Chocolate Cadburry Cookies

Ok Easter is my favorite time because I love me some Cadbury eggs!! Side note-Sorry about the infrequent posts I stepped on a scale and was in shock....needless to say I started  fat camp so my baking is few and far between. I will start posting healthy recipes as I lose the same 20lb I lose OVER and OVER again!! Back to the cookies. I made these cookies for our game night we do each weekend. They were gone so fast. I was walking through target and I grabbed a bag of the cadbury eggs that were right by the check out stand. I had every intention of opening the bag and eating them in the car ride home but I decided to make cookies out of them instead.

Cream Sugars, butter, VANILLA and egg. I decided that there weren't enough cadbury eggs in the bag to satisfy me so I added a box of instant chocolate pudding to the mix to add more flavor to the cookies.

Add flour, baking soda, baking powder and pudding. Mix until combined. Add Cadburry eggs. The mixing process helps break them up.

Roll into balls and place on a cookie sheet. Remember you have the right amount of flour when your dough will hold its shape and doesn't leave cookie dough on your hands. Bake at 350 degrees for 10 minutes

xoxo Janis!!!

Chocolate Cadburry Cookies

(recipe by http://twistedflavor.blogspot.com)

1 Cup Sugar

1 Cup Brown Sugar

1 Cup Butter

1 tbs Vanilla!!

1 Egg

1 lrg pk instant Chocolate pudding

2 Cups Flour

1 tea Baking Soda

1 Tea Baking Powder

Cream Sugars, butter, egg and Vanilla!! Add flour, baking soda, baking powder and pudding. Mix until combined. Add Cadburry eggs. Roll into balls and place on a cookie sheet. Bake at 350 degrees for 10 minutes
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Lemon Bars

Ok Truth time this picture is not mine. I forgot to take a picture of my lemon bars before they got devoured! In fact a friend of mine swung by my house while I was out on a date with my husband and sent me a text saying "your lemon bars are amazing" so rest assured they were good! And I will remake them and change the picture

In your kitchenaid mix butter, flour and sugar until combined. 

Press dough into a 13x9 and bake for 15-20 minutes

This recipe calls for room temperature eggs. I'm never prepared enough to leave my eggs out and have them ready for me and even if I did I hate waiting. When I'm ready to cook I'm ready right then. So I stick my eggs in a bowl and let them sit in hot tap water while I throw my other ingredients in the mixer.

Add your eggs, sugar, lemon zest and lemon juice and mix. Add Flour and mix until combined. When I made these I used 1 Cup of Lemon juice and I felt like they were a little too tart so I am cutting the recipe to 3/4 cup but if you like tart go for the full cup and add more zest.

Pour over your baked crust and bake about 35-40 minutes

                              
                                xoxo Janis!!

Lemon Bars

(recipe by http://twistedflavor.blogspot.com)

Crust:

2 sticks butter

1/2 Cup sugar

2 Cups flour

Mix all together until just combined. Press dough into a 13x9 pan and bake for 15-20 minutes for 350 degrees

Filling:

6 Eggs at room Temperature

3 Cups Sugar

Zest of 2 lemons

3/4 cup Lemon Juice

1 Cup Flour

Wisk all together and pour over crust. Bake for 35-40 minutes until set. Let cool and dust with confectioners sugar

Lemonade Cookies

So the other day my friend posted a Martha Stewart Lemon Glaze cookie on her facebook stating it was her new favorite cookie. Because I have a thousand lemons on my tree I have been hunting for lemon recipes. I looked at the recipe that she posted and decided to twist it because I don't like a crunchy cookie. I like mine soft and chewy. Also I hated the glaze recipe. I could taste the confectioner sugar and it didn't taste like how I felt a glaze should so I changed that also.

Cream together the butter, egg, sugar, lemon zest and lemon juice. Add flour and mix until combined.

You know you have the perfect amount of flour in your dough if it is not sticky and will hold a ball shape without leaving dough on your hands. Sticky dough means flat cookies. (which by the way I did not have enough flour in these cookies as you can see how flat they were)

While cookies are baking make your glaze. Add confectioners sugar, zest of a lemon and juice of a lemon along with the other half of the cube of butter left over from the dough.

Cool on a rack and glaze. Now don't get scared when the cookies were warm they were really tart and I was worried that I had added too much lemon but it mellows out as it cools.

 xoxo Janis!!

Lemonade Cookies

recipe by http://twistedflavor.blogspot.com)

1 1/4 Cup Sugar

1 1/2 Cup Butter

1 Egg

Zest of 1 lemon

Juice of 1 lemon

1 tea Baking Soda

1 tea Baking Powder

2 1/2 Cups Flour

Cream sugar, butter, egg, lemon juice and zest. Add soda, baking power and flour. Roll into balls and bake 350 for 11 minutes. Cool and Glaze

Lemon Glaze

recipe by http://twistedflavor.blogspot.com)

2 Cups Powder Sugar

Zest 1 lemon

1/3 cup lemon juice

1/2 cube melted butter

Mix and glaze

Reese's Peanut Butter cup Brownies

We got together for New Years Eve with a bunch of friends and after baking cinnamon rolls the night before I decided to make something super easy and yummy!

You are going to laugh at how easy this is. I used a brownie mix (the kind that has chunks of chocolate)

Mix the brownie mix according to directions on the box. Your mix should be really thick. Not runny like a cake. If you had added too much liquid you can fix it with a little  cocoa powder and sugar. Add Reese's MINI peanut butter cups. Make sure you get the mini's because they aren't wrapped otherwise you will waste your time unwrapping a lot of candies

Bake in the oven at 325 degrees for about 25 minutes

 xoxo Janis!!

Reese's Peanut Butter cup Brownies

(recipe by http://twistedflavor.blogspot.com)

1 Brownie Mix

1 Pkg Mini Reese's Peanut Butter cups

Make brownies according to box directions. Add Peanut butter cups. Bake at 325 degrees for 25 Minutes

Jam Strip Cookies

Jam Strip Cookies have been at every Christmas Eve I have had with 
The Shillingburg's.

It feels like from the beginning of time! 

This is one of those cookies that my kids ask, 

"Why do you only make this at Christmas?"

Mark's Auntie Bev is the one who introduce us to this wonderful cookie.

She is in poor health we don't know where she found this recipe. 
Love you Auntie Bev!

Start by creaming together butter, sugar and eggs.

If you have a large measuring cup.  I like to add the flour, salt and baking powder into the measuring cup and mix with a fork.  

Combine with the creamy mixture.

Mix until all dry ingredients are incorporated.

Place the dough on a sheet of clear plastic wrap.

Wrap it up to seal it and refrigerate for an hour.

Remove from refrigerator and roll flat around a quarter of an inch in thickness..  I cut it in 2 X 12 

(because that is how long my cookie sheet is)

Butter and lightly flour your cookie sheet and place the strips on the sheet.

with your thumb press to make a well in the middle of the cookie.  Spoon in Raspberry Jam.

(I like seedless Raspberry) 
There is such a thing as too much jam.  
It will spill over.  Not a big deal.

While the cookies are baking I mix up the icing for the top.  When the cookie comes out I drizzle the icing on top with the whisk.  I use a spatula to cut the cookies into 1 inch pieces and 

place on a cooling rack carefully.  

They will break if you are not careful.

I hope you enjoy our favorite Christmas Cookie!

 Jam Strip Cookies
(recipe by http://twistedflavor.blogspot.com)

1 C Butter

1/2 C Sugar

3 C Sifted flour

2 Eggs

1/2 tsp Salt

1 tsp Baking Powder

1/2 C Raspberry Jam

Icing

2 Cups Powdered Sugar

2 tsp Lemon Juice (Fresh)

2 1/2 tsp water

Bake at 400 degrees for 8-10 minutes

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S'more Cookies

These delicious cookies leave everyone screaming for the recipe. I like to play around with my chocolate chip cookie recipe. When I use milk chocolate chips I like to add Heath Bits. This time I added everything you would find in a S'more and let's face who doesn't love s'mores? (p.s. if you are one of those people who does not like them don't tell me because I might start questioning our friendship!!) So you start with my basic chocolate chip cookie recipe

Cream together the butter, sugars, egg and vanilla. Don't be stingy on the vanilla. I like to think the more the merrier! I never measure I just pour.

Mix in the baking powder, baking soda and flour before you mix in the graham cracker. Smash the package of graham crackers with your hand while they are still in the package. I like to leave it lumpy to give your cookie a nice crunch. Add your chocolate chips and bake at 350 degrees for about 8 minutes

Pull cookies out of oven and start adding your chocolate and marshmallows. Throw the cookies back into the oven for 2-3 minutes. I think that the best tip when making chocolate chip cookies is to just under bake them and let them sit on the hot sheet for a few minutes. This way your cookies are soft and chewy!

These are a crowd pleaser for sure!!!

 xoxo Janis!!

Chocolate Chip Recipe

(recipe by http://twistedflavor.blogspot.com)

1 cup butter (no margarine...sick!!)

1 Cup Brown Sugar (I like the dark brown)

1Cup White Sugar

1 egg

1 TBS Vanilla!!

1 tea Baking Powder

1 tea Baking Soda

1 1/2 cups Flour 
(when making S'mores otherwise 2 1/2 cups Flour)
 1 package of Gram Crackers Smashed

 1 pkg your favorite Chocolate Chips

Hershey's Chocolate bars (about 3)

Marshmallows

Bake at 350 degrees 
P.S. I didn't forget the salt I don't use it...