Everyday Food for Busy People
What to do with the lemon cake mix hanging out in my pantry? Cookies, of course!
This was an experiment. I wasn’t at all sure how the crushed pineapple would work in a cookie made from cake mix. I was afraid it would be too much liquid. But they turned out wonderfully. Soft and lemony with a sunny flavor.
Here’s what you’ll need:
I’m going to guess that you have everything to make these cookies in your pantry right now. Recipes that satisfy your chocolate cravings quickly and cheaply cannot be underrated.
This recipe was shared by Loy in the comment section of last week’s Ingredient Spotlight: Cocoa. My kids were scavenging in the kitchen for a snack when I saw the recipe. It didn’t take long until we were pulling warm, chocolatey cookies from the oven. Loy’s recipe calls for nuts, but I tossed in some Heath chips instead.
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Last year, I saw recipes for cookies like this floating around the internet. A friend brought some to my house and they were so good. How can you go wrong with white chocolate chips and cranberries?
I decided to make them yesterday, but didn’t want to look up the recipe. Googling is so hard, you know?
So I tweaked the Oatmeal Chocolate Chip recipe from the back of the Walmart brand oat box. As soon as I finished making them, I noticed the recipe on the back of the Craisin package. Oh well. My tweaked recipe tasted buttery, with the sweet-tart flavors of the white chips and cranberries. And the recipe made a lot. Enough to munch and freeze some for later.
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I love my husband. First of all, he sometimes bakes cookies for us. Secondly, he has brilliant ideas. Like pouring Heath chips into the cookie dough.
Toffee chips make a classic even better.
Unfortunately, you only get to see a photo of the ingredients this time. I completely forgot to take pictures of the cookies!
Let me see if I can paint a word picture for you. They were round, lightly browned, chock full of oats and studded with plenty of chocolate chips, not too flat or too fluffy, the perfect amount of sweet.
I adapted the recipe from the back of the Great Value quick oats box, swapping out shortening for butter and using more chocolate chips than the original called for.
That’s a long title for a cookie that only has 6 ingredients. These are chocolatey and moist. The coconut makes them extra special. I used mini chocolate chips and I think they work better in this cookie than regular chocolate chips, although you can substitute if you need.
Most of my desserts don’t rank high on nutrition. I don’t expect that out of a dessert. But this one is different. Made with whole wheat flour, oatmeal and dried cranberries, these cookies offer more than just good taste. The recipe is adapted from Whole Foods for the Whole Family. The original called for wheat germ, but I didn’t have any so I altered the amount of flour. I also added cranberries to give them more taste and interest.
A minor tweak to the original No Bake Cookie, makes for a delicious change of pace. The same chocolatey goodness with a twist of coconut. I thought about adding shredded coconut to them, but decided that my kids might find that a bit to much. If you’re a true coconut lover you could substitute the oats for coconut. [Read more...]
Butter brickle, Heath, Toffee – whatever you want to call it, I love it. These cookies are chock full of butter brickle chips and studded with pecans, which complements the soft cookie. They’re made with a yellow cake mix, making them as convenient as they are yummy. [Read more...]
I went on a hunt for Canadian treats to eat while we watch the Olympics and found these yummy cookies. The recipe comes from Mennonite Girls Can Cook. I’d never visited that blog before, but they have lots of yummy recipes over there.
The cookies are soft and cake-like. The combination of molasses and chocolate is very good, especially with the white icing on top. [Read more...]
