Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Pound Cake

 

 I created this cookie dough pound cake, as I was looking through my

recipes, I decided to do it the easy way, meaning I did from scratch

only the pound cake, the cookie dough I used a mix, and saved time.

INGREDIENTS:

Cookie Dough Base

1 bag of chocolate chip cookie mix

1 egg

90grs. butter

Pound Cake

45 grs. butter

1/2 cup sugar

1Tbsp. vanilla

1 tsp. baking powder

100 grs. whipping cream

1/2 cup milk

2 eggs

Decoration

1 Tbsp. cocoa

HOW TO:

Preheat the oven to 300°F

 For the cookie base

melt the butter and just mix all the ingredients together

press into the previously greased and floured mold

For the Pound Cake:

Melt the butter, add the sugar and with electric mixer

blend in eggs, vanilla, baking powder, whipping cream

milk, and flour.

Pour over the cookie dough base

Bake for 40 to 45 min.

Decorate with cocoa or powder sugar, you can use a pattern

if you like, I just placed some paper cut rectangles on top

of the cake and then sifted some cocoa

ENJOY!

Cookie Cake

Cookie Cake

the name sounds good to me,

we had baked some sugar cookies

 which to be honest turned out a little brown,

 so I decided to do something with them,

a cake made out with cookies!!!

INGREDIENTS

CAKE

4 cups crushed sugar cookies

2 cups whole milk

3/4 cup sugar

1 cup flour

1 Tbsp. baking powder

1 Tbsp cornstarch

1 1/2 Tbsp. vanilla

3 eggs

FROSTING

1cup powder sugar

1 Tbsp. vanilla

1Tbsp. evaporated milk

HOW TO:

Preheat oven to 325°F

 break the cookies  if you want to use the food

processor its fine

Add the milk and vanilla

Add eggs, sugar, baking powder, cornstarch and

flour, beating well in between each addition

Bake for 30 min or until you insert a toothpick

and comes out clean

Ready!

FROSTING:

mix all the ingredients, you may add some more drops

of evaporated milk if necessary

cover the cake 

 Enjoy!!

Moon Sables

I made this cookies for my daugther´s school work of ¨the moon phases¨ at the end she and her friends offered them to the parents and they just dissapeared

Ingredients

1-1/4 cups all purpose flour

 pinch of salt

 1/4 cup of sugar
1/2finely ground almonds
peel of 1 lemon
1/3cup butter,softened
2egg yolks

Glace
powder sugar with a few drops of lemon juice, and 1 drop of blue food coloring  

How to

Grease several baking sheets with butter or lined paper

Stir flour, salt and sugar in medium size bowl

mix in almonds and lemon peel

Cut in butter until mixture resembles fine bread crumbs.

Add egg yolks and mix to form a soft dough.

Roll out dough on a floured surface, using a moon cookie cutter cut out the figures.

Place slightly apart

Refrigerate unbaked for 30 minutes

Preheat oven to 350F

Bake Moon Sables for 15 to 20 min or until light brown.

Remove, when cool, decorate with a pipe and the colored sugar icing.

Enjoy!

Palmiers with Chocolate

I had made some pastry palmiers the day before, so was figuring out how to make them irresistible, I also had some good chocolate and sprinkles, so I knew they would do a great addition, its a simple way to change things that we might find boring into mouth watering ones, and of course in a very simple and fun way, even children can help us.

INGREDIENTS

40 puff pastry Palmiers

250 grs. semi-sweet chocolate
250 grs white chocolate

100 grs milk chocolate sprinkles

HOW-TO

Place all the palmiers in a plate or center piece

melt both chocolates separately

place milk chocolate in a pastry bag and pour all over the palmiers.

then do the same with white chocolate

Finally add the chocolate chips all over them

Let Palmiers stand for 40 min. or untill set

enjoy

 drizzle white chocolate

                                     add semi-sweet chocolate

                                      then chocolate sprinkles

Chocolate Drop Cookies

Easy recipe, makes delicious soft chocolate cookies, you can serve them with ice cream or maybe vanilla custard

INGREDIENTS

2/3 cup butter, softened
1 cup sugar

1 egg
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1-1/2 cups all-purpose flour

1/2 cup HERSHEY'S cocoa
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/3 cup buttermilk
Additional sugar for garnishing

HOW TO

Heat oven to 350°F.

Lightly grease cookie sheet or line with parchment paper

Beat butter and sugar in large bowl until well blended. Add egg and vanilla beat until fluffy.

Stir together flour, cocoa, baking soda and salt; add alternately with buttermilk to butter mixture.

Using 1/4 cup ice cream scoop or 1/4  measuring cup, drop dough about 2 inches apart onto prepared cookie sheet.

Bake 13 to 15 minutes or until cookie springs back when touched lightly in center. While cookies are on cookie sheet, sprinkle lightly with additional sugar.

 

 

Cool slightly; remove from cookie sheet to wire rack.

Cool completely.

About 1 dozen cookies

Delicate Cookies

first time trying this recipe,turned out great! hope you like it

INGREDIENTS

100 grs. butter

150 grs. shortening
3/4 cup powder sugar 

3 tsp cinnamon
3 cups of polenta flour

powder sugar for dusting

 Preheat oven to 350F

HOW TO

Cream shortening, butter, and sugar

add cinnamon

add flour continue beating

put the dough 15 in the refrigerator

Roll out the dough on a floured surface to 1/8inch.

Cut with cookie cutter

Place on prepared sheets.

Bake 25 min

When cooled dust with powder sugar

ready! enjoy!

Easter Cookies

I used my basic sablé recipe to make this easter egg cookies, they are easy, and delicious.

INGREDIENTS

1-1/4 cups all purpose flour

pinch of salt
1/4 cup of sugar 

 1/2 finely ground almonds 

 1 Tbsp. vanilla or almond extract 
 1/3 cup butter,softened
2 egg yolks

 DECORATION 

 Mix powder sugar with a few drops of lemon juice, and 1 drop food coloring of whatever color you want to decorate with, soft colors would be fine in this case, yellow, orange, pink, green, purple and orange, your sugar icing is ready.

HOW TO

Stir flour, salt and sugar in medium size bowl

mix in almonds and vanilla or almond extract

 Cut in butter until mixture resembles fine bread crumbs.

Add egg yolks and mix to form a soft dough.

Roll out dough on a floured surface, using a Easter egg cookie cutter

 ut out the figures

Place slightly apart

Refrigerate unbaked for 30 minutes

Preheat oven to 350F,

Bake for 15 to 20 min or until light brown.

Remove, when cool, decorate with a pipe and the colored sugar icing.

 Enjoy!

Grease several baking sheets with butter.

Snowflake Sables

I love to bake Christmas cookies, so you can bake this ones or in other shapes

Ingredients:

1-1/4 cups all purpose flour

 pinch of salt

1/4 cup of sugar

 1/2finely ground almonds

 1/3cup butter,softened

 2egg yolks

Decoration: 

 powder sugar with a few drops of lemon juice some drops of evaporated milk, food coloring and sugar crystals and colored dragees.

How to:

Grease several baking sheets with butter or lined paper

Stir flour, salt and sugar in medium size bowl

 mix in almonds

Cut in butter until mixture resembles fine bread crumbs.

Add egg yolks and mix to form a soft dough.

Roll out dough on a floured surface, using a snowflake cookie cutter, cut out the figures.

Place slightly apart

Refrigerate unbaked for 30 minutes
Preheat oven to 350F,

Bake snowflake sables for 15 to 20 min or until light brown.

Remove, when cool, decorate with a pipe and the colored sugar icing and sprinkle sugar crystals and dragees.

 Enjoy!

If you don´t have a snowflake mold, you can cut circles and if you have a decoration snowflake just push it in order to get the figure in the circle, that´s what I did.

Polvorones Sevillanos

Our family tradition is to make Polvorones Sevillanos in Christmas, this tradition comes from Spain.

You can wrap them in all kind of Christmas decorated tissue, and maybe offer them in little boxes as presents.

Ingredients
2 kg all purpose flour
•1 kg good quality lard
•1 kg powdered sugar
• 4 Tbsp ground cinnamon
•1/2 cup powder sugar

How to do them
Preheat the oven to 300ºF.
Measure and pour flour out onto a cookie sheet. Place in oven and "toast" the flour. Occasionally move the flour around on the sheet, so that it toasts evenly. Leave in oven for about 30 minutes. Remove and set aside.
It has to be completely cool to start working.
Cream lard, sugar and cinnamon in a large mixing bowl. Add the flour .
Place a sheet of waxed paper on a cutting board or other flat work surface. Press the dough together to form a ball. Then press the dough onto the waxed paper. Carefully flatten it down to about 1/2 inch. Use a cookie cutter to cut out the cookies the traditional one is round
Use a small spatula to carefully move the cookies from the waxed paper to a cookie sheet for baking they are very delicate
Bake cookies on ungreased cookie sheet for 25-30 minutes at 300ºF.
Remove cookie sheet from oven and allow cookies to cool completely before removing them.
Sprinkle with powder sugar when ready to serve.
Makes approximately 150 polvorones
ready to wrap
wrap them with tissue paper

Flag Sables

I made this flag cookies for the independence day family gathering,

Everybody likes them hope you like them too!

Ingredients
1-1/4 cups all purpose flour

1/4 cup of sugar
pinch of salt
1/2finely ground almonds
1/3cup butter
2egg yolks

Sugar Icing
1 cup of powder sugar with a few drops of lemon juice

and a few drops of whole milk.

Divide preparation in 2 parts and add 1 drop of red food coloring to one part and then 1 drop of green food coloring to the other .

Cookies

Grease several baking sheets with butter, and add line paper.
Stir flour, salt and sugar in medium size bowl
mix in almonds
Cut in butter until mixture resembles fine bread crumbs.
Add egg yolks and mix to form a soft dough.
Roll out dough on a floured surface, using a rectangle cookie cutter .
and cut out the figures.
Place slightly apart
Refrigerate unbaked for 30 minutes
Preheat oven to 350F,
Bake flag Sables for 15 to 20 min or until light brown.
Remove, when cool, decorate with a pipe and the colored sugar icing.

Enjoy!