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[lynxstch]

Question of the day 4/12: Cookies? Yeah/Nay? What flavor?

I am a 'once in awhile' cookie person. I love homemade chocolate chips ones warm out of the oven. Every now and then I crave a good oatmeal raisin one. Subway got me hooked on their chocolate cherry cookies around Valentine's Day. I have to try and recreate their recipe

I make a few nice cookies:

Key lime cutouts with key lime icing
Oatmeal raisin
Brown butter chocolate chip
Double dark chocolate cherry

My mom also has a good sour cream cutout cookie recipe that we frost and decorate around the holidays.

I was going to make cookies today, but I ended up making and apple crisp yesterday to use up some apples and I cannot have that many baked goods in the house at once!

Can you share your double dark chocolate cherry recipe, pretty please? It sounds like the Subway one I am wanting to recreate!

I hope everyone is having a peaceful Easter Sunday-
we alternate between clouds and sun, temp is supposed to hit 70. Calling for high winds tomorrow with gusts up to 60 mph??? Yikes
Our ham is in the oven cooking. Having 'real mashed potatoes, carrots, and fresh asparagus. Strawberry shortcake made with angel food cake for dessert mmm..getting hungry!

 

[lynxstch]

Favorite cookies- Russian tea cakes (snowball cookies) and Nabisco Pinwheels. Yum!

I had forgotten about those, as we don't get them regularly in any of our stores

 

[Snowysmom]

Homemade Chocolate Chip Cookies are the best. Key lime cookies are next in line.

Today's blessing is that we got to see all 5 grandkids this weekend, social distancing of course, but we got to see them and talk with them in person. We haven't seen them since March 1 but have videochatted. I want this to be over so I can hug them, play with them, and read to them.

Happy Easter!

 

[Meriweather]

Chocolate Chip hot out of the oven. The only ones I can't resist so I don't make them often
Only home made cookies in this house.Stir and Drop sugar cookies are always a big hit in this house.
DS's favorite is Chocolate Covered Cherry
DH's is Peanut Butter Blossoms

Happy Easter.....my family is over today
We had our traditional Easter tea

 

[KevM]

All cookies yes. Specifically, chocolate chip all day everyday.

 

[Breezy_Carol]

Question of the day 4/12: Cookies? Yeah/Nay? What flavor?

Homemade, probably Toll House chocolate chip. I made a batch 2 days ago to keep DH from going to the store just for cookies.
Store bought, a local cookie called Berger Cookies. Very rich and fattening. I don't get them often.

Dinner tonight for the two of us. Ham slice, mac and cheese from scratch, green beans. And a bottle of wine daughter and SIL gave us.

 

[Dan Murphy]

Dinner tonight for the two of us. Ham slice, mac and cheese from scratch, green beans. And a bottle of wine daughter and SIL gave us.

 

[easyas123]

Store bought, a local cookie called Berger Cookies. Very rich and fattening.

Oh man - they are good!
Those are the cookies I sent my youngest & his buddies when he was undergoing a 6 month ARMY training stint!

 

[hereyago]

Home made chocolate chips cookies
My grandmother made the best peanut butter cookies, I miss that
Iwanted to add: also home made M&M cookies.


Store bought: Oreo double stuff oreo cookies.

 

[Kitty 34]

Happy Easter everyone!!!

I will always love my ole Toll house chocolate chip cookies.

 

[flyingdumbo127]

Happy Easter, everyone! Spring is my favorite season because as Tina said it is a time of renewal and hope. The message of Easter today more than ever is so precious to me because Jesus is. I did get to watch my church's online Worship service. Three other things I am most grateful for this Sunday:

A text from a friend I had not heard from quite a while.
I loved reading how WDW donated Easter lilies to seniors. This is under "Disney News and Updates"
Listening to the Hallelujah Chorus earlier as part of online Worship service. We sing it every Easter.

The more the tastier with cookies My very favorite are toll house made with milk chocolate chips. I also really like Betty Crocker Sugar Cookies in the red pouch. What is odd is that this product comes in a larger, 20% more size. For some reason that does not taste as good to me as the regular size. A tip to heat these cookies in the microwave for maybe 12 seconds to give them a freshly made taste when reheating

 

[gillep]

Question of the day 4/12: Cookies? Yeah/Nay? What flavor?

I am a 'once in awhile' cookie person. I love homemade chocolate chips ones warm out of the oven. Every now and then I crave a good oatmeal raisin one. Subway got me hooked on their chocolate cherry cookies around Valentine's Day. I have to try and recreate their recipe




Can you share your double dark chocolate cherry recipe, pretty please? It sounds like the Subway one I am wanting to recreate!

I hope everyone is having a peaceful Easter Sunday-
we alternate between clouds and sun, temp is supposed to hit 70. Calling for high winds tomorrow with gusts up to 60 mph??? Yikes
Our ham is in the oven cooking. Having 'real mashed potatoes, carrots, and fresh asparagus. Strawberry shortcake made with angel food cake for dessert mmm..getting hungry!

I use this recipe: https://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/cherry-double-chocolate-cookies-239292

I don't like nuts in cookies so I leave those out, I also use dark chocolate and not milk chocolate chunks, often I just use whatever chocolate chips I have on hand because I am lazy. It is a really forgiving recipe as I sometimes use dutch process cocoa and sometimes regular Ghirardelli unsweetened powder depending on what is in my pantry, and I only ever have dark brown sugar in the house and that's fine. Both my brother and husband rave about these cookies and frequently ask for them.

 

[Bianca and Bernard]

Question of the day 4/12: Cookies? Yeah/Nay? What flavor?

I'm running out questions in my brain today LOL I have a jar of cookie mix with chocolate chips and m&ms on my island that was from a wedding shower. I don't particularly like m&ms in my cookies but what the heck it's still cookies! My favorite cookie is probably white chocolate macadamia from Subway truth be told. However, I am absolutely a cookie dough eater and I turn to the classic chocolate chip for such. When I was young and in love and trying to be prove what a catch I would be, I made a lot peanut butter cookies. I still make them every so often when trying to add to my wife points LOL

I make a sugar cookie, made from powdered sugar, that is so soft. Mmm
Also, Alton Brown's Chewy chocolate chip cookie recipe; well, this recipe version of it. With dark chocolate chips. MMM

https://recipeforperfection.com/alton-brown-chocolate-chip-cookies/
I also like those thin wafer cookies. Like these: https://voortman.com/wafers/

And those circus animal cookies that are covered with pink or white icing and sprinkles. Those bring me back to being a kid again.

Oh, and oatmeal cookies with cinnamon chips (and no raisins).

Thin Mints, but not the current version. They tasted much better back in the 80s. Of all places, 7-11 makes a mint cookie that tastes just like the old version! Samoas are awesome too.


Can you tell I have a sweet tooth? Between the cookie, ice cream and cake questions.....

Yesterday for lunch, I made tacos (ground beef), and we ordered pizza from our local pizza place last night. One 24" pepperoni NY style pizza (the slices are bigger than my dinner plates!!!) runs, after tax and delivery, $32.xx. So we tipped $9.XX, for a total of $42 on the online order, and then gave the delivery girl (teenager) a $20 when she came by. This place makes the best pepperoni NY pizza ever, and it's a local mom and pop place, so we want to keep them going.

Tonight is leftovers. There's taco stuff and pizza from yesterday, so I get to have a lazy cooking day. I'll make up for it tomorrow; I'm making a cake (dark chocolate with a whipped vanilla frosting..just a mix and a tub of frosting, not going homemade) and bread. Should I go with a foccacia or a no knead bread, to go with our dinner of pasta with a roasted red pepper pesto, zucchini, summer squash, green beans, asparagus, onion and cherry tomatoes?

 

[gillep]

I make a sugar cookie, made from powdered sugar, that is so soft. Mmm
Also, Alton Brown's Chewy chocolate chip cookie recipe; well, this recipe version of it. With dark chocolate chips. MMM

https://recipeforperfection.com/alton-brown-chocolate-chip-cookies/
I also like those thin wafer cookies. Like these: https://voortman.com/wafers/

And those circus animal cookies that are covered with pink or white icing and sprinkles. Those bring me back to being a kid again.

Oh, and oatmeal cookies with cinnamon chips (and no raisins).

Thin Mints, but not the current version. They tasted much better back in the 80s. Of all places, 7-11 makes a mint cookie that tastes just like the old version! Samoas are awesome too.


Can you tell I have a sweet tooth? Between the cookie, ice cream and cake questions.....

Yesterday for lunch, I made tacos (ground beef), and we ordered pizza from our local pizza place last night. One 24" pepperoni NY style pizza (the slices are bigger than my dinner plates!!!) runs, after tax and delivery, $32.xx. So we tipped $9.XX, for a total of $42 on the online order, and then gave the delivery girl (teenager) a $20 when she came by. This place makes the best pepperoni NY pizza ever, and it's a local mom and pop place, so we want to keep them going.

Tonight is leftovers. There's taco stuff and pizza from yesterday, so I get to have a lazy cooking day. I'll make up for it tomorrow; I'm making a cake (dark chocolate with a whipped vanilla frosting..just a mix and a tub of frosting, not going homemade) and bread. Should I go with a foccacia or a no knead bread, to go with our dinner of pasta with a roasted red pepper pesto, zucchini, summer squash, green beans, asparagus, onion and cherry tomatoes?

I usually prefer other breads over foccacia, although all bread is delicious, but I think foccacia would be perfect with your meal.

 

[flyingdumbo127]

Powdered sugar soft sugar cookies sound amazing, Bianca and Bernard. We definitely have to have a Dis Dessert party meet up

 

[DuskKodesh]

I am undecided about this cookie debate, therefore I am willing to accept samples for judging. Please send overnight USPS and I'll post results of my bingin... errr I mean judging on Wednesday!

 

[ronandannette]

Sort of a "nay"; I don't bake many cookies and DH and DS would rather have packaged ones anyway, for the few that do get eaten around here. I bake at Christmas though and thoroughly enjoy the treats. My favorites are jam thumbprints, whipped shortbread and gingersnaps.

 

[apirateslifeforme]

Happy Easter! I am an early shopper, so DS was thrilled with his Easter basket! We bought a few small Lego sets when we were at Legoland. He also got a Batman "grabber" (his favorite thing), a Paw Patrol scratch-off picture pad, a couple of Ring Pops, a Paw Patrol Marshall lollipop "Pop-Up," Lego Batman DVD, a personalized construction-themed water bottle, a neon blue baseball glove, a "Dino Dig" excavation toy, some stickers, and a RUSH t-shirt. After he looked through his basket, he did his indoor egg hunt immediately, then we had breakfast, then did our outdoor egg hunt. We then waited outside for literally FOUR HOURS for the Easter Bunny drive-by. He better never say "I hate you" to me ever again. I will remind him of how I did this for him.

Then we drove up to my in-laws' house to deliver Easter dinner to them. Clam chowder, ham, sweet potatoes with a brown sugar-walnut topping, sweet red cabbage, green beans, sweet potato bread, and carrot cake, all homemade. We took a few extra helping for my BIL's family and my SIL and her partner. We didn't go in the house, just dropped everything off at the door, then went in the backyard. We stayed out in the yard while my in-laws remained on the deck. To our surprise, my BIL, SIL, and our nieces showed up while we were there. The last time we saw them was for a few days when we were in Florida in February. We both noticed that our younger niece (13, will be 14 in June) is suddenly taller than her 16-year-old sister. Then as we were leaving, my other SIL arrived with groceries for Mom and Dad. We came home, had our supper, and we're now watching the Disney Robin Hood and waiting for dinner to digest so we can have some carrot cake.

COOKIES...Well, nothing beats a homemade Toll House chocolate chip cookie. My mother also makes some yummy oatmeal butterscotch cookies, but if I eat too many I get heartburn from the oatmeal. I can't say I'm a fan of store-bought cookies, but I'll never turn down Pepperidge Farm orange Milanos. Or the store-made chocolate chip cookies from Randall's Farm, a store near my MIL. She brought them to our annual "John Williams Film Night at Tanglewood" one year and it took everything in me not to eat the whole tub...

As an aside, I will always associate snickerdoodle cookies with Christmas...my grandfather (with whom I grew up) ALWAYS had to have homemade snickerdoodles for Christmas. My mom still has the original "Betty Crocker Cooky Book" with the recipe.

 

[NYCgrrl]

Google got a workout. I thought sable was a furry rodent and nova was a group of stars or Northern Virginia. At least you explained the other two. Who knew this was educational.

Happy Easter! Or Passover.

I just sang an "Easter" song to DGD - "Peter Cottontail" by way of a holiday telephone greeting. When I finished she asked what bunnies have to do with Jesus dying on a cross. So I explained about the symbolism and she said: "I don't like rodents". So thennnnnn we discussed how rabbits are in a different family from rodents..sigh, life sure is interesting with younguns around, LOL!

The man is of Jewish ancestry but my upbringing is Christian. We do a fine mish mash of observing each others beliefs and traditions. And Jewish deli is great for everyone .

Since we've put off our Easter meal until tomorrow decided to make hamburgers for us tonight with lots of sides: avocado slices, fresh salsa, onion slices, quick pickled cukes, and cheese. Finish off the power green salad and make some chocolate egg cream to drink and be dessert too. If the chocolate egg creams don't come out just right I'll mix in some vanilla ice cream and call it an ice cream soda.

I'll talk about cookies later since I need to do some stuff in the kitchen.

 

[sparkle78]

Chic chip, PB cup, shortbread with icing, choc cherry brownie,
Easy cookie recipe. Box of white cake mix, cream cheese 8 oz. softened, 3/4 cup of white choc chips, 2 eggs. 350 degrees, parchment paper or you do need to grease. Electric mixer for eggs and cream cheese, then stir in rest. They don’t melt as fast as choc chip, so great for picnics
4 th of July - add blue and red sprinkles,
Fall harvest - use spice cake and mix in pumpkin chips