I got home from coffee with some friends this morning and my mom asked me if I was bringing food to my party tonight. I stopped and thought, than answered completely wrong. "If you buy me a bag of chocolate chips then I will make some cookies." WRONG ANSWER!!! I should have said NO! I am not baking for my friends. I spend all of my money making food for other people to eat. My parents just fuel my addiction. They don't even try and step in because they enjoy my food just as much as my friends. Apparently everyone just wants me to go broke!! My mother responds with "why don't you just use the bag of mini M&M's in the cupboard?" Than my father stands up looks in the cupboard and next to the M&M's finds a bag of peppermint Kisses. His response "Make these into some cookies for me." So needless to say I gave in and have been baking for the past few hours. I understand my parents clever tricks. When I bake I have to clean up my mess, well when the kitchen is messy before I bake I just end up cleaning the entire kitchen. Oh, parents you think you are so tricky. I am on to you!!!
Even though I have vowed to spend less money and time baking for others here I am making two different types of cookies. So please dear readers keep my secret for me. Please don't tell anyone that I broke my New Year's resolution before the new year. So shhhhh!!!!!! It's a secret!!!! I trust you, dear readers, to help me!! I don't trust my friends and family to help me from going broke!
Well even though I have not throughly enjoyed baking today, I hope you really enjoy these recipes. The two types of cookies I made today are Kisses Candy Cane Blossoms and Chocolate Chip cookies with mini M&M's instead of chocolate chips. The chocolate chip cookies is another thing you, dear readers, will have to keep a secret. The recipe is my mother's cookies recipe. It is amazing!!! This recipe is one of the first recipes I made. These cookies and Ramen noodles fostered my love for baking. So please please please dear readers help me protect my money and my cookies!! The Kisses Blossomes have no emtional attacment because I found the recipe on the back of the bag, so do with that recipe what you like!!
Thank you Luke, my art college student brother, for taking some very artistic pictures of my cookies!!
Ingredients
- 48 peppermint Kisses
- 1/2 cup butter
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 2 cups flour
- 1/4 teaspoons baking soda
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 2 tablespoons milk
- red and green food coloring and extra granulate sugar
- Heat oven to 350 degrees. Remove wrappers from candies.
- Beat butter, granulated sugar, egg, and vanilla in large bowl until well blended. Stir together flour, baking soda, and salt; add alternately with milk to butter mixture, beating until well blended.
- Mix half the dough with green food coloring and the other half with red. Shape dough into 1-inch balls. Roll in extra sugar. Place on ungreased cookie sheet.
- Bake 8 to 10 minutes or until edges are lightly browned and cookie set. Remove form oven; cool 2 to 3 minutes. Press a candy piece into center of each cookie. Remove from cookie sheet to wire rack. Cool completely. About 4 dozen cookies.
Chocolate Chip Cookies
Ingredients- 1 1/2 cups butter flavor crisco (please use crisco!!)
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 1/2 cups brown sugar
- 1 tbl vanilla
- 3 eggs
- 1 tsp salt
- 2 tsp spoons baking soda
- 4 cups flour
- 1 bag chocolate chips or mini M&M's
Combine crisco, sugars, vanilla, eggs, and salt; stir until creamy. Add flour and soda, mix well. Stir in chips. Put on ungreased cookies sheet by tablespoon full. Bake at 375 for 8 to 10 minute.
Remember shhhhh!!!!! it's a secret!!!
Nancy
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