Over at Sweetnicks, they are celebrating a birthday! So, in honor of the SD I decided to make my entry to ARF-Tuesday a sweet...cookies! No, no birthday cake here today, but I hope that oatmeal cookies will suffice! I came up with this recipe after looking at several different recipes around the web. I decided to add some coarse sea salt to them because I think that burst of saltiness is a fun and different surprise. I made these twice and used 1/2 cup more flour the first time.
The batter was really thick and didn't let the cookies spread ANY but I kind of liked the resulting cookies a little better...it reminded me of one of those restaurant cookies except with a homemade look and taste. You know, a bit chewy and "almost" undercooked? Anyway, here's a birthday cookies for Cate's SD! Happy Birthday!
Oatmeal Cookies
4 T margarine
4 T shortening
1/2 cup packed brown sugar
1/2 cup sugar
1 egg
2 teaspoons vanilla
1/2 cup AP flour
1/2 cup wheat flour
1/2 teaspoon cream of tartar
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon sea salt
2 cups oatmeal
1 cup chocolate chips
Preheat oven to 375 F. Cream margarine, shortening, and sugars together. When creamy beat in egg and vanilla. Add flours, tartar, baking powder, and salt. Stir in oatmeal. Add chips and stir. Place on baking sheets or stones in tablespoons. Bake for 9-10 minutes. Remove to cooling rack and allow to cool.
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Birthday Cookies
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Snap, Sizzle, Pop
Thursday, May 08, 2008
One Wedding, One Cookie, and One Link
This past Saturday, I went to the wedding of one of my brother's friends (This is NOT right...they're getting married and I have yet to date! Oh well!). The wedding was just SO much fun. I didn't expect to have fun, since it wasn't my friend, but the mood was happy, excited, and just fun. Marley, the bride, had great ideas for the reception. His last name is Jones,
so they had Jones sodas for the wedding favors. Then, they had an entire table of candy,
complete with M&M's, skittles, sour ropes, Jolly Ranchers, Air Heads, and chocolate dipped pretzels and marshmallows (SO GOOD!). Then, the main table had the traditional reception food, cheese, and fruit PLUS
a make your own nacho area. So cute...to match Marley! Anyway, I knew that I was going to see my dad; so, being the loving daughter that I am, I made him some cookies. I wanted to try something new, so I went in search of a recipe and found this one at Anna's site, Cookie Madness. Let me just tell you...it was SOOOOO good! I think that it's one of the top three chocolate chip cookies I've ever had.
It made a lot, so I split the batch and gave some to my brother's girlfriend. She wasn't sure if she would like it because of the coffee and was going to send them home with Philip if she didn't.
Well, I got a note from her that said, "I hate to disappoint your parents, but I didn't send the cookies home with Philip. They were so good!" I just hope they gave her some energy for her finals! So, all in all, these are winning cookies. I highly recommend them.
On another note before I give you the recipe, check out this new site, Chop, Stir, Mix. I haven't had a chance to look around a lot yet, but they look like they have some good recipes...PLUS, they're having a giveaway.
Mocha Chocolate Chip Cookies (from NM Cookbook)
1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, cool room temp (I used one stick butter, one margarine)
Tuesday, May 06, 2008
Almost a Ruined Dish
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Quick Muffins
I haven't made breakfast for my Sunday School class in quite a while, so I decided to make some muffins this week. I think that these are probably the most semi-homemade you can get! It uses a cake mix...but made healthier by using pumpkin for the moistener. It is fantastic and so moist you'd never guess that wasn't any added oil. Because of the pumpkin, this is a great ARF entry for Sweetnicks ARF Tuesday. Check out the others at her site.
Easy Pumpkin Muffins
1 box carrot cake mix
1 1/2 cups pumpkin
1/2 cup water
1 egg
Preheat oven to 375. Stir together mix, pumpkin, egg, and water. Scoop into greased muffin tin. Bake for 12 minutes (or until springs back) for mini muffins and about 20 minutes (or until done) for full muffins. I got 12 full muffins and 20 mini-muffins.
Sunday, April 27, 2008
I "Popped" Out
Saturday, April 26, 2008
Don't Forget the Sugar!
To prepare cake, lightly spoon the flour into a dry measuring cup, and level with a knife.
Sift together flour and 3/4 cup sugar. Beat egg whites with a mixer at high speed until foamy. Add cream of tartar and salt; beat until soft peaks form. Add 3/4 cup sugar, 2 tablespoons at a time, beating until stiff peaks form. Fold in vanilla. Slowly add flour mixture into peaks and fold in. Be sure to fold all the way to the bottom of the bowl to distribute the flour evenly.
