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.
I found these oreos in the “aisle of shame” at aldi.
If you are not familiar with it, it is an aisle of stuff you “probably” don’t need, but the price is great and you think “why not”? That aisle is the best! It is how I wound up with an electric cake pop maker and churro maker (both work like the George foreman electric plug in grill), which i have yet to use. Each was 7$.
Use any cake mix flavor and any oreo flavor you want. I used chocolate cake mix and cookie dough oreos today.
Preheat your oven to 350 degrees before baking.
Ingredients list
1 cake mix
1/3 cup vegetable oil
1 egg
2 tbs
Oreos
Directions – preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line a cookie sheet with nonstick baking liners. In a bowl, mix cake mix, oil, egg and water. Scoop out 3 tbs dough.
Divide in half. Flatten both. Lay one half on a flattened surface.
Top with an oreo.
Place other flattened half on top and seal edges.
Stagger on cookie sheet.
Bake 10 minutes, no longer. Cool completely. Store in covered container.
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.
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.
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.
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!
Since I made fudge brownie cookies, I felt these sugar crusted peanut butter cookies would be a perfect companion. Because peanut butter and chocolate are a perfect combo.. just ask the folks at Reese’s!
These are a typical peanut butter cookie, except i added finely ground peanuts, which i did in my food processor
and rolled the cookies in sugar before baking.
Ingredients list
1/2 cup butter, partially melted (I put a cold stick in microwave in 2, 30 second increments
3/4 cup brown sugar, firmly packed into measuring cup
1/4 cup sugar
1/2 cup peanut butter
1 egg
1 tbs vanilla
1 3/4 cups flour (scooped from flour bag into measuring cup)
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
1 cup peanuts, finely ground
Directions – in a bowl, mix peanut butter, butter, sugar and brown sugar. Add egg and vanilla. Blend in dry ingredients. Stir in ground peanuts. Scoop out 1/4 cups dough. Roll tops in sugar. Chill a few hours. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper or nonstick baking liners. stagger cookies on sheet.
Bake 14 to 16 minutes. Cool completely. Store in covered container.
Another mid week treat using a cake mix – marble cookies. I also added chocolate chips and topped them with melted hershey kisses.
These are made with a marble cake mix, vegetable oil, and egg and water.
Ingredients list
1 marble cake mix
1 egg
1/3 cup vegetable oil
5 tbs water
1 cup Chocolate chips
Directions – In one bowl, combine yellow cake mix, egg, oil and 3 tbs water. Add chocolate chips. In another bowl, combine fudge packet and 2 tbs water. Add fudge mixture to yellow cake mixture. Swirl gently with a knife to marble. Scoop out 1/4 cups dough. Chill for a few hours. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper or nonstick baking liners. Stagger cookies on sheet.
Bake 12 minutes. Cool completely. I topped these with melted hershey kisses.
For NFL week 18 and the final regular season home game at the place i have always called Rich Stadium, I present cinnamon sugar football cutout sandwiches with brown butter filling. I love my football cutout.
I have not been to a game there in a long time, but have a lot of wonderful memories. I went to my first game at age 7 with my family. I think we went to about a game a year until 8th grade. From Olean, we traveled up 16 through all the small towns. We stopped once so my dad could buy my brother a football so they could play catch in the parking lot. That little plaza is still there. My dad, who passed away in 2013, is the reason I love the Bills as much as I do. He would really enjoy these Josh teams. It would have been fun to dissect games with him. He will have a great seat in heaven when we win the Super Bowl. A lot of people pooh pooh the Bills and have no faith. I prefer to keep it positive. I acknowledge weaknesses and acting like Eyeore is not fun. Fandom is much more enjoyable.
I think that unless you grew up a Bills fan or married into it, it is hard to understand the connection with the team and even that building.
Anyways, onto the cookies….
Remember to scoop your flour from your flour bag into your measuring cup so you get the right amount. If you chill the dough, take it out a few hours before baking because that butter chills it up firm. Next time I might not chill the dough at all.
Ingredients list
1 cup butter, softened
1 cup sugar
1/2 tsp salt
1 egg
1 tsp vanilla
3 cups flour
2 tsp baking powder
2 tsp cinnamon
1/4 tsp nutmeg
Directions – in a bowl, cream butter, sugar and salt. Add egg and vanilla. Blend in dry ingredients. If dough seems dry, add a tbs or two of water. Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper. Lightly flour a flat surface and roll dough to desired thickness (I like mine on the thick side). Cut out footballs. Stagger on prepared sheet.
Bake 7 to 8 minutes, no longer. Cool completely.
Brown butter frosting ingredients
1/2 cup butter
2 to 3 cups powdered sugar
1 tsp vanilla
Milk
Directions – place butter in a fry pan and cook over medium heat until brown specs appear.
Place browned butter in bowl. Mix in powdered sugar, then vanilla. Add enough milk to get the consistency you want. Place a scoop between 2 cookies. Store in covered container.
The German chocolate cake is a masterpiece of a dessert- German chocolate cake, pecan coconut frosting and chocolate frosting. The bakery in my hometown of Olean, NY – the former Ried’s food barn- made the nest German chocolate cakes. And I am sure the now olean food barn does too.
So I made a cookie sandwich version using a cake mix, canned coconut pecan frosting and a homemade chocolate frosting as the fillings.
You can make a homemade coconut pecan frosting, but I went with canned frosting today
Cookies ingredients
1 German chocolate cake mix
2 eggs
1/3 cup vegetable oil
Directions – preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper. Set aside. In a bowl, blend 3 ingredients. Scoop out 2 tbs of dough. Roll into a ball and slightly flatten. Stagger on cookie sheet. Bake 10 to 12 minutes. No longer. Cool completely.
Chocolate frosting filling ingredients
1/4 cup butter, melted
1/3 cup unsweetened baking cocoa
1 1/2 cups powdered sugar
3 tbs evaporated milk
1 tbs vanilla
Directions – in a bowl, combine butter and cocoa. Blend in powdered sugar, then evaporated milk and vanilla. Add more evaporated milk or powdered sugar to get the consistency you want.
Place cookies flat side up.
On one half, spread some coconut pecan frosting. On another half, spread some chocolate frosting.
cookies by christine 