Desserts

Red Velvet Crinkle Cookies

Like Red Velvet cake and want to make a super simple – and festive – cookie this weekend? Try these Red Velvet Crinkle Cookies.

With only five ingredients, you can’t get much simpler than this. Using boxed red velvet cake mix eliminates many ingredients and saves a ton of time. Not to mention you don’t have to worry about the possibility of ending up with red food coloring in random spots in your kitchen, on your clothes or under your fingernails like you do when making typical red velvet recipes from scratch. What I love specifically about these cookies is the fact that they add a festive color to your cookie jar and really do mirror the beloved flavor of red velvet. They do use quite a bit of oil – maybe even a little too much – so they stay moist and always soft. Any red velvet lover will appreciate you bringing these crinkle cookies to the table.

The ingredients:

In a large bowl, combine cake mix and flour. Whisk until clumps disappear.

In the bowl of a stand mixer, mix together cake mix, flour, eggs, oil and vanilla extract. Mix until smooth.

Take about 1 tablespoon of cookie dough and form into a ball. Roll the ball in powdered sugar until fully coated. Place cookie dough balls on prepared baking sheet. Bake in a 350ºF oven for 10 minutes, or until edges are set and cookies begin to crack.

Let cookies sit on baking sheet for 2 minutes. Transfer cookies to a wire cooling rack and cool completely.

Additions: None

Omissions: None

Substitutions: None

Overall Rating: Like It

Source: Two Peas and Their Pod blog

Chunk Wild Cookies

December 17, 2012
Shannon
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chocolate, cookies, dessert, nuts, oatmeal, peanut butter

It’s cookie week! Christmas is just about a week away and we all want cookies for Christmas, right? I can’t tell you how many people I talked to the last couple of days who spent their weekend doing the same as me – mixing, stirring, dropping, baking, cooling, cutting and eating cookie after cookie. My entire dining room table is right now filled with plates of cookies, tins of cookies, boxes of cookies and there are even some cookies in my refrigerator. This first cookie I’m sharing with you, Chunk Wild Cookies, I first made around Thanksgiving and loved them so much, I made a whole other batch again on Saturday.

Oatmeal and white chocolate chips are blended until ground and mixed into the batter giving every bite a white chocolate-oatmeal undertone. The addition of peanut butter chips, semisweet chocolate chips, and walnuts make these cookies even more decadent. If your preference is oatmeal cookies, peanut butter cookies or chocolate-chip cookies you’ll probably like these which are a combination of all three. Just be warned, the dough is thick so be prepared to use some elbow grease mixing in all those chips and it makes A LOT. I used a cookie dough scoop and it made about 4 dozen decent sized cookies. Make them smaller and the dough will easily give you 5 dozen. But don’t worry…these are soo good, they’ll all get eaten.

Just a warning – NONE of the cookies I post this week are healthy or lowfat…sorry!

The ingredients:

Beat together the butter, sugars, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. Beat in the eggs and vanilla.

Using a blender or food processor, process the oats with the white chocolate until the oats are finely ground, and the chocolate is mostly ground; a few small chunks are OK.

Add the oats and flour to the butter mixture, then stir in the peanut butter chips, chocolate chips, and chopped walnuts.

Drop the dough by tablespoonfuls, 2″ apart, onto the prepared baking sheets.

Bake the cookies in a 375°F heated oven for about 12 minutes, until they’re just set.

Additions: None

Omissions: None

Substitutions: None

Overall Rating: Love It

Source: King Arthur Flour website

Scarecrow Crunch

Need a little snack to get you through the marathon of scary movies on TV tonight? Or maybe just something to snack on in between rings of the doorbell as you hand out candy to the ghosts and goblins at your door? Check out this Scarecrow Crunch.

Oatmeal squares cereal, pretzels, candy corn mix, Reese’s pieces, chocolate grahams, and caramel corn are mixed together to make for a sweet and salty snack perfect for autumn. Put some of this into baggies for your kids or just take it to work for people who need an afternoon pick me up. This made a big batch so you’ll have plenty to share. My friends and I noshed on handfuls of this while we were hunkered down during the hurricane. And leftovers should last for a while if you keep them in an airtight container. Turn off the outside light, hunker down in the dark with a blanket, light a candle to cast eerie shadows, and munch on a bowl of this for tonight’s Halloween marathon on AMC. If you have power, that is. If you don’t, try not to get freaked out by the fact that you have to spend every second of Halloween in the dark.