Healthy Oatmeal Cookies

This is from allrecipes.com and then I tweaked the recipe. These sneak some good stuff in to my girls diet and they dont know it. :-)

1/2 Cup butter
1/2 Cup Coconut oil
1/2 Cup sugar
1/2 Cup Brown sugar
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 cups flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
2 teaspoons cinnamon
3 cups oats
3 teaspoons Flax seeds (I put them in the blender and make it really fine)
1/2 cup craisins
1/2 Cup White chocolate chips

In a bowl combine butter, coconut oil, sugars, eggs and vanilla. Beat until combined. Add the rest of the ingredients. Place by spoonfuls onto cookie sheet and bake at 350 for 10 minutes.

Monster Cookie

Monster Cookie Recipe
5 Cups Oatmeal
3 Eggs
1 Stick Butter, melted
3/4# Peanut butter
2 teas. Baking Soda
1-1/2 Cup Brown Sugar
1 Cup Sugar
1/4# M&M's
3 oz. Chocolate chips
Mix all together. Bake at 350 for 10 minutes.

I made these and made a bunch of it into balls the size of cookies and froze them on a single layer on a cookie sheet. Freeze them 1 hour (UNBAKED) and then take out and place into ziploc bags. Freeze them until ready to use. When ready to bake take out as many or as few balls as you want and place them straight in the oven. Bake about 12-15 minutes.

Pumpkin Cookies

So instead of cleaning my bathroom like I should be doing, I procrastinated and made cookies. These are THE BEST cookies I have had in a while. They are amazing, seriously you have to try them. They are so moist and oh so yummy! I didnt have my camera here, my husband had to take it to work so there is no photo. I saw this recipe on another cooking blog and had to try them . . .. .

Pumpkin Cookies

Recipe from:

http://kitchenscrapbook.com/

1 cup Crisco
1 cup sugar
1 cup pumpkin
1 egg
1 tsp. vanilla
2 cups flour
1 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. cinnamon
1/2 tsp. salt

Cream shortening and sugar. Add pumpkin, egg, and vanilla. Blend in dry ingredients.

Bake at 350 for 12 minutes. Spread caramel frosting on top.

Caramel Frosting
1 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup butter
1/4 cup milk
1 tsp. vanilla
1 1/2 cups powdered sugar

Combine brown sugar, butter and milk and bring to a boil over medium heat. Cook and stir for 2 minutes.
Remove from the heat and stir in vanilla. Cool to lukewarm, then gradually beat in the powdered sugar until frosting reaches spreading consistency.

Christmas Cookies Post #1

I got a head start on Christmas cookies this year. I always make 5 or 6 different kinds and make plates of cookies to take to our neighbors as a christmas gift.
Last week I made Monster Cookies and O Henry Bars.


Monster Cookies
10 Cups Oatmeal
1/2 Dozen Eggs
1/2# Butter
1-1/2 # Peanut Butter
4 t. Baking Soda
1# Brown Sugar
2 Cup Sugar
M & M's I didnt measure how much, I used the mini M&M's used for baking and just poured in. About 1/4 bag for 1/2 recipe. You can add more if you want more or less if you would rather not have as many.
Chocolate Chips I use mini Chocolate chips. And again I didnt measure. Just poured. I probably used about 1/4 bag of these too for 1/2 recipe.
Mix all together and drop by spoonfuls onto a greased baking sheet. Bake at 350 for 10 minutes.
This makes a HUGE batch so I only made half of a batch and had about 4 dozen cookies.

O'Henry Bars (No picture for these)
4 Cups Oatmeal
1 Cup butter
1 Cup Brown Sugar
1/2 Cup Sugar
1 Cup Chocolate Chips
1 Cup Peanut Butter
Mix Oatmeal, Butter and sugars together and pat into a greased 10X15 pan. Bake at 350 for 12 minutes. Melt Chocolate Chips and Peanut butter together in a microwave safe bowl. Pour over hot bars. Let set til cooled completely. Makes about 24 bars or more.

Coming in the month of December
-Chocolate Raspberry Truffles
-Chocolate Mint Cookies
-White Chocolate Macadamia Nut Cookies
-Peanut Butter Blossoms

Cake Mix Cookies

I made them yesterday for our Labor Day cookout we had. But I must say I love these cookies. I always get great response when I make these.

Cake Mix Cookies
1 Box Butter Pecan Cake mix
1 Box French Vanilla Cake mix
1 Cup Oil
4 T. Water
4 Eggs

Mix all together. Stir in Chocolate chips. Drop spoonfuls onto a greased cookie sheet. (I used the pampered chef cookie scoop)
Bake at 350 for 10 minutes. They wont look brown on top but you dont want to over cook them either. Let them cool on cookie sheet about 2-3 minutes then place on a rack to cool completely.
Makes about 4-5 dozen cookies with the medium size cookie scoop.

**Edit**
You can use any kind of cake mix to make your own cookie combo up. . Some I have tried are
-Devils Food Cake mix & Chocolate cake mix
-Devils Food Cake mix & French Vanilla cake mix
-You can also use the funfetti cake mix to make cookies with sprinkles in them. Just use 2 funfetti mix's or 1 Funfetti & 1 french vanilla