Brown Sugar Chocolate Chunk Cookies

Here's a new one for you folks!  Joe is headed out Turkey Hunting this weekend with the boys, so I thought I'd whip up some cookies in the hopes that it would be a fair trade for a Turkey Dinner Sunday night! (Fat chance, "Turkey hunting" secretly means "boozing in the Hunting Cabin").

Ingredients:

1 cup butter, softened

1 cup Brown Sugar

1 egg

1 tsp vanilla

1 tsp baking soda

1/2 tsp baking soda

dash salt

2 cups flour

1 bag chocolate chunks

Mix together your butter and sugar until well blended, adding in your vanilla and egg next.

Next, add in your dry ingredients, remembering to scrape down the sides of the bowl when you need to.  Also, check for approval from the peanut gallery.

Finally, add in your chocolate chunks.

Roll into tablespoon sized balls, and transfer to a parchment lined baking sheet.  Bake at 375 for 10 minutes.

Cool on a wire rack, then pound like 5 of these bad boys with a glass of milk.

Happy Baking!

Easter Baking (So late, I know!)

Hey blog peeps!

I wanted to share with you some photos of my Easter baking endeavors.  I managed to make some delightful little sugar cookies....

And some Easter themed cupcakes, using a few of the army of peeps my mom brought over to my house.

Yum!  It was a busy day, complete with some extra fussiness from this little fella....

Don't let the cuteness fool you.... But he does know a thing or two about good cookies...

Happy Baking!

Dark Chocolate Coconut Brownies

Happy St. Patrick's Day bloggers!  Though I don't have any green cookies to share with you today I do have a yummy brownie recipe that takes the timeless classic to a new level.  Enter: Dark Chocolate Coconut Brownies.  Yummers.

Ingredients:

1/2 cup butter, melted
1 cup sugar
1 tsp vanilla
2 eggs
1 tsp baking powder
1/4 cup dark cocoa  powder
1/2 cup flour
dash salt
Shredded coconut

Mix together your butter and sugar, adding in your eggs after the butter is cool (we don't want scrambled eggs in our brownies, after all).  Then in with the vanilla, salt and baking soda.

In with the cocoa and the flour, mix until smooth.  And be sure to eat some.

Pour into an 8x8 greased brownie pan and top with the coconut.  Bake at 350F for 20 minutes, in my oven it took about 22.  Allow brownies to cool before cutting, unless you just want to eat them with a spoon, which is totally OK, I won't judge.

And enjoy!

I'll spare you the sob story about why I've been MIA as of late.  new job, cranky baby, my kitchen being taken over by this:

I'll do better!  Happy Baking!