Here’s the peanut butter cookie recipe I use. For the cashew butter cookies, I just subbed cashew butter for the peanut butter. If you get it at Fresh Market, the smaller plastic tub is one cup of cashew butter.
1 cup shortening
1 cup sugar
1 cup packed brown sugar
1 cup peanut butter
2 eggs
3 cups flour
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp vanilla
Preheat oven to 375°. Cream the shortening and sugars. Add the peanut butter and mix. Add the eggs and mix well. Add the flour, baking soda, salt, and vanilla and mix well. Roll into balls or use a medium cookie scoop and put on cookie sheet. Using a fork, make a criss cross pattern on top of the cookies, flattening slightly. Bake for 10 minutes. Allow to cool on cookie sheet for 5 minutes before moving to cooling rack to cool completely.
There ya go guys. I can’t remember if I have made you guys peanut butter cookies before, but if I did, that is the recipe I used. They are good as is or you can dip them in chocolate to make them yummier.
Yes I know that Christmas was months ago, but I never posted what turned out and what didn’t. The maple fudge turned out well. It was popular with Carl’s coworkers so it will definitely be made again next year. I used Pioneer Woman’s sugar cookie recipe. It always turns out well for me, but the regular recipe makes a small amount of cookies so I always double it. I also made oreo pops. Take a double stuffed oreo and separate the cookies and dip a lollipop stick in candy coating then into the oreo stuffing. You don’t want to push it down too much as the cookies may break. Then put the other half back on. You want a good bit of candy coating to make contact with both halves of the cookie. After the candy coating is set, dip the cookie pops into melted chocolate or candy coating. Lay them on parchment paper to set. I also make hot chocolate on a stick. I think I got the recipe from a link on giver’s log, but I’m not sure. I’ll have to look for it again. The first batch of toffee did not set at all. I think the issue was my candy thermometer. I bought a better one and the second batch turned out great. I did flip it over and add a second layer of chocolate so there was chocolate on the top and bottom. The chocolate mice turned out pretty well. If anyone in the family has a request for next year, please let me know.
Carl is doing a morning meeting on Wednesday and since it’s breakfast time, cupcakes really aren’t the best thing to send in with him. So i am going to make some blueberry muffins, ham and cheese biscuits, and some apple cobbler muffins with a recipe I found on Pioneer Woman’s website. She made hers with raspberries, i’m using apples since that’s what i have.
For the apple cobbler muffins you will need:
2 cups self rising flour
2 cups sugar
2cups milk
2 sticks of butter, melted
1 tsp vanilla
1 tsp cinnamon (my addition)
chopped apples
brown sugar for sprinkling (my substitution, Ree used white sugar)
Mix the flour and white sugar together. Add the milk. Add the melted butter, stir to combine them, then add the vanilla and cinnamon. Pour batter into muffin tins that have been sprayed really well with non stick cooking spray. Drop in the chopped apple pieces and sprinkle on the brown sugar. Bake at 350 for about 45 minutes. Invert them onto a cooling rack. Serve them bottom side up, ie the wide top is the bottom when you serve it. Recipe should make 24 muffin cobbler things. 