Chocolate Mint Cookies

3:29 AM ByFiled UnderDesserts

Hey y’all! I hope y’all are getting as many amazing Handmade Holiday gift ideas as I am!!! I’ve bookmarked some fantastic ideas and discovered some truly amazing bloggers! After you say hi to today’s seriously amazing blogger, drop on by Cindy’s blog to see which spectacular sewer she’s highlighting and then pop over to Kelly’s to see which crafter she’s showing off today! You can see all of the Handmade Holidays Posts here

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Today’s amazing recipe is from Shelley of How Does She?
Grab your thigh master,…you are going to need it after making these…but oh so worth it!
{My friends go crazy when I make these}

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Ingredients

  • 3/4 cup butter
  • 1 1/2 cups packed brown sugar
  • 2 tablespoons water
  • 2 1/4 cups semisweet chocolate chips
  • 2 eggs
  • 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 1/4 teaspoons baking soda
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 36 Andes Mints (like the flat ones you get at Olive Garden)

Directions

  1. In a large pan over low heat, cook butter, sugar and water until butter is melted. Add chocolate chips and stir until partially melted. Remove from heat and continue to stir until chocolate is completely melted. Pour into a large bowl and let stand 10 minutes to cool off slightly.
  2. At high speed, beat in eggs, one at a time into chocolate mixture. Reduce speed to low and add dry ingredients, beating until blended. Chill dough about 1 hour. {I usually skip the chilling and they turn out just fine}
  3. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
  4. Roll dough into balls and place on ungreased cookie sheet about 2 inches apart. Bake 8-10 minutes. While cookies are baking unwrap mints and divide each in half. When cookies are brought out of the oven, put 1/2 mint on top of each cookie. Let the mint sit for up to 5 minutes until melted, then spread the mint on top of the cookie. {Sprinkle if desired} *If you are stacking the cookies, place them in the fridge for 10-15 min for frosting to harden* Eat and enjoy! (Makes 3 dozen)

* Recipe adapted from allrecipes.com. I LOVE All Recipes. Lots.

Don’t forget to include any small helpers you may just laying around the house. My little guy has coveted job title of ‘Official Cookie Sprinkler’. These cookies go perfect with our Cookies in a Can Neighbor Christmas Gift Idea. Such a festive, yet thrifty way to package these sinful cookies up.

Oh I want some. Now! Make sure if you bake any, to drop some off by my door.

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Meet Shelley, Alison and Missy, the brilliant minds and adorable ladies behind How Does She


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Sweet Potato Oatmeal Cookies

5:07 AM ByFiled UnderDesserts, holiday craft along

Welcome to our Holiday Bake, Craft & Sew along!  I’m hosting all the holiday baked goodies, the amazing and adorable Kelly is hosting some seriously fantastic non-sewing craft ideas and over on Cindy’s blog, you will find some truly amazing Sewn Gift Ideas.. Make sure to visit each of them every day for amazing Holiday Gift inspirations!

Today’s featured baker is the lovely lady behind the truly delicious blog, Savor The Thyme.

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For many years now, close friends and I have shared the tradition of giving something we have made for each other for Christmas. No buying of gifts from the store, only buying supplies to make the gift that we can then consume. And now that the kids are in school, I have added teachers onto the list homemade food gift recipients.

Nothing makes me happier than sharing the gift of homemade food as everyone truly appreciates the time, energy and thought you put into a handmade gift. And I mean, who doesn’t like food? Doesn’t it also feel great when you show and share love via food? Well, this recipe was a huge hit this past Christmas and it came about because a shortage of Pumpkin Puree led me to create sweet potato puree.

If you love cookies that are chewy and guilt-free cookie, these are for you to share!

Sweet Potato Oatmeal Cookies

Ingredients: 18 cookies
1 sweet potato puree, cooked until tender, peeled and pureed (1 lg. sweet potato)
1 cup all-purpose flour
1 cup whole wheat flour
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1.5 teaspoons cinnamon
¼ teaspoon salt
1/3 cup old fashioned oats
1 tablespoon ground flax seeds (optional)
1 whole egg
6 oz cup non-fat plain yogurt
3/4 cup brown sugar
1 cup 1% milk

Directions:
1. Preheat the oven to 375 degrees.

2. Peel the sweet potato and chop into small chunks. Place into a large bowl, cover with plastic wrap and microwave for 6-8 minutes (until you can easily pierce with fork). Set aside to cool slightly.

3. Meanwhile, combine the following into a bowl: flours, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, salt, oats and the (optional) flax seeds.

4. In a separate bowl, whisk together the egg, yogurt and sugar.

5. Place the sweet potato into a food processor with 1/3 cup of milk and puree. Add the remaining milk as needed while pureeing . Fold 1 cup of the puree into the ‘wet’ mixture.

6. Add the dry mixture into the wet mixture and combine well.

7. Place tablespoons of the mixture about 2 inches apart and bake for approximately 8-9 minutes.

Icing: (estimated amounts)
1-2 cups confectioner’s sugar
Orange Juice
Water

Place sugar into a bowl; add 1 tablespoon of orange juice and mix. For more moisture, add water, a teaspoon at a time and mix well. Drizzle over cookies and allow to set. Consume and smile.

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Meet Jen ;-)

Hi Everyone,

My name is Jennifer Leal and I am a mom of two children, ages 4 and 6. I obtained a Master’s of Science in Immunology and worked for a large pharmaceutical company prior to starting my family and blog Savor the Thyme. My blog focuses on family-friendly healthy food and lifestyle. I believe in feeding your family in a healthy way and to me that means eating ‘real’ foods. I believe in a healthy lifestyle and family: To us that includes being healthy physically, emotionally, and spiritually.

You can also find me at ‘The Family Kitchen’ as a daily contributor as well, as posting every Monday as Rhode Island Traveling Mom.

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Candy Cane Kiss Cookies

10:49 AM ByFiled UnderDesserts

Candy Cane Kiss Cookies.

Buttery Sugar Cookies, rolled in colored sugars and topped with a candy cane kiss as they come piping hot out of the oven.

Y’all, these cookies are dynamic.  They are beautiful to look at, delicious to taste and crazy simple to make.

These are going in darling snowflake covered boxes to my mom’s 3 best friends and their neighbors who are so graciously allowing my children to entertain their children while we visit.

Ignore the powdered sugar.

Candy Cane Kiss Cookies

  • 1 bag candy cane kisses, unwrapped
  • 1 Cup granulated sugar
  • 1 stick butter, softened (please don’t use margarine.. use butter, it makes it better)
  • 1 egg
  • 1 1/2 tsp vanilla extract (do not use imitation, please)
  • 1/4 tsp baking soda
  • 1/4 tsp salt
  • 2 Tbsp milk
  • 2 C all purpose flour

Blend together; butter and sugar.  Add in egg and vanilla until well mixed.

In a medium bowl, mix together: flour, baking soda and salt.

Alternate adding the flour mixture and milk to the butter/sugar/vanilla/egg mixture.

Chill the dough for about 20 or 30 minutes (especially *ahem-cough-ahem*, you live in a humid climate)  then roll into 1″ balls and place on a cookie sheet.  Then, roll around in your pretty colored sugars. (do this one color at a time.. just sayin’)

Place in your pre-heated 350 F. oven and bake for about 8 minutes. (they will not look done)

As soon as you take them out, take your pretty bowl of gorgeous, candy cane striped kisses

and place one in the center of each cookie

Let cool for about 3 minutes on the cookie sheet and then carefully place them on a cooling rack to finish cooling.  The kisses are fragile and soft at this stage.

You will not believe how delicious these cookies are.  People will beg you for the recipe.

I made both red and green cookies but the green with the candy cane kiss are just sooooo gorgeous ;-)

Merry Christmas Eve, y’all.

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