I have something really sad/happy to tell you. I fried my computer Friday night. As a blogger who is connected to their boyfriend, I mean, computer 24/7 it was a very traumatic experience! Things started to go bad Wednesday night when it wouldn’t upload any pictures. Long story short I was out of disk space and just about lost my hard drive.
All is well, and the Apple people and my online Apple lifeline Brandon, saved the day. I was without my laptop for the weekend as they did emergency CPR etc. to bring it back, and blogged from the desktop which was humbling 🙂 being spoiled blogging from where ever I wanted for the past few years. Being tied to a desk was miserable. But like a champ I pulled through…. I am totally kidding, but it was a sad weekend.
Which leaves me with about 8 recipes I have to share with you this week! So get ready to start eating some food!!!
Sunday night in honor of going back to school the girls and I made some cookies for them to take to school Monday morning.
They wanted fluffy sugar cookies with pink pig sprinkles ( don’t ask! ) and so that is what we made…. except that we were out of sour cream. Hmmmmm, well, I have Bailey’s Creamer.
IT WAS AWESOME! I have a new FAVORITE recipe!!!
When I rolled these out, I used powered sugar and not flour. I also greased the pan. Roll out 1/2 thick, and use something round to cut them. I had a biscuit cutter that was the perfect size.
Bailey’s Sugar Cookies
4 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
4½ tsp. baking powder
1/3 cup Bailey’s Flavored Creamer (or any other creamer)
¾ tsp. salt
1½ cups (3 sticks) unsalted butter, at room temperature (I used salted because it was all I had, and then used a smidge less salt than called for, tasted great anyway)
1½ cups sugar
3 large eggs (room temperature)
2 tsp. almond extract
For the frosting:
2 1/2 cups confectioners’ sugar, sifted
2 1/2 tbsp. unsalted butter, melted
3 tbsp. Bailey’s Creamer
2 tsp. Vanilla
First, cream the butter and sugar together. Cream it on high for a good 4 minutes. Beat in the eggs one at a time, mixing well after each addition and scraping down the bowl as needed. Blend in the almond and Bailey’s. With the mixer on low speed, add in the dry ingredients, mixing just until incorporated and evenly mixed. Lick the beaters clean. Cover and chill the dough for an hour. CHILLING IS IMPORTANT!
I found that pretty much whatever shape you put them on the cookie sheet, they stayed in that shape. Roll out 1/2 thick, and use something round to cut them. I had a biscuit cutter that was the perfect size. Bake them about 8-10 minutes, taking them out of the oven before they have brown edges. Brown edges=no good. I found with the first batch that if I could just barely touch the top of the cookie and it wasn’t doughy, they were perfect. Less cooked the better!
For the frosting: Start with the powered sugar and add the butter slowly mixing on high, until super smooth. Add the vanilla and creamer. Now this is where you will need to just add more powered sugar if needed, the frosting needs to be stiff or it will just run off the cookies. Add food coloring if you want.
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My favorite all time cookie is white chocolate chip macadamia (spelling?) and oatmeal raisin…I do not keep any cookies in the house because I would eat them if it was one of those 2!!
Chocolate Chip hands down!
A fresh out of the oven, still warm & soft chocolate cookie!
oops – chocolate chip!
I’d love the free bailey’s!!! My favorite cookies are the Lofthouse sugar cookies that you can buy at almost every store! I have been looking for a recipe to come close to them. Maybe this is it?
YUM!!! Great substitute idea! Hmmm, favorite. . .No bake cookies for sure, the kind u drop on wax paper. . .Mmm mmmm good.
Peanut butter cookies are my favorite!
The Famous Neiman Marcus $250 Cookie! Super Yummy!!
I love lofthouse sugar cookies. I cannot wait to try out this recipe!
My gave cookie is Pamela gf chocolate chip easy
One of the first cookies I made as a child. Always brings back good memories when I smell them baking in the oven.
My favorite cookies are butterfinger cookies. They are made with yellow cake mix & butterfingers. Yummy!!!
My favorite cookie is the classic plain old sugar cookie!!!
My Favorite cookie is sugar cookies! I will have to try this recipe.
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try adding a 1/4 cup (i use the real stuff, but creamer would prob work just as good) to your fav dark chocolate chip cookies recipe 🙂 yum! i just toss in a tad extra flour for the right cookie dough consistency and use a little less liquid, if needed
I love any cookie, but what is Bailey’s creamer. Is it for coffee or adult type drinks? Sorry I’m a little clueless here.
Well it is both, this kind I used is nonalcoholic.
white chocolate macadamia nut cookies!
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My favorite cookie is the Lofthouse Sugar cookies. SOOO Good I can’t just eat one.
I love butterscotch cookies!!!! My email is jelicaltronics@aol.com
My fave cookie is scottish shortbed cookies my mom makes this from scratch yummy
love fresh oatmeal raisin, lol and good old sugar cookies with a hint of vanilla or lemon. mmmmmmmm. milk anyone? lol.
oatmeal raisin is my favorite!!!!!
I like really thin golden brown sugar cookies, with a lot of icing!
Emeril’s Stained Glass Cookies. I use jolly ranchers though instead of lifesavers. My kids love them and co-workers expect them every Christmas.
My favorite is chocolate chip with walnuts!
I love sugar cookies!
I love chocolate chip cookies – this recipe looks delicious – can’t wait to try it!!
Sounds good. My favorite cookie is hands down, gotta be….. chewy pecan! I have never attempted to make them before, but the Great American Cookie Co. has such a great one! Their cookies are not cheap, but it’s hard to resist them when you are at the “Germ Tree” aka play area, in The Woodlands Mall. I hear them whispering.. saying… come….eat….us! (the cookies) lol
My favorite is chocolate chip cookies- then maybe the Lofthouse sugar cookies. 🙂
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Turtle cookies, my husband has passed his caramel addiction on, dang him!
My favorite is my Mom’s sugar cookies or anything with chocolate in it.
My mom’s sugar cookies.
My favorite cookies are my mom’s chocolate chip cookies. When my husband & I were dating we called them “man getting cookies” cause my hubby always joked that they were the reason he married me!!
My favorite would have to be snowball cookies.
Oatmeal Raisin but I never make them because the kids don’t like raisins!
Pecan dreams are my favorite!
Old-fashioned Nestlé Toll House cookies are still my all-time fave. Even the ones that end up looking like cow patties! I also love flavored creamers and I’m a huge coffee drinker so winning a freebie sure would be an extra special treat!
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My ALL-TIME favorite cookies are the Snickerdoodles-they are DEEEELICIOUS with some ICE, COLD-milk!!! Look forward to winning the coupons for Free Bailey’s CREAM!!!! 😉
I love peanut butter chocolate chip – my son and husband are self-proclaimed cookie monsters so it is hard to keep cookies around 🙂 This recipe looks really good. Thanks, Tiffany!
Anything crunchy!
I love this recipe!! I will definitely be trying this one out. Over the weekend I tried a recipe that had only 2 ingredients. A can of diet coke and a box of devil’s food cake. Mixed it together, put it in a 9×13 greased pan and bake it at 350 for about 20 minutes or so until done. Then I put a tub of thawed whipped cream on it and topped it with strawberries. It was great and I could eat the whole cake without feeling guilty!!
Oh wow! Great recipe idea on the cake!
Oh this is a really tough decision to have to make, but I will have to say
OATMEAL CRANBERRY with Walnuts…still slightly warm from the oven with a very cold glass of skim milk.
Talk about Yum-O, this would be it!!