Chocolate Toffee Cookies

Are you in the mood for some gooey, chocolately, crunchy goodness??? Well you found just the cookie to satisfy your craving! A mix of melted chocolate, toffee and nuts is sure to hit the spot. Enjoy!

Chocolate Toffee Cookies

1/2 c. flour

1 tsp. baking powder

1/4 tsp. salt

1 lb. semi-sweet chocolate chips

1/4 c. unsalted butter (you can really use any kind)

1 3/4 c. brown sugar, packed

4 lg. eggs

1 TB vanilla

7 oz toffee bits or crushed Heath bars

1 c. chopped nuts ( I like walnuts or pecans)

Melt chocolate chips and butter in top of a double boiler over simmering water. Combine flour, baking powder and salt in small bowl. Using electric mixer, beat brown sugar and eggs until thick (about 5 min). Add melted chocolate mixture and vanilla and beat until well combined. Mix in flour mixture, then toffee and nuts. Chill batter until firm, about 45 min. Line baking sheet with parchment paper. Put balls of dough (about 1/4 c. each) on sheet and bake at 350 for 15 minutes. Cool. Makes about 2 dozen large cookies.

Sour Cream Sugar Cookies

In honor of St. Patrick's day coming up, I made some shamrock sugar cookies. I love sugar cookie dough, and this is by far the best dough I have ever tasted! The cookies always come out perfect. I am always trying new sugar cookie recipes to see if I can find another one I like, and so far these still are my No. 1 sugar cookie!

1 c. sugar 1/2 c. shortening and mix together

add 2 eggs, 1 c. sour cream, and tsp. vanilla and beat until smooth

add 3 c. flour, 1/2 tsp. salt, 2 tsp baking powder, 1 tsp. soda

Let stand in refrigerator for some time. add more flour when rolling out for the first time ( soft and sticky dough). Roll out to 1/4 inch thick. Bake at 350 for 6 to 8 min. TIP: these do not get brown so DO NOT OVERCOOK!

Peanut Butter & Snickers Cookies

We have been horrible about posting this July!  I guess that's what happens when summer fun takes over.  Lori and I (Brooke) have been in Montana on vacation, and have actually done a few recipes - we just need to post them!  So here's the first.  I was totally pleased - they turned out great.

 Peanut Butter & Snickers Cookies

2 sticks butter

1 c. creamy peanut butter

1 c. brown sugar

1 c. sugar

2 eggs

1 tsp. vanilla extract

31/2 c. flour

1 tsp. salt

1 pkg. miniature Snickers (we used fun size and cut them in half)

Beat butter, peanut butter and sugars, then slowly add in the eggs and vanilla.  Mix in the flour, salt and baking soda.  Then cover and chill for 2-3 hours.  After the dough has chilled, unwrap your candy, and divide the dough into 1 tablespoon pieces.  Flatten the dough, place a piece of candy in the center and form a ball around it.  Finally bake at 300 degrees for 15 minutes - though it may take longer.  Ours took about 20 minutes to cook.

These cookies were fun and yummy - and something  your kids would enjoy helping with.  I'm trying to think of another candy which would also be good in the center.  Any suggestions?  

Mom's chocolate chip cookies

So many fond memories of these cookies. I use to love to freeze these and then eat them straight out of the freezer, letting them defrost in my mouth. They are are the best chocolate chip cookies I have tasted! Haws makes a close runner up, but I have to stay true to these. We had some people over for dinner and planned to make pizookies. We realized half way in that we didn't have enough chocolate chips to make the whole batch, so we made two pizzokies. One with semi-sweet chips and one with white chocolate chips. Then we saved the batter until I bought some more semi-sweet chips to make the cookies. I was surprised by how much I like the white chocolate chips pizookie. I think next time I will make more cookies with the white chips.

1 c. butter

1 c. shortening ( I just used 2 c. butter because I refuse to use shortening. If you choose to do the same, just know that your cookies will be a little more flat, but just as delicious.)

2 c. sugar

2 c. brown sugar

4 eggs

2 tsp. vanilla

4 1/2 c. flour

2 tsp. soda

2 tsp. salt

2 tsp. cinnamon

2 c. chocolate chips

2 c. chopped nuts (optional)

Cream butter, shortening (if using) and sugars together. Add eggs and vanilla. Beat until smooth. Add flour, soda, salt and cinnamon. Stir in chocolate chips and nuts. Place golf ball-sized dough on greased cookie sheets. Bake at 350 for about 10 min or until little cracks appear but cookies are still soft.

For the pizookies, we place about 1 c. of the cookie dough into pie tins, spread out and baked about 15 min.

Adding in the chocolate chips with the rest of the dough.

Snickerdoodles

I love my cookies. Cookies are probably my favorite dessert to make and i especially  love the dough :) I probably eat about half the dough before I bake them, which just means I have to make more of these delicious cookies! These snickerdoodles are a must have in the Hathaway household. They are just the perfect texture and Chase can just eat them all day (so can I).

Snickerdoodles

1/2 c. butter
1/2 c, shortening
1 1/2 C. Sugar
2 eggs
2 3/4 C. Flour
2 tsp. cream of Tarter
1 tsp. soda
1/4 tsp. Salt

Heat oven to 400. Mix thoroughly butter, shortening, sugar and eggs. Blend in flour, cream of tartar, soda, and salt. Shape dough by rounded tablespoon or ice cream scoop into balls. I like to make my cookies a little on the big side.

Mix 2 tbl of sugar and cinnamon and roll balls in mixture, Place two inches apart on ungreased baking sheet. Bake 8 to 10 minutes immediately remove from baking sheet.