Strawberry Chocolate Chip Cookies

These are a super simple, cake mix cookie. My favorite kind of recipe :)

You start with a package of Strawberry cake mix and add in a teaspoon of baking powder and stir it up. Then in a second bowl whip up 2 eggs, vegetable oil and a little vanilla.

Mix this in with the first bowl untill well incorporated. Fold in a heaping cup of chocolate chips. And cook! With a cook time of only 10 mins, these cookies are as quick as they are simple. 

Plus they're pink. Win win all around. 

Ingredients:

1 box of strawberry cake mix ( I used Pillsbury)

1 tsp of baking powder

2 eggs

1/3 cup vegetable oil

1/2 tsp of vanilla. 

1-1/4 cup of semi sweet chocolate chips 

Bake at 350 degrees for 10 mins. Do not brown cookies. 

White Chocolate Cranberry Bars

Today I made these. They remind me of the Cranberry Bliss Bars from Starbucks but I have not compared the two side by side. I have a ladies brunch this week and thought they would be a fun recipe to try! These blondies with their cream cheese frosting and dried cranberry pieces are just too good to not try! 

First, melt some butter in the microwave and stir in some brown sugar. Then in a separate bowl mix up the flour, baking powder, salt and cinnamon. Grab some eggs and vanilla and use a handheld mixer to blend those into the brown sugar and butter mixture. After that add the flour mixture a little at a time and blend. The mixture will be super thick. Next fold in the cranberry and white chocolate pieces. 

Once that's all stirred up, spray nonstick spray in a 13x9 baking dish and cook at 350 degrees for about 18-20 minutes. It is finished when a toothpick inserted near center comes out clean.

Mine looked like this: 

Now for the frosting! 

Use the handheld mixer again to blend up the cream cheese, powdered sugar, and half of the melted white chocolate. Spread on the cooled bars. Top with extra cranberries and drizzle the remaining melted chocolate to garnish.

They are very pretty bars and oh so yummy! 

Cut into bars; store in refrigerator. Enjoy!

Ingredients:

Bars:

3/4 cup butter, cubed

1-1/2 cups light brown sugar

2 eggs

3/4 tsp vanilla extract

2-1/4 cups all purpose flour

1-1/2 tsp baking powder

1/4 tsp salt

1/8 tsp ground cinnamon 

1/2 cup dried cranberries

6 ounces of white baking chocolate, coarsely chopped (I used 6 ounces of white chocolate chips)

Frosting:

1 8oz. pkg cream cheese 

1 cup of powdered sugar

6 ounces white baking chocolate, melted

1/2 cup dried cranberries 

Pumpkin Chocolate Chip cookies

Today I made these:

These are probably some of my favorite cookies ever. I make them even when it's not pumpkin season because I love them so much and because they remind me of fall. 

You start by adding pumpkin, sugar, oil and egg to a small bowl and stirring that all up. 

Then in a seperate large bowl you mix up flour, salt, baking powder, cinnamon and cloves.

There you go. 

Next, in a seperate container, stir together the baking soda and milk. Go ahead and add that to your pumpkin mixture.

Pour the pumpkin mixture into the large dry ingredient bowl and proceed to add the vanilla and chocolate chips. Stir until well combined. 

Drop spoonfuls on a parchment paper covered cookie sheet and put in the oven. Bake 10-12 minutes. They'll feel slightly firm when they are finished! 

Happy Pumpkin Season! 

Ingredients:
1 cup of Pumpkin
1/2 cup of granulated sugar
1/2 cup of brown sugar
1/2 cup of vegetable oil
1 egg
2 cups of all purpose flour
2 tsp of baking powder
2 tsp of cinnamon
1/2 tsp of salt
1 tsp of baking soda
1 tsp of milk (I've used both 2% and whole)
1/8 tsp of cloves
1 tbsp of vanilla extract
2 cups of chocolate chips

White Chocolate Chip & Raspberry Muffins

Today I made this brand new recipe that I am very excited about. Its pretty simple and straightforward. The only things I needed to purchase that weren't already in my cupboard were whole milk, white chocolate chips and fresh raspberries. Not too shabby. I like easy.

First turn on the oven to 400F and put your paper muffin cups in the pan.

Now mix all the dry ingredients together. Then - the only thing I've never done before - you take chilled butter and grate it into the dry ingredients. Still super easy. Then stir it all up.

Next you mix the wet ingredients in a separate small dish. Make a well in the dry ingredients, pour in the wet and gently mix it all up.

Then you fold in the raspberries and white chocolate chips at the end. Finally add the mixture to the muffin cups, and top with remaining white chocolate chips.

Place the muffins in the oven for 20 minutes and tend to your now very unhappy child.

When they are done they will be a pretty golden brown on top and make your house smell like muffin heaven. They should look something like this: 

Yum yum! At approximately 246 calories per muffin it's not too hard on the diet. That is if you can eat only one.

:-)


Ingredients:

2 cups of all purpose flour

1 tablespoon of baking powder

1/2 cup of granulated sugar

6 tablespoons of salted butter; chilled and grated

1 large egg

3/4 cup of whole milk

1 1/2 cups of fresh raspberries 

3/4 cup of white chocolate chips -- I added 1/2 cup to muffins, 1/4 cup on top

Recipe yields 12 muffins.


Inspired by The Easy Way: Baking by Parragon Books