The Great Cookie Experiment: Week 10

Today marks the tenth week of this cookie experiment and it will be the final regular post about cookies.  The next couple of weeks will be busy ones here on the home front, so any baking I do will be purely out of necessity!  I've got my meals planned for upcoming company and a little boy's birthday bash, so now I just need to get groceries and start the prep work before next weekend arrives!

Today's cookie recipe isn't an experiment.  It's a favorite recipe from my childhood that came to mind this morning as I was wondering what I felt like baking.  It sounded so good to me that I decided to make it and share it with you.  The name is absolutely true.  Believe me!

Delicious Cookies

1 cup butter, softened

3/4 cup oil (I use light olive oil)

1 cup brown sugar

1 cup white sugar

1 egg

2 teaspoons vanilla

3 1/2 cups flour

1 teaspoon salt

1 teaspoon baking soda

1 teaspoon cream of tartar

1 cup quick oats

1 cup coconut

1 cup Rice Crispies (or any off brand you have)

1 1/2 cups milk chocolate chips

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.  Blend butter and oil.  Add sugars, egg & vanilla, beating well.  Sift together flour, salt, baking soda and cream of tartar & mix into above.  Lastly, stir in oatmeal, coconut, Rice Crispies and chocolate chips.  Make balls and press down slightly.  Put on a lightly greased cookie sheet and bake 12 minutes.

The Great Cookie Experiment: Week 9

M-n-M Cookies

• 2-1/4 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1 cup butter, softened
• 3/4 cup packed brown sugar
• 1/4 cup white sugar
• 1 (3.4 ounce) package instant vanilla pudding mix
• 2 eggs
• 1 Tablespoon vanilla extract
• 2 cups mini M-n-M candies

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Sift together the flour and baking soda, baking powder and salt, set aside.
2. In a large bowl, cream together the butter, brown sugar, and white sugar. Beat in the instant pudding mix until blended. Stir in the eggs and vanilla. Blend in the flour mixture. Finally, stir in the mini M-n-M's. Drop cookies by rounded spoonfuls onto ungreased cookie sheets.
3. Bake for 10 to 12 minutes in the preheated oven. Edges should be golden brown.

The Great Cookie Experiment: Week 8

Cowgirl Cookies

3/4 cup butter, melted

1 egg

1/2 cup packed brown sugar

1/2 cup granulated sugar

1 teaspoon vanilla

1-1/3 cups all-purpose flour

1 cup old-fashioned oats

1 teaspoon baking powder

1/2 teaspoon baking soda

1/4 teaspoon salt

3/4 cup M-n-M's

3/4 cup milk chocolate chips

1/2 cup chopped pecans

Heat oven to 350 degrees F.  In large bowl, beat butter, egg, brown sugar, granulated sugar adn vanilla with electric mixer on medium speed.  Stir in flour, oats, baking powder, baking soda and salt.  Stir in candies, chocolate chips and pecans.

Roll dough into 1-1/2 inch balls.  On ungreased cookie sheet, place balls about 1 inch apart.

Bake 8 to 10 minutes or until edges are set (centers will be soft).  Cool 2 minutes; remove from cookie sheet to cooling rack.  Store tightly covered.

Yield:  approx. 3 dozen cookies

Ratings:
Me - A (similar to monster cookies, but yet a bit different having pecans in them instead of peanuts)

The Great Cookie Experiment: Week 4

Do you know how hard it was for me to make cookies today without using either chocolate or peanut butter?!  DH loves lemon desserts, so I was nice and picked out a lemon cookie recipe to try this week.

These were super easy, a quality I needed today with a holiday weekend in full swing!

 

Easy Lemon Cookies

You'll have to click on the link above for the recipe today!  DH liked these!  I, on the other hand, missed chocolate.  I still ate one...or two.  :)

Ratings:

DH:  A, lots of lemon flavor

Me:  A-, good lemon flavor, a moist inside.  Just a bit messy (gooey dough and I wouldn't serve these to guests in my living room with the powdered sugar that likes to cover fingers while being eaten)!  LOL!

Digging Out

As I'm typing this, the sun is beginning to shine and the skies are becoming a beautiful, dreamy blue.  Dear husband is out snowblowing the 12-13 inches of snow we got overnight and the two older boys are out playing in it!  No school today and I don't have to go into work (People don't seem to want to drive in a blizzard for dental work...ha!).  A cozy day ahead and I'm hoping somehow I can sneak a little stamping in!

Rebekah reminded me to show my appreciation of the mail lady today!  I've been meaning to put a little something in the mailbox for quite some time now and today seems like the perfect day for it!  Thanks for the reminder!  :)

Chocolate Chocolate Chip Cookies I

Chocolate is always good and these cookies we made last night are some of our favorite!

Snow Fun

We're going into our second snow day from school today! Yesterday, it was snow. Today, it is the arctic cold. I'm beginning to feel like a penguin! :) Stamping didn't get done yesterday as I thought it would, but I still had a very fun day! The boys and I made these fun mitten cut out cookies. Decorating cookies always brings out the kid in me!

I'm getting my New Year's card idea put together despite the lack of actual stamping going on, so be on the look out for some new posts to appear! Hope everyone is keeping warm and safe during this cold snap!