As part of being an ultrasound technologist, sometimes we have to be “on call”. Usually this ends up being about once a week or so. If someone comes into the emergency department and needs an ultrasound, the doctors call us and we come in from home. …
It’s no secret that I am on a quest for the best chocolate chip cookie recipe there is. (You can read about my two previous posts regarding the subject here and here.) For a quick recap, I’ve made it one of my life’s missions to …
Happy hump day! Know what your Wednesday needs? A little sparkle. A little confetti. Maybe a few sprinkles.
These cookies came about when I was brainstorming babysitting activities. There’s a little cutie in my life and I was going to be watching her one night and putting her to bed. I’m not usually there for her nap and bedtime routines, and at two years old any little change can just set.them.off. In order to avoid a melt down I wanted a distraction. What could I easily bake with help from a toddler; what would they like?
Sprinkles!! Everyone loves sprinkles, right? Right. That’s what I thought. Well, sadly the little peanut was sick and we didn’t get to bake cookies 🙁 But I had been all mentally prepared for them! I had even thought about calling this post “Kid Friendly Confetti Cookies”. It looked like I just had to take one for the team. Make the cookies myself and then eat them all.
The base for these is my soft sugar cookie recipe. Normally those are a roll-and-cut kind of cookie, but you know what? I wasn’t feeling it. This was supposed to be a kid-proof recipe, remember? Instead I just rolled the dough into balls, rolled those through the sprinkles, and then flattened them a little with my hands. The dough won’t spread or flatten too much, so make sure you get them the size you want before baking. This recipe also yields a lot of cookies (about 6-7 dozen) so I usually put half the dough in the freezer for another time.
The beauty of these cookies (besides their cuteness factor and how easy they are to make) is that you could color coordinate your sprinkles for any event! Baby shower, football tailgate, holiday parties…4th of July anyone??
I’m going to warn you right now…there is no chocolate in this post today (gasp!). I know, right? Who am I?! I’m a self-proclaimed chocoholic! Yet when I find myself staring at a plateful of cookies, what do I choose? The oatmeal raisin. (Further proof …
I’m fairly convinced I could be a vegetarian without much hassle. Now don’t get me wrong, I love me some steak fajitas, barbecued ribs or pork chops…I just don’t cook meat that often. Especially if I’m only cooking for myself. That being said, I’ve had low …
You read that right. Salty pretzels with sweet chocolate and creamy peanut butter. All jammed into a cookie together with their friend oatmeal. I struggled coming up with a name because there are so many good ingredients in these bad boys! But I figured “Oatmeal-Chocolate-Chip-Peanut-Butter-Pretzel-Cookies” sounded like a bit of a mouthful, so I tried to cut it down a smidge.
Happy Monday friends! Don’t you just love Mondays?? Oh wait…maybe that’s just me. Since I work a weekend shift, technically Mondays are my “Fridays” and I end up the most chipper person at work! But in case you’re like the rest of the world and …
Happy World Nutella Day! It is incredibly random that we have a World Nutella Day. Seriously, who comes up with these kinds of days?? Not that I am complaining. As previously mentioned more than once, I am a Nutella addict. And if there is any …
If Kelly has a Nutella addiction, I have a peanut butter addiction: on my toast at breakfast, with an apple at lunch, by the spoonful for a snack, on my ice cream at night…it’s a daily necessity. I recently found this honey peanut butter from a local peanut shop. AMAZING. Seriously. I tried eating normal peanut butter after having this and I couldn’t. It’s that good. Sometimes I just eat it with a spoon (someday my metabolism is going to quit on me and I’m going to weigh 500 pounds…)
It was requested that I bring something with chocolate into work. Something with chocolate but without peanut butter… weird, I know, because peanut butter and chocolate is the ultimate pairing but that was the request. I thought of making a cheesecake or brownies or chocolate …