Eating Dinner With My Family

Ok, I didn't pick the dessert this time, my husband did.  I don't like a recipe that starts with a box of anything.  The fact it said half a box was annoying too.  I doubled the recipe so I used the whole thing.  I also melted some currant jelly to fill some of the cookies rather than make them all caramel.  Despite my distrust of the box and my somewhat indifferent attitude towards sweets, I liked these.  The rest of the family, who do not share my prejudice, loved them.  Cheesecake Cookies 1/2 a Box of White Cake Mix 1 Egg 4 oz. Cream Cheese 2 tbsp. Melted Butter 1 Cup Caramel Sauce 1 Cup Graham Cracker Crumbs A cupcake pan In a medium bowl mix together the Cake mix, melted butter, egg & cream cheese.  use a spoon to really smear it and blend it well into a dough-like consistency! Scoop some batter into a cupcake pan .about 1/4 the way up the sides… Bake them at 350 for about 15 minutes, just until they’re...

We took the girl to Sesame Street live tonight, so I baked cookies to have a recipe in lieu of dinner.  While these tasted good, I am calling it a Pinterest fail.  Notice how they caved in on top?  They are also too big and rich to eat a whole cookie without feeling like you made a big mistake.  (ok my son disagrees because he ate 2!)  So while I am not advocating against the recipe or the idea of stuffed cookies, I don't feel that these were a total success.  They don't really come out of the muffin cup in one piece and you really should eat these with a fork. I am not a baker and I am fully willing to accept that it was all my fault.  In more skilled baking hands, perhaps these will come out as cookies instead of these molten cakes I achieved.  Still, it was a really tasty mess!  Ok I am being a perfectionist and feel like I messed up so I am complaining.  They tasted amazing and who cares how they looked! De...

I really need to get through some of the pins I have on my "sweets" board. I don't bake much but everyone else in the house has a mega sweet tooth!  I do have two (ok 3) things that I do really enjoy in the sweets department. 1) Coconut!!! 2) Citrus (I <3 sour!) and if I'm totally honest cheesecake.  So, I picked this cookie to make in lieu of a new recipe tonight.  And since I'm not feeling up to snuff my, darling husband cooked these for me.  You know the drill with fellow bloggers, I give you the link to their site and a list of what you will need so you know what you are working with.  If I were going to make any notes for making this in the future, use salted butter in the crust!  I think it needed it, and so did my husband. Sunburst Lemon Bars Crust all-purpose flour powdered sugar butter grated lemon peel Filling eggs granulated sugar all-purpose flour baking powder fresh lemon juice grated lemon peel Glaze powdered sugar lemon juice Recip...

I am organizing and cleaning out my cuppards and discovered why everything is so crowded. I have multiple containers of lots of things. It is paticurally funny as most are things for baking and I don't bake much. (Like 3 boxes if cocoa powder with maybe 1/6 of each used!)  So I decide to do the only sensible thing and bake cookies:).  I had all that I needed  for  my family's favorite cookie, coconut. These are super tasty, a little different than your typical chocolate chip cookie and if I can bake them, they can't be too taxing;). Coconut Cookies from the All New Good Housekeeping Cook Book 2 3/4 cups AP flour 1 tsp baking powder 1/2 tsp salt 1 cup of butter, softened (and unsalted) 1 cup sugar 1 large egg 2 Tbsp milk 1 tsp vanilla extract 1 1/2 cups sweetened coconut flakes Preheat oven to 325°F In a medium bowl combine flour baking powder and salt in a large bowl.  With an electric mixer at medium speed, beat butter and sugar until light a...

Well we are getting ready to go on vacation and I need to clean out the produce in my fridge that won't make it the week.  I am, again cheating, by baking cookies as my "dinner" and making clean out the fridge black beans.  While they were tasty, they are too similar to my black bean recipe to count as a new dinner so.... cookies.  This is a recipe I made for some of my Husband's employees when we were first married.  It is from a Martha Stewart magazine.  Everyone loved these cookies, and as I am not a baker, I was super pleased that they were well received.  I know they were a favorite of my husband's but I haven't made them in a long, long time. So, while he often curses the blog because he will have to wait too long before he can have a favorite meal again, he can thank it too for unearthing some old favorites. I made half the batch with raisins(for my mom) and half with chocolate chips (for me;) Oatmeal Cookies 1 c  packed light ...

We ordered pizza tonight, but my wonderful fry daddy made a cookie I haven't had since I was a young girl. My father's side of the family is pure Lithuanian.  My paternal Grandmother would make these cookies I swear she called Ositas. (my dad agrees) I couldn't find a recipe for them anywhere.  I did (long time ago) see a Martha Stewart recipe for a Cruciki (sp?) but it had all these liquors and extracts I didn't remember being in the cookie.  I stumbled upon a Lithuanian cooking web site, (that I can't seem to find again.  It's like a ghost that popped up for me that one time and disappeared) and found a recipe for Ausukai.  It was the same cookie.  My husband made a test batch before they got here.  They were too thick and didn't fry right.  This time they were perfect.  I have vivid memories of my father devouring mass quantities of these cookies in a fog of powdered sugar that swirled off the cookie like snow.  We surprised him wit...