Severed Finger Cookies

My four year old loved making these cookies with me! We brought dinner to our friends house tonight and she wore a glove with a few of the fingers retracted in the glove so it looked like fingers were missing. We told our friends kids that we hoped they enjoyed the cookies but we had an accident while making them and Emerson (my 4 year old) lost a few fingers.
Ingredients:
1 cup unsalted butter, at room temperature
1 cup confectioners’ sugar
1 egg
1 tsp. pure vanilla extract
2 3/4 cups flour
1 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. salt
1/2 cup sliced almonds
Raspberry jam

Directions:
1.In a large bowl, beat the butter until creamy. Mix in the sugar, egg and vanilla, then mix in the flour, baking powder and salt. Cover the dough with plastic wrap and refrigerate for one hour.

2.Preheat the oven to 325°. Using your hands and working quickly, roll a heaping tablespoon of dough into a finger shape. Place the fingers about 3 inches apart on an ungreased cookie sheet. Stick a sliced almond on 1 end of each for the fingernails. Use a table knife to make three crosswise knuckle marks in the middle of each cookie. Bake until lightly golden, 20 to 25 minutes. Transfer to a rack to cool.

3.Meanwhile, in a small saucepan, cook the jam over low heat until it reaches a saucy consistency. Once liquefied, remove from the heat and pour into a small bowl; dip the “severed” end of each cookie into the sauce.

(This recipe is from EveryDay with Rachel Ray, October 2011)

mrs. revi's sugar cookies

oh look, kristen's sharing another cookie recipe. i don't know mrs. revi, but she would probably be proud that her cookie recipe has been passed on and on and on. when my mom was a little girl she used to go to sunday school every week and get a giant sugar cookie from mrs. revi. they are amazingly easy, and stay soft and delicious. a good staple for the holidays. (or any day at our house).

3 c flour
1 c butter
2 eggs
1 c sugar
1 tsp. baking soda
3 Tbs. milk (almost 1/2 c)
1 tsp. vanilla

mix flour and butter with a pastry blender. beat eggs in a separate bowl and then add sugar, soda, milk, and vanilla. mix dry & wet together with a spoon (i actually do it in my bosch and it turns out fine).
let cool in fridge for 1 hour.
roll out, (i use a lot of flour when rolling it out, just keep kneading in flour until it no longer sticks to the counter), cut out, lay on parchment lined cookie sheet and bake at 350 degrees for 7-10 min. the trick to having them soft is to take them out before you can just barely see the brown coming to the edges. cool and frost! i usually freeze half so i can take them out and eat them whenever i want. shhh.

and the buttercream frosting i use with them. please don't even think about buying that fake kind in a container, or ruin them with royal icing. personal preference. your life will be better with this. i promise.

4 c powdered sugar
1/2 c butter
5 tbs milk
1 tsp vanilla

cream powdered sugar and butter until smooth. mix in vanilla, and gradually add milk until desired consistancy. mix for a few minutes until smooth and stiff.

choconutmeal chip cookies

oh yes i did just sit here and make up that word. how do you combine chocolate chip, coconut, oatmeal cookies? choconutmeal chip. oh man. these are hardcore good chewy cookies. usually i would just say oats make anything better... or coconut makes anything better... or chocolate chips make anything better. but combine all three? bam baby. if you like some "meat" in your cookies like i do, you will love these. and i think i ate 5 cookies worth of dough in the process. usually i'm not a dough eater.

originally from here. (love her and her pictures). i just did a substitution of flour for oats.


2 sticks of butter (1c), at room temp
1/2 c white sugar
1 1/2 c brown sugar
2 eggs
2 tsp vanilla
2 c all purpose flour

1 c rolled oats
1 1/2 tsp baking soda
3/4 tsp salt
3 cups shredded sweetened coconut
1 1/5 c semi-sweet chocolate chips/chunks

Cream the butter and the sugars until light (seriously... did you know you're supposed to beat for like 2-5 minutes? as long as it takes until it changes color). Scrape down the side of the bowl. Continue mixing while adding the eggs one at time. Make sure each egg is incorporated before adding the next. Add the vanilla. Scrape down the bowl with a spatula. Combine the flour, soda and salt in another bowl (i never do this... i just add it all in with the butter mixture). With a whisk, stir to combine. With the machine on low, slowly add the flour. Mix until just combined, taking care not to over mix.
With a spatula fold in the chocolate chips, coconut, and oats. (i also just dump it into the bosch and turn it on for a second until it's combined... call me lazy but it works).
Drop by spoonful onto parchment lined cookie sheet. (parchment really is key folks)
Bake at 350° for 11-13 minutes (mine only took 10 minutes because i take them out the second i start to see any brown). They should be lightly golden on the outside but still look gooey on the inside.

oh my.

ps... i just noticed that 5 of the 9 cookie entries are mine. do i have a problem?

pumpkin cookies

i've gotten several requests for these from family members who i point to this blog, but the recipe was no where to be found. my bad! i posted it on my own blog last year, so follow this link to get the yummy recipe!

in the meantime, here is the cream cheese frosting recipe i use:

1 (8 oz.) block cream cheese, softened

1/4 C. butter softened

1 1/2 tsp. vanilla

2-3 C. powdered sugar

Cream first 3 ingredients together and add the powdered sugar until it reaches the desired consistency.

lemon cake cookies

another one stolen from a friend's blog {ok well my SIL's best friend}. hopefully she's ok with me sharing because these are SO good! if you like lemon you'll love these moist cookies. they are super zingy! i needed a little more frosting than hers made though.


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outrageous chocolate chip cookies

while i'm at it...i thought i'd post these. these are THE best chocolate chip cookies you will ever eat. promise. kristen? in fact, i just made these last night and they make me so happy!

Cream:
1 C white sugar
2/3 C brown sugar
1 C butter
1 C peanut butter
1 t vanilla extract
2 eggs

Add:
2 C flour
1 C rolled oats
2 t baking soda
1/2 t salt
1 pkg semi-sweet chocolate chips

mix well and drop by tablespoon onto lightly greased cookie sheet. bake 10-12 minutes at 350. ( i of course think they are perfectly baked at 11 minutes 44 seconds.)

Pumpkin spice cookies

It seems like all I ever post on here are short-cut recipes, no brainers or minimal ingredient foods. Well, just to stay true to the my 'quickie' stick-a-fork-in-it identity, I've found another speedy one. Two ingredients, that's it! One of my favorite discoveries in cooking has been the joys of cake mix. The possibilities are endless!

1 box spice cake mix
1 can pumpkin puree

Mix the two ingredients together in a bowl. Spoon the mixture into little heaps on a lightly greased cookie sheet. Bake at 350 degrees for 15 minutes. I made a little cream cheese icing to go over the top. So low in fat too, no eggs or oil! Kristen, these remind me of your yummy cookies.

homemade oreos

i think we might have a recipe on here for these already, and i've always tried to figure out the yummiest one... i think i finally found it!! don't ask me why i was inspired to do yellow and teal frosting... it was just the mood i was in ok? i'm not even the biggest fan of these cookies but THESE ONES are IT!

cookies:

1 box fudge chocolate cake mix

1/2 C. veg. oil

2 eggs

1 tsp. vanilla

{mix all of these ingredients together and bake for 8 min. at 375. cool completely and then sandwich frost with...}

frosting:

3 C. powdered sugar

1/3 C. soft butter

1 1/2 tsp. vanilla

2 T. milk

{mix the powdered sugar and butter, then mix in the vanilla and milk. beat until smooth. oh and please color according to your mood. ;)}

Chocolate White Chip Cookies

1 1/4 C flour

2/3 C baking cocoa

1 tsp baking soda

1/4 tsp salt

1 C butter, softened

3/4 C sugar

2/3 C brown sugar

1 tsp vanilla

2 eggs

2 cups white chocolate chips

Combine flour, cocoa, baking soda, salt. Cream butter, sugar, brown sugar and vanilla. Add eggs one at a time, beating well after each one. Gradually beat in flour mixture. Stir in chips. Bake at 350 for 9-11 minutes.

Diversity Oreos

Here's the recipe for homemade Oreo's from girls night. Kristen inspired me to do a variation of the Oreo and make a "White Oreo". I had some leftover filling from the (black) Oreo's the other night and needed to make a treat for mutual. I had a box of white cake mix in my cupbord and after reading Kristen's cookie recipe, the wheels started turning. I whipped up a batch of White Oreo's!

Cookies:
1 box *devil's food cake mix
2 eggs beaten well
1/3 cup oil
Filling:
1/4 cup margarine
2 oz. cream cheese
1 cup powdered sugar
1/4 tsp. vanilla extract
Cookies:.
Mix cake mix, eggs and oil together well.
Shape into marble size balls.
Bake at 350°F for 10 minutes. They are done when the tops looked cracked.
Filling:
Mix margarine, cream cheese, icing sugar and vanilla together.
When cookies are completely cooled, frost the flat side of one cookie and then sandwich with another cookie.

*substitute white cake mix for devil's food cake when making White Oreo's

rainbow chip cake mix cookies

so this is what i was "going to make" for the cookies girls night on saturday. i saw the cute pictures and was bummed i was so sick so this is what i have to share! these are seriously so yummy... and addicting.

*you can make them with your favorite kind of cake mix- i prefer rainbow chip!*

1 pkg. cake mix

1/3 c. veg. oil

2 eggs

mix ingredients with a spoon until moistened. drop with a cookie baller and bake at 375 for 6-8 min.

too bad they are so easy to make which means they are even easier to eat!