Nation Cookie Day .... Santa Surprise Cookies

Did you know today 12/4 was national cookie day?  YUP I didn't know that either until Facebook said something.  OH yes you got to love Facebook!  Well I just happened to make cookies so check me out!  A very sweet mom at the boys school who offered up a spare car for us to drive (which then turned out not to pass emissions and needs some work and her husband is working to get it up and running for us) offered to pick up kids when Rick takes my car.  She picked them up once last week and then today, so I wanted to make her some cookies.  I'm still feeling crappy so I wanted something quick, so I went to a cookie I had at a cookie exchange at my old job called Santa Cookies.

I did this very simple you can make your own sugar cookie base, I didn't feel up to making a batch from scratch so I went to my Betty Crocker Sugar Cookie mix.

Ingredients:

Betty Crocker Sugar Cookie Mix (you can make sugar cookie base)

(Cookie Mix calls for Egg & Butter)

Mini Candy Bars (cut in half)

Make your Sugar cookie mix.  Then cut the mini candy bar in half (I tired using a full mini candy bar and it was just too big.  This is a great way to use up that Halloween Candy you have in the house.  Take a ball of sugar cookie, add half the mini candy bar and roll the cookie dough around the candy bar to make a round ball with a surprise in the center!  Bake at 350 for 10 minutes (the bag says 7-9 minutes but I found it had to cook a little longer with the candy in the middle).  Serve warm and you get a yummy gooey surprise.  Enjoy!!

Hope you all have a fab day, I am now going to curl up with some nightquil and hope it last until I have to get up for work. 

Pumpkin Gingerbread Cookies (Another PTF Treat)

We had our monthly PTF meeting and time to make a new treat to share with the other parents.  I looked in the cupboard what I had already to eliminate a trip to the grocery store.  I found two packages of Betty Crocker Gingerbread Cookie Mix and a can of Pumpkin.  Ok what can I do with that.  So to Google I went and stumbled upon a great recipe for Pumpkin Gingerbread Cookies on Seizing My Day's Blog.  Now she made rolled cut out cookies, I was not being that fancy.  I tweaked the recipe a bit and came up with some great drop cookies.  That is drop them in some cinnamon sugar and roll them around and they turn into round fluffy cookies!

First off sorry about the pictures I left my camera at my dad's house and had to use my iPhone which doesn't take high quality pictures but hey they are clear and we'll make it work.

Ingredients:

Betty’s Gingerbread cookie mix

1/2 Cup Canned Pumpkin

1 egg white

1/2 stick butter

Cinnamon & Sugar - To Roll the cookies in about 1/4 cup

1/2 Cup Flour

Blend the softened butter, pumpkin and egg white in your mixer (I threw mine in my kitchen aid).  Once this is combined add in the cookie mix, it will be sticky at this point.  Now add in the flour add in a little at a time to get a stiff cookie dough.  Once all mixed together take a scoop (I used my ice cream scoop) and then dropped into the cinnamon sugar and rolled around until the whole ball was coated.  I then placed them on a cookie sheet with wax paper.  Bake at 375 for 12 minutes (give or take depending on your stove).

I again didn't get to taste them but Cole told me they were yummy and I was excited to say every cookie was taken home with the people that were there!  Whoo hoo nothing for me to be tempted with.