Baking!

Once again we have succumbed and made Dad's Favorite Chocolate Chip Cookies! After this I made some biscuits. And today I making rolls for with our turkey, stuffing, and cranberry sauce. Thanksgiving all over again!! Here are some pictures of our adventure!!

The first ingredients.

Gooey goodness!

Watching them bake!!

The finished product!

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It's so exciting to open your email in the morning and find that you have three new comments on your blog!! To answer your questions:
Here are the cookies!! The recipe was originally called Neiman Marcus cookies. Dad found it off the Internet and loved it! Later in the recipe book Janine made for our family, she named it Dad's favorite cookies!

Dad’s Favorite Chocolate Chip Cookies
2 sticks butter, softened
2 cups brown sugar
6 Tbsp. sugar
2 eggs
4 tsp. vanilla
3 ½ cups flour
1 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. salt
3 cups chocolate chips
3 tsp. instant espresso coffee powder (if your instant coffee is crumbs, crush in a bowl with the back of a spoon to powderize)

Preheat the oven to 300°. Place the butter, brown sugar, and granulated sugar in your mixer’s bowl fitted with the paddle attachment. Beat on medium speed for 30 seconds, until fluffy. Beat in the egg and vanilla for 30 seconds more, until well combined.
In a mixing bowl, sift together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. Add to the mixture, while beating on slow speed. Beat for about 15 seconds, stir in the chocolate chips and espresso powder, and mix for 15 seconds longer.
Grease a cookie sheet. Place 2 tablespoon dollops of cookie dough 3 inches apart on the sheet. Gently press them down with a spoon into 2 inch circles. Bake for 20 minutes or until the cookies are nicely browned. Could make up to 4 dozen cookies!

Here are some of our decor; we don't really have that much. There will be more for Christmas!
The turkey above our hallway.
We have a cornucopia that we usually to put these flowers in, but we like to put everything in a different spot every year so now the are in a vase!

Cookies and Cold

This morning at about 6:40, the temperature was about 37.8° outside. BRRR! It was still cold at about 9:00 AM so I decided to make some of Dad's favorite cookies, just to turn the oven on!! These cookies are delicious-they even have instant coffee in them.

Lemon Bars/Squares

Yesterday I had the urge to bake and so I got the lemon squares' reciepe! I really like the lemon flavor.

mixing it up
13 min. left to go
All done! I did sprinkle some powdered sugar on before we ate it though!

Boston Cream Pie

It being her birthday, I made Lorissa her cake. Although it was supposed to be a round cake, (shown below) we modified the recipe and made it a Bundt cake!!

When I did the frosting, I swirled the top and it made it square-ish. This is the finished product!!

Baking Biscuits

These were made to go with spaghetti last night. They tasted good to me, but then I might be a little biased!! The reciepe is easy and makes enough to have some for lunch the next day!! I don't know where we got the reciepe originally, but know we have it in our family's reciepe book as Lorissa's Biscuits. They made about 20 for me.

Lorissa's Biscuits

4 cups flour

6 tsp. baking powder

4 tsp. suger

1 tsp.cream of tarter

1/2 tsp. salt

1 cup shortening

1 1/3 cup milk

Stir together dry ingrediants. Cut in shortening until mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Make a well in the center and add mild all at once. Stir just until dough clings together. Knead gently on a well floured surface for 10-12 strokes. Roll or pat into 1/2 inch thickness. Cut with a 2 1/2 inch biscuit cutter or a sharp knife, dipping your cutter in flour between cuts. Transfer to an ungreased cookie sheet. bake at 450 degrees or until golden. Makes 20-24 biscuits.

NOTE: You can do it like lorissa does and spoon dough onto an ungreased cookie sheet instead of rolling it all out.