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.
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.
These originally were for Sabres game day, but since we hired our new Bills coach in Joe Brady, these are for that too! Plus, it is freezing, so I wanted to bake to heat up the house some more.
These are chocolate cookies filled with mini m&ms and milk chocolate chips and topped with inverted hershey kisses.
Remember to scoop your flour from your flour bag into your measuring cup so you get the right amount (same for the baking cocoa). I chilled the dough for a few hours before baking to keep them puffy. And preheat your oven before baking.
Ingredients list
1/2 cup butter, softened
1/2 cup crisco
1 cup brown sugar, firmly packed into measuring cup
1/4 cup sugar
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla
1/2 cup unsweetened baking cocoa
3 1/4 cups flour
1 tbs cornstarch
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
1 cup mini m&ms
1 cup milk chocolate chips
Hershey kisses, unwrapped
Directions – in a bowl, cream butter, crisco, sugar and brown sugar. Add eggs and vanilla. Mix in dry ingredients. (If mixture is too dry, add 1 or 2 tbs water). Fold in chips and m&ms. Scoop our 1/4 cups of 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. Right after removing from oven. Gently press 2 inverted kisses on top.
Another very cold day, so I decided to heat up the house a bit by baking more cookies. Rob asked for chocolate chip cookies. (I have so many to choose from). These use melted butter and a mix of all purpose and bread flour. And I also pressed extra chips into the tops of the cookies as soon as they came out of the oven.
Remember to scoop you flour from your flour bag into your measuring cup so you get the right amount. I chilled the individual doughs for a few hours to help keep them puffy while baking. And, preheat your oven before baking the cookies.
Ingredients list
1 cup butter, melted
2/3 cup sugar
1 cup brown sugar, firmly packed into measuring cup
2 eggs
2 tsp vanilla
2 tbs water
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
11/2 cups all purpose flour
1 1/2 cups bread flour
1 tbs cornstarch
1 1/2 cups chocolate chips
Directions – in a bowl, combine melted butter, sugar and brown sugar. Add water, eggs and vanilla. Stir in baking soda and salt. Mix in both flours. Fold 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 11 to 14 minutes, no longer. Cool completely.
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.
It’s been a week that’s felt like a year. From the Bills’ season ending loss to Sean getting fired to the team’s press conference that got everyone all kinds of worked up. And it is Sabres gameday, which is a beacon of light. So I present quadruple chip cookies. These are made with browned butter, all purpose and bread flour, and four kinds of chips – semisweet, dark, mini and milk chocolate.
Scoop your flour from your four containers into your measuring cup so you get the right amount. Firmly packed brown sugar into measuring cups. And preheat oven before baking. Don’t bake longer than 13 minutes.
Ingredients list
11/4 cups butter, browned
1 1/2 cups brown sugar
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla
1 tsp salt
2 tbs water
1 1/3 cups bread flour
11/3 cups all purpose flour
1 1/2 tsp baking powder
3/4 tsp baking soda
1/2 cup semisweet chocolate chips
1/2 cup milk chocolate chips
1/2 cup mini chocolate chips
1/2 cup dark chocolate chips
Directions – preheat oven to 350 degrres. Place butter in a fry pan and cook over medium heat until brown specs appear, likely 7 to 10 minutes. Place in fridge for 20 minutes to cool. In a bowl, mix butter and brown sugar. Add eggs, water, vanilla and salt. Blend in flour, baking powder and baking soda. Mix in chips. Line cookie sheets with parchment paper. Scoop out 1/4 cups of dough. Stagger on prepared sheets. Bake 13 min, no longer. Cool completely. Store in covered container.
In addition to oatmeal creme pies, I decided to whip up some brownies. These use a brownie mix,
a friendly’s individual size ice cream sundae container,
hot fudge, eggs and vegetable oil.
Ingredients list
1 brownie mix
2 eggs
1/2 cup vegetable oil
1/4 cup hot fudge
1 cup ice cream (I used a friendly’s individual sundae )
Directions – preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spray a baking pan with baking spray. In a bowl, combine brownie mix, eggs and oil. Blend in ice cream and hot fudge. Evenly spread into prepared pan. If you use 9×13 pan, bake 20 to 25 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in center comes out with a few moist crumbs ( If you use and 8×8, bake 28 to 32 minutes). Remove from oven and immediately, gently press chocolate chips in top of brownies.
Cool completely. Thanks for stopping by. Go Bills! Go Sabres!
How cool that not only it is Bills playoff gameday but also Sabres game day. The last time the Bills played a playoff game the same day as the Sabres had a game, both teams won. Here’s hoping for that same result!
I broke out of the box a bit with these. I have made oatmeal cookies which were well received, but felt the need to step it up because it is the Divisional round of the playoffs…. so I went with oatmeal creme pies.
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 for the frosting)
Ingredients list
1/2 cup butter, softened
1/2 cup crisco
3/4 cup brown sugar, firmly packed into measuring cup
1/2 cup sugar
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla
1 1/2 cups flour
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
3 cups quick oats
Directions – preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line a cookie sheet with nonstick baking liners. In a bowl, cream butter, crisco, sugar and brown sugar. Add eggs and vanilla. Mix in flour, baking soda and salt. Fold in oats. Scoop out 3 tbs of dough and form tall mounds.
Stagger on cookie sheet.
Bake 11 to 13 minutes, no longer (edges will be browned. Cool completely.
Fluff filling
1/2 cup butter, softened
3/4 cup marshmallow fluff
2 cups powdered sugar
1 tsp vanilla
2 tbs milk
Directions – in a bowl, cream fluff and butter. Blend in powdered sugar. Mix in vanilla and milk.
Assembly directions – lay one cookie flat side up
Spoon some filling on top.
Top with another cookie flatside down.
Store in covered container. I popped these in the fridge so the top cookie wouldn’t slide off the filling.
With how today’s wildcard win in Jacksonville played out, one victory monday treat is not enough. So in addition to snowball cookies with mini chocolate chips, I made frosted fudge brownies. Simple and sweet
Ingredients list
10 tbs butter
11/4 cups sugar
3/4 cup unsweetened baking cocoa
1 tsp vanilla
2 eggs
1/2 cup flour (scooped from flour bag into your measuring cup)
1/2 tsp salt
Directions – preheat oven to 325 degrees. Line an 8×8 pan with tin foil. Set aside. in a microwave safe bowl, hear butter, sugar and cocoa in 45 second increments until butter is melted. Stir smooth. Add vanilla and eggs. Blend in flour and salt. Mixture will be thick. Spread evenly into prepared pan. Bake 25 to 30 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out with a few moist crumbs. Cool completely.
Frosting ingredients
1/4 cup butter, melted
1/4 cup baking cocoa
2 tbs corn syrup
11/2 cups powdered sugar
1 tsp vanilla
2 tbs heavy cream
In a bowl, combine butter and cocoa. Add corn syrup powdered sugar and vanilla. Stir in heavy cream. Frost brownies.
In honor of our first road playoff win since 1992, I present extra large snowball cookies with mini chocolate chips. my stress level was through the roof. I stood the last 8 minutes, didn’t take a breath and frightened our dog when I yelled when cole bishop got the game winning interception. Yowsa. One win down 3 to go.
These really are like a Mexican wedding cake/Russian tea cake/Italian wedding cake cookies with just a few ingredients – butter, powdered sugar, salt, vanilla, water, and mini chocolate chips. Super simple. They stay puffy and are baked in no time.
Ingredients list
1 cup butter, softened
1/2 cup powdered sugar
1 tsp vanilla
1 tsp salt
2 1/4 cups flour
2 to 3 tbs water
1 cup mini chocolate chips
Directions – in a bowl, cream butter and powdered sugar. Add vanilla. Mix in salt and flour. Fold in chips. Scoop out 1/4 cups dough. Chill for a while in the fridge. 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 15 minutes, no longer, bottoms of cookies with be lightly golden. Sprinkle hot cookies with powdercontainer.
cookies by christine 