Cream Cheese Cookies

1 stick real butter
3 oz cream cheese
1 cup sugar
1 cup plain flour
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
1/2 cup chopped pecans (optional)

Preheat oven to 375

Cream butter and cheese. Add sugar and mix well. Add flour, vanilla and nuts.

Drop by teaspoonfuls on ungreased cookie sheet.

Bake until brown. 8-12 minutes

Football Cookie

If you click on 'chocolate chips' in the labels section, you can find the recipe for this cookie cake.
To do the above:
After baking the cake, cut it into the shape of a football.
Take a strainer and fill with powdered sugar, and dust the cookie until it's completely white
Cut parchment paper to resemble the stripes of a football, and press them down on the cookie
Take a strainer again, and fill it with cocoa, and dust the cookie until it's all brown.
Remove the parchment paper carefully, and you'll have the white stripes
Take ready-squeeze white icing to create the stitches.

Now you'll be ready for next year. Since Football season is over now.

Chocolate Chip Cookies

Sometimes I omit the choc-chips in a few cookies for fun.

Preheat the oven to 375 F. Grease or line 2 cookie sheets

Whisk together:
1 cup plus 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon baking soda

Beat in a large bowl until well blended:
1/2 cup (1 stick) softened butter
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup brown sugar

Add and beat until well combined:
1 large egg
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla

Stire in the flour mixture until well blended and smooth,
Stir in:
1 cup chocolate chips

Drop the dough by heaping teaspoonfuls about 2 inches apart onto the cookie sheets. Bake, 1 sheet at a time, until the cookies are just slightly colored on top and the edged are brown, 8-10 minutes. Let stand briefly, then remove to a rack to cool.

Giant Chocolate Chip Cookie Cake

This was so good. I used pecans for nuts. It got polished off at my nieces graduation party.

Giant Chocolate Chip Cookie Cake
Recipe courtesy Emeril Lagasse, 2004
Show:
Emeril Live
Episode:
Our Favorite Sweets

2 sticks unsalted butter, softened
1 cup packed light brown sugar
1/2 cup granulated sugar
2 large eggs
2 cups plus 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
1 1/2 cups bittersweet chocolate chips
3/4 cup white chocolate chips
1/2 cup chopped macadamia nuts
1/2 cup chopped toasted walnuts
Confectioners' sugar for garnish,
Sweetened cocoa, for garnish
Sweetened whipped cream, accompaniment


Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F. Line a 14-inch, light colored, round pizza pan with parchment paper and grease the parchment paper.

In a large bowl, cream the butter and sugars. Add the eggs, beating well after the addition of each.

In a bowl, combine the flour, baking soda, and salt and mix with a whisk.
Add to the butter mixture, mixing to incorporate, and add the vanilla extract.
Fold in the dark and white chips and the nuts.
Spread across the bottom of the prepared pan and bake until the edges are golden and the cookie is set but the center is still slightly soft, 20 to 25 minutes.
Cool in the pan for 10 minutes, then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.
To serve, sift confectioners' sugar and sweetened cocoa over the top, and cut into wedges. Serve sweetened whipped cream on the side.