{Whatcha Eatin'} White Chocolate Cranberry Oatmeal Cookies

The winner of the Thoughts That Stick giveaway never got in touch with me :(  So it's time to choose a new one.  If you're#3 Ana Paulayou win!  Please email your info by the end of the week so I can pass it along to Julie.
In case you missed my blog swap over at The Craft Monkey, I shared this yummy recipe with her readers and now I'd like to share it with you!
  I made these delish cookies with my sister-in-law and they didn't last long :)

White Chocolate Cranberry Oatmeal Cookies

You'll need:

2/3 cup butter or margarine, softened

2/3 cup brown sugar

2 large eggs

1 1/2 cup old-fashioned oats

1 1/2 cups flour

1 tsp. baking soda

1/2 tsp. salt

1 6 oz. package dried cranberries

2/3 cup white chocolate chips or chunks

Preheat your over to 375 degrees.  Using an electric mixer, beat butter and sugar together in a medium mixing bowl until light and fluffy.  And eggs, mixing well.  Combine oats, flour, baking soda and salt in a separate mixing bowl.  Add to butter mixture in several additions, mixing well after each.  Stir in cranberries and white chocolate.  

Drop by rounded spoonfuls onto an ungreased cookie sheet.  Bake for 10-12 minutes or until golden brown.  Cool on a wire rack and ENJOY!

*Makes about 2 1/2 dozen cookies*

These are sure to be a hit-your cookie jar won't stay full long!

12 Days of Christmas Cookies Countdown Day 12- Minty Chocolate Butter Cookies

Another great find from Baby Center:

Minty Chocolate Butter Cookies

1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, room temperature
1/2 cup sugar
1 teaspoon mint extract
1 large egg
2 1/2 cups flour
1/2 cup cocoa powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 cup semisweet chocolate chips (optional) 

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Using a handheld or stand mixer, beat the butter and sugar together on medium speed until light and fluffy, about 3 to 4 minutes. Add the mint extract and the egg, and mix until smooth, scraping the sides of the bowl if necessary. Sift the flour, cocoa powder, and salt together into a medium bowl and add to the dough. Mix just until smooth. Place tablespoon-size balls of dough 1 inch apart on an ungreased baking sheet. Bake 10 minutes (cookies should not brown at the edges). Transfer the cookies to a cooling rack to cool completely. While the cookies are baking, melt the chocolate chips in a small saucepan over very low heat, stirring continuously. Remove from heat. Decorate cooled cookies with the melted chocolate, and let harden for about 1 hour before serving. (Makes 48 small cookies) 

12 Days of Christmas Cookies Countdown Day 10-Rolo Cookies

One of our fans from Facebook, Michelle, emailed me this recipe that her friend Melanie shared with her.  It sounds absolutely wonderful!  Thanks for sharing, Melanie and Michelle!

Rolo Cookies

Picture via

1 box Devil's Food Cake Mix

1 egg

1/3 cup of oil

24-28 rolos

Unwrap the rolos

Mix all the ingredients except for the rolos (it will be thick)

Roll up the dough into about 26 one inch balls.

Flatten the balls stuff a rolo in....and roll them up again.

Cook them about 7-10 minutes (I do closer to 7-8) at 350 degrees.  You want to pull them out while they are still lumpy in the middle.  Yum.  Double Yum.  Triple Yum. 

12 Days of Christmas Cookies Countdown Day 9- Peanut Butter Blossoms

This delicious number is from Baby Center (they have all kinds of awesome recipes-I definitely recommend checking them out.)

Peanut Butter Blossoms

1 3/4 cup flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup brown sugar, packed
1/2 cup shortening or butter
1/2 cup creamy peanut butter
1 egg
2 teaspoons milk
1 teaspoon vanilla
48 chocolate stars

Combine all ingredients except candy is a large mixing bowl. Mix on lowest speed of mixer until dough forms. Shape dough into balls using a rounded teaspoon full of each. Roll balls in sugar and place on ungreased cookie sheet. Bake at 375 degrees for 8 minutes. Remove from oven and top each cookie with a star, pressing it down firmly so cookie cracks around edge. Return to oven and bake another 2-5 minutes

12 Days of Christmas Cookies Countdown Day 5 & 6-Cookies from Cash is Chaos

Robin from Cash is Chaos is generously helping me out with the Cookie Countdown and has 2 yummy cookie recipes to share with you all today!  Take it away, Robin!

So today is my very first guest post.  Hope this works out.  I'm a little nervous.  But I am going to help out with the Cookie Countdown and I have decided to do 3 cookie recipes, I will do 2 today and one tomorrow (don't forget that Sunday is family day).  Enjoy the recipes, make sure there is some left for Santa, he will love these.

Recipe 1

Chocolate Banana Cream Pies (sorry for the messy pic, I had to take a quick pic before more little fingers got into them)

4 ripe (or over ripe) bananas, smooshed
1/4 cup butter or margarine
3/4 cup sugar
1 egg, beaten
1 tsp vanilla
1 tsp baking soda
1 1/2 cups four
1/3 cup cocoa

Preheat oven to 350.
In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar.  Add egg and vanilla, mix well.  Stir in smooshed bananas.
Slowly add flour, baking soda and cocoa.  Stir until just mixed.
(This is probably sounding quite like a banana bread recipe, and that's cause it's adapted from one)
Your dough should be thicker than a cake dough, but thinner than a drop cookie dough.
Put dough into icing bag, with 1 1/2 inches cut from tip (I used a disposable one, but you can use a sandwich bag if thats what you have on hand). Drop cookies onto cookie sheet lined with parchment paper.  At this point, the cookies should look something like reindeer poop (at least thats what my kids thought it was)

Bake for 10-15 minutes (I know it's not super specific, but everyone's ovens vary)
Let cool completely.

Cream Filling:
1 1/2 cup whipping cream
1 cup (+) icing sugar
sprinkles, tinted sugars to decorate.

In another bowl, on high speed, mix whipping cream and icing sugar to a thick consistency. Feel free at this pint to tint it yourself, or keep it white and roll the entire cookie in sprinkles or tinted sugar.

Once the cookies are cooled, take 2 cookies approximately the same size, and sandwich about 1 teaspoon of cream filling between them.  At this point you could leave it, or you could roll the cookie in sprinkles or tinted sugar.


Recipe 2

Those wonderful looking cookie bars in the middle are one of the easiest and most delicious recipes ever.  Not to date myself, but I have made these for ** years.  They are actually from a kids cookbook that my grandpa gave me when I was 10.  Yes I still have the book, and yes I still use it.  So here they are.

Lemon Slice Bars

1/2 cup butter, softened
1/4 cup icing sugar
1 cup flour

Topping
2 eggs
2 tablespoons Lemon juice
2 teaspoons grated lemon rind
1 cup sugar
2 tablespoons flour
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1 tablespoon icing sugar

Preheat oven to 350.  Grease a 9x13 baking dish
Beat butter and icing sugar until smooth.  Stir in 1 cup flour, mixing into a smooth dough.  Press evenly into prepared dish. Bake 20 min.  Set aside to cool.

Topping:
Beat eggs well, stir in lemon juice and rind.  Stir in sugar and 2 tablespoons flour and baking powder.  Stir until mixed well.
Pour over cooled base and bake again (at 350) for 25 minutes.
Let cool.  Sift icing sugar over the top and cut into squares.


Hope you all enjoy the post and the recipes.  Until tomorrow, enjoy your day, enjoy your family and happy baking.

Merry Christmas

Making My Sweet Tooth Happy: Hotel Chocolat

Most girls like chocolate.  I am one of those girls.  So when Hotel Chocolat contacted me to review some of their Christmas chocolates, I happily said yes.

And, boy, am I glad I did!

Hotel Chocolat is a company based in the U.K. with stores throughout the world.  They started as a catalog company and have rapidly grown into a global company.  Not only do they craft excellent chocolates, they even grow the cocoa themselves!  "Authentic, wholesome ingredients are key to our success. A position that is strengthened by our historic West Indian cocoa plantation, Rabot Estate, where we grow our own fine flavour cocoa. This exciting step allows us to make a unique and exciting connection between you the consumer and the cocoa plantation."

I got to try some of the delicious chocolates from this year's Christmas line.  They sent me 

This delicious Christmas wreath.  It's combination of milk chocolate, caramel and white chocolate and cocoa cookie bites.  One word: divine!  The flavors of all of the different elements of this sweet are perfectly balanced so that you taste them all and one doesn't overpower the others.  I'd definitely recommend this for the chocolate lovers on your Christmas list.

These adorable dark chocolate reindeer were absolutely delicious!  I love, love, love dark chocolate and this was some of the best I've ever had.  It just melts in your mouth!

This snappily dressed white chocolate snowman was almost too cute to eat!  The chocolate had a lovely creamy texture and an amazing flavor.  And his cute little scarf is berry flavored!

In addition to the yummy goodies Hotel Chocolat sent me, they have all kinds of sweets that make excellent Christmas gifts for the chocolate junkie (like me) on your lists

.  I mean, who wouldn't love to get a box of chocolates like this?!  They've got advent calendars, stocking stuffers and everything in between!

I would definitely add Hotel Chocolat to my list of places to shop this Christmas.  You won't be sorry you did and neither will the ones receiving this delicious chocolate!

I received this product free of charge so that I may review the products for Hotel Chocolat.  All the opinions expressed here are my own, honest opinion of the products I was provided to review.  I was compensated for my time by Hotel Chocolat for completing this review.  For Scraps and Scribbles disclosure policy, please go here.

 

Good Eats and Yummy Treats: No-Bake Cookies

Remember my flood?  Well, I decided to make cookies for our neighbors as a good-will gesture.  Not that cookies make up for my washer raining on their apartment, and they know that it was an accident, but I still felt like I should do something.  I hope they liked them.

No-Bake Cookies

So, I had a bit of a blonde moment and forgot to take pictures of the cookies before I took them to the neighbors, so I borrowed this one from Brown Eyed Baker:

Ingredients:

1 3/4 cups sugar

1/2 cup milk

1/2 cup butter

4 tbsp. unsweetened cocoa powder

1/2 cup peanut butter

3 cups quick-cooking oats

1 tsp. vanilla

In a medium saucepan, combine sugar, milk, butter and cocoa.  Bring to a boil and cook for 1 1/2 minutes (begin timing once the mixture comes to a hard boil.)  Remove from heat and stir in peanut butter, oats and vanilla.  Drop by spoonfuls onto wax paper.  Let cool until hardened.