Whole Wheat Chocolate Chip Cookies

These taste a lot better than they sound! (Someone told me the name was gross)

Plus they are "healthful", so I feel better about feeding them to myself and my kids. (wink, wink) I threw in some ground flaxseed as well, but I like to put flaxseed in everything.

Adapted recipe from Money Saving Mom.



Whole-Wheat Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Cookies

1 cup shortening or butter (softened)
1/2 cup peanut butter
3/4 cup brown sugar
3/4 cup sugar
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 1/2 - 1 3/4 cups whole wheat flour  (I've found I need the higher flour amount)
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1-2 tablespoons ground flaxseed (optional)
2 cups oats (rolled or quick oats)
1 1/2 cups chocolate chips (optional)

Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Cream together first six ingredients. Add flour, baking soda, salt and oats. Mix well. Stir in chocolate chips. Roll into 1-1 1/2-inch balls. Place on greased cookie sheets and bake for 10 minutes or until done. Makes approximately 40 cookies.

Moo's Raspberry Bars

  

These are easy and delicious, but I'm kind of sucker for things with cake mixes in them.

You can also change the type of berry preserve you want to use and my SIL, Chandra, suggested using a lemon cake mix with Raspberry preserves. Yum!

Moo's Raspberry Bars

1 (18.25 oz) package yellow cake mix

2 1/2 cups uncooked quick-cooking oats (I used regular oats)
3/4 cup butter or margarine, melted
1 (12oz) jar raspberry preserves (or use your fav preserves, I used blueberry/ strawberry mix)

Combine cake mix and oats, stir in butter until mixture is crumbly.
Press about 3 cups mixture evenly into a greased 13x9 inch pan.
Spread preserves over crumb mixture and then sprinkle remaining crumb mixture, pat gently to level

Bake at 375 for 24 to 26 minutes or until lightly browned

Homemade Oreo Cookies

Mmmm....so good. I think it just might be possible to have a sugar induced coma.

The oreo cookie recipe is from cjane, but I used a different frosting recipe. The frosting recipe is from  Tasty Kitchen and this was the perfect excuse to try it out. ('cause I've been needing a reason to make it!) FYI: these are good frozen too and I've been thinking I need to make some more with a chocolate mint theme. ☺

Homemade Oreo Cookies

1 package of devil's food cake mix

2 eggs
3/4 cup of shortening

blend all together at once.
roll soft dough in small balls
on a cookie sheet.
(don't press down,
keep balls intact before baking)

bake at 350 degrees

for 8 minutes

frosting for the middle: (Recipe that I used, down below)
8 oz. cream cheese
1/2 stick of butter
2 tsp. vanilla
2 to 4 c. powdered sugar
mix until smooth.

when cookies are cool:
frost backs of cookies
and make sandwich with another cookie.

as usual, I made mine too big

Like I said, I've been looking for an excuse to try out this recipe for frosting and I thought it was great! (ok, ok, really I didn't have any cream cheese to make the other one, but I really have wanted to try this recipe.)

Frosting

•1 cup Milk

•5 Tablespoons Flour
•1 teaspoon Vanilla
•1 cup Butter
•1 cup Granulated Sugar (not Powdered Sugar!)
In a small saucepan, whisk flour into milk and heat, stirring constantly, until it thickens. Remove from heat and let it cool to room temperature. Stir in vanilla.

While the mixture is cooling, cream the butter and sugar together until light and fluffy. Then add the cooled milk/flour/vanilla mixture and beat until it all combines and resembles whipped cream.

Chocolate Almond Bars

Another Betty Crocker classic. I was needing to sastify my chocolate craving this week.

Chocolate Almond Bars

Crust :

1 box chocolate cake mix
1/2 cup butter or margarine, softened

Topping :

4 eggs
1 cup dark corn syrup
1/4 cup butter or margarine, melted
2 cups salted roasted whole almonds, coarsely chopped
6 oz dark or bittersweet baking chocolate, chopped


1. Heat oven to 350°F (or 325°F for dark or nonstick pan). Place cake mix in medium bowl. Using pastry blender or fork, cut in 1/2 cup butter until crumbly. Press firmly in ungreased 13x9-inch pan. Bake 12 to 14 minutes or until set.

2. In large bowl, beat eggs, corn syrup and 1/4 cup melted butter with wire whisk until smooth. Stir in almonds and chocolate. Pour over crust.

3. Bake 25 to 30 minutes longer or until golden brown and set. Cool 30 minutes. Refrigerate about 1 hour or until chocolate is firm. For bars, cut into 8 rows by 6 rows. Store covered in refrigerator.

cake mix and butter crumbled together

press into bottom of dish and bake

Pour mixture on top of cooked crust. (side note: my butter was apparently too hot, so when I poured the chocolate pieces into it, it melted. Oops)

Homemade Kit Kat Bars

I got this recipe off of one of my mom forums... I wouldn't say they tasted like a Kit Kat bar per se, but they were really good. Especially if you like the sweet/ salty type of treat.

Homemade Kit Kat Bars

60-80 buttery rectangular crackers (I used Saltine crackers)

Filling:
1 1/2 cups graham cracker crumbs
3/4 cup packed brown sugar
1 cup white sugar
3/4 cup butter
1/3 cup milk

Topping:
1 cup milk chocolate chips
1 cup semisweet chocolate chips (I used all semisweet chocolate chips, but added about 1 Tablespoon of light corn syrup)
 3/4 cup peanut butter

1. Put graham cracker crumbs, brown sugar, white sugar, butter and milk into a saucepan and bring it to a boil. Boil for 5 minutes.

2. Spray pan with oil spray. Put a layer of whole crackers in a 9x13 inch pan and pour 1/2 of the graham cracker crumb mixture over it. Put another layer of crackers and pour the remaining mixture. Add last row of crackers. Note: Press down after each cracker layer.

3. To Make Topping: Melt over low heat the milk chocolate chips, chocolate chips, and peanut butter. Melt at low heat and spread over the top.

4. Cut into thin strips or bars for serving.

Layer the crackers

this is the filling. Make sure to let it boil for the full 5 minutes

Spread 1/2 the filling over the crackers, repeat the layers.

Make sure to press the crackers down so that the filling comes up through the holes.

Melting the chocolate and peanut butter together.

Gingersnaps

Ah, ONE of my favorite cookies. I like my gingersnaps on the softer side, and you can't tell from that picture, but these are soft.  Low fat too, but who's worried about that. ;o) These are from Betty, Betty Crocker.

Gingersnaps

1 c packed Brown Sugar

3/4 c Shortening

1/4 c Molasses

1 Egg

2-1/4 c Flour

2 t Baking Soda

1 t Cinnamon

1 t Ginger, ground

1 t Cloves, ground

1/4 t Salt

Granulated Sugar

Heat oven to 375.

Beat all ingredients together except the Granulated Sugar

Spoon out balls

and roll in the sugar

Place them on a cookie sheet and bake 10-12 minutes. FYI: Don't put them this close together if you want your cookies round and pretty. :o)

If you want them to look more like this, make sure you add the right amount of flour...which in some cases means you need to add more than the recipe calls for.

Peanut Butter Crunch Cheesecake Squares

This was in one of the latest Family Circle magazines. Cheesecake and Butterfingers! I had to give it a try.

Peanut Butter Crunch Cheesecake Squares

Crust:

1/2 c flour

1/4 c chopped Pecans

3 T brown sugar

3 T melted butter

Filling:

8 oz cream cheese

1/4 c sugar

1 egg

1 T lemon juice

3/4 t vanilla extract

12 fun size Butterfingers, coursely chopped (or 5-6 smaller sized)*

5 fun size Butterfingers, finely chopped (or 2-3 smaller sized)

Heat oven to 350. Line a 8x8" pan with foil and hang over the sides. Mix the crust together and press into the bottom of pan. Bake for about 15 minutes and then turn the oven down to 325.

*I just bought the fun pack I think it's called, and it has 8 small sized bars and just used those. They are usually only about $1

crust

cream together cream cheese, egg, vanilla, and lemon juice

chop up the Butterfingers

add 3/4 c chopped Butterfinger to the filling

Pour filling over crust and bake at 325 for 25 minutes.

Sprinkle on the finely chopped Butterfingers after pulling it out of the oven

let cool and then cut into squares. Refrigerate until serving.

Lactation/ Oatmeal Cookies

Okay, so really this is supposed to be a snack for women that are nursing to help boost their supply and give them nutrients, but I thought these were awesome enough to post so that everyone can enjoy them. They are addicting and I couldn't stop eating them.....wait, maybe that's why you SHOULDN'T make them, but they have flaxseed in there so they have to be good for you, right?! I didn't put the brewers yeast in there because I was too lazy to run the heatlh food store running out of time. I also used toffee bits and butterscotch chips, because my baby doesn't like me to eat chocolate.

Lactation Cookies

1 C Butter

1 C Sugar
1 C Brown Sugar
4 T Water
2 T flaxseed meal (no subs)
2  Eggs
1 t Vanilla
2 C Flour
1 t Baking soda
1 t Salt
3 C Oats (not quick cooking oats)
2 C Chocolate chips (I used toffee bits and Butterscotch chips instead)
2 T Brewers Yeast or Nutritional Yeast Flakes

Preheat oven at 375.

Mix 2 T of flaxseed meal and water, set aside 3-5 minutes.

Cream butter and sugar.

Add eggs.

Stir flaxseed mix into butter mix and add vanilla.

Beat until well blended and mixture turns a pale yellow.

Mix dry ingredients, except oats and choc chips.

Add butter mix to dry ingredients.

Stir in the oats and then the choc chips.

Drop on ungreased or parchment lined baking sheet.

Bake 8-12 minutes. (it took longer in mine)


"wet ingredients" mixed together

Mmmm.....toffee bits and butterscotch chips

This recipe made 30 cookies for me, but as you can see, I like mine giant sized.

Applesauce Cookies

You usually either love these or hate them. I hadn't tried this particular recipe before, it was one of my Grandma's. Her recipe is actually for Apricot puree, but I used Applesauce.

Applesauce Cookies

1 c Margarine
2 c Sugar
2 Eggs
4 c Flour
1 t Cloves (ground)
1 t Cinnamon
1 t Nutmeg (I didn't put this in)
2 t Baking Soda
1 c Chocolate Chips (I put like 2 - 2.5 cups in)
2 c Applesauce or Apricot Puree
1/2 t Salt

Dissovle Soda in the puree or applesauce, mix all ingredients and bake at 350 for 10-12 minutes.

Margarine and Sugar

Beat and add the Eggs

Soda dissolving in the Applesauce

After everything is mixed together except Chocolate Chips

These will spread and look like pancakes, since I used Applesauce I probably should have put more Flour in.

Add Chocolate Chips, spoon out drops on pans and bake at 350 for 10-12 minutes.

They still taste really good though. ;)