Cookie Week

It's cookie week on Holy Hannah's! We have been employed to bake 250 cookies for a wedding this coming Friday. We got a majority of them done over the weekend and I figured what's better than a week full of cookie recipes!

Snickerdoodle Cookies

Cookie Ingredients

1/2 cup butter
1/2 cup shortening
1 1/2 cups sugar
2 eggs
1 1/2 tsp cream of tartar
1 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp salt
2 3/4 cup flour

Topping Ingredients

3 tablespoons sugar

1 tablespoon cinnamon.

Preheat oven to 350 degrees

Beat butter, shortening, sugar and eggs together until creamy. Add cream of tartar, baking soda, and salt; then blend. Add flour and mix well. Chill dough at least 2 hours in fridge, overnight is desired. If you are in a hurry, putting the dough in the freezer for about 15 minutes will do the trick.

Combine the topping ingredients in small, shallow bowl. After the dough is done chilling shape dough into balls about 1 1/2 inches in diameter. Drop dough balls into topping mixture and coat entire surface well. Place on ungreased baking sheets and bake for 10 minutes or until golden brown.

50 Snickerdoodle Cookies

Stacks of Snickerdoodle Cookies

Snickerdoodle Cookie

Busy Weekend Ahead

This is what my weekend is going to involve

Yes, that does say 72 ounces!

Krista and I will be making 250 cookies for a wedding next weekend! We are making 5 different varieties of cookies. I am hoping to get 3 of the 5 done, but that might be a little ambitious. I hope everyone has a great weekend. Stayed tuned next week to see what 20 dozen cookies looks like.

Sugar Cookies with Butterscotch Glaze

I have a huge stack of recipes I find on the Internet, print out, and hope to make someday. This specific recipe has been at the top of the stack for a few weeks and I am so glad I finally got around to making these.

It is a simple sugar cookie recipe with one extra ingredient, butter flavoring extract. With an amazing butterscotch glaze that I could have eaten by the spoonful.

Here are the ingredients you will need for the Sugar Cookies

Flour, Baking Powder, Sugar, Brown Sugar, Butter, Egg, Butter Flavoring, and Vanilla

Pre-head oven to 350 degrees. Start by whisking 3 cups of flour and 2 tsp of baking powder. Set aside.

Cream 2 sticks of butter with 1/2 cup of sugar and 1/2 cup of brown sugar.



Add 1 egg

Add 1 tsp butter flavoring extract

Add 1 tbsp vanilla extract

Mix until well-blended. Gradually add the flour mixture and beat until just combined. Scrap down the sides and bottom of the bowl between additions.

Roll the dough onto a floured surface and roll cookies out to 1/4 inch. Cut into desired shape.  



Place onto a parchment lined baking sheet and bake for 9 minutes.

Cookies should be a light brown on the outside. Let sit for a few minutes and transfer to a cooling rack. I was able to get four dozen cookies out of this recipe.

While the cookies are cooling you can begin making your Butterscotch Glaze

The ingredients needed are:

Butterscotch Chips, Light Corn Syrup, Evaporated Milk, Salt

I feel quite bad for butterscotch chips. I like to think of them as The Forgotten Chip. Hardly any recipes call out for them and I find them to be quite delicious.

The following measurements will be enough to cover 2 dozen cookies.

Place one bag of butterscotch chips, 1/4 cup evaporated milk, 2 tbsp light corn syrup, and a pinch of salt into a double boiler. Stir occasionally until melted and smooth.

I forgot to take a picture of what the glaze should look like once completely melted, but I have full faith in your abilities to figure it out.

Place the cooling cookie, which are still on the wire rack, on top of parchment paper and drizzle the glaze over the cooled cookies. Please try and control you every desire to eat the glaze plain.

The final results, a soft sugar cookies covered in a scrumptious butterscotch glaze.

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The Butterscotch Glaze makes my mouth water!

Tower of Sugar Cookies with Butterscotch Glaze

I am so glad I finally made this recipe. I am not a huge fan of sugar cookies (i.e. they are a lot of work) but these are well worth it! I am excited to adapt this butterscotch glaze to other dessert, maybe poured on top of cheesecake! I don't think anyone would mind. =]  If you have extra time this weekend, whip some of these up,  your family would not be disappointed with this treat.

Avalanche Bars

It is hotter than Hades here in Minnesota and what does Mr. D decide to do? Turn off the air. The man is crazy! I had the itch to do some baking before I realized it would be 81 degrees in our house. Luckily I had another no-bake recipe in my arsenal!

Avalanche Bars are incredibly easy to make and are extremely tasty. Its suppose to be another scorcher this weekend so make these cool summer treats.

Here are the goods you will need to make these fabulous bars

1 bag of White Chocolate Chips

2 heaping tbsp of Peanut Butter

3 cups of Rice Krispies Cereal

1/2 mini Chocolate Chips

1 1/2 cups mini marshmallows

Start by combining the white chocolate chips and peanut butter in a microwave safe bowl.



Melt for 40 seconds, seriously only 40. When you take the bowl out of the microwave the ingredients wont look melted enough, but trust me, after a little stirring all the white chocolate chips will be melted.

Add in the 3 cups of Rice Krispies cereal. Let this cool to room temperature, about 10 to 15 minutes.



Once the mixture is cool add in the mini chocolate chips and marshmallows.

Stir together until all combined.



Press into a greased 9 x 13 cake pan and put in the fridge to harden. I ended up doubling the recipe and pressed it into a sheet pan. Trust me, it's well worth doubling. =]

Do all you can to resist eating this before it hardens. It's going to be difficult, I struggled. But once they are completely hardened you wont regret it. These are delicious treats that taste amazing on hot summer day!

Tower of Avalanche Bars

Avalanche Bars

Avalanche Bars Up-Close

Repeat

I feel like we do a lot of repetitive baking. But I suppose if something works why change it? My mother requested some bride and groom cake pops to take with her to a shower she was having for a coworker. Being the nice daughters that we are we obliged. They get easier every time we make them and our skills have definitely improved.

Bride

Groom

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We Interrupt The Baking

To share with you all the fun Breanna and I had yesterday that had absolutely nothing to do with baking! My nice boyfriend Tyler bought 32 dollars worth of fun from Wheel Fun Rentals, off one of those coupon sites. We of course had a million things going on in the month of July and were never able to use it. To make a long story short, it expired yesterday, Tyler was tied up at work, so Breanna and I set off to use the coupon.  


We ended up canoeing for an hour, which was a success because we didn't tip! And then we took out of one these bad boys. A Surrey!

Surrey for Two

We felt like a bunch of dorks but got a good workout in. I told Ty we would definitely be going back to ride one of these again!

Bre and Me

August

I feel like I same the same thing every month, but WOW, I cannot believe how fast time has been flying! This past weekend I was out of town so no baking was done. I went through some of the recipes I have done in the past month and decided to make the new Recipe of the Month one of my favorites, Chocolate Peanut Butter Reese's Pieces Cookies. YUM! I know its a mouth full to say but they cookies are well worth it. Check it out and make them if you are looking for a tasty dessert.

Chocolate Peanut Butter Reese's Pieces Cookies