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12 Days of Christmas Cookies – Day 2 – Cowboy Cookies Recipe

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Today we are on our 2nd day of the 12 Days of Christmas Cookies. I will be bringing you 12 different Christmas cookie recipes and pictures as the kids and I bake and eat our way to deciding which is our favorite Christmas cookie!

Please leave your FAVORITE Christmas cookie recipe in the comments for us to try!


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Yesterday we did Cowboy Cookies. This might not be the typical Christmas Cookie cookie, but it seems to be the time of year that I see everyone making these. THEY ARE AWESOME! It is a souped up chocolate chip cookie, in my opinion. With nuts, and coconut. If you have not tried these, give them a chance!

The recipe calls for semi-sweet chocolate but up. I just used a bag of chocolate chips.

Cowboy Cookies 

Ingredients

  • 3/4 cup pecans (3 ounces)
  • 2 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, softened
  • 3/4 cup granulated sugar
  • 3/4 cup packed light-brown sugar
  • 2 large eggs
  • 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
  • 1 1/2 cups old-fashioned oats (not instant or quick-cooking)
  • 6 ounces semisweet chocolate, cut into 1/4-inch chunks
  • 1/2 cup shredded unsweetened coconut
  • Vegetable-oil cooking spray

Directions

  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spread pecans in a single layer on a rimmed baking sheet. Toast in oven, tossing occasionally, until darkened and fragrant, 10 to 13 minutes. Let cool, then coarsely chop. Into a bowl, sift together flour, baking soda, salt, and baking powder.
  2. With an electric mixer on medium-high speed, cream butter and both sugars until pale and fluffy. Reduce speed to medium. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in vanilla.
  3. With mixer on low speed, gradually add flour mixture, beating until just incorporated. Beat in oats, chocolate, pecans, and coconut until just combined. (Dough can be covered with plastic and refrigerated up to 3 days.)
  4. Coat baking sheets with cooking spray; line with parchment, and spray parchment. Using a 1 1/2-inch ice-cream scoop or a tablespoon, drop dough onto prepared sheets, about 3 inches apart.
  5. Bake, rotating sheets halfway through, until edges of cookies begin to brown, 16 to 18 minutes. Transfer sheets to wire racks to cool 5 minutes. Transfer cookies to racks to cool completely. Cookies can be stored up to 3 days at room temperature in airtight containers

Previous Cookie Recipes:

Day 1 – Candy Cane Cookies
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12 Days of Christmas Cookies – Day 1 – Candy Cane Cookies

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Today we are starting the 12 Days of Christmas Cookies. I will be bringing you 12 different Christmas cookie recipes and pictures as the kids and I bake and eat our way to deciding which is our favorite Christmas cookie!

Please leave your FAVORITE Christmas cookie recipe in the comments for us to try!

We decided to start with an obvious Christmas cookie, the Candy Cane! These are cookies I remember my Mom making for us each year. She used almond flavoring, but traditionally they call for peppermint. If you are not a peppermint fan, consider using almond.

Make the dough and then stick it in the fridge for about an hour.

I rolled them directly on the granite because it is cold and the dough worked better. They were kinda fat, I could have made them smaller, but they were fun so big! The kids made theirs and ate them as soon as they came out. I double all my recipes, and I would suggest that on this one.

Candy Cane Cookies

Ingredients
1 cup margarine
1/2 cup white sugar
1/2 cup confectioners’ sugar
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/2 teaspoon peppermint extract
2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon red food coloring
1/2 cup peppermint candy canes, crushed
1/2 cup white sugar for decoration

Directions

  1. In a large bowl, cream together the margarine, white sugar and confectioners’ sugar. Beat in the egg, vanilla and peppermint extracts. Combine the flour and salt; stir into the creamed mixture until well blended. Cover or wrap dough and chill for at least one hour.
  2. Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Grease cookie sheets. Divide dough into halves. Color one half red by mixing in the food color. Roll a small amount of each dough into a 2 inch long worm. Roll them together in a twisted rope and curve the end like a cane. Place onto prepared cookie sheets.
  3. Bake for 8 to 10 minutes in the preheated oven. In a small bowl, mix together the crushed candy cane and remaining white sugar. Roll hot cookies in the sugar mixture.


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Apple Toffee Dip

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Apple Toffee Dip Recipe

Yesterday I made this Apple Toffee Dip recipe for my girls who had a few friends coming over to work on a project. The problem is that once my husband and son got into it, I had to remake it a few times before the girls got here!

Good thing the recipe is easy and you probably have everything on hand!

I added some cinnamon to it this time because it was fall. It was the perfect addition and I think I will continue adding no matter the season.

I posted the recipe over on Eat This Up which is my recipe site. I wanted to start posting the recipes over there because they get lost in all the deals especially this time of year. Please make sure to just quickly hop over there and check out the recipe for this easy and yummy dip!

10 Thanksgiving Side Dish Recipes!

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Thanksgiving Side Dishes

I am going to be cooking up a storm this week posting new recipes over on Eat This Up! If you have not checked it out, Eat This Up is my new recipe site created to help you find the yummy recipes I post much easier as they tend to get lost in all the deals that are posted!

Head on over HERE to check out 10 Thanksgiving Side Dishes!

 

Classic Beef Stew Recipe

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I have posted this recipe before, but it has been a while. Like, maybe even a year or more, or even 2! BUT, this is a recipe we have about every 2 weeks from October to May!

My Mom has made this since I was a little kid, and don’t let the “secret” ingredient scare you! 🙂 It doesn’t take like it at all, it just ads some really nice flavor! Serve the stew with the Rhodes Roll recipe I posted HERE.

I have a new recipe website you should check out called Eat This Up. I will be posting recipes over there so they don’t get lost in all the deals and coupons over here on MyLitter. BUT — I will post on MyLitter and give you a heads up, like I am today about a new recipe! I can’t help but post them here as well! 🙂

Check out Eat This Up HERE and also you can “like” them on Facebook HERE.

 

Jello Popcorn Recipe!

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I made Jello Popcorn for a Halloween party we had this past weekend and it was a HUGE hit with the kids. The cool thing is that you can use any color of Jello for whatever occasion you need a fun treat for.

It did not take long at all and was super cheap! Head on over to see the Jello Popcorn Recipe on Eat This Up (my new recipe site)! And be sure to “like” Eat This Up on Facebook.

 

Easy Halloween Chocolate Covered Pretzels

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I have been posting easy recipes for Halloween that you can do with the kids or by yourself that are quick and easy.

Personally, I love a difficult, beautiful recipe, but it is so much more fun to get the kids involved with me and see how happy they are when they have the chance to make something!

This is super simple. Get some almond park and melt it either in the microwave or in a double boiler. Take some short pretzel sticks or the long rods and dip the top half in the chocolate. BTW, you can color the almond bark if you want colors. I like the white.

You can use anything that will stick to the almond bark to make them pretty. From sprinkles to crushed candy. For the kids I use sprinkles, for the adults I like crushed Butterfinger, Heath, or mini chocolate chips.

Once the bark is melted and you are dipping the pretzels, roll them in your topping and stick them on some wax paper. They will set up on their own in a few hours or you can hurry it along by sticking them in the fridge.

Then you can package about 10,000 different ways! From little baggies to plates to cups. Ours usually nee make it that far!


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Halloween/Fall Craft – Smores’ OWL’s!

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Tonight the kids and I made a quick Halloween treat for their friends and our neighbors. We often make craft and food projects but tonight I was working with 2 left hands! For some reason nothing was working for me! Thank goodness I have self sufficient children who know how to use a microwave. I am talking about the 5 year old!

This is what they were supposed to look like, thanks to a darling blog called Living Lucurto.

This is what ours looked like:

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We decided that instead of “Owls” we would make Looney Birds, or even open a shelter for Owl’s that needed a little TLC. They were super fun to make, really easy and they taste good!

Halloween Cake Pops Scary Eyeballs!

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Halloween Cake Pops Edible Eyeballs

I have wanted to make some more Halloween Cake Pops especially the scary looking eyeball ones for a while. I think they turned out really cute and my kids flipped out over eating them!

This is just as simple as all the other cake pops I have made over the last few years and you can see some instructions HERE.

On these since they are supposed to be eyeballs I used a red velvet cake mix to make it more gross! Bake the cake according to directions and let it cool. Take a carton of pre-made frosting and smash up all the cake and mix with the frosting in a bowl. Stick that in the fridge for a few hours. Scoop the balls with a cookie scoop, I use a 1 Tablespoon size to get them all the same size.

supplies cake pops

Once they are all rolled out then you are going to want to coat them with the melting chocolate.

Then we can decorate them!

I tried to make it easy and used the Wilton Black and Red Sparkle Gel and the Wilton eyeballs! I tried a few with brown M&M’s and I liked the Wilton premade eyes a lot better.

Decorating Cake Pop Eyes

I tried to make them look like blood shot eyes. For Halloween they look awesome, for other purposes…. you might want to not have the kids help!

But they were easy, and look cool at the end!

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