Send Me to the Milky Way Cookies

Thought theses sounded delicious! Milky Ways are one of my favs.

2 sticks softened butter
¾ Cup sugar
¾ Cup brown sugar
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 ¾ Cups flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
½ teaspoon salt
35 mini milky way and 3 musketeer candy bars, coarsely chopped
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. In a stand or electric mixer cream the butter and sugars. Beat in eggs and vanilla until well combined, scraping edges with a spatula. In a separate large bowl combine the flour, baking soda and salt. Slowly add to wet ingredients along with the chopped candy bars.
2. With a medium cookie scoop, scoop onto a silpat or parchment lined baking sheet. Bake for 9-11 minutes, or until cooked to your preference. Let cool for 5 minutes on baking sheet then transfer to a cooling rack.

Kendra's Peanut Butter Cookies

I'm doing Kendra's dirty work for her now...j/k. But this is her recipe & I don't think it's one anyone else has, but I know that Britt loves it too. These really are the best PB cookies I've ever had & you can even mix it up and add chocolate chips in too. Yum.

1/2 cup sugar 1/2 cup brown sugar

1/2 tsp baking soda 1/2 tsp baking powder

1 1/4 cup flour 1/2 cup butter

1/2 cup peanut butter 1 egg

1/2 tsp vanilla chocolate chips (optional)

Kendra rolls them into little balls & then rolls them in sugar before baking them. Bake at 350 degrees for 7 minutes. My oven actually took 9, but be careful, you want these to be extra soft. Just watch for them to start to get a little crinkly on top.

Orange Cookies

I made these cookies when we first went down to see the cabin land and they were a hit! They are one of my families favorite cookies! Enjoy.
2/3 Cup Margarine
3/4 Cup Sugar
1 Egg
1/2 Cup Orange Juice
2 Tablespoons Orange Peel Grated
1/2 Teaspoon Baking Powder
1/2 Teaspoon Baking Soda
1/2 Teaspoon Salt
3 Cups Flour

Cream sugar, eggs, orange juice, and peel together. Mix in dry ingredients. Mix well. Bake at 400 until golden brown. Cool and ice!

Orange Icing
1/4 Cup Butter
2 Tablespoons Orange Juice
Small amount of Orange Peel
Powder Sugar to thicken

Fortune Cookies!

It's fun to fill them with quotes or sweet messages. I went down to the local Chinese restaurant and asked to buy some take out boxes... they usually just give them to you if you promise to eat there... Have fun!
Jen

Ingredients:

4 egg whites
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 /4 teaspoon salt
1 cup flour
1 cup sugar

Mix egg whites with vanilla until foamy but not stiff.
In another bowl mix flour, sugar and salt together. (For chocolate cookies
add 1 tablespoon cocoa powder to flour and sugar mixture.)
Combine egg and flour mixtures - Mixture will be a batter consistency.

Baking & Folding Instructions
Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.
Grease 2 cookie sheets.
Cut 2-3 dozen fortunes into strips.
Place cookie template near center of a cool baking sheet.
Drop a spoonful of batter in the center of the template then spread to the edges of the circle.
(I, of course, am too cheap to buy the template for $12 so I just learned that it's a circle that's 3 inches wide and I just take a spoonful and smooth it out in a circle about that wide.)

Start with just 2-3 cookies per sheet because cookies have to be really hot to form them. As you get the hang of it you can do up to 6 cookies to a sheet. Bake 4-5 Min. or until cookie has turned a golden color ½ inch wide around the outer edge. The Center will remain pale.
While one sheet is baking, prepare the other sheet.
Quickly remove sheet from oven, remove a cookie from the sheet with spatula and place upside down on a clean surface.
Place a fortune in the center of the cookie and fold the cookie in half.
Hold cookie by pointed ends, round edge pointing up.
Place folded cookie over the edge of a cup and pull pointed ends downward one on the inside of the cup and one on the outside.
Place folded cookies in a muffin tin to cool.

For more information visit: www.fortunecookiekits.com

Fred's Choc Chip Cookies

This is from our friends Fred & Audrey, and they are by far our favorite Choc Chip Cookies. It tastes great using all whole wheat or they recommend using half wheat and half white. Thanks Fred & Audj!

1 Cup butter
1 Cup brown sugar
1 Cup white sugar
2 eggs
2 tsp vanilla
1 tsp salt
2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp baking powder
2 1/4 Cups flour (half white, half wheat)
2 1/2 Cups oats
1 pkg chocolate chips

Cream butter & sugars together. Add eggs & vanilla. Mix. Add salt, soda, baking powder, and flour. Mix. Stir in oats & choc chips by hand. Bake at 350 degrees for 9-11 minutes. They're best when they are soft.

Sugar Cookie Recipe

This is by far my favorite sugar cookie recipe, and amazingly enough, it is from Stacie!

1 Cup Sugar
1 Cup Powdered Sugar
1 Cup Butter, softened
2 Eggs
1 Tsp. Vanilla
1 Cup Sour Cream
5 Cups Flour
2 Tsp. Baking Powder
3/4 Tsp. Baking Soda
1/2 Tsp. Salt
1/4 Tsp. Nutmeg OR
1 or 2 drops Almond Extract (Personally I like the nutmeg better.)

Mix all together then put in refrigerator until cold, about 1/2 hr to hour. Bake at 350 degrees for 8-10 minutes. DO NOT OVER COOK. These are better soft, just watch them in your oven.

Frosting Recipe

4 Oz. Cream Cheese
1/2 Cup Butter
2 Tsp. Vanilla
3 Cups Powdered Sugar

Beat together until smooth