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Subarashi Chocolate Chip Cookies

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1 ½ cups butter, softened
1 ¼ cups white granulated sugar
1 ¼ cups packed brown sugar
1 tablespoon vanilla
2 eggs
4 cups flour
2 teaspoons baking soda
½ teaspoon salt
24 ounces chocolate chips

Heat oven to 350 degrees. In a large bowl, beat butter, sugars, vanilla and eggs on medium speed or with spoon until light and fluffy. Stir in flour, baking soda and salt. Dough will be stiff. Stir in chocolate chips.

On an ungreased cookie sheet (I line mine with baking paper), drop dough by tablespoonfuls 2 inches apart.

Bake 11 to 13 minutes or until light brown (centers will be soft). Cool 1 to 2 minutes; remove from cookie sheet to cooling rack.

Makes about 60 cookies-Not really because I tend to make huge cookies 

The BEST Sugar Cookies

29 Wednesday Jan 2020

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At Christmas time I decided to make several different sugar cookie recipes in a quest to find my favorite. Kristina recommended this recipe  

Sally’s Baking Addiction has a lot of great recipes you should check out. The thing I love most about this recipe is that the cookies hold their shape and do not spread too much. They are also sturdy and don’t crumble when toddler hands are frosting them. Best of all they are seriously tasty.

Soft Pumpkin Gingersnap Cookies

12 Thursday Nov 2015

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Autumn deliciousness!

Ingredients:

½ cup of butter, at room temperature
1 cup granulated sugar, plus more for rolling the cookies
½ cup of pumpkin puree
¼ cup of molasses
1 large egg
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 ⅓ cups flour
2 teaspoons baking soda
2 teaspoons cinnamon
1 1/2 teaspoons ground ginger
1 teaspoon ground cloves
1/2 teaspoon salt

Method-

1. In the bowl of a mixer, beat the butter and sugar together until creamy. Add the pumpkin, molasses, egg, and vanilla extract, mix until combined.

2. In a medium bowl, whisk together flour, baking soda, spices, and salt. Add dry ingredients to wet ingredients and mix until combined. Refrigerate cookie dough for one hour. The dough can remain in the refrigerator for up to three days.

3. Preheat oven to 350° F. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper. Place about 1/3 cup sugar in a small bowl. Roll tablespoon-sized balls of dough in sugar until well coated and place on prepared baking sheet– 2 inches apart. Bake for 10–12 minutes, or until cookies look cracked and set at the edges. The cookies will still be soft. Let the cookies cool on the baking sheet for a few minutes after removing them from the oven, then move them to a wire rack to cool completely.

Cookie Monster’s Famous Sugar Cookie Dough Recipe

04 Wednesday Nov 2015

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When Ally and James were little we collected a series of Sesame Street books from the grocery store. There was a new one each week for several weeks. At the time I thought this was the best sugar cookie recipe ever! I always used to go and get Volume 1 off the shelf when I made them. Then suddenly we didn’t have the books anymore and I couldn’t remember what had happened to them. I didn’t have a copy of the recipe either because the book was always so handy.  It may have been in the box of toys we lost when we moved from Clayton to Houston in 1996. The one that Kristina’s Treehouse and all the vintage Barbies were in. Or we could have donated them somewhere, forgetting about the recipe.

Anyway, I did not have a copy of the recipe and every time I went to make sugar cookies I missed this recipe! I do love the the sugar cookie recipe Allyson shared from her aunt, Melinda Colton. So today I clicked on a link to a chocolate chip cookie recipe on The Kitchn website (Yep, that’s how they spell it) and when I got to the bottom of the recipe I was interested in I saw these words, “So You Know: Cookie Monster’s Famous Sugar Cookie Dough Recipe.” And I actually got a bit excited as I clicked on the link, thinking, “Could it really be THE recipe after all these years.” Sure enough, there is an actual image of the page from the book! It is the recipe! Here is the recipe including The Kitchn’s tips for baking since they weren’t included in the book.

Ingredients-

3/4 cup unsalted butter or margarine, softened
1 cup sugar
2 eggs, slightly beaten
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon salt

Equipment-

Medium-sized mixing bowl
Measuring cup and spoons
A fork

Instructions-

1. Put 3/4 cup of butter or margarine (that’s a stick and a half) into your mixing bowl. (I would make this in my Kitchen Aid)

2. Measure 1 cup of sugar.

3. Pour sugar over butter.

4. With fork, squash butter and sugar together until they are blended.

5. Crack shells of two eggs and pour eggs over mixture in bowl.

6. Measure 1 teaspoon vanilla and pour over mixture.

7. With fork, blend everything in the bowl together.

8. Measure 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour and pour over mixture in bowl.

9. Measure 1 teaspoon baking powder and sprinkle over flour.

10. Measure 1 teaspoon of salt and sprinkle over flour and baking powder.

11. Mix everything together either with the fork or with your hands.

12. Put dough in icebox to chill (at least one hour)

There are no instructions for baking from this print, but a quick search for others’ experiences with the recipe and recommendations say to roll out cookies 1/4 inch thick, sprinkle with sugar, and bake at 400 degrees.

Genie Grandma’s Sugar Cookies

04 Wednesday Nov 2015

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So be warned…I have only made this recipe once and they turned out very dry, as in they were little Hockey Pucks! Now, that could be attributed to my poor cooking skills when I was in my twenties or it could be that they were never very good. I remember grandma telling me that the recipe was for drop cookies and she just added more flour.

I loved these cookies when I was young. Grandma made them only for Christmas and Easter and kept them until they were gone in a white Tupperware container.

Here is her recipe in her handwriting-

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Melinda Colton’s Sugar Cookies

04 Wednesday Nov 2015

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Cream Together:
1 1/2 cups sugar
1 cup butter
1-8 ounce package cream cheese

Add:
1 teaspoon vanilla
1/2 teaspoon almond extract
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 egg
3 1/2 cups flour
1/2 teaspoon baking powder

Chill dough for one hour. Roll out and cut with cookie cutters. Bake 8-10 minutes at 350 degrees.

New York Times-Chocolate Chip Cookies

22 Saturday Aug 2015

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I haven’t tried these yet! I’ll report back when I do. I found this recipe at NYT Cooking.

INGREDIENTS

  • 2 cups minus 2 tablespoons (8 1/2 ounces) cake flour
  • 1 ⅔ cups (8 1/2 ounces) bread flour
  • 1 ¼ teaspoons baking soda
  • 1 ½ teaspoons baking powder
  • 1 ½ teaspoons coarse salt
  • 2 ½ sticks (1 1/4 cups) unsalted butter
  • 1 ¼ cups (10 ounces) light brown sugar
  • 1 cup plus 2 tablespoons (8 ounces) granulated sugar
  • 2 large eggs
  • 2 teaspoons natural vanilla extract
  • 1 ¼ pounds bittersweet chocolate disksor fèves, at least 60 percent cacao content (Valharona makes these if you want to be fancy. I think I will try dark chocolate chips)
  •  Sea salt

Method-

  1. Sift flours, baking soda, baking powder and salt into a bowl. Set aside.
  2. Using a mixer fitted with paddle attachment, cream butter and sugars together until very light, about 5 minutes. Add eggs, one at a time, mixing well after each addition. Stir in the vanilla. Reduce speed to low, add dry ingredients and mix until just combined, 5 to 10 seconds. Drop chocolate pieces in and incorporate them without breaking them. Press plastic wrap against dough and refrigerate for 24 to 36 hours. Dough may be used in batches, and can be refrigerated for up to 72 hours.
  3. When ready to bake, preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper or a nonstick baking mat. Set aside.
  4. Scoop 6 3 1/2-ounce mounds of dough (the size of generous golf balls) onto baking sheet, making sure to turn horizontally any chocolate pieces that are poking up; it will make for a more attractive cookie. Sprinkle lightly with sea salt and bake until golden brown but still soft, 18 to 20 minutes. Transfer sheet to a wire rack for 10 minutes, then slip cookies onto another rack to cool a bit more. Repeat with remaining dough, or reserve dough, refrigerated, for baking remaining batches the next day. Eat warm, with a big napkin.

Dixie’s Sugar Cookies

14 Sunday Jun 2015

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Ruth’s friend, Dixie, has an amazing party every year to decorate Valentine sugar cookies. One of the amazing things is how many hundreds of these it appears that she makes. The other amazing thing is that the party is an open house and she invites anyone to drop by. She’s an “amazing” woman. Here is the recipe from her Facebook page.

Ingredients-

2 C Sugar
1 C Butter, softened
1/2 C milk, room temp
4 eggs
1 Tbs Vanilla
5-6 c flour
2 tsp Baking soda
2 tsp Baking powder

Method-

Cream Sugar and butter together until fluffy.  Add milk and combine.  Add eggs one at a time.  Mix in vanilla.  Combine 5 C flour and baking soda and baking powder, add to butter mixture in three batches making sure flour is incorporated each time before adding more.  Add extra flour if needed.  This is a very soft, tender dough.  Heavily flour surface to roll out, and flour top of dough before rolling.  roll out 1/4-1/2 inch thick.  Bake 350 degrees for 8 minutes.

Tips – this dough is sticky, but will make super soft cookies if you can manage the stickiness.  If you add extra flour, it will be easier to work with, but you will have a tougher cookie.

Does not need to be refrigerated, but you can if you want to – it will help with the stickiness of the dough.

This recipe makes about 50-60 cookies depending on thickness.

 

S’mores Bars

12 Thursday Feb 2015

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I found this recipe on I Heart Naptime. I made it a few weeks ago for a group and it was a hit. I made a few adjustments to the recipe and added some suggestions that made the process easier for me. Sorry there are no photos. Go to the I Heart Naptime page to see her photo.

Ingredients-

  • CRUST:
  • 1/2 cup butter melted
  • 1 1/2 cup graham cracker crumbs (this is a little more than one packet)
  • DOUGH:
  • 2 cups brown sugar
  • 2/3 cup butter (softened)
  • 2 eggs
  • 2 1/2 cup flour
  • 2 1/4 tsp baking powder
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 1 tsp vanilla
  • 1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
  • 1 cup mini marshmallows
  • Top the dough with the following before baking:
  • 1 Hershey’s Bar (cut into pieces)
  • 2 Graham Crackers (broken into pieces)
  • 3/4 cup marshmallows

Instructions

  1. Pre-heat oven to 325 degrees.
  2. Combine melted butter and graham cracker crumbs into a small bowl with a fork. Then line a 13×9 with foil and press down crust. Set aside.
  3. Cream butter and sugar in a large bowl. Add in eggs and vanilla and stir until combined. Mix the baking powder and salt with 1 cup of flour. Pour into the butter mixture and stir in the rest of the flour. Fold in chocolate chips and marshmallows.
  4. I put spoonfuls of the dough evenly all over the top of the graham cracker crust. Then carefully press dough into pan with flour on your hands. This is a bit tricky because the graham cracker crust keeps pulling up. Then add the Hershey’s bar, broken graham cracker and marshmallows on top. Bake for 25-30 minutes or until lightly browned. Be carefully not to overcook or the bars will be dry. Oven temps will vary. The dough should be slightly soft in the center.
  5. Allow bars to cool before cutting.

Nicole’s Energy Bites

07 Tuesday Oct 2014

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1 cup oats
1/2 cup ground flaxseed
1/2 cup mini dark chocolate chips
1 cup flaked coconut
1/3 cup honey
1 teaspoon vanilla
1/2 cup peanut butter

Combine the honey, vanilla and peanut butter until smooth. Combine the dry ingredients. Pour the honey mixture over and mix until well combined. Using a cookie scoop form into balls and freeze or refrigerate.  Store in an airtight container. We just leave ours in the refrigerator or freezer, wherever there is more space.