Granny's Butter Cookies

1 C butter
1 C powdered sugar
2 C flour
1 C pecans (optional)
1 t ice water
1 t vanilla
Cream butter and sugar together thoroughly, add other ingredient in order and chill.

Make small oblong rolls (about inches long). Press a pecan half into the top of each cookie.

Bake at 375 until light golden brown. Remove from oven and roll in powdered sugar.

Granny's Sugar Cookies

Sometimes the best recipes are written on old scraps of paper.

1 C powdered sugar
1 C granulated sugar
1 C butter
1 C oil
1 T vanilla

Add dry ingredients:
4 C + 4T flower
1t soda
1t salt
1t cream of tartar

Roll dough into balls and dip in sugar.  Place balls on an ungreased cookie sheet and press with the bottom of a drinking glass.

Bake at 375 until edges are light brown.

Cake Mix Cookie Bars

1 Box Yellow Cake Mix
1 Small Box Vanilla Pudding Mix
1/4 C Water
3/4 C Vegetable Oil
2 Eggs
1 C Chocolate Chips or M&M's

Combine cake mix, and dry pudding mix in mixing bowl.  Next add water, oil, and eggs mix well.  Stir in chocolate chip or M&M's.

Pour batter into a greased 10x13 baking dish.

Bake at 350 for 25-30 minutes.

Pumpkin Cookies

I needed to make cookies the other day, and decided to try something new. I failed to read the recipe well, before I started and had to substitute an ingredient, but they still turned out yummy!! The recipe was in an old Martha Stewart Magazine, but you can find it here. I substituted sourcream for the condensed milk, and used cream cheese icing rather than the suggested "brown butter icing". The recipe also says to use a pastry bag and pipe them onto the cookie sheet, I just used a spoon. They're easy to make and are soft and delicious. Okay so Martha's are prettier, but hey anything that tastes this good isn't going to be sitting on the counter for people to look at for too long!!

Fancy that, I didn't have all the ingredients, but the cookies still turned out.

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With Acceptance Comes Healing and Happy Hallowpink

Let me start by saying thank you to Beverly at How Sweet The Sound for hosting Pink Saturday.

With Acceptance Comes Healing

Last Saturday I came to terms with the fact that there is a difference between want and need. I began to realize and accept the fact that the Pink KitchenAid Mixer would not be mine. Yes, it was difficult at first, but I have moved on. I have realized that others could be just as loved in my kitchen. Meet my new friend, she can mix, she can stir...she's Pinkie the spatula (she has a little sister named Pink).

This picture doesn't do her justice. She's just covered in batter, but she loves it!! In this shot she's helping me make our favorite Chocolate Chip Cookies (by the way I use 1/4 C more flour than called for). Don't you just love her?

HAPPY HALLOWPINK!!

I don't know about you but I love decorating for the Seasons, but I don't love putting away my pink. So I don't. I love the way this cat (a decoration from my childhood) looks perched in the pink window. The little scarecrow lamp came from the dollar store (which make him all the more lovable).

Fancy That, acceptance has brought even more pink into my life, and Pink can be a friend to all colors even the Halloween kind!!

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What's In A Name? and Cookies Too!

I don't know what it is about seeing your own name on an object, but somehow it makes it all the more special.

I recently made the baby a small wall hanging with her name on it.



Big brother was just fascinated with the idea. Every time I would make something he would say "What you making me?" So i decided it was time to make him a little something special with his own name on it. He loves it!!



My oldest decided she wanted something for her room, with her name on it, too. So she and I are working on a wall hanging for her room.

AND COOKIES TOO!

A few days ago my daughter had 2 of her friends over. They both know that I love to make cookies (and eat them). When one of them said she hadn't had any homemade cookies for a while, of course I said I would make her some. I wanted something different, but not too different so I went searching the my recipe collection for a new but classic yummy treat.

I settled on this Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe. The cookies were soooo yummy. Somehow crisp on the outside, but soft on the inside. I failed to read the recipe all the way, and didn't realize the recipe called for oatmeal. It just so happened that I had just used the last of it that morning so I left it out (I know they would be oh, so yummy with it!), but they were fantastic without it.




Chocolate Chip Supreme Cookies

1 Cup butter
3/4 Cup firmly packed brown sugar
3/4 Cup Sugar
2 large eggs
1 pkg (3.4 ounce) instant vanilla pudding mix
1 T vanilla extract
2 1/4 Cups all purpose flour
1 T baking soda
1/2 t salt
2 Cups semisweet chocolate morsels
(I didn't use the following ingredients, but they are a part of the original recipe.)
1 1/2 Cups chopped pecans
1 Cup uncooked quick cooking oats
(I added coconut to some of the batter. Very Tasty.)

Beat butter at M speed until creamy. Add sugar beating well. Add eggs beat until blended. Add pudding mix and vanilla beat until well blended.

Combine flour and the next 4 ingredients. Gradually add to butter mixture, beat until blended. Stir in Morsels, pecans, and oats.

Shape dough into 1 1/2 inch balls; place on lightly greased baking sheets, and press to 1 inch thickness.

Bake at 375 for 10-12 minutes (or desired doneness). Remove from oven and cool on wire rack.

Yield: 3 dozen

Fancy That, a few simple letters, your Name can make things so meaningful.
And well what can I say cookies are just FANCY!!

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Milk and Cookies Anyone?

My littlest helper and I have been making cookies. Oatmeal Raisin Cookies to be exact!!!

(This recipe was adapted from a Martha Stewart Recipe for Mixed Fruit and Nut Cookies.)

Oatmeal Raisin Cookies

2 1/4 c flour

1 t baking soda

1 t salt

1 C butter

1 C light brown sugar

1/2 C granulated sugar

2 L eggs

1 t Vanilla

1 1/2 C coconut

2 C oatmeal

1 1/2 C raisin bran

1/2 C raisins

Combine flour, soda ,and salt. Set aside.

Cream butter until smooth. Add sugars and beat until fluffy. Beat in eggs and vanilla.

Add Flour mixture, beat on low.

Add the remaining ingredients.

Drop onto greased cookie sheet. I usually flatten them a little.

Bake at 350 degrees to desired doneness (8-10 minutes).

Fancy That, a glass of milk and an oatmeal raisin cookie. Yum, Yum!!!!

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Cookies, Is There anything Better?

I love a cheese cake, pie, pudding, cake... just as much as the next gal, but is there really any thing better than a cookie? Think about it, they are the perfect hand held dessert and they come in all sizes and flavors.

If I had to choose a favorite I don't know what it would be. I love chocolate-chip cookies, but of there's something about shortbread that's a little more sophisticated, and then you have oatmeal. I know this is a stretch, but I like to tell myself that oatmeal cookies are health food.

( the cookies I made today are a Martha Stewart Recipe, Soft and Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies)
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