Ginger Snaps

My favorite autumn cookie.  They just taste SO good! 

1 ½ cups shortening

2 cups sugar

2 eggs

½ cup molasses

4 cups flour

2 t. ginger

4 t. baking soda

2 t. cinnamon

1 t. salt

Cream shortening and sugar; add eggs and molasses and mix well.  Add remaining ingredients and mix well.  Form into walnut size balls and roll in sugar.  Place on baking tray and flatten slightly.  Bake at 350° for 8-10 minutes, until cookies begin to crack and are lightly brown.  Makes 5 dozen.  From Crystal.

I have doubled this recipe for you!  The original recipe never made quite enough.

Great Pumpkin Cookies

From my Mom, the great cookie maker, this recipe is a favorite of hers.  They really look like a pretty unassuming cookie but I couldn't stop eating them this week.  They just taste good.  And, besides, Grandma always says that they are healthy because they have oatmeal and pumpkin in them.  Who can argue with healthy?


Great Pumpkin Cookies

4 cups flour
2 cups old fashioned oats
2 t. baking soda
1/2 t. salt
1 1/2 cups butter
2 cups brown sugar, packed
1 cup sugar
1 egg
1 t. vanilla
1 (16 oz.) can pumpkin
1 (12 oz.) pkg. chocolate chips

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Combine flour, oats, soda and salt and set aside.  Cream butter and gradually add brown sugar and sugar.  Beat until fluffy and light.  Add egg and vanilla and mix well. Alternate adding dry ingredients and pumpkin, mixing well after each addition.  Stir in the chocolate chips.

Lightly spray baking trays with baking spray.  Using a cookie scoop, drop cookie dough onto baking trays.  Bake at 350 degrees for 18 - 20 minutes, until cookies are firm.  Makes about 4 dozen cookies.

Gooey Monster Cookies

Go good old instagram, to find these amazing cookies that I had to make.  Check out her website for more amazing recipes and further instructions if you need some. . . 

http://lilluna.com/gooey-monster-cookies/

Ingredients

• 1 White Cake Mix Box
• ½ cup butter softened
• ½ tsp. vanilla
• 1 8 oz. Cream Cheese Bar softened
• 1 egg
• Powdered Sugar
• Food Coloring ( Lil'Luna used NEON food coloring to make them more vibrant)
• Candy Eyeballs  CANDY EYE BALLS can be found in the Baking/Wilton Section at Walmart, Hobby Lobby, Michael’s or JoAnna.  I recommend getting 2 different size eye balls like she used above in her pic and you don't have to go through as many little eyeballs

Instructions

1. Beat butter, vanilla, egg and cream cheese until fluffy.
2. Mix in cake mix. Divide batter into bowls for the amount of colors you want.
3. Add food coloring to each individual bowl and mix until all combined.
4. Chill for 30 minutes. (necessary since dough so so soft)
5. Roll into balls and dip in a bowl of powdered sugar.
6. Place on greased cookie sheet and pat down a bit.
7. Bake at 350 for 10-12 minutes
8. Add candy eyeballs while cookies are still warm. ENJOY!

((I used a small cookie scoop and made over 3 dozen cookies, and doubled for playgroup fun and had a ton of cookies and one jar of small eyeballs was used up.))

Easy and  Hit!