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Perfect M&M Cookies

Dear Sis,

Josh baked some Pillsbury M&M cookies a few weeks ago and the kids have requested a repeat occurrence. Naturally, I need a homemade version:)

Perfect M&M Cookies

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Course Dessert
Servings 5 dozen

Ingredients
  

  • 2 c unsalted butter, soft
  • 1 1/2 c dark brown sugar, packed
  • 1 1/2 c granulated sugar
  • 4 eggs
  • 4 t vanilla extract
  • 2 t baking soda
  • 2 t salt
  • 5 c unbleached flour
  • 1 c mini M&Ms
  • 1 c milk chocolate chips

Instructions
 

  • Preheat oven to 350.
  • Cream together butter and sugars. Beat in eggs, one at a time, vanilla, baking soda, and salt.
  • Stir in flour, 1/2 cup at a time. Fold in candy and chips.
  • Drop rounded tablespoonfuls of dough on ungreased sheets. Bake 9 minutes. Cool on pans until set. Transfer to wire racks to cool completely.
Keyword chocolate chip cookies, cookies, m&m cookies

Happy Cookie Munching!

Love,

b

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Perfect Peanut Butter Cookies

Dear Sis,

My old Cuisinart stand mixer of 10+ years finally bit the dust! After reading and watching numerous reviews, I decided to go with the Bosch. It offered the best work bowl size and motor wattage of any mixer I could find for home use. I briefly considered an industrial mixer but decided it would be too heavy…lol.

The new mixer arrived last week, but the plastic ring on the base of the stainless steal bowl chipped in shipping and we had to wait another week for the replacement to arrive. It arrived yesterday evening, so the kids were very eager to make cookies today!

We’ve made peanut butter cookies a few times in recent months, making changes each time until we achieved perfection:

Perfect Peanut Butter Cookies

Chewy, melt in your mouth cookies.
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Course Dessert

Ingredients
  

  • 1 c dark brown sugar, packed
  • 1 c granulated sugar
  • 1 c creamy peanut butter
  • 1/2 c shortening
  • 1/2 c unsalted butter, soft
  • 2 eggs
  • 2 t vanilla extract
  • 2 t baking soda
  • 1/2 t salt
  • 2 1/4 c flour
  • 1 pkg Reeces peanut butter bking chips

Instructions
 

  • Preheat oven to 350.
  • Cream together sugars, peanut butter, shortening, and butter until light.
  • Beat in eggs, one at a time. Beat in vanilla extract. Stir in dry ingredients. Fold in peanut butter chips.
  • Drop spoonfuls of dough onto baking sheets. Bake 11 minutes. Cool on sheet until cookies set, then cool completely on wire racks.
  • Store air tight or freeze for later use.
Keyword peanut butter cookies, cookies

Happy Baking!

Love,

b

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Homemade Frosted Soft Sugar Cookies

Dear Sis,

William really likes the soft frosted sugar cookies from the grocery store. He has been asking if we could make some. While hunting down our perfect recipe, I knew I wasn’t willing to spend time rolling out dough and cutting it with a biscuit cutter! I also discovered that this style of cookie is often called “Loft House Cookies.” These cookies actually taste better after the frosted cookies sit overnight. The flavors of the frosting and cookies have time to ooze together and the frosting makes the cookie’s moisture/chewiness even and perfect.

Soft Frosted Sugar Cookies

b
AKA: Loft House Cookies
Print Recipe
Course Dessert
Cuisine American
Servings 6 dozen

Ingredients
  

  • 1 c unsalted butter soft
  • 1 c sour cream
  • 1 3/4 c sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • 2 t vanilla
  • 1/2 t almond extract
  • 1/2 t salt
  • 1 t baking soda
  • 1 1/2 t baking powder
  • 6 c flour

Frosting

  • 1 c unsalted butter soft
  • 3 1/2 c powdered sugar
  • 1 t vanilla

Instructions
 

  • Preheat oven to 400.
  • Cream together butter, sour cream, and sugar until smooth. Beat in one egg at a time, then vanilla.
  • Stir in salt, leavening, and flour, 1/2 c at a time.
  • Drop rounded spoonfuls of dough on baking sheets. Press dough with fingers until it is a disk about 1/4 inch thick.
  • Bake 7 minutes. With a very thin turner, removing cookies from baking sheets and cool on wire racks.
  • For frosing, cream sugar and vanilla into butter until smooth. Color frosting if desired. Spread over cooled cookies and top with sprinkles. Store airtight.




Pressing cookies thin enough before baking is important. If not it really changes the shape and texture of the finished cookies. These cookies do not spread like you may expect. Instead they rise like little cakes. The next picture shows cookies that were only pressed to a 1/2 inch before baking at the top and cookies that were pressed to 1/4 inch at the bottom. They cookies at the bottom are what you are trying to duplicate.

Happy Baking!

Love,

b

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Molasses Spice Cookies

Dear Sis,

The kids got used to having cookies about during the holidays. They were particularly fond of gingerbread cookies. Charlotte has been asking for them, but I decided I wanted a drop cookie version with all the same flavors to save me the time of rolling and cutting dough. This recipe is a perfect fit!

Molasses Spice Cookies

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All the flavors of gingerbread in a soft chewy drop cookie.
Print Recipe
Course Dessert
Cuisine American
Servings 4.5 dozen

Ingredients
  

  • 1 1/2 c unsalted butter soft
  • 1 c dark brown sugar packed
  • 1 c sugar
  • 1/2 c molasses
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 t cloves
  • 1 t salt
  • 1 T ginger
  • 4 t baking soda
  • 2 T cinnamon
  • 4 1/2 c flour

Instructions
 

  • Cream together butter and sugar. Stir in molasses and eggs, one at a time.
  • Stir in spices, leavening, and flour. Chill dough for a few hours.
  • Heat oven to 350. Drop tablespoons full of dough onto baking sheets. Bake 11 minutes. Cool on baking sheets 5 minutes before removing to wire racks to cool completely.

Love,

b

Perfect Oatmeal Raisin Cookies

Dear Sis,

I’ve been hunting for the perfect Oatmeal Raisin Cookie recipe for a long time. Today, I found it!!!

Oatmeal Raisin Cookies

Margin Making Mom
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Servings 3 dozen

Ingredients
  

  • 1 cup unsalted butter soft
  • 1 c dark brown sugar
  • 1/2 c sugar
  • 1 egg
  • 1 egg yolk
  • 2 t vanilla extract
  • 3/4 t salt
  • 1 t baking powder
  • 1 t baking soda
  • 1 t cinnamon
  • 1 c old fashion oats
  • 2 c unbleached flour
  • 2 c raisins

Instructions
 

  • Preheat oven to 350.
  • Cream together butter and sugars. Beat in eggs and vanilla.
  • Stir in dry ingredients. Fold in raisins.
  • Drop spoonful onto cookie sheets and bake 10 minutes. Cool on sheets a few minutes before cooling completely on wire racks.

Josh was hesitant to try them. He loves oatmeal raisin cookies, but historically not mine! He wasn’t sure if he could take the pain of another disappointment:) I’m so glad to have another kind of cookie in the bag!

Love,

b

Other Perfect Cookies

Butter Cookies (Cut-outs)

Chocolate Chip Cookies

Gingerbread Cookies (Cut-outs)

Sugar Cookies/Snickerdoodles

Banana Chocolate Chip Cookies

Dear Sis,

We used to make Strawberry Banana Bread every time we had over ripe bananas on hand, now we make these:

Banana Chocolate Chip Cookies

Creations by Kara adapted by b
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Course Dessert

Ingredients
  

  • 1/2 c salted butter softened
  • 1 c dark brown sugar packed
  • 1/4 c granulated sugar
  • 2 over-ripe bananas
  • 1/2 t baking powder
  • 1/2 t salt
  • 1 t baking soda
  • 1 T cornstarch
  • 1 T vanilla extract
  • 2 c unbleached flour
  • 1 11.5 oz pkg milk chocolate chips

Instructions
 

  • Preheat oven to 375. Line baking sheets with parchment or silicone baking mats.
  • Beat together better and sugars. Beat in bananas. Beat in dry ingredients and vanilla. Fold in chips. Drop spoonfuls onto prepared baking sheets.
  • Bake 10 minutes. Cool on sheets 5 minutes before placing cookies on wire racks to cool completely. Store airtight between layers of parchment.
Keyword banana cookies, chocolate chip cookies

The batter is loose compared to other cookie doughs. I find that parchment causes less browning or caramelization than the silicone baking mats. I hope you enjoy these as much as we do!

Love,

b

Chocolate Chip Perfection

Dear Sis,

I didn’t know I needed a new chocolate chip cookie recipe, but one of my favorite vlog moms assured me I did. She was right!

Check out the video on the THE WADS Youtube Channel.

Chocolate Chip Cookies

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Ingredients
  

  • 1 c salted buter softened
  • 3/4 c dark brown sugar packed
  • 1/4 c granulated sugar
  • 1 (3.4 oz) pkg instant vanilla pudding
  • 2 eggs beaten
  • 1 t vanilla extract
  • 1 t baking soda
  • 2 /14 c unbleached flour
  • 2 c milk chocolate chips

Instructions
 

  • Preheat oven to 350.
  • Cream together butter, sugars, and pudding mix.
  • Beat in eggs and vanilla
  • Stir in dry ingredients.
  • Fold in chocolate chips.
  • Drop spoonfuls onto baking sheets and bake 10-12 minutes.

Love,

B

Glazed Pumpkin Cookies

Dear Sis,

Our baking addiction strikes again! We were looking for a chewy sugar cookie bursting with autumn flavor. We didn’t get what we expected. They turned out cake-y and mild! So we shock things up by adding a lovely pumpkin glaze. They look and taste perfect now:)

Glazed Pumpkin Cookies
Yields 48
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Ingredients
  1. 1 1/2 c granulated sugar
  2. 1 c unsalted butter, soft
  3. 1/2 pumpkin puree
  4. 1 egg
  5. 2 t vanilla extract
  6. 1/2 t baking powder
  7. 1/2 t salt
  8. 1/2 t pumpkin pie spice
  9. 2 1/2 c unbleached flour
Pumpkin Glaze
  1. 3/4 c powdered sugar
  2. 1/2 c pumpkin puree
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 350.
  2. Cream together sugar and butter until fluffy.
  3. Beat in pumpkin, egg, and vanilla.
  4. Stir in dry ingredients.
  5. Using a cookie scoop, place balls of dough onto baking sheets. Bake 14 min.
  6. Cool completely on wire racks before frosting.
  7. For glaze, whisk together sugar and pumpkin until smooth. Apply and spread glaze with a spoon. Stand until sugar is set enough to layer cookies between parchment in an airtight container.
Adapted from Wine and Glue
Adapted from Wine and Glue
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Love,

b