Chocolate Chip Cookies (Not your Momma's Recipe)

The sweets are hitting the town and this girl is making all kinds of cookies for the holidays.  My family always made an abundance of cookies during the holiday season and this year I have gone absolutely crazy making them.  Here is a very simple, good recipe for chocolate chip cookies. My Mom always insiteted we make these babies.  Enjoy everyone.

Ingredients

1 cup (2 sticks)unsalted Butter at room temperature

3/4 cup granulated white sugar

3/4 cup firmly packed light brown sugar

2 large Eggs

1 1/2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract

2 1/4 cups all-purpose Flour

1 teaspoon Baking Soda

1/2 teaspoon salt

1 1/2 cups semisweet

Making Great Cookies

• First turn on your oven to 375 degrees
• Grab a mixing bowl
• Add your butter and sugar

• Mix these together well until fluffy
• Scrape the sides so that you incorporate all the flavors together
• Add your vanilla 
• Add your eggs one at a time and allow this to mix well together for about 2 minutes

• Once this has mixed well
• Add your dry ingredients slowly

• Once you have added your flour mixture add your chocolate chips and mix on low speed for 1 minute

• Take the mixing bowl and place it on the counter
• Put your dough in the fridge for an hour to allow it to form

• Grab to cookie sheets and start adding your dough to them in Tablespoon forms

• Bake these beauties in the oven for 10-12
• When they are brown around the edges and soft in the middle they are done
• When you take them out place them on a cooling racks 

YUM

Enjoy these beauties with a nice glass of my homemade eggnog, coffee, tea or a big glass of milk.

Enjoy.

Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Peanut Butter Cookies (Yes I said that right)

Felicia for the past 7 years has asked me to make these every Christmas and I have.  It is the best darn combination of flavors you could ever imagine.  Here is this lovely recipe for you all to enjoy with your family.  Have a good day.

Enjoy

Ingredients

1 Cup Butter
1/2 Cup Granulated Sugar
1 Cup Firmly Packed Brown Sugar
1 Cup Smooth Peanut Butter
2 Large Eggs
2 TBL Vanilla Extract
2 Cups Quick Oatmeal
2 1/2 Cups All Purpose Flour
1 Tsp Baking Soda
1 12 Ounce Milk Chocolate Chips

Mixing The Good Stuff

• Turn your oven to 350 degrees
• In a large bowl mix all your dry ingredients together

• In a mixing bowl add your butter and sugar together and mix well 

• As this is mixing add your egg and vanilla
• Add your peanut butter
• Add your flour mixture slowly
• Once it has mix well
• Add your chocolate chips and mix by hand

• Grab your cookie sheets, a large spoon and spoon them on to the sheet
• Only put two by each other
• Bake in the oven for 12 minutes 
• This is what your finished product will look like

Have a big glass of milk with this baby and let it melt in your mouth.  Have fun.  Enjoy

Russian Tea Balls

This recipe is a recipe that my Mother would not allow us to toy with.  It had to be whipped a certain way, rolled a certain way and dipped a certain way.  But we did toy with it.  My mother was right, they are good how she taught us.  These babies are melt in your mouth goodness.  Make them with your kids, its fun to get powdered sugar all over the place.  Have Fun and Enjoy.

Ingredients

1 Cup Butter
1/2 Powdered Sugar
2 1/4 Cups All Purpose Flour
1 Tsp Vanilla
1 Cup Pecans
1/4 Tsp Salt

Making The Dough

• Turn your oven on to 400 degrees
• Grab a mixing bowl and add your butter and powdered sugar

• Mix these well

• Add your vanilla and mix together well
• While this is mixing grab a small coffee grinder or if you have chopper

• Add your pecans to it and grind them until it becomes a powder

• Add this to your butter, sugar mixture
• Add your flour and blend these together until it forms a ball

• Once this has formed into a big ball turn mixer off and start to roll the dough into bit size balls

• Bake in the oven for 10-12 minutes (Do not bake these to long you don't want them to brown)
• Once they are done take them out and roll them in powdered sugar right away

• Once they have cooled for 20 minutes roll them again and eat one

Everyone, this is our favorite cookie in the household of misfits.  I hope you all enjoy this as much as our family has.  Thank you for taking the time to read my blog and possible eat my food.  Merry Christmas

Peanut Butter Cookies (Oh so Good)

Again I am always going to thank my Mother for giving these recipes to her kids.  Passing these memories on to my kids someday has always been a dream of mine and I am sure it will come true someday.  Here is a great easy peanut butter recipe, that is probably the best I have ever had.

Enjoy

Ingredients

2 1/2 Cups All Purpose Flour
1 Tsp Baking Soda
1 Cup Butter Softened
1 Cup White Sugar
2 Eggs
1 Tsp Vanilla
1 Tsp Baking Powder
1/4 Tsp Salt
1 Cup Peanut Butter
1 Cup firmly Packed Brown Sugar

Putting These Lovelies Together

• First turn your oven on to 350 degrees (if its not on already from baking all day)
• Grab a medium bowl and add all your dry ingredients together and mix well

• In a mixing bowl add your peanut butter and butter and mix until smooth

•  Add your sugar and mix until well incorporated

• Now add your eggs one at a time and then your vanilla

• Scrape the sides and start adding your dry ingredients

• Once this has mixed well
• Scrape it off the whisk and then lick it and don't share
• Roll the cookies and then place a fork on it cross to cross
• You might have to dip the fork in flour to have it not stick to the cookie, my mom used to make us dip them in crystal sugar

• After you have done all of them stick them in the oven for 15 minutes
• Take them out and let them cool
• Place them in an air tight container (of course after you have eaten one) and share with your friends

Have a Merry Christmas my friends and may you have a blessed day.

Butter Jewel Cookies (Thanks Mom)

To my Mom and Grandma, thank you for teaching me how to cook.  I have always treasured or times together baking these cookies around Christmas.  Listening to Andy Williams, Bing Crosby or Johnny Mathis The best memories I have as a kid.  This recipe is one, yes just one of my many favorites.  I hope you enjoy this one and share it with your family.

Here you all go.

Ingredients

4 Cups All Purpose Flour
2 Cups Sugar
3 Sticks Butter
1 TSP Vanilla
1/2 TSP Salt
2 Egg Yolks

Making The Cookies

• First turn your oven to 350 degrees
• Add your room temperature butter to mixing bowl

• Add your sugar and mix these well, to its fluffy

• Add your egg yolks one at a time and then your vanilla

• In another bowl mix your flour and salt together and mix well
• Add this to your sugar mixture

• Once it's all mix together, it will form into a big ball
• Grab your cookie trays and start rolling your dough into balls
• Place your thumb in the middle and press down

• Now do about two pan of these at a time
• Bake in the oven for about 10-12 minutes or until a little brown
• Before they go in

• And this is what they look like after they come out
• Now allow these to cool before you place the frosting on them
• Here is the recipe for the frosting 

Frosting

2 Cups of Powdered Sugar
1 Tsp Vanilla
1 TBL Milk
1 Stick of Butter

All you do is put all of these ingredients in a mixing bowl and mix until smooth.  Add whatever food coloring you would like and start decorating your cookies

• Now that the cookies have cooled it is time to decorate them

• I used red and green food coloring

Enjoy everyone and have a happy holiday.