Make It and Bake It Monday

The featured recipe today is from my sister-in-law Shari. She brought me a plate of these on Saturday because she’s just awesome and they are REALLY good! (I had to set the plate out on the counter so other people would eat them so I wouldn’t end up eating ALL of them.)

Chocolate Chip Amish Puff Cookies

1 1/2 c all-purpose flour
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp cream of tartar
1/4 tsp salt
1/2 c softened unsalted butter
1/2 c light brown sugar
1/4 c white sugar
1 large egg
1 c chocolate chips
1/4 c sugar
4 tsp ground cinnamon

Sift the flour, baking powder, baking soda, cream of tartar, and salt into a bowl and set aside.

In a stand mixer, cream butter and sugars on medium speed for several minutes until light and fluffy. Add the egg and mix until combined. Add the flour mixture, and mix on low speed just until combined. Cover dough and refrigerate for 30 minutes. Stir in the chocolate chips.

Combine cinnamon and sugar in a bowl. Preheat the oven to 350ºF. Line several cookies sheets with parchment paper. Roll tablespoon-sized balls of dough in the cinnamon sugar and place on cookie sheets about 2 inches apart.

Bake for 8 to 10 minutes, rotating sheets halfway through, until golden brown. Cool cookie sheets on wire racks.

Make It and Bake It Monday!

Okay that’s what I’m calling this today. This isn’t necessarily going to be a weekly posting but it’s what I feel like posting and calling it today :).

I will say that I LOVE the Pioneer Woman and just about EVERYTHING on her blog! I can’t think of a single thing I’ve made from her cooking/baking portion of her blog that I haven’t liked, it’s all been good.

We have quite a few wild blackberry bushes that grow on our driveway and my girls decided about a month ago that they wanted to go out and pick them so then of course I had to figure out what to do with them when they came in with a bowl full and said mom make something! Of course I jumped on Pioneer Woman’s site to find something. I’m not a huge fan of cobbler because I don’t usually care for the crust for the same reason I don’t usually eat pie crust- I just eat the inside. This one I found however was DELICIOUS!! (Of course the crust isn’t the same as pie crust or traditional cobbler crust)

Blackberry Cobbler

Ingredients:

• 1 stick Butter
• 1-¼ cup Sugar
• 1 cup Self-Rising Flour
• 1 cup Milk
• 2 cups Blackberries (frozen Or Fresh)

Instructions:

Melt butter in a microwavable dish. Pour 1 cup of sugar and flour into a mixing bowl, whisking in milk. Mix well. Then, pour in melted butter and whisk it all well together. Butter a baking dish.

Now rinse and pat dry the blackberries. Pour the batter into the buttered baking dish. Sprinkle blackberries over the top of the batter; distributing evenly. Sprinkle ¼ cup sugar over the top.

Bake in the oven at 350 degrees for 1 hour, or until golden and bubbly. If you desire, sprinkle an additional teaspoon of sugar over the cobbler 10 minutes before it’s done.