Hershey's Classic Milk Chocolate Chip Cookies

I am a recipe hoarder.
I will try almost anything, but that means saving each and every one I see.

I had made something that included chocolate chips, and this Hershey recipe was on the back of the bag. It's basic chocolate chip cookies...but it's a recipe I didn't have for my blog.

Mission accepted!
(and one more off the top of the recipe mountain!)

Ingredients:

1 Cup Butter (softened)

¾ Cup Sugar

¾ Cup Light brown sugar

1 Tsp Vanilla

2 Eggs

2 ¼ Cup All purpose flour

1 Tsp Baking soda

½ Tsp Salt

2 Cups (11.5 oz package) milk chocolate chips

Directions:

1. Heat oven to 375

2. Beat butter, sugar, brown sugar, and vanilla until creamy

3. Add eggs and beat well

4. In another bowl, stir together flour, baking soda, and salt

5. Slowly add dry mixture to butter mixture

6. Stir in chocolate chips

7. Drop by teaspoons onto prepared cookie sheet

8. Bake 8-10 minutes

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Pretzel Marshmallow Peanut Butter Chip Cookies

I love holiday baking!

I sent cookies and treats around to all the neighbors and some friends and family. I have to ship some to certain friends and family too!

I saw this recipe on Baked Bree and knew this had to be made.
Yup, this was made waaaay back at Christmas...and posted now.

Sorry for the delay!

Ingredients:

1 Cup butter (softened)

½ Cup sugar

1 ½ Cup brown sugar

2 Eggs

2 Tsp vanilla

2 ¾ Cup flour

1 ½ Tsp baking powder

1 Tsp baking soda

½ Tsp salt

1 Cup crushed pretzels

1 Cup peanut butter chips

½ Cup mini marshmallows

Directions:

1. Cream butter and sugars until light and fluffy

2. Add eggs and vanilla

3. Add flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt

4. Add pretzel pieces, peanut butter chips, and marshmallows

5. Drop batter onto prepared cookie sheet

6. Bake at 350 for 12-15 minutes.

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Pecan Dainties

I was grocery shopping one day, and this recipe printed out on my receipt. Cool!

Not pleased to find out that this is a crumbly dough recipe. Crumbly dough is not my BFF. In fact, we are sworn enemies.
I never can seem to get it to work like other people do.
My cheeks are burning in shame.

This recipe says it makes 50 cookies. Are you kidding me? I got about 12 small meatball sized ones out of it.
They taste awesome, but, it's tainted for me because I feel inadequate.

Any tips or hints for me?

Ingredients:

½ Cup butter (softened)

¼ Cup powdered sugar

Extra powdered sugar for dusting

¼ Tsp salt

1 Tsp vanilla

1 Cup all purpose flour

1 Cup finely diced pecans

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 350

2. Mix butter, sugar, salt, and vanilla

3. Gradually add in flour and pecans

4. Chill dough 1 hour

5. Roll dough into marble sized balls

6. Cook for 15 minutes until firm but not brown

7. Roll gently in powdered sugar

8. Cool completely

9. Roll in powdered sugar again

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Hot Chocolate Cookies

I love a good cookie any time of the year.

These though, due to the inclusion of hot chocolate, make me feel Christmas-ey; or maybe just winter-y.

Either way, while making them, I started thinking about some memorable Christmas/Winter memories.
Like the time we were all sledding at a hospital (they had a huge hill out front. They don't allow it anymore, poo.) and my dad had a friend of my mother's on his lap.
The idea was, you were supposed to roll out of the sled before you hit the bottom of the hill. She panicked. My dad couldn't move because she didn't. One broken leg later (hey, at least we were already at the hospital) and those sledding days were done.

Another year, we were driving from my grandmother's house to my uncle's on Christmas day. A car backed out of their driveway right in front of my hubby. He started yelling at the car about not paying attention.
Then we realized there was no driver in the car. It had slipped into gear and just slid out of the driveway. We stopped at the house and knocked on the door. The guy came running to collect his car from the middle of the road.

Ahh...cold weather memories!

Ingredients:

2 Sticks butter (softened)

1 Cup sugar

⅔ Cup brown sugar

2 Eggs

1 Tsp vanilla

3 ¼ Cups flour

4 Packages hot chocolate mix

1 Tsp salt

1 ¼ Tsp baking soda

1 Cup white chocolate chips

1 Cup milk chocolate chips

1 Cup semi sweet chocolate chips

Directions:

1. Cream butter and sugars until light and fluffy

2. In separate bowl, mix dry ingredients

3. Add eggs and vanilla to wet mixture

4. Slowly add in the dry ingredients

5. Add all chocolate chips

6. Chill dough for 1 hour

7. Drop onto parchment lined cookie sheet

8. Bake at 350 for 9-11 minutes

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Adapted from Baked Bree

Macadamia White Chip Cookies

My mother l-o-v-e-s white chocolate and macadamia. It has to be one of her very favorite pairings.

Since she lives so far away from me, I miss her a lot. We talk multiple times a week, sometimes multiple times a day.
Every now and again I like to ship her something delicious to make her day.

This was one of these moments.

I had bought Ghiradelli white chips for another recipe and saw this on the back of the bag. It went into the mountain-o-recipes and was forgotten until today.

Whipped them up (man, such a better deal on macadamia nuts at Target than at my local grocery!), packed them carefully, and entrusted my yummies to the USPS.
(I also sent her some salty kisses, just because they are fun)

Package made it, happy mother has been texting me every single time she grabs a cookie...and my heart is full!

Ingredients:

1 Cup butter (softened)

1 ½ Cup sugar

1 Cup brown sugar

2 Eggs (room temperature)

1 ½ Tsp vanilla extract

3 Cups flour

½ Tsp baking soda

1 Tsp salt

2 Cups (11 oz) white chocolate chips

1 ½ Cups macadamia nuts (chopped)

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 350

2. Cream butter and sugars until fluffy

3. Add vanilla and eggs

4. Blend in flour, baking soda, and salt

5. Stir in white chocolate chips and nuts

6. Bake on prepared cookie sheets for 10-12 minutes

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Dark Chocolate Espresso Cookies

Today is the 10th anniversary of my father in law's passing.

My mother in law decided to celebrate his life this past weekend with a big reunion.

Friends and family near and far gathered in her backyard for food, friends, and memories. She was so very happy having everyone so near.

Laughter was had, reminiscing was done, toasts were made, and everyone just, well, celebrated life!

It's a nice reminder to everyone that life is just entirely too short and we should always tell those around us how much they mean to us.

Ingredients:

4 Tbsp Hot water

2 Tbsp Instant espresso coffee powder

1 Box Dark chocolate brownie mix

1 Egg

3 Tbsp Vegetable oil

¼ Tsp Cinnamon

1 ⅓ Cups dark chocolate pieces

Optional: chocolate kisses or caramel candy kisses for topping

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 350

2. Prepare a baking sheet

3. In small bowl, combine water and espresso powder

4. In large bowl, combine brownie mix, egg, oil, cinnamon, and espresso mixture

5. Stir in chocolate pieces

6. Drop by rounded teaspoons onto prepared cookie sheet

7. Bake 10-12 minutes

8. Add optional topping as cookies come out of the oven

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Adapted from: Duncan Hines

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Pineapple Cookies

The best laid plans.

Remember I took a break because things were nuts?
Silly, silly me for putting a timeline on "normal".

Sigh.

So, I will get back to regular blogging, as well as bringing back Smell Good Sunday
BUT

In the meantime, my work staff was reduced by half...it just worked out that way. We are scrambling to find new people while trying to train newer staff. My position is on hold in order to help where needed..and it's just a lot at once.

While we were on vacation over the 4th, my parents received a phone call stating a pipe broke in their house and water was pouring from the front, back, and garage doors.
At the time, they were 9 states away!
Not much to be done but to shut off the water, call the insurance, and wait until they can get home.
Reader's Digest:
LOSS:
Pretty much whole downstairs
Master bedroom
All Carpeting
3 bathrooms

GAIN:
All the irreplaceable stuff was out of water's reach!

They have a long road ahead, but the insurance company is really doing well walking them through it.

I will get back on track, please be patient with me!

I am thinking I should bake up some of these yummies and send them to my parents!








Ingredients:

¾ Cup Shortening

1 Cup Sugar

2 Large Eggs

1 ½ Cup Crushed pineapple

3 Cups Flour

1 Tsp Salt

½ Tsp Baking soda

Cinnamon and Sugar for sprinkling

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 375

2. Prepare baking sheet

3. Cream shortening and sugar until smooth

4. Add one egg at a time until well combined

5. Add pineapple

6. In separate bowl, mix together flour, salt, and baking soda

7. Slowly add dry ingredients to wet

8. Scoop rounded tablespoons onto prepared sheet

9. Sprinkle with cinnamon and sugar

10. Bake 10-15 minutes

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Adapted from: With Style and Grace Blog

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Reese's Puffy Cookies

I feel like the name of these cookies might be a bit deceiving.
I received a box of these cookies from my friend Jennay from A Day in the Life of Jennay and they were big, puffy, and delicious!

She sent me the recipe. I made them. They were delicious...but nowhere near big and puffy.

We talked the next day, I did nothing wrong as far as she can tell. Best we can come up with is the fact that it was yucky out here. Weather matters.

I will keep trying to make them puffy though, since hubby and the girl ate them all, we need more in the house!

Ingredients:

2 ¼ Cup all purpose flour

1 Tsp salt

1 Tsp baking soda

1 Cup brown sugar

½ Cup sugar

1 Cup softened butter

1 Tsp vanilla

2 Large eggs

10.5 oz bag of Reese’s Pieces

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 375

2. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper

3. Combine flour, salt, and baking soda in a medium bowl

4. Combine brown sugar, sugar, butter, and vanilla until creamy

5. Add eggs to wet mixture and beat thoroughly

6. Add dry ingredients slowly, mix well

7. Add Reese’s Pieces and mix

8. Drop rounded tablespoons onto prepared cookie sheet

9. Bake 8-10 minutes

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Devil Dog Cookies

Hubby had some family coming down to visit a bit ago. They only live a couple of hours away, but with everyone's schedule it is near impossible to find the time.

What started as a one person visit has ballooned into 15 people meeting for drink!
Can I tell you again just how excited we were?!

I love family, I am super close to mine...and I love that the girl child is getting to know the far away hubby side more and more every year.

There are cousins her age, and they are all fantastic kids! They were all raised as polite, sweet, caring human beings...and the fact that they are all cute as buttons doesn't hurt either!

Ingredients:

Cookie

½ Cup shortening

1 Cup sugar

1 Egg

½ Cup cocoa

2 Cups flour

½ Tsp baking powder

½ Tsp baking soda

½ Tsp salt

1 Tsp vanilla

1 Cup milk

Filling

½ Cup butter (softened)

1 ½ Cup confectioner’s sugar

7.5 oz jar marshmallow fluff

½ tsp vanilla

Directions:

1. Mix shortening and sugar

2. Add in egg

3. Add cocoa and dry ingredients

4. Add milk and vanilla

5. Drop by tablespoons on ungreased cookie sheets

6. Bake at 400 for 8-10 minutes

7. Cool for 30 minutes

8. Mix all filling ingredients, using only ½ the jar of Fluff

9. Spread filling between two cookies

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Cookie Ingredients

Filling Ingredients

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