Pudding Chocolate Chunk Cookies

This recipe for Pudding Chocolate Chunk Cookies combines three things that I love.  

Bears! 

Beets! 

Battlestar Galactica!  

Just kidding!  (The Office quote:) 

Anywhoo, this recipe really does combine three things I love.  

Baking!  

Butter!  

Chocolate!

Nothing takes you back to your childhood like a good old fashioned chocolate chip cookie.  Sneaking spoonfuls of batter.  Hot and gooey cookies fresh out of the oven.  Your mama pouring you a glass of milk.

  

I love the twist they put on this cookie by adding a vanilla pudding packet into the batter.  They bake up a lot softer and more cakelike.  Its great!  

While my hubby and I sat devouring these cookies I used him as a sounding board to bounce some ideas off of.  This recipe is really good.  I think it could be great if you added in a chocolate pudding packet instead of vanilla.  Then use the chocolate chunks and incorporate a few peanut butter chips.  Awesome.  I'll let you know how my experiment goes. 

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Blueberry Oat Cookies

I love making oatmeal raisin cookies with craisins.  They remind me of Michael's best friend Aaron.  I would always make these for him because they were his favorite.  

Since I've been on my Blueberry Bonanza kick I thought I'd try out a blueberry oatmeal cookie.  

I made them just in time for the arrival of my youngest brother-in-law Alex.  All three brothers (out of ten siblings) were able to hang out and watch movies and play around.  I made a whole batch and by the end of the evening only five little cookies were left.  Apparently they were a hit.  

You start out just like normal oatmeal cookies mixing the sugar and butter together.  

After you mix all your dry ingredients together you add them into the sugar-butter mixture. 

Then slowly you add in a couple cups of oats and then fresh or frozen blueberries.  I had fresh blueberries.

  

Once you spoon these out onto a slightly greased cookie sheet you pop them into the oven for about 15 minutes.  

They don't expand like regular cookies.  I'm not sure if I over mixed or what but they didn't spread out hardly at all.  But the taste is amazing because you bite into it and you get the sweetness from the brown sugar and you get an explosion of sweet juice from the blueberries. 

The next time I'm going to make these with the original Quaker Oats cookie recipe but then add in the fresh blueberries.  They really are a treat.

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I have pumpkin!

I made pumpkin cookies and they turned out delicious!

I've been waiting and waiting to make these pumpkin cookies from Betty Crocker.  This book has quite a few really good cookie recipes in it.  The Betty Crocker book Cookies Cookies.  It contains some wonderful recipes as well.

This recipe was so easy and quick to make.  The recipe calls for cinnamon, nutmeg, and allspice.  I could not believe my eyes when I looked in my lazy Susan and only found cinnamon.  

Was I doomed to have nasty cookies?  

Nope! 

They still turned out but next time I will make sure to have all the spices in it.  

Once I added all the other ingredients to the mixer it turns out like a cake batter.  When you spoon them out onto your cookie pan make sure you keep them small and spread them out a little bit.  They end up rather high and fluffy and taste a little gooey.  In the end they flatten out and taste amazing.  

One recipe calls for adding vanilla icing and another says to leave them plain.  I shook confectioners' sugar over half of them and it was delicious.  The other half I left plain and we gobbled them up just as fast.  

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No Bake Cookies

This is Day #2 of being snowed in.  It has been nice because even Michael gets to stay home from work.  That's been nice for me because I get an extra set of hands with the daily chores and with Murphy Man.  

I got done early with the chores for today and did my baking in the middle of the afternoon instead of having to wait until the evening during Michael's "Mensday" (he's got a hockey game tonight).  

This week's recipe was for No Bake Cookies from over at Eat at Home.  When you get a chance you should go over and check out her recipes.  I made her Broccoli Soup yesterday and it was delicious.

I got everything together and realized that I didn't have any wax paper to let them set-up on.  I greased down a few cookie sheets and just left it at that. 

It takes a while for them to set-up but when they are done they taste heavenly.  I snagged a cookie before they were completely done anyway.  

It reminds me of when I was a little girl and would go visit my parents' friends down in Myrtle Beach.  Auntie Bernice would have these sitting out on her sideboard (or buffet for all you who aren't my mother).  Then I could just grab one every time I walked by from the family room to the bedroom and back again.  

They are so simple to make and it makes the whole house smell like cocoa and peanut butter. And yes, you can start this recipe with a stick of butter!  Yeah Me!

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