Sugar and spice and everything nice window cookies

I love these cookies so much. 

I love Christmas cookies and this year I am more into making them than anything. And in one of my Christmas books I found this gem of a cookie recipe. These sigar and spice cookies just scream Christmas!  Sweet and full of those warming Christmas spices, these cookies shall fill your heart. These cookies are rolled cookies and like a sugar cookie can be cut into shapes. Mmmm so good. And they are soft!  So if you are tired of the same old sugar cookies then try this. I promise you won't be disappointed.

Ingredients:
1 3/4 cups of flour
1 stick of softened butter
1/2 tsp vanilla

1 egg

1 cup packed Brown sugar 

1tsp baking powder 

1 tsp cinnamon

1/4 tsp nutmeg

A pink of cloves

1/2 cup or raspberry preserves warmed in microwave for 30 second. 

Powder Sugar for dusting.

Preheat oven to 375 degrees and in a bowl, cream the butter and sugar. When a smooth consistency add the egg and vanilla. Mix until creamy. Then in a separate bowl sift the dry ingredients together. If you do not have a sifter or a fine strainer just use a wire whisk to mix the dry stuff. Then add a bit at a time, the wet mix to the dry. Until all in the bowl. If it is hard mixing with a spoon mix with hands the rest of the way. Then form a round disk and store in fridge for 1hr up to 3 days. Roll out dough and cut your favorite shapes. I used two hearts. You want to use the big size cutter then a size or two smaller of the same cutter shape. It is so you get a beautiful window effect.

Bake cookies on a parchment lined cookie sheet for 10 mins or until golden brown. Then cool on cookie sheets. Once cool, take the raspberry preserves and heat in the microwave for 30 seconds. With a spoon spoon a bit on each full size cookie. Top with the cut out top. Then dust with powder sugar. DONE. 

Fall fun! Pumpkin Chocolate Chip cookies!

I have a can of pumpkin and did  not want pie. So I went to the food network app and found  pumpkin chocolate chip cookies. It has everything you could want pumpkin and chocolate.  Done! I had to make them and make them I did!
I followed the recipe but one thing Florida people; you may have to use baking powder with the soda. I made them with the recommended baking soda and poof. They are delish but had a cakelike consistency.  My hubby didn't complain but we will see when they are cold.
So here is the recipe:
3 cups of flour
1 cup sugar
1 cup brown sugar packed
1 cup unsalted butter (2sticks)
2 eggs
1tsp vanilla
1 teaspoon cinnamon
2teaspoon of baking soda  fl people use equal parts soda and powder. 1 tsp soda and 1 tsp of powder.
1 can of pumpkin
1/2 tsp of salt
1/2 tsp of ginger
1/4 tsp nutmeg
1/4 tsp cloves
1  bag semi sweet choc chips.

Preheat oven to 350
In one bowl cream butter and sugar. Then add vanilla and pumpkin. Next add the eggs. I didn't use a mixer, don't have one. Then in a separate bowl sift flour and spices. Add the pumpkin mixture a bit at a time to the dry and stir. Once that has been mixed together stir in chocolate chips.
On a parchment lined cookie sheet spoon a tablespoon full of batter on the sheet. Cookies will bake for 10-15minutes.  Or until cookies are brown.
They are soft cookies.
Can make up to 60 cookies. Courtesy of Food Network. 

Perfecting my cookie recipe.

Today I am trying to refigure my cookie recipe for double chocolate chip cookies. Here in Florida I have noticed cookies go flat or they become cakey mound so dry that you could use them instead of a paper towel. Yuck.
What I have learned recently via Pinterest is using both baking soda and powder. It works. My recipe for this cookie is below.

You will need :
2 1/4 cups all purpose flour
1/4tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp baking powder
1/8tsp salt.
3/4 cup sugar
3/4cup Brown sugar packed.
2 eggs
2 tsp vanilla
2sticks of room temperature unsalted butter
White and milk chocolate chips

Preheat your oven to 375degree.
In a bowl mix the butter, sugars, eggs, and vanilla into a fluffy creamy texture. Next add the baking soda and powder. Add salt stir. Add flour one cup at a time. Mixing well then add the chips. About half a bag of each.
Place a drop of cookie batter on a parchment lined cookie sheet. Cook on center rack for 10 mins or cookies are lightly browned. 

TGIF

Happy Happy Friday people!

Today is an alright day. I started to clean out more boxes and I started make my Christmas cards. Yes,it is early. But, if I don't start now I wont get them done in time. And side note SCREW YOU PANDORA! Darn thing keeps skipping.While I was getting things going with my Cricut machine, I went to stamp some cute penguins. I thought, "thought", I had some good ink. Yeah, it was as dry as the desert. So my project is now on hault.On to the next project! Today me and the boy will make some cookies. I am going to play around with some recipes I know. Here in Fl, cookies do not set up like they do up in Missouri. So, I have to play around with my recipes to get things just right.
Today it will be sugar cookies and double chocolate chip cookies. Will post more later. Now it is time to feed little man.