Chocolate Ginger Roll Out Cookies

I found a new recipe that I just love!

I love chocolate, and I'm on a ginger kick. This recipe combines both flavors into one.

They were super easy to make!

The Ingredients: 

The Directions:

They are versatile. You can use different cutters to give them new innovative looks! If you desire, you can frost them, or pipe them. My family thought they tasted good on their own, so I left them be. 

Dirt Brownies

I had left over dirt; well actually chocolate cookie crumbs. I made chocolate brownies for an Easter gathering. My six year old had fun spreading chocolate frosting on them and sprinkling the brownies with dirt AKA chocolate cookie crumbs.

I added some carrot sugar cookie I made and my three year old and six year old added gummy worms. My boys rarely get gummy anything. They were SUPER excited to eat some and add some worms to the dirt!

Dirt Cookies

I made some spring sugar cookies. Usually I make carrots, bunnies, eggs and chicks. This year I still made the usual and added in some squares and circles.

There are cupcakes on Jolly Mom that inspired me to create my Dirt Cookies.

I crushed up chocolate cookies I bought. 

Next I took the circle and square sugar cookies, frosted them with chocolate frosting, dipped them in the crushed chocolate cookies. There dirt was easy to create. My three year old loved helping me.

I then frosted my carrot cookies. Instead of only adding orange frosting, I added some more chocolate cookie crumbs into the frosting. I used green frosting and grass sprinkles for the steam. The back of the carrot had a touch of chocolate frosting added, just so they would in fact stick. Then they were pressed into the circles and squares.

 
I thought with some I could have bought gummy worms to add to the tops. Not this time though.

Want to Win a Valentines Package?

I do! I think this would be a great gift to my kids! What does it include?

• A fun Valentine’s Day heart box
• Iced honey vanilla heart cookies
• A complete assortment of Godiva truffles

How to win? Go to Mommy to the Max to enter!

Reindeer Food

It looks like I have a few more carrot cookies to make! I have to cover all the reindeer!

This was my Grandma's giant plate. It has all kind of scratches in it that I rubber stamped out of the first image. I just love the plate {scratches and all}! 

These are now in my freezer waiting to be set out on Christmas Eve for Santa's reindeer.

Chocolate Malt Cookies

I found a new cookie recipe I LOVE! I found the recipe here. This is the second time I've made them. They are so yummy!

 

{Cookies}

• • 2 cups plus 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
  • 1/2 cup unsweetened Dutch-process cocoa powder
  • 1/4 cup plain malted milk powder
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1/2 teaspoon coarse salt
  • 1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, room temperature
  • 1 3/4 cups sugar
  • 1 large egg
  • 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
  • 1/4 cup heavy whipping cream
  • 3 tablespoons hot water
  •  
  • {Cookie Directions}
  •  

  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. 
  2. Sift together flour, cocoa powder, malted milk powder, baking soda, and salt. With an electric mixer, beat butter and sugar on medium-high speed until pale and fluffy. Mix in egg, heavy wiping cream, and hot water. Reduce speed to low; mix in flour mixture.
  3. Space tablespoon-size balls of dough 3 1/2 inches apart on parchment paper-lined baking sheets. 
  4. Bake until flat and just firm, 10 to 12 minutes. Let cool on parchment on wire racks.

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• {Filling}

   

  • 10 ounces semisweet chocolate, coarsely chopped
  • 4 tablespoons (1/2 stick) unsalted butter, cut into small pieces
  • 1 cup plain malted milk powder
  • 3 ounces cream cheese, room temperature
  • 1/4 cup plus 2 tablespoons half-and-half
  • 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract

 

{Filling Directions}

 

1. Melt chocolate and butter in a heatproof bowl. Stir. Let cool. With an electric mixer, beat malted milk powder and cream cheese on medium speed until smooth. Gradually mix in half-and-half, chocolate mixture, and vanilla. Refrigerate, covered, until thick, about 30 minutes. Mix on high speed until fluffy, about 3 minutes.

  

{Assemble Cookies}

 

1. Spread a heaping tablespoon filling on the bottom of one cookie. Sandwich with another cookie. Repeat.

More Ice Cream Cones

I made these for our work's, preschool and for my sister that watches my boy's today.

Vanilla, Chocolate, Lemon and Strawberry

 They are those flavors of frosting too. I put a slight amount of coco baking powder in the mix of these sugar cookies to make the cones darker. Before I baked them I painted egg on them and sprinkled sugar {I used white, but have used brown}.

I bought Valentine M&M's on clearance. They worked perfect for the cherries on top!

Vanilla

Chocolate

Lemon

Strawberry

What flavor would you choose?

Baby Shower Cookies

My cousin doesn't know what she's having. This would have totally driven me nuts. I had to know!

I decided to make heart cookies because in our family, we love our babies. I made pink ones for girls and blue ones for boys. Then added the girl and boy symbol to them.

Cherry Chocolate Chip Cookies

Tropical Traditions gave me a jar of Gold Label Extra Virgin Coconut Oil to try out.

I have to be honest at first I had never heard of Coconut Oil. I didn't know how to cook with it. I had to figure out if it was even healthy to use in the kitchen.

Luckily I have a sister that works in health and nutrition. She told me that it is healthy. I also read up on Coconut oil before it arrived to me. This is straight from Tropical Traditions website:

As a cooking oil, its chemical structure is kept in tact and therefore is resistant to mutations of fatty acid chains even when used in higher cooking temperatures, unlike most vegetable oils. Research shows that the medium chain fatty acids found in coconut oil boosts the body’s metabolism, raises body temperatures, and helps provide greater energy which can lead to weight loss. For hundreds of tasty recipes from people who use coconut oil, visit FreeCoconutRecipes.com.

I used it on the boy's skin after a bath. I love how it smells and melts into their skin! Isaak always tries to eat the lotion. This is perfect for him because he can eat it.

I plan on using it to make a stir fry. Tofu is one of my newer loves.

We also made healthier cookies! I'm a baker. Even though I'm trying to loose weight I still love to bake around this time of year. I've been trying to bake using healthier things in the mix.

The Recipe I Use for Chocolate Chip, Cherry Chip Cookies 

I love that these cookies contain oatmeal! 
Coconut Oil can replace butter!

Start:

1. Preheat the oven to 375 Degrees.

Cream the following together:

1. 1 cup Coconut Oil
2. 1 cup white sugar
3. 1 cup brown sugar

Add:

1. 1 teaspoon vanilla
2. 1/2 teaspoon salt
3. 1 teaspoon baking soda
4. 1 teaspoon baking powder

Blend in:

1. 2 cups flour
2. 2 1/2 cups oatmeal
3. 6 ounces chocolate chips, 6 ounces cherry chips.
4. 1 1/2 cups chopped walnuts

Finish:

1. Spray a pan well. 
2. I used a medium Pampered Chef Scoop. 
3. Bake until light brown.
4. Place on a cooling rack when they've hardened up a little.
5. They taste good warm (straight out of the oven), room temperature and cold (we sometimes freeze them).
6. This made 55 cookies. We had a few and the rest went in the freezer for Christmas time. They tasted better then with using butter!

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