Pumpkin Cookies

It's that time of the year again! Time to bust out your pumpkin recipes! I got this recipe from my mom and recently made them for my pumpkin-lovin' friend who just had her own little pumpkin - a baby boy!

Here's what you'll need:

• 1/4 cup Crisco


• 1/2 cup sugar


• 1 egg


• 1/2 cup canned pumpkin


• 1 cup flour


• 2 teaspoons baking powder


• 1/2 teaspoon salt


• 1-1/4 teaspoon cinnamon


• 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg


• 1/8 tsp ginger

Start off by creaming the crisco. Gradually add the sugar in. Cream until light and fluffy. Now throw in the egg and pumpkin.

Mix well. The batter will be pretty wet.

Add the flour, baking powder, salt, and all the spices. Mix until blended. This will thicken up your batter a bit, but it still is not your normal "cookie" consistency. It'll be more muffin-ish.

Drop by teaspoonfulls on greased cookie sheet.

Bake at 350 for about 15 minutes. They'll come out nice and soft!

Serve up and enjoy!

Lingerie Cookies

I made these cookies for my friend's bachelorette party. I love making sugar cookies - especially for a fun occasion like this!

You can find my recipe for the cookies here.

Oatmeal Toffee Cookies

Here's a fun twist on oatmeal cookies. Ingredients:

• 1 stick butter


• 1/2 cup brown sugar


• 1/2 cup sugar


• 1 teaspoon vanilla


• 1 egg


• 1 cup flour


• 1/8 teaspoon salt


• 1/8 teaspoon baking soda


• 5 oz (about half a bag) toffee candy bits


• 1/2 cup chocolate chips


• 1 cup Oatmeal

Start off by creaming the butter, sugars, and vanilla. Add the egg and mix well. Slowly add in the flour, salt, and baking soda. Dump in the chocolate chips, toffee, and oatmeal.

Mix just until combined.

Drop by spoonfuls on a lightly greased baking sheet.

Bake at 350 for 10-12 minutes or until the edges get nice and golden brown.

Mmmmm....enjoy!

GIANT M&M Cookies

My dear friend Kacie got me a muffin top pan for Christmas. She told me I could use it to bake cookies in as well. How cool is that?! Sooo, my first batch of cookies in the muffin pan were M&M chocolate chip.

Here's the ingredients:

• 2 sticks softened butter
• 3/4 cup sugar
• 1 cup packed light brown sugar
• 2 eggs
• 2 tablespoons vanilla
• 3 3/4 cups flour
• 1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
• 3/4 teaspoon salt
• chocolate chips
• M&M’s

Beat the butter and sugar, then add eggs & vanilla and beat until combined. Slowly add flour, baking soda, and salt...mix it all up. Throw in your chocolate chips (however many you want).

Now since I was using my muffin top pan, I added a big scoop of cookie dough...pressed it out a bit, and then placed some M&M's on top of each cookie.

Bake at 350 for 12-14 minutes or until done.

Let cool for a few minutes...

Look how HUGE these babies turned out! Perfectly round cookies. If you don't have a muffin top pan, pick one up the next time you see one! :)

No-Bake Peanut Butter Cookies

These are great little treats for when you need something fast.

Ingredients:

• 1 cup Karo syrup
• 1 cup sugar
• 1-1/2 cups peanut butter
• 3-1/2 cups Rice Krispies

In a medium sized pot, cook the syrup and sugar over low heat until the sugar dissolves. Continue cooking until the mixture starts to bubble and then remove from heat. Stir in peanut butter and then add the Rice Krispies.

Drop by spoonfulls on wax paper...

Once cooled, serve and enjoy!

Christmas Cookies

I love to decorate Chrismas cookies! I had some new cookie cutters to try out this year so here they are..
I tried to spruce 'em up a bit with some sugar crystals :)

The snowmen didn't turn out quite how I had envisioned, but they were still fun to play around with.

Merry Christmas and happy baking!

Golf Cookies

These are the cookies I made for my dad's 50th birthday party. Super easy to make!

Here's my sister - queen of the cupcakes!

Happy Birthday Dad!

Baby Cookies

I love decorating cookies, so any excuse I can find works for me! Here are some cookies my mom and I made when she was in town for the weekend. Hope you enjoyed them Kacie!


You can find the recipe for the cookies here. Happy baking!

Cookies and Cream Chocolate Chip Cookies

Chocolate chip cookies and oreos? What a great combination! I absolutely *love* these cookies.

First, start out by making your favorite chocolate chip cookie dough...

Put about 20 oreos in a food processor until they're all crumbs...

Mix your oreo crumbs with 3oz softened cream cheese...

Make a hole in the center of each cookie dough, and with a spoon make little balls with the oreo mix and place in the dough...

Continue doing this for all your cookies, and then cover the oreo part with the cookie dough...

Bake at 350 for about 13-15 minutes until done.

Check out these beauties!!

Blueberry Sugar Cookies

I made these cookies for Memorial Day weekend and absolutely loved them! The blueberries added such a surprisingly delicious taste. First, I made my favorite vanilla/almond sugar cookies...you could cut out all different shapes of your choice, but I thought the round wavy edge ones would be nice for this...

After baking, I let the cookies cool for a few minutes and melted some white chocolate chips in a small bowl. I spooned some melted chocolate on each one and added the blueberries before it had a chance to melt. You'll want to do one cookie at a time, so the blueberries can really "set" in the chocolate before it melts. Might sound like a strange combination, but the blueberries paired so well, that I actually grabbed the leftover berries from the fridge every time I ate a cookie and would pop 1 blueberry in my mouth per bite. ;) Mmm, so good!