Saturday, August 20, 2011

Rolo Cookies

OMG!!!!! is how I feel about these cookies. Since my last pregnancy I have been craving cookies like crazy! These beauties continue to find their way into my cookie jar and then into my tummy.

Favorite snack....rolo cookie and a Diet Coke!

* I put my rolos on top at the end of the baking and not in the middle of the cookie like the recipe calls for. Just a personal thing!*

Rolo Cookies

Yield: 3 dozen cookies

Cook Time: 7-10 minutes

Ingredients:

2 1/2 cups all purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
3/4 cup cocoa
1 cup butter, at room temperature
1 cup granulated sugar
1 cup light brown sugar
2 eggs
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
Bag of Rolo candies, unwrapped
Sugar (for rolling the cookie dough balls in)

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper or silicone mat. Set aside.

2. In a medium bowl, sift flour, baking soda, salt, and cocoa. Set aside.

3. With a mixer, cream butter and sugars together until smooth. Add in eggs, one at a time. Next, add in vanilla extract. Mix until blended.

4. Slowly add flour mixture to sugar mixture and blend well. Take a spoonful of chocolate cookie dough and wrap around one Rolo candy. Make sure Rolo is completely covered with cookie dough. Roll dough ball in sugar and place on prepared baking sheet. Continue until you run out of cookie dough.

5. Bake cookies for 7-10 minutes. Remove from oven and let sit on cookie sheet for 3-5 minutes. Move to a cooling rack and cool completely.



Thursday, August 11, 2011

A Cookbook


Here are my most favorite cookbooks! Or should I say "Bake"books.
The question is, do I compile my favorite recipes into my own type of book? One I could make on MyPublisher or Blurb.com ?

Or do I continue as is with my assortment of cookbooks?

In my degree program in college I learned that it is very hard to photograph food. Often times the foods that are professionally photographed have been sprayed with glosses and are inedible, although they look delicious.

What to do?

xoxo Liz

Etsy? Yes Please!








Etsy is amazing! I am baffled at how creative people are and the ingenuity that goes into some of the products sold on this website.

What would I like to do if I had a spare moment from my toddler and infant.

Surf Etsy!

xoxo Liz

Please sit....and laugh with me!

This blog is really intended for myself and a way to keep track of things I love and like and things that interest me. This really is intended as a bit of a playground for my creative ideas to play. And if all else fails, I can sit and laugh at what I have tried to create.....So please sit, and laugh with me a while!

xoxo Liz