Cream Cheese Cookies

Wonderful!

These cookies are just the best darn sugar cookie ever.  HERE is my post with the recipe.  This time I made them with the rectangular medium sized cookie cutter that Ree recommends for THESE yummy cookies.  I like this cutter for several reasons.  One being this dough is very soft and you do not want to keep rolling it and adding a ton of flour and with these cutters there is hardly any waste at all.  And secondly because they then fit very nicely in

Here

I am makng two batches of dough.  One with regular unbleached flour and the other with organic sprouted flour.  The batch pictured is the regular flour.  Today I will bake the sprouted.  I had a very uncooperative 2 1/2 year old yeasterday so making both just wasn't happening.
Some of the cookies pictured just have the unbleached sugar sprinkled on them before baking with the egg wash and the others also have ground walnuts for those of us who love nuts. (me)
I will post picts and let you know how the sprouted flour ones turn out.
 Gotta run and get ready for Divine Liturgy :)

Ok, here are the Sprouted Flour ones and they are super good!  I did the recipe the same but just swapped out the unbleached flour for sprouted.  I also rolled them out in the sprouted so that they have no regular flour at all.

Citrus Butter Cookies Made by Madison

Cute little cookie balls

Aren't they pretty?

Madison made the citrus-butter-cookies from the Pioneer Woman today and they came out very good.  Yes, I tried one even thought they contain regular flour.  Its the first thing like that I have had in two weeks and citrus doesn't really tempt me too much but since she made them I wanted to give them a try.  They are very good, mildly citrus, not overpowering.  Great job Madison!

Bacon Chocolate Chip Cookies? OH YEAH!

Before



After

"Infamous" Bacon Cookies"

5 Slices nitrate-free maple bacon
3 cups almond flour
1tsp baking soda
1tsp salt
2 eggs
1/2 cup pure maple syrup
1tsp vanilla
1/2 cup coconut oil
3/4 cups milk chocolate chips

Preheat oven to 350
bake bacon in oven till crisp and crumble

mix dry ingredients
beat syrup and eggs, add vanilla
beat together the dry with the above mixture
add melted coconut oil and blend
stir in chips and bacon
drop in parchment lined baking sheet
bake for 15 mins at 375

Adapted from Make it Paleo



And Some Cookies for Dessert

Before....

Yummy

Lil Raw Cookies

My candied walnuts from yesterday got a bit tacky since I forgot to put the lid on them lastnight and it's so darn humid so i decided to try and turn them in to raw cookies. They used to sell A brand at Wholefoods that I loved but as with most things I really like they were discontinued.
These turned out pretty good for a first experiment. I just dumped some of the walnuts, organic creamy peanutbutter, chopped dates and organic shredded coconut into the food processor and pulsed it then rolled it into balls and rolled them in more coconut. It's amazing bow good REAL food can taste. Going wheat and gluten free is going good so far. The only to time it really hurt is when I made cheesecake pancakes for the fam lastnight and couldn't have any. I'm gonna have to try them with the gluten free mix.

We Have a Date.....

No, not me and my hubby...I wish... but me and these wonderfully delicious looking salted-chocolate-and-pecan-cake-bars from The Pioneer Woman.  I can't make them today for 2 reasons-
1. Madison isn't eating chocolate for Lent and
2. I don't have any pecans and  I'm NOT going to the store again today.
But we will meet again just as soon as Lent is over.

Binka's Christmas Cookies

My husbands grandmothers- oh so yummy!

1 cup butter
1 cup chopped walnuts
1/2 cup light brown sugar
2 cups flour
2 egg whites
Black raspberry jelly, any will do
2 egg yolks

Mix butter, br. sugar and egg yolk. Add flour slowly.
Roll dough in small balls, and dip in egg white, then roll in chopped
walnuts.
Place on greased cookie sheet. Press with thumb. Bake at 300 for 5 min.
Remove press again, and fill with jelly. Bake again for 15 min.

Pumpkin Cookies- Yummy!

These are some of the best cookies and they are versatile.
I have added choc. chips, nuts and baked them in bar form when I was short on time.

Here it goes-

Preheat oven to 350.
I like to use parchment paper and I use either a cookie sheet or stonewear.

Cream together-

1 cup of butter, margarine or I like to use 1 stick of both- I use Smart Balance for the margarine.

1 cup sugar- I use raw sugar

then blend in -

1 egg

1 tsp. of vanilla

1 cup of pumpkin

sift in bowl-

2 cups plus 2 tsps of unbleached flour

and 1 tsp. each of-
baking soda, baking powder and cinnimon

and 1/2 tsp of salt

blend wet with dry and add chips or nuts if you like.

bake

The cookies pictured I made today and I tried something new. I made a nice icing for on top. I'm not one for measurement but I'll give ya an estimate

1/2 stick of butter softened
about 2 tablespoons of pure maple syrup
scant cup of powdered sugar?

mix all

cool cookies and put a dollop on top.

Cream Cheese Sugar Cookies

These are just the best!

1 1/2 sticks of softened butter

1/2 block softened cream cheese

Cream those 2

add 3/4 cups of sugar

add 1 egg

1 teaspoon vanilla

in seperate bowl sift

2 cups of flour with

1/4 teaspoon of baking soda

1/4 teaspoon of salt

Mix all and refrigerate for about 4 hours or more

Divide cold dough and roll on floured surface to about 1/4 inch.

Brush tops with egg wash and sprinkle with sugar.

Bake at 350 for 8 - 10 mins.