Sweet Saturdays #72
No Bake Peanut Butter Chocolate Cookies
Ingredients:
- ½ cup butter
- 2 cups sugar
- ½ cup milk
- 4 tbsp. cocoa
- ½ cup creamy peanut butter
- 2 tsp. vanilla
- 3-3 ½ cups dry quick-cooking oats
Directions:
- Add the first four ingredients into a medium sauce pan. Bring to a rolling boil and hold for 1 minute. Remove from heat.
- Add peanut butter into the hot mixture and stir until melted. Add in vanilla.
- Mix in the oats and drop by tablespoons onto wax paper. Let cool until set.
Bible Readings: 1 Chronicles 1-3, John 5:25-47
Sweet Saturdays #51
Avocado Chocolate Chip Cookies
Ingredients:
- 1 Hass avocado
- 1 stick unsalted butter, room temperature
- 1 1/2 cups dark brown sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 2 tsp. pure vanilla extract
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 tsp. baking soda
- 1 tsp. salt
- 1/2 tsp. baking powder
- 1 1/2 cups old fashioned oats
- 1 3/4 cups semisweet chocolate chips
Directi0ns:
- Cut the avocado in half and scoop out the flesh into a large bowl. Add the butter and brown sugar. Cream together until fluffy.
- Add the eggs, one at a time, followed by the vanilla. Mix well until well combined.
- Add the flour, baking soda, salt and baking powder. Mix slowly then add the chocolate chips and oats. Be careful not to over mix here. Place the dough in the fridge to chill for one hour.
- Preheat the oven to 325 degrees. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper. After the dough has chilled, scoop out spoonfuls of dough on the baking sheet and press down gently with your hand to flatten. Bake for 15-18 minutes, until golden brown. Repeat with remaining dough.
Bible in a Year – Day 356 – 1 John 1-3
Sweet Saturdays #20
Chocolate-Cherry Heart Smart Cookies
I pulled this recipe out of a magazine a few years ago. It has whole-wheat and rolled oats, plus delicious chocolate and cherries.
Ingredients
- 1/3 cup all-purpose flour
- 1/3 cup whole-wheat flour
- 1 1/2 cups old-fashioned rolled oats
- 1 tsp. baking soda
- 1/2 tsp. salt
- 6 tbsp. unsalted butter
- 3/4 cup packed light brown sugar
- 1 cup dried cherries
- 1 tsp. vanilla extract
- 1 large egg, lightly beaten
- 3 oz. bittersweet chocolate, coarsely chopped
- Cooking spray
Preparation
- Preheat oven to 350°.
- Weigh or lightly spoon flours into dry measuring cups; level with a knife. Combine flours and next 3 ingredients (through salt) in a large bowl; stir with a whisk.
- Melt butter in a small saucepan over low heat. Remove from heat; add brown sugar, stirring until smooth. Add sugar mixture to flour mixture; beat with a mixer at medium speed until well blended. Add cherries, vanilla, and egg; beat until combined. Fold in chocolate. Drop dough by tablespoonfuls 2 inches apart onto baking sheets coated with cooking spray. Bake at 350° for 12 minutes. Cool on pans 3 minutes or until almost firm. Remove cookies from pans; cool on wire racks.
Bible in a Year – Day 139 – Esther 4-6
Sweet Saturdays #4
Healthier Sugar Cookies
I think every parent or caregiver should be able to whip up a special treat. This recipe is very simple and uses ingredients that are usually on hand so it comes in handy for last minute play dates, bake sales or raining days. This recipe is also very good for beginner bakers – young and old.
For christmas we mixed up a triple batch and made cookies for family and friends
- 1 1/2 cups unbleached all-purpose flour
- 1 cup whole wheat flour
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 10 tablespoons unsalted butter, softened
- 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 2 large egg whites
- In a bowl, blend together the flours, baking powder and salt.
- In a separate, beat the butter and sugar together.
- Add in the vanilla extract and beat.
- Add in the egg whites and beat.
- Add the flour mixture slowly to the butter mixture.
- Divide the dough in half, form into balls, wrap in plastic wrap and chill in the fridge for an hour.
- Preheat oven to 375°.
- Roll out the dough on a floured surface to about 1/4″ thickness.
- Cut out shapes and place them 1″ apart on parchment paper on a baking sheet. If using sprinkles (like the red cookies pictured) press into cookies before baking.
- Bake for 7 minutes or until light brown.
- Let cool completely, then decorate.
Bible in a Year – Day 27 – Exodus 31-33
Motivational Mondays #4
Coming Up This Week
Tuesday: French Onion Soup
Wednesday: Papermaking
Thursday: Papa’s BBQ Ribs
Friday: Baked Ziti
Saturday: Sugar Cookies
Sunday: Homemade Cleaners – All Purpose
Bible in a Year – Day 22 – Exodus 16-18
Sweet Saturdays #2
Choco-Banana Oat Cookies
These little cookies are a great treat. With oats, bananas, almond and coconut, they can be served as part of a sweet treat breakfast, along with a big bowl of fruit salad or yogurt.
Also great for playdates, a healthy after school treat and to keep them going during long outings.
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- 3 large, ripe bananas, well mashed (about 1 1/2 cups)
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/4 cup coconut oil, barely warm – so it isn’t solid (or alternately, olive oil)
- 2 cups rolled oats
- 2/3 cup almond meal
- 1/3 cup coconut, finely shredded & unsweetened
- 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon fine grain sea salt
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 6 – 7 ounces chocolate chips or dark chocolate bar chopped
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees, top rack
2. In a large bowl combine the bananas, vanilla extract, and coconut oil. Set aside.
3. In another bowl whisk together the oats, almond meal, shredded coconut, cinnamon, salt, and baking powder.
4. Add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients and stir until combined. Fold in the chocolate chunks/chips.
5. Drop dollops of the dough, each about 2 teaspoons in size, an inch apart, onto a parchment lined baking sheet. Bake for 12 – 14 minutes or as long as possible without burning the bottoms.
They dont change shape during baking like regular chocolate chip cookies. Instead they will brown and get firmer. I have made small shapes with this dough by setting the cookie cutter directly on the baking sheet, then firmly pack dough inside the cutter and carefully lift cutter away – leaving the cookie in place.
Makes about 3 dozen bite-sized cookies.
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