Christmas, Family, Food, Stay at Home Mom, Uncategorized, Women

Mavericks favorite “Santa Cookies”-Recipe included

Yesterday we made cookies for Santa, they are Mavericks favorite by far. They really are the best! Soft and chewy! And So incredibly delicious! We normally just put chocolate chips on them but maverick wanted to add his favorite candy. Maverick is a chocoholic! Chocolate and m&m’s are two of his favorites. Santa ate the cookies we left him but left a little bit on the plate so Maverick knew he ate his cookies and drank his milk. 

Best Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe ever

Ingredients: 

1 Cup Unsalted Butter (softened) 

1 Cup White Sugar

1 Cup Packed Brown Sugar

2 Eggs 

 2 tsp Vanilla Extract

3 Cups All Purpose Flour

1 tsp Baking Soda

2 tsp Plain Hot Coffee

1/2 tsp Salt

2 Cups Semi Sweet Chocolate Chips (we put in 1 Cup m&m’s and 1 Cup chocolate chips this time) 
Directions:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees

Line cookie sheet with parchment paper.

Dissolve (in a little bowl) baking soda in the hot coffee. Set aside. 

Cream together; Butter, white sugar, and brown sugar until smooth.

Beat in eggs, one at a time. 

Stir in vanilla

 Add baking soda and coffee mixture to the above ingredients and mix. 

Add; flour and salt and mix together. 

Add chocolate chips and mix together, do not over mix. 

Drop cookie batter on parchment paper with cookie scoop.

Bake for 12 minutes and remove. Leave on pan for 2 minutes and then put on cookie sheet to finish cooling. 

Try not to eat them all at once! I hope you get to enjoy these “Santa cookies” as much as we all did! 
Merry Christmas!!! 
Live happy

Live simple. 

Food, Uncategorized, Women

Chocolate chip cookies

Ok first, make yourself a cup of black coffee. No seriously, that’s one of the ingedients that make this recipe so yummy. If you don’t like coffee or do not have coffee don’t worry, just use hot water instead. But it really make the flavor pop in chocolate chip cookies. 

Second, turn on some music! My son and I love listening to Taylor Swifts station on iheartradio. If at anytime a fun song that you love to dance to or your kids love to dance to just take a break and dance with them. It makes life fun and it’s a great bonding experience with your kids. When Shake It Off comes on we always dance around the room, it’s so much fun! 

Ok back to the cookies 🙂
I found this recipe online and changed it a bit, just like almost all recipes I find.  
Ingredients:

1 Cup softened butter (I’ll leave mine out all day to naturally soften) 

1 Cup white sugar

1 Cup Packed brown sugar

2 eggs

2 tsp vanilla extract

3 cup all purpose flour

1 tsp baking soda

2 tsp hot black coffee

1/2 tsp salt

2 cups semi sweet chocolate chips
Directions:

  • Preheat oven to 350 degrees
  • Dissolve baking soda in hot coffee in a bowl and set aside. 
  • Put butter, white sugar and brown sugar in mixing bowl. Mix until creamy and smooth 
  • Beat in eggs one at a time
  • Add to the coffee and baking soda mixture along with salt and vanilla, mix together
  • Stir in flour until it is blended together but do not over mix. 
  • Add chocolate chips and mix with wooden spoon 
  • Use cookie scoop (I use the Wilton 8″ stainless steel cookie scoop) to put cookies on cookie sheet. I have three different cookie sheet sizes and the biggest one I put 3 cookies across and 5 down
  • Bake for about 11 minutes or until edges are nicely brown. 
  • When done let them sit on the cookie sheet for a minute to relax and then put them onto cooling rack. 

 

Enjoy a hot cup of black coffee while baking, might as well since the cookies need them anyway 🙂
  
One heaping cup of chocalate chips. We use a tad bit more chocolate chips than the norm
  
Maverick loves chocolate chips!
  
Cookie scoop. Space the cookies a bit
  
let the cookies relax a minute before taking them off, they have been through a lot ha ha
  
Finished product. So yummy!
  
Maverick approves!
 

I updated my cookie recipe because I made a few changes and my goodness! They are even more amazing now. This is the updated cookie recipe finished product

  
Hope you enjoy the newer changes to the recipe.
Enjoy and live simple!