 1 1/4 cups all purpose flour
  • 1/2 cup bread flour
  • 1/2 tsp baking powder
  • 1/4 tsp salt
  • 1/2 cup peanuts, finely ground
  • Extra sugar

Directions – preheat oven to 375 degrees.  line a cookie sheet with parchment paper.   In a bowl, combine butter, peanut butter, sugar and brown sugar.  Add egg, vanilla and 2 tbs heavy cream.  Mix in dry ingredients.  if dough seems a little dry, add more heavy cream.   Divide dough into 3 equal pieces, then divide each of those pieces in half.  Roll into balls, then  each  in extra sugar.  Stagger cookies on sheet.  Bake 14 to 15 minutes, no longer.  Cool completely.   Store in covered container.

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Frosted brownie cookies

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These are awesome!  I used a combo of hersheys unsweetened baking cocoa and black cocoa (I could not find hersheys special dark baking cocoa,  so i tried to make my own).  I used a vanilla frosting, but use whichever flavor you want (peanut butter or chocolate would be nice options too).

Remember to scoop your flour and baking cocoa from their containers into your measuring cups so you get the right amount.   I recommend chilling the individual balls of dough for a day or two.  And, preheat your oven before baking.

  • Ingredients list
  • 6 tbs butter, melted
  • 1 1/2 cups sugar
  • 4 tbs honey
  • 2 tsp vanilla
  • 2 egg whites
  • 1 1/3 cups flour
  • 1 cup unsweetened baking cocoa
  • 1 tsp baking powder
  • 1/2 salt

Directions -in a bowl, combine butter, sugar, honey,  vanilla and egg whites.   Fold in dry ingredients.   Scoop out 1/4 cups dough.   Chill overnight.   When ready to bake, preheat oven to 350 degrees.   Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper.  Stagger cookies on sheet.  Bake 7 minutes.  Cool completely.

  • Frosting ingredients
  • 1/4 cup butter, softened
  • 2 to 3 cups powdered sugar
  • Milk
  • Vanilla

Combine ingredients, using enough milk to get the consistency you want.  Frost cookies.

Store in covered container.

Yellow cake mix whoopie pies

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A simple sweet treat – cake mix whoopie pies.  I used yellow today,  but any flavor works.  I used a simple white frosting filling recipe.

  • Ingredients list
  • 1 cake mix
  • 2 eggs
  • 1/2 cup vegetable oil

Directions – preheat oven to 350 degrees.  In a bowl, combine ingredients.    Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper.  Scoop out 2 tbs of dough and stagger each one on prepared cookie sheet.  Bake 8 to 9 minutes, no longer.  Cool completely.

  • Filling ingredients
  • 1/4 cup butter, softened
  • 2 to 3 cups powdered sugar
  • Milk or heavy cream
  • 1 tsp vanilla

Combine ingredients.  Add a little more powdered sugar if you want a little thinner consistency.   Spread between 2 cookies. Store in covered container. 

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Massive chocolate chip cookies

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Today’s cookies are somewhere between the size of a baseball and softball.  Felt appropriate give, the Bills introduced new coach Joe Brady and it is Sabres game night.

A listener sent me a link fir the recipe from AK pizza in Seattle.  I changed it to cups and tsp in measurements and for baking in a conventional oven.  Really pleased with how these came out.   I brought an actual sharp knife into work so people can cut them up.

Scoop your flours from their containers into measuring cups so you get the right amount,  firmly packed brown sugar into measuring cups and chill dough a few days before baking.

Don’t cook these longer than 7 minutes or the bottoms will burn.

  • Ingredients list
  • 1/2 cup butter
  • 1/4 cup butter, softened
  • 1 2/3 cups brown sugar
  • 1 cup and 2 tbs white sugar
  • 1/3 cup heavy cream
  • 1/3 cup dried milk powder
  • 1/4 tsp salt
  • 2 1/4 tsp baking powder
  • 2 1/3 tsp baking soda
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 yolk
  • 2 tsp vanilla
  • 1 cup bread flour
  • 4 cups flour
  • 2 cups chocolate chips

Directions – in a saucepan, brown butter over medium heat.  Remove from heat.  Add milk powder then cream.  Chill in fridge an hour.  Them, add sugar, brown sugarand vanilla.   Mix in eggs and yolk.  Stir in dry ingredients.   Fold in chips.. scoop out 3/4 cups dough.   Chill 2 days.  Line cookie sheet with parchme paper.  Preheat oven to 435 degrees (that is correct).  Stagger cookies on sheet. Bake 7 minutes, no longer.

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