Monday, September 29, 2008

WHITE Cake Mix Cookies Part 2

In my last post, I made Lemon cookies from a lemon cake mix. So I decided to try the same recipe, with a White Cake mix to simulate sugar cookies, and also to see if this recipe would be better when making sugar cookies with a little add and minus here and there. These cookies came out prefect, they were rich and soft. One review I got said, "the cookies are moist, rich and missing a glass of milk". Now, here is a quick and simple recipe for cookies that can be transformed into any flavored or type of cookie. Pecans, chocolate chip, all chocolate, and hazelnuts are just a few ideas, from dozens. Find all your baking needs at Brilliantcakes3000 ONLINE STORE

LEMON Cake Mix Cookies

Whenever I bought the Pillsbury Lemon cake mix, there would always be a recipe on the side of it. So this recipe that I tried, is called "Lemon Crisps". However I hate dried out hard cookies, so what I did was take a small spoon and shape the dough into balls, instead of flatting them out like the recipe says, I just left them as balls. Also, after mixing the ingredients together, I let the dough rest for about an hour or two. Because when i did attempt to make them right way, the lemon seemed really strong and it was as if you were eating straight sugar. You could taste the granules.

1 pkg Pillsbury Moist Supreme Lemon cake mix
1/3 cup Oil
2 eggs
1/4 cup sugar
1 cup powdered sugar
2 to 3 tbsp lemon juice
1. Preheat oven to 375F. In a large bowl, combine cake mix, oil, and eggs; stir with spoon until combined into a moist dough. Shape dough into 1-inich balls and place 2 inches apart on cookie sheet.
2. Bake at 375F for 5 to 10 mintues or until edges are golden brown. Cool 1 mintue and remove from cookie sheet.
3. Small bowl, combine powdered suger and lemon juice until smooth and drizzle over cookies. You can also dust the cookies with the powder sugar. Enjoy!
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Sunday, September 28, 2008

JIFFY Corn Muffin Ideas!

Got any JIFFY Ideas? I do! An all American favorite can be made in so many ways. I love this corn muffin mix, and here's a few ideas I have to make it even better.

Savory Recipe) 1-2 JIFFY corn muffin mixes
1/2-1Tbsp of Cilantro
1/2-1Tsp of Chili powder
Dash of Salt
Dash of Black pepper
1/3 Cup of Red Pepper
1/3 Cup of Green Pepper
1/2 Tsp of Onion powder
1/2-1 Cup of Monteray Jack Shredded Cheese

Mix all dry ingredients together, and then follow the recipe (twice if using two mixes) for the Jiffy corn muffin mix. Then add the shredded cheese and let the mix rest as stated on the box, after that bake at the required temperature in a round or squared baking pan. Enjoy!
Sweet Recipe) 1-2 JIFFY corn muffin mix
1-2 Tbsp of granulated Sugar
5 Tbsp of any kind of Jam
Follow the recipe on the box, plus add sugar, mix and let rest. Place in a round or squared baking pan, and marble the jam of your chose throughout the mix. Bake as directed and Enjoy!
Sweet Recipe) 1-2 JIFFY corn muffin mix
1 can of cream of corn
2 Tbsp of granulated Sugar
1/3 stick of Butter
Dash of Salt

Combine dry ingredients and set aside. Mix together the wet ingredients from the box and the cream of corn and butter. Mix in the wet ingredients into the dry gradually, let rest then bake as directed in a round or squared baking pan, and Enjoy!

My Cookie Cutters!
















Mrs.Cookie Cutters

As my passion grew for baking, and experimenting with different recipes, I started collecting cookie cutters. My favorite stores are Marshall's, Ross, Burlington and T.J. Max, where I find great cookbooks and baking items such as many different cookie cutters. I look for and buy all sizes, shapes, and designs. Usually every holiday, there's new cutters to look for. Currently, I have Valentines day, Halloween, and Christmas themes. I use my cutters for sugar cookie recipes. One day I was surfing the home decor isles of Ross, and found this huge gingerbread cookie cutter, I immediately secured it in my shopping kart. The best way to find either the same, different or even the matching piece to an already existing item is to go to all the same stores in different areas, close by. You would find me at almost all the locations closes to me, searching for cutters, dishes for display, and much more. Right now, I am on the search for some vintage cutters, I hope to find a great collection of vintage cutters. You can collect these cookie cutters and others like I have on My Amazon Shopping .

Thursday, September 4, 2008

Hazelnut-Chocolate Chip cookies

Ok, so I found this recipe on Epicurious.com.. as I said on Sunday, I was interested in making either brownies or oatmeal chocolate chip cookies. So I decided to make these Hazelnut Chocolate chip cookies that I found and I think the hazelnut added a great taste to ordinary chocolate chip cookies. Even though I make several not so healthy desserts, I do try to shop at Whole Foods, and purchase all my ingredients from them, then everything I bake is organic.

This recipe is great, and it was a hit at my little get together the other night.
1 1/2 all-purpose flour
3/4 tsp baking soda
1/2 baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, room temp
1/2 cup sugar
1 cup creamy hazelnut butter
1/2 cup light brown sugar (packed)
1 large egg
1 tsp vanilla extract
2 cups semi sweet mini chocolate chips
1. Sift together flour,baking soda, baking powder and salt 2. Beat both butters and both sugars in a large bowl until light and fluffy, then beat in egg and vanilla. 3. Beat in the flour mixture and stir in the mini chocolate chips 4. Refrigerate dough for about 2 hours 5. Preheat oven to 350 degrees, line or grease 2 baking sheets. 6. You can use a tbsp or small ice cream scoop, arranging scoops of the dough 1-inch apart, and bake cookies one sheet at a time for about 12 minutes. Let cool and enjoy.