Snickerdoodles

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This recipe came from my dear friend, this little lady, and it is the yummiest Snickerdoodle out there. Not to mention it is so easy, too easy, I make them way to often!

1 C Shortening
1 1/2 C Sugar
2 Eggs
1 tsp vanilla
2 3/4 C Flour
2 tsp cream of tartar
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp baking soda

Mix together
2 T sugar
2 tsp cinnamon

Cream shortening and sugar. Add eggs one at a time until well blended. Mix in dry ingredients. Roll dough into 1 inch balls and roll in cinnamon and sugar mixture. Bake until they rise and crack about 8-10 minutes at 400 degrees.

Enjoy! and eat a few for me!

Red Velvet Cookies

For those of you who are jumping on the Red Velvet craze...you will LOVE this recipe just as much a me. You will also love how easy they are!!

I got this recipe from here, If only I could take pictures as well as she...My cookies don't look very "red" in my picture...but they are pretty I promise!

1 package red velvet cake mix
1 cup all-purpose flour
2 sticks of butter
1/2 package white chocolate chips

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
Mix the butter so it is nice and smooth, slowly add the flour and cake mix, then add the egg, lastly add the chocolate chips. Bake 8-10 min (I baked mine for the full 10 min.)
The recipe says that it yields 24 cookies....but when I made these I got 48!

I just love how perfectly chocolate red velvet is! It is like rich, but not too rich, it's my fav! I love to find new ways to incorporate into my life!

Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies

Okay I will tell you now that these cookies were made on Sunday and it is Wednesday and they are almost gone! May I remind you that there is only 2 of us in this house!! The day I made these cookies I ate so many that I literally got a stomach ache...just like my mom would say, it really truly happened.
These cookies are truly perfection. They are a tad crunchy on the outside, but so soft and chewy on the inside! A-mazing! You can bet your bottom dollar that I will be making these again soon, like probably this weekend! I will just have to amp up the exercise regime to make room for these babies.

I found this recipe at one of my very favorite recipe blogs, Our Best Bites....and this was mine, my best bite that is!

I mean chocolate chip cookies seem pretty basic, but really you can tweak this go to recipe many different ways to get the "type" of cookie your craving. In this recipe the key is melting the butter and it also calls for 1 egg + 1 egg yolk, apparently that is what gives us the chewy factor here. I also measure ingredients exact, I think it is important to ensuring that the recipe turns out the way that you want it to. So grab those measuring cups and spoons and get crackelackin!

2 C plus 2 T flour
1/2 t baking soda
1/2 t salt
12 T butter (1 1/2 sticks) melted and cooled until warm
1 cup brown sugar (light or dark)
1/2 C granulated sugar
1 large egg + 1 egg yolk
2 t vanilla extract
1 1/2 C semi-sweet or bittersweet chocolate chips

Heat oven to 325 degrees. Adjust oven racks to upper- and lower-middle positions. Mix flour, salt, and baking soda together in medium bowl; set aside.

Either by hand or with electric mixer, mix butter and sugars until thoroughly blended. Mix in egg, yolk, and vanilla. Add dry ingredients;mix until just combined. Stir in chips.

Take about 1/4 C dough and form into a ball. Break ball in half and place dough on cookie sheet with broken edge facing up. (Or just use a standard sized cookie scoop). ...(oh this is just important to make your cookie "pretty" really just a suggestion.)...Bake until cookies are set around outer edges start to harden yet centers are still soft and puffy, 10-13 minutes. Cool cookies on cookie sheets. Serve or store in air tight container.