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Cut Out Sugar Cookies

I am so far behind on my 12 days of Homemade Christmas blogs that it isn’t even funny but I will be catching up as fast as I can before Christmas. I have been working on a huge project that was very close to my heart. As a community outreach director for Team RWB I am always looking for different ways we can give back to our community.  I thought what better way to give back to our community and help veterans at the same time than to visit the North Carolina State veterans home and since it was Christmas bring them some Christmas treats. Part one of the project was to have a cookie exchange and cookie decorating event. Classic Cut Out Sugar Cookies  were to be made and decorated.  I just had to figure out how to make it work.

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Since Team RWB is a volunteer led non profit organization I needed to find the most cost effective way of going about this. I looked at the cost of premade dough as well as cookie mixes and decided homemade cut out sugar cookies would be the way we would go. Next step was finding a recipe. I have a family recipe that we love but they often puff a bit and lose their shape. I wanted the cookies to hold their shape. So I asked my Allrecipes Allstar friends for their favorite recipe and I went to work on the King Arthur Flour Cut Out Sugar Cookies recipe.

Since I wasn’t making the cookies for myself I made them with regular all purpose flour. I had a ton of cookies to make too. All purpose flour was the most cost effective way to get the job done. I ended up making over 15 dozen cut out sugar cookies! My Allrecipes Allstar friends were spot on with their recipe recommendation too. These cookies perfectly held their shape! I then gave a few to my family to test out and they said they were perfect. Hopefully the veterans at the veterans home thought so too! We visited with them and delivered the bags full of treats on Sunday. Visiting with them was completely humbling and worth it overtime we saw a face light up.

Now that it is time for me to make cookies for my family for Christmas I will most definitely be making this recipe so my kids can make and decorate cookies for Santa on Christmas Eve.

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Cut Out Sugar Cookies
 
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Ingredients
  • 1¼ cups confectioners' sugar
  • 1 cup + 2 tablespoons salted butter or margarine, room temperature
  • 1 large egg yolk
  • ½ teaspoon salt
  • 2 teaspoons Vanilla Extract
  • 2¾ cups All-Purpose Flour
Instructions
  1. Combine the sugar, butter, egg yolk, salt, and flavor, beating until smooth. Add the flour, mixing until smooth. The mixture will seem dry at first, but will suddenly come together. If it doesn't, dribble in a tablespoon of water.
  2. Divide the dough in half, shape each half into a flattened disk, and wrap in plastic. Refrigerate for 2 hours, or overnight. When you're ready to bake, remove the dough from the refrigerator, and let it soften for about 20 to 30 minutes, until it feels soft enough to roll. It should still feel cold, but shouldn't feel rock-hard.
  3. Sprinkle your rolling surface with flour, and flour your rolling pin. Working with one piece of dough at a time, roll it ⅛" to 3/16" thick. Use a cookie cutter to cut shapes. Re-roll and cut the dough scraps. Place the cookies on ungreased or parchment-lined baking sheets. They can be close together; they'll barely spread.
  4. Bake the cookies in a preheated 350°F oven for 12 to 14 minutes, until they're set and barely browned around the edges.
  5. Remove the cookies from the oven, and cool right on the pan. If you've used parchment, you can lift cookies and parchment off the pan, so you can continue to use the pan as the cookies cool.
  6. Repeat with the remaining piece of dough, rolling, cutting, and baking cookies. When cookies are completely cool, ice and decorate.

Recipe from King Arthur Flour 

Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies with Flax

On my 5th day of Homemade Christmas I have one of my second son’s favorite cookies, Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies with Flax.
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I have been making Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies for years. I love oatmeal chip cookies. They are so much better than those ones with raisins. These cookies are the only ones I make that Mr Great requests on a regular basis and this year he told me that I need to make them for Christmas and Santa.

These cookies are his special cookies. When we lived in El Paso he participated in his school district’s special olympics every year. One of things was parents and the school would supply food and snacks for the kids. I wanted to bring something that was a bit healthier. So I made cookies! I know cookies don’t scream healthy but these are filled with wholesome oatmeal and flax. So they are a bit better than your traditional chocolate chip.
Well, my son ate probably too many cookies that day in addition to pizza and who knows what else but he still had to run. His run was one of the last ones of the day. I was fully expecting him to puke, start walking or worse have a meltdown. None of that happened though, he won his race! He was so happy and I was very proud of him. If you asked him about the race he would tell you it was all because of the cookies, his special oatmeal chocolate chip cookies.

Mr Great went on the following years to win again and again at the special olympics. He always had his special cookies too. The recipe has been tweaked a bit since those days to turn it into a gluten free oatmeal cookie but it is still delicious and we love it! Hopefully Santa will like them too! I have a sneaking suspicion that he will.

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Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies with Flax
 
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Ingredients
  • ½ Cup Butter
  • ½ Cup Shortening
  • ¾ Cup Brown Sugar
  • ¾ Cup White Sugar
  • 2 Eggs
  • 2 Teaspoons Vanilla Extract or Paste
  • 1½ Cups Gluten Free All Purpose Flour
  • 1 teaspoon Xanthan Gum
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • 2 teaspoons cinnamon
  • ½ teaspoon salt
  • ½ cup Flax Meal
  • 2 Cups Rolled Oats
  • 2 Cups Chocolate Chips
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees
  2. Cream together butter, shortening, brown sugar and white sugar until fluffy. Mix in eggs and vanilla.
  3. Stir in flour, flax meal, xanthan gum, baking soda, salt and cinnamon. Add Oats and incorporate well. Finally stir in chocolate chips.
  4. Drop by tablespoon or cookie scoop onto a parchment lined baking sheet.
  5. Bake for 10-12 minutes

Butterfinger Chunkies and How to Mail Them

It’s been almost 2 weeks since Halloween, do you still have candy? If you have some Butterfingers candy bars laying around I have an awesome cookie recipe for you, Butterfinger Chunkies. These cookies  have become one of my families favorite new cookies. It is full of peanut buttery goodness. First you have peanut butter, then some chopped peanuts and the icing on the cake is crushed up bits of Butterfingers. Can you say yum?

As I was making these cookies I was reminded of my husband’s last deployment and all the baked goods that I use to send him. He is the guy to be friends with while deployed. His last deployment I sent him delicious treats such as chocolate chip cookies with oreos in the middle and then there were the slutty brownies. He always had the good homemade stuff. These cookies would be perfect for a care package and that got me thinking about my best tips for shipping cookies. I have been asked more than a handful of times for tips so here are some of my best tips for shipping cookies.

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 Tips for Shipping Cookies

The best cookies to ship are easy drop cookies like these Butterfingers Chunkies or Chocolate Chip. Bar cookies and brownies ship wonderfully also. This isn’t saying that you cannot ship other cookies such as rolled out sugar cookies, they just need more care such as individually wrapping.

You want to package your cookies in an airtight container to keep them from going stale. If you have a vacuum sealer it is perfect for this but if you don’t, don’t fret. You can do a poor man’s vacuum seal. Simply place cookies in a freezer ziploc bag, seal bag except for a tiny area where you can insert a straw and suck out all the air. Remove straw and seal. I use the freezer bags because they are thicker and more heavy duty.

When packaging your cookies you can add a slice of white bread or a few marshmallows (yes, marshmallows!) to help keep your cookies soft.

Ship cookies in a box not a padded envelope.  The post office’s flat rate boxes are perfect. wrap cookies in bubble wrap and fill extra space in box with with popcorn, packing peanuts and/or used shopping bags. Used Target and Walmart bags are perfect for packing material.

 Shipping priority mail (2-3 days) is usually good but if you are  worried you can do next day. Fresh cookies are better than stale cookies after all. Pay attention to when you are mailing your cookies so they don’t sit in a post office over a weekend.   Another thing to remember is when mailing overseas it can take a week or two, sometimes longer.

So there are my tips for sending homemade cookies to your friends and family. Sending homemade goodies is an awesome treat that your friends and family will love receiving especially if you are sending them some Butterfingers Chunkies! I can’t wait to bake some up to add to some holiday care packages.

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What are your best tips for shipping homemade treats?

 

Butterfinger Chunkies
 
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Ingredients
  • ½ Cup Margarine (such as Imperial Margarine, I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter, Country Crock)
  • ¾ Cup Sugar
  • ½ Cup Brown Sugar
  • 1 Egg
  • 1 Cup Peanut Butter
  • 1 ½ Teaspoons Vanilla Extract
  • 1 ¼ Cup All Purpose Flour
  • ½ Teaspoon Baking Soda
  • ¼ Teaspoon Salt
  • ¼ Cup Peanuts, chopped
  • 1 Cup Butterfingers, crushed
  • *All Purpose Gluten Free Flour Blend can be substituted for All Purpose Flour with the addition of ½ teaspoon Xanthan Gum.
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 350F. Line cookie sheets with parchment paper.
  2. In a bowl cream together margarine and Sugar and Brown Sugar until light and fluffy.
  3. Add egg and combine well. Next mix in both Peanut butter and Vanilla Extract.
  4. In another bowl combine flour, baking soda and salt. Add Flour mixture to creamed mixture, mixing well.
  5. Stir in chopped peanuts and crushed Butterfinger pieces.
  6. Drop cookie dough by rounded 1 ½-2 Tablespoon scoops onto parchment lined cookie sheets.
  7. Bake cookies for 10-12 minutes or until golden.
  8. Cool on wire cooling rack
  9. Enjoy, sharing with friends and family!

recipe adapted from Allrecipes.com

Cranberry Orange White Chocolate Chip Cookies

For my last day of my 12 days of Homemade Christmas I have Cranberry Orange White Chocolate Chip Cookies. These are a fancied up version of a chocolate chip cookie that I love. Throw a raisin in a cookie and I won’t touch it, as a matter of fact neither will my kids. We are of the believers that raisins should not be in cookies and the ones that look like chocolate chips are cruel tricks. If you put a Craisin in a cookie though that story is completely different! I will happily eat a cookie with a Craisen. Throw in some orange and white chocolate chips and you have an awesome cookie and I think it is the perfect addition to any Christmas cookie tray.

Traditionally Chocolate, Eggnog, Peppermint, Gingerbread and Sugar and Spice are the dominant flavors of the season but they are not the only flavors. Are the not as traditional flavors of the Christmas season your favorite? What do you think? What is your favorite Christmas flavor?

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Cranberry Orange White Chocolate Chip Cookies
 
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Ingredients
  • ½ cup butter
  • ½ cup sugar
  • ½ cup brown sugar
  • 1 egg
  • 1teaspoon vanilla
  • 1 11/2 cups flour
  • ½ teaspoon baking soda
  • ½ teaspoon salt
  • 1 teaspoon xanthan gum
  • 1-2 cups white chocolate chips
  • ½-1 cup dried cranberries (Craisins)
Instructions
  1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
  2. In a mixing bowl, cream together butter, brown sugar and white sugar until fluffy. Beat in the eggs, and vanilla until light and creamy.
  3. Stir in in gluten free flour, baking soda, xanthan gum and salt and stir until well combined, forming cookie dough. Last, fold in your desired amount of white chocolate chips and dried cranberries.
  4. Cover cookie dough and refrigerate the dough for 1-2 hours.
  5. Drop cookies by rounded spoonfuls (I use a cookie scoop) onto cookie sheets that have been lined with parchment paper.
  6. Bake for 10-14 minutes or until cookies have spread and the edges have turned golden brown.
  7. Try to allow cookies to cool on a cooling rack otherwise they will fall apart and you could burn your mouth 😉 Be patient! They are worth the wait!

 

Peppermint Meringues

We are coming to the tail end of my 12 days of Homemade Christmas and I have a simple 5 ingredient treat. They are considered a cookie, not candy and are completely gluten free. My day 11 pic for my Homemade Christmas is Peppermint Meringues. These are sweet bites of airy and light with a bit of crispness, deliciousness! I seriously could eat them all. It is a good thing that they are only 13 calories!

Don’t let the meringue part scare you, making meringue is easy. All you really need is a good mixer as mixing by hand will not get you the same results. Here are a few of my best tips:

  • Pick a dry day to make your meringues. They will turn out better on a dry day compared to a rainy or extra humid day. The moisture will prevent the stiff peaks from properly forming.
  • Remember to use room temperature egg whites.
  • Be sure not to get any yolk mixed in with your egg whites. Your egg whites will not properly stiffen.
  • Do not beat your egg whites until they are just white, beat for an extra couple minutes. You are wanting stiff peaks.
  • Add your sugar and other add in’s (crushed candy canes, chocolate chips, etc.) slowly, don’t plop it in! You will lose air and your peaks can deflate.
  • You can dollop with a spoon but if you want to get fancy a freezer ziplock bag makes an excellent piping bag! Just cut the corner off for the tip.
  • Use parchment instead of foil or a silpat when baking.
  • Use an oven thermometer! Check your oven temperature to make sure it isn’t too hot before baking.
  • To help avoid cracks, do not take out of the oven until completely cool. My family is impatient so mine almost always have cracks. They are still pretty tasty with cracks.
  • Baking low and slow also help prevent cracks.I hope you and your family and friends like these Peppermint Meringues as much as mine does!

 

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Peppermint Meringues
 
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A light and airy peppermint cookie
Ingredients
  • 2 egg whites
  • ⅛ teaspoon salt
  • ⅛ teaspoon cream of tartar
  • ½ cup white sugar
  • 2 peppermint candy canes, crushed
  • *optional* ½-1 cup mini chocolate chips
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 225 degrees F (110 degrees C). Line 2 cookie sheets with parchment paper.
  2. In a large glass or metal mixing bowl, beat egg whites, salt, and cream of tartar to soft peaks. Gradually add sugar, continuing to beat until whites form stiff peaks. If desired carefully fold in mini chocolate chips. Drop by spoonfuls 1 inch apart on the prepared cookie sheets. Sprinkle crushed peppermint candy over the cookies.
  3. Bake for 1½ hours in preheated oven. Meringues should be completely dry on the inside. Do not allow them to brown. Turn off oven. Keep oven door ajar, and let meringues sit in the oven until completely cool. Loosen from foil with metal spatula. Store loosely covered in cool dry place for up to 2 months.

Adapted from Allrecipes.com

Snow Flakes Spritz

Thanks to a friend on Facebook I learned that today is National Chocolate Covered Anything Day. So many things are made even better by simply covering them with chocolate. There is chocolate covered peanut butter things like Buckeyes, classic chocolate covered cherries, chocolate covered pretzels to even chocolate covered bacon and potato chips. Chocolate covered things are generally good and something I like to make and my family enjoys eating. During Christmas I like to dip all the things in chocolate including my favorite spritz cookie, Snow Flakes.

About 8 years ago I discovered the recipe for Snow Flakes Spritz and they became an instant Christmas cookie must have for my family. Spritz cookies are delicate little buttery shortbread cookies that are Swedish.  They are pretty simple to make but you do need a cookie press or as my kids call it a cookie gun to make them. There are all different types of cookie presses out there but I will tell you I use a basic manual cookie press with a trigger handle (hence why my kids call it a cookie gun) although I do own a vintage Mirro dial a cookie press that was my husband’s grandmother’s. I just need to learn how to use that vintage press. With the cookie press it allows you to press a large amount of cookies in a short time in a variety of shapes. Then the cookies can be decorated either before or after baking. Therefore making it look like you spent hours making fancy cookies.

Snow Flakes Spritz are a bit more special than your typical spritz cookie in my opinion.  They are more than just a simple butter cookie. The dough is peppered with orange peel and cinnamon has been sprinkled in as well. Add chocolate into the mix and you have one mighty tiny yet tasty explosion of flavor going on. I know I have a hard time eating just one and that is why I had to add them to my 12 days of Homemade Christmas. Something this good deserves to be shared! Oh and did I mention they are gluten free also! Add them to your must bake Christmas cookie list and amaze your friends with how delicious they are.
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Snow Flakes Spritz
 
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Better than your typical buttery spritz with plenty of orange and cinnamon flavor.
Ingredients
  • 1 cup butter
  • 3 ounces cream cheese, softened
  • 1 cup white sugar
  • 1 egg yolk
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1 teaspoon fresh orange zest
  • 2½ cups gluten free all-purpose flour
  • ½ teaspoon salt
  • 1 teaspoon xanthan gum
  • ½ teaspoon cinnamon
  • *Optional*
  • food coloring,colored sugar, nonpareils,other sprinkles
  • or
  • 1 cup chocolate chips
  • 1TB shortening
  • Carefully melt chocolate and shortening together in either microwave or using a double boiler.
Instructions
  1. In a medium bowl, cream together butter, cream cheese,sugar and fresh orange zest. Beat in egg yolk and vanilla. Continue beating until light and fluffy. Gradually stir in flour, salt,xanthan gum and cinnamon.
  2. Optional- if desired dough can be dyed different colors with food coloring.
  3. Fill the cookie press, and form cookies on ungreased cookie sheet.
  4. Optional- If desired sprinkle with colored sugar, nonpareils or other sprinkles.
  5. Bake in preheated oven for approximately 12 minutes. Remove from cookie sheet, and cool on wire racks.
  6. Optional- If desired dip or drizzle cookies in melted chocolate. Sprinkle with nonpareils or other sprinkles.

Adapted from Snow Flakes on Allrecipes.com

Red Velvet Chip Cookies

Since yesterday I wrote about a southern favorite with a twist, bacon pralines, so I figured I would continue with another southern favorite with a twist for my fourth day of my Homemade Christmas. Today I have taken the traditional red velvet cake and turned it into a cookie! No mixes here, I have created a gluten free red velvet chip cookie made from scratch! Honestly, I was hesitant at first red velvet is something that I do not make much of because of the red dye but if I do say so myself I make a kick butt red velvet cake and special occasions call for special cookies. These cookies are definitely special cookies. They have just a touch of cocoa powder and soured milk that helps give them the flavor of a traditional red velvet. I then used white chocolate chips in the place of frosting. After all there is no need to debate which frosting is the proper frosting for red velvet. Life is short so have a cookie instead!

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Red Velvet Chip Cookies
 
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The popular red velvet cake transformed into a cookie!
Ingredients
  • ½ cup butter
  • ½ cup sugar
  • ½ cup brown sugar
  • 2 teaspoons vanilla
  • 1 egg
  • 1 teaspoon vinegar (apple cider or white)
  • 1 tablespoon milk
  • 1 teaspoon red food coloring
  • 1¾ cup gluten free all purpose flour blend
  • 1 tablespoon cocoa powder
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1 teaspoon xanthan gum (if your gluten free all purpose flour blend does not contain it)
  • ½ teaspoon salt
  • 1 cup white chocolate chips
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees
  2. In a small bowl combine vinegar and milk and set aside allowing milk to sour.
  3. In a large bowl cream together butter, brown sugar and sugar until light and fluffy.
  4. Mix in egg and vanilla until thoroughly combined. Stir in soured milk and food coloring.
  5. Gradually mix in Gluten Free Flour, Cocoa Powder, Baking Soda, Xanthan Gum and Salt.
  6. Add in white chocolate chips.
  7. Chill cookie dough, overnight to 24 hours for best results. If you are in a rush for cookies 2-4 hours will work.
  8. Use a cookie scoop or spoon and drop onto a parchment lined cookie sheet.
  9. Bake 12-14 minutes
  10. Makes approx. 3 dozen cookies (more or less depending on your cookie size)

 

12 Days of Homemade Christmas

It’s that time of year again Christmas time! Seriously, the year has just flown by how can it be time for Christmas again! I have been working hard to bring you my 12 Days of Homemade Christmas again this year. I have made a list, and have checked it more than twice. Heck, i’m still going back and forth with a few of the recipes. I only have a few more days until I start my list but it is coming and you will be able to find links to all 12 days here after they are posted. Just like last year the recipes range from super easy to others that take a little bit of patience and time. There will be cookies and candy and more!

The list is now complete! Check out my 12 days of Homemade Christmas! What treats will you be making for your family? I’d love to see your pics of my treats! Just use the tag #countrygirlgourmet on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or Pinterest.

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Country Girl Gourmet’s 12 Days of Homemade Christmas

Day 1: Hot Cocoa Mix

Hot Cocoa Mix | Country Girl Gourmet

Day 2: Homemade Peppermint Patties

Homemade Peppermint Patties | Country Girl Gourmet

Day 3: Bacon Pralines

Bacon Pralines |Country Girl Gourmet

Day 4: Gluten Free Red Velvet Cookies

Red Velvet Chip | Country Girl Gourmet

Day 5: Gluten Free Snow Flakes Spritz 

Snow Flakes Spritz | Country Girl Gourmet

Day 6: Melt in your Mouth Toffee

Melt in your Mouth Toffee | Country Girl Gourmet

Day 7: Gluten Free Chocolate Chip Cookies

Gluten Free Chocolate Chip Cookies | Country Girl Gourmet

Day 8: Gluten Free Gingerbread Cupcakes with Maple Buttercream

Gingerbread Cupcakes with Maple Buttercream | Country Girl Gourmet

Day 9: Peppermint Bark

peppermint bark |CountryGirl Gourmet

Day 10: Caramels

Caramels | Country Girl Gourmet

Day 11: Peppermint Meringues

Peppermint Meringues | Country Girl Gourmet

Day 12: Cranberry Orange White Chocolate Chip Cookies (gluten free)
Cranberry Orange Chip Cookies | Country Girl Gourmet

From my Family to yours, Merry Christmas!

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Sweetheart Cookies

I may not be big into Valentine’s day but I do try to make the day special for my kid’s. This has meant in the past making treats for the classes. Usually this includes things like cookies and cupcakes. If you are still looking for a treat to make then I have a sweet treat for you, Sweetheart Cookies. Sweetheart cookies are a yummy mix of a chocolate chip cookies and M&M cookies that my chocolate loving children and husband loved and I am sure you will too!

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Sweetheart Cookies

Ingredients

  • 1/2 cup butter
  • 1/2 cup shortening
  • 1 cup dark brown sugar (you can substitute light brown sugar)
  • 1/2 cup sugar
  • 2 tsp. vanilla extract
  • 2 eggs
  • 2 1/2 cups flour
  • 1 tsp. baking soda
  • 1/2 tsp. salt
  • 1/2 cup Valentine M&Ms  or other holiday candy coated chocolate candies
  • 1/2 cup white chocolate chips

Directions

  1. Preheat oven to 375.
  2. Beat butter, shortening and sugars together until fluffy.
  3.  Mix in eggs and vanilla until combined well.
  4. Stir in flour, baking soda and salt and combine until dough forms.
  5. Stir in M&Ms and white chocolate chips.
  6. Drop dough by the tablespoon onto a parchment lined cookie sheet. If desired add a few M&Ms on top of the dough.
  7. Bake for 8 to 10 minutes or until golden.
  8. Cool on a wire cooling rack if you can*all butter or all shortening can be used but it will change the texture of your cookie*

Cookies and Cream Cookies

My son is a admitted chocoholic. He loves all things chocolate. His favorite candy is Hershey’s Cookies and Cream Candy Bar. It really was no surprise that when he saw a cookie mix for cookies and cream cookies he picked it up and said I needed to buy it and make the cookies for him. A compromise was made and he agreed to letting me make the cookies from scratch. Oh geez what had I gotten my self into this time? I bought the chocolate cream filled cookies and finished the rest of my shopping and headed home to make cookies.

When I got home I got to work on my son’s cookies and mixed up a dough that was similar to my chocolate chip cookie dough but I added the crumbled cookies instead of chips. That was a debate in itself to add chips or not to add chips. If I add chips do I add white chocolate chips, semi sweet, dark chocolate or milk. So many decisions were to be made. I ended up deciding to go without them. The cookies baked and my son anxiously waited for his cookies. I have made Oreo stuffed chocolate chip cookies in the past so I knew the two were a tasty combo but I have to say what I created was the best of both worlds. The stuffed cookies can be a bit of a pain to make and these were so easy and ended up being super tasty! My husband even said to me, “who would have thought to use cookies to make a cookie”. These Cookies and Cream Cookies are a new favorite in my house. Try them for yourself! I am sure you will fall in love with them also.

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Cookies and Cream Cookies

Ingredients

1/2 cup Butter softened

1/2 cup Shortening

1 cup Brown Sugar

1/2 cup Sugar

2 Eggs

2 t Vanilla Extract

1t baking soda

1/2t salt

2 3/4 cups Flour

2 cups Chocolate Sandwich Cookies (such as Oreo’s or Newman-O’s), crushed/broken

*optional* Add 1-2 cups of your favorite chocolate chips. My husband feels this may be too much but my son thinks that they will make these cookies even better. I leave the to add chips or not to up to you.

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees

2. In a large bowl cream together butter, shortening, brown sugar and sugar until light and fluffy.

3. Mix in eggs and vanilla until thoroughly combined

4. Gradually mix in Flour, Baking Soda and Salt.

5. Add in  crushed/broken chocolate sandwich cookies and mix well, evenly distributing cookie crumbs.

6. Chill cookie dough, overnight to 24 hours for best results. If you are in a rush for cookies 2-4 hours will work.

7. Use a cookie scoop or spoon and drop onto a parchment lined cookie sheet.

8. Bake  10-12 minutes until golden

Makes approx. 4 dozen cookies (more or less depending on your cookie size)

*All butter or all shortening may be used instead of half and half. Margarine may be used in place of butter. The end result will change the texture of your cookie.

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