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The Butter Story

vwbug — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 01:35:08 +0000

I dedicate this story to Lemonstand. While her family is always more entertaining, I certainly don’t hold back in the “What in the world” department here. Besides, I thought of her and her ability to make lemonade out of just about anything. I… I went from pissed, to annoyed, to laughter. I just had to laugh at myself.

I decided to make chocolate chip cookies today. Three boys, one tired mom… I needed that fix. So I was going to make cookies… My normal process is to put the stick in a bowl, cut it up some and microwave for 11 seconds. Then let it sit a while before doing the rest so it is nice and soft. Today. Yaa. Today… was not quite right. I took the bowl out. Took the stick of butter from the fridge, unwrapped it, put the wrapper in the bowl and threw out the butter. Did you catch that? I threw the butter away. Yep… one of those days.

Oh, and the cookies did get made. We all needed them.

Heart Cookies

vwbug — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 12:08:49 +0000

Tink sent me a link that was very cool… check out how to make Heart cookies for valentines HERE AT THIS POST.

Peanut Butter cookies

vwbug — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 09:02:30 +0000

It is getting time to those yummy recipes out here for the holidays. You can make so many things out of peanut butter cookies… ghosts, pumpkins, bats… just use cookie cutters and icing or sprinkles. This is the recipe I like best… I got it out of the ‘Cookie Cookbook’.

Ingredients:
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1/2 cup packed brown sugar
1/4 cup butter, softened
1/4 cup shortening
1/2 cup peanut butter (I prefer smooth for this)
1 egg
1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
3/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt

Directions:

Mix sugars, butter, shortening, peanut butter and egg. Stir in remaining ingredients. Cover and refrigerate at least 3 hours.

Heat oven to 375F. Shape dough into 1 1/4 inch balls. Place about 3 inches apart on ungreased cookie sheet. Flatten in crisscross pattern with a fork dipped in flour. Bake until light brown, 9 to 10 minutes. Cool about 2 minutes; remove from cookie sheet.

These are very yummy!