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Chocolate · Daily Thoughts · Desserts

Cinnamon Brownies

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These brownies take a normal brownie to the next level. Took them to art class today and everyone loved them and wanted the recipe. When I told them to just make  your favorite brownies recipe (and yes, if you are like my husband, Frosty, who loves even the Duncan Hines box brownies) just add 1 1/2 cup cinnamon flavored chips to the batter. I buy the chips at Walmart and I used to see them at Tom Thumb at Christmastime. In years past, because they weren’t always available at other times of the year, I would buy a dozen or so packages and freeze them so I could have Cinnamon brownies whenever I wanted. They just add such a great flavor to the brownie. Then just sprinkle sugar over the brownies when they come out of the oven.

We are leaving to spend Christmas with some of our kids tomorrow so please have a wonderful and blessed Christmas. Remember, it is not what you cook that keeps family coming back, it is the love in which you serve the food  that keeps them wanting to come back. So love on family and friends this season, it will bless your heart. Merry Christmas!  Remember the reason for the season! Thank you Jesus for coming to this world as a babe wrapped in swaddling clothes to save us from our sins….Noel

Desserts

Snickerdoodles

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Soft, Chewy Snickerdoodles

I know, I know, there are a million zillion recipes out there for these delightful little cookies, but I happened to buy bagged  4.25 lb Gold Medal flour instead of the flour that comes in the paper sack and this recipe was on the back. It is different than the others I have made because of the cream of tartar. This told me immediately that this cookie would be softer and not as crisp as the other snicker doodles I have made, and that made me immediately just go to the kitchen to make them. I just ate 4 of them. There are so soft and delicious and just perfect to leave for Randy when I go out of town to see grandkids. I always use more cinnamon sugar mixture than they call for because I can never get enough cinnamon flavor.

Makes about 5 dz.

1 1/2 cups sugar

1 cup softened butter (I use 1 stick butter and 1 stick Parkay or you can use 1/2 cup shortening added to the butter) Just end up with 1 cup, whichever mixture you want to use. But if you use all butter, the cookie will tend to be crispier)

2 eggs

1/2 teas vanilla

2  3/4 cup flour (all purpose)

2 teas cream of tartar

1 teas baking soda

1/4 teas salt

1/4 cup sugar added to 2 to 3 tables cinnamon (this is to roll the cookies in before baking them)

Heat oven to 400. Mix the 1 1/2 cups sugar, butter, shortening or margarine and eggs together. Add 1/2 teas vanilla to mixture and beat until creamed well.

Mix the flour, baking soda, cream of tartar and salt together. Add to creamed mixture and using mixer, mix on medium until flour and butter mixture are well blended.  At this point, I cover the bowl and refrigerate for a couple of hours to make handling the dough to form little balls so much easier. You should put about a tables of dough into each ball. Mix the sugar and cinnamon tougher and roll each ball into this. Place on ungreased cookie sheet and bake about 8-9 minutes, depending upon your oven and size of balls that you made. I like them to be soft and chewy, so I tend to take them out before they feel completely done. Remove them from cookie sheet and place on paper towels you have laid out on the counter. I like the paper towels instead of cooling racks. It keeps the cookies a little softer and not as crisp as they tend to get on cooling racks.

Breads · Cakes · Chocolate

Chocolate Chip Coffee Cake

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Went to a brunch this morning and had the most delicious and moist coffee cake I think I have ever had. The middle of the cake had melted chocolate chips, combined with sugar and cinnamon and it looked like it had a layer of fudge right there in the middle of the cake. So naturally I had to come home to see if I could find a recipe that sounded like what I just ate. So after surfing the web, (maybe if I surfed in the water, I might loose a pound or two) AllRecipes.Com had this one that sounds and looks just like the one we had. So am sending it your way. Am going to bake it and take to art class on Friday. Am so excited to make it and well, actually I’m a little more excited about having a whole one to myself than making it, but will share it with others since I really do only surf the web.

INGREDIENTS

  • 1/2 cup butter, softened
  • 1 cup white sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 cup sour cream
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1 cup semisweet chocolate chips
  • 1/2 cup white sugar
  • 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon

DIRECTIONS

  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) grease and flour a 9×13 inch pan.
  2. In a medium bowl, stir together the flour, baking powder and soda. Set aside.
  3. In a large bowl, cream the butter and 1 cup of sugar. Add eggs, sour cream and vanilla. Mix well.
  4. Add the flour mixture and combine. Batter will be thick.
  5. In a separate bowl, combine chocolate chips, 1/2 cup sugar and cinnamon. Set aside.
  6. Spread half of the cake batter in prepared 9×13 inch pan. Sprinkle half of the chocolate chip mixture over the batter. Repeat with the remaining batter, and then the remaining chocolate chip mixture.
  7. Bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for 25-30 minutes or until a toothpick inserted near the center comes out clean.