Mason Jar Cookies with Burlap and Lace

Sweet Ambs Cookies has the most wonderful cookie decorating tutorials and with videos too!!! Her techniques are wonderful and easy to follow. The final product is soooo worth the time it takes to decorate and these Mason Jar Cookies are no exception. As a bonus with this video, she shows how to decorate gift tag cookies.

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Cherry Blossom Tree Cookies

These Cherry Blossom Tree Cookies by Sweet Ambs Cookies are perfect for Spring. Check out the video below and see how easy she makes them look to make for yourself!





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Valentine Cookies

I am by no means an experienced cookie baker or decorator. I just love to try my hand at something new and challenge myself to see if I can actually accomplish something that scares me to death!!! Yes...scares me to death!

Last Easter was my first try at making and decorating Sugar Cookies. I found that it wasn't hard just time consuming.  I also made mainly small cookies which took more time to roll, cut and bake the dough.

This past Christmas I decided to try my hand again at making and decorating Sugar Cookies. I loved the colors of blue and white. My favorite ones were the cookies that look like a snow globe scene. I overdid it because I needed 6 dozen for a cookie exchange as well as for gift giving and entertaining. I baked and decorated 12 dozen cookies which took me about 30 hours from start to finish.

Well this Friday I'm having a Ladies Night and thought it would be nice to have Valentine Cookies for a dessert. I'm not a professional but I'm really happy with the way they turned out. I think the ladies will enjoy them too. 

Ultimate Double Chocolate Cookies

Ultimate Double Chocolate Cookies

These cookies are amazing!!! If you love chocolate, you are going to love these! It's like eating fudge, a brownie and a cookie at the saame time.

Ingredients:

1/2 lb semisweet chocolate, chopped

1 cup flour

1/4 cup Dutch process cocoa

1 tsp baking powder

1/2 tsp salt

5 TBS unsalted butter, room temperature

3/4 cup packed brown sugar

1/4 cup white sugar

2 eggs

1 tsp instant coffee granules

1 tsp vanilla extract

Directions:

Melt chocolate in a double boiler, stirring occasionally until smooth. Meanwhile, sift together flour, cocoa, baking powder and salt in a bowl. Set aside.

Beat butter with brown sugar and white sugar in a bowl until light and fluffy. Beat in eggs 1 at a time, then stir in coffee granules and vanilla until well blended. Stir in melted chocolate,.

Add flour mixture and stir with a wooden spoon until just combined. Cover and let stand 35 minutes so chocolate can set up.

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line 2 large baking sheets with parchment paper. Drop rounded tablespoons of dough onto prepared sheets, spacing 2 inches apart.

Bake until cookie edges are set but centers are still very soft, 10 to 12 minutes. Cool on baking sheets 10 minutes, then transfer to wire racks to cool completely.

Recipe from Allrecipes Magazine, February/March, 2015, page 72.

Game Day Dessert!!!

Oreo and Peanut Butter Brownie Cake

Ingredients:

1 Box Brownie Mix

24 Oreo Cookies

1/2 cup Peanut Butter, creamy

Preparation:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Line a 12 muffin cup baking tin with paper liners.

Prepare brownie mix according to package directions.

For each cupcake cup, spread 1 teaspoon of peanut butter over 2 Oreo cookies and stack them on top of each other. Place Oreo stacks into the cupcake lined muffin cups.

Spoon 2 tablespoons of brownie batter over each stacked Oreos and let it run down the sides of the cookies.

(That's my husband helping! 

Didn't take much encouraging to get him to help!!!)

If you have left over brownie batter, bake separately in a muffin tin(s).

Bake cookies for 18-20 minutes, until brownies are cooked through.

Let cool completely, then serve.

Valentine Peanut Butter Cookies

Peanut Butter Cookies

Ingredients:

2 1/2 cups flour

1 tsp baking powder

1 tsp baking soda

1/4 tsp salt

1 cup butter

1 cup creamy peanut butter

1 cup sugar

1 cup brown sugar, firmly packed

2 eggs

1 tsp vanilla

Sanding sugar

Dove heart chocolates or Hershey's kisses

Directions:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Sift together flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Set aside.

In large bowl with mixer at medium speed, cream together butter and peanut butter. 

Beat in sugars until blended. 

Add eggs and vanilla.

Add flour mixture, beat until well blended.

Chill dough for about 1 hour.

Shape dough into 1" balls, roll in sanding sugar and place 2" apart on ungreased or parchment lined baking sheet. (Do not flatten.)

Bake at 350 degrees for approx. 12 minutes. As soon as you remove them from the oven, place either a heart shaped chocolate or Hershey kiss in center of cookie. Press down lightly. Wait about 1 minute and remove to cooling rack to cool completely.

Yield: 6 dozen