Malted Milk Ball Chewies

I have a favorite cookie!  And this is it!  These cookies for me are BAD news!  I can not have them in the house for too long.  It just takes to much self control!

Malted Milk Ball Chewies

These cookies take a little attention to make, but they are well worth the end product.

A few little tips:

*Chop up the milk balls in the food processor.  I use a large milk box looking box of milk balls (you can find it in the candy isle at Publix)

* Don't put too many on a cookie sheet.  They really spread out.  I usually only do 6 on a sheet.

*Bake cookies at 350 for 8 minutes.  Remove from oven but let cookies sit on cookie sheet for about 6 minutes before you remove them and place them on a cooling rack.  Carefully scrape cookies with a spatula.  They should pop right off the pan.

These took me a couple tries to master...but I am so glad I didn't give up.

I use a food processor to chop up the milk balls very fine

It always says to put dry ingredients in a seperate bowl....I never do unless it is a large amount of flour.

That is one more bowl to clean!

Malted Milk Ball Chewies Recipe

The recipe came from a blog I love too.  I have gotten a lot of great recipes from her blog.  

It is a great one to visit every once in a while!

Your Homebased Mom Blog

Enjoy!

Cookie Balls

I do a lot of baking....but sometimes the kids just want a few cookies when they come home from school, or maybe for a snack in their lunch, or a little nibble before bed.  These cookie balls are my best friend!  You do all the mixing ahead of time, freeze the dough in little balls and then when your little ones (or big ones :) want a cookie or two....you just pop them in the oven and fresh baked cookies!  Yum!

I got this from a cookbook I have used so much!  It has some great ideas for time saving tips and ways to make cooking at home easier.

Recipes for making homemade a little easier

Here are the recipes for Sugar Cookie Balls

2 cups butter, softened
2 cups granulated sugar
2 eggs
3 teaspoons vanilla
4 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon cream of tartar
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon salt

In a large mixing bowl, cream together the butter and sugar with an electric mixer.  Beat in the eggs and vanilla until well combined.

In a seperate large bowl, stir together the flour, cream of tartar, baking soda, and salt.  Gradually blend dry ingredients into creamed mixture.  Combine ingredients well.

Take a teaspoon and form cookies dough into balls, place on cookie sheet (one that will fit in your freezer) and freeze until solid.  When solid remove from cookie sheet and place in freezer bag to use whenever you want.

To bake remove however many cookies you want to eat....1 or a dozen....place on cookie sheet.  Turn on oven and wait for oven to preheat to 350 (this gives the cookies a little time to unfreeze a bit) .  Bake in oven 10 minutes.

Enjoy!

Rolled balls going into freezer

No...they don't turn into m&m cookies after they are frozen! 

These are chocolate chip cookie ball, recipe to follow! ( I added the m&m for a little holiday cheer :)

Frozen cookie balls going into bags

Frozen balls going on the cookie sheet and into oven

Yummy!

Chocolate Chip Cookie Balls

2 cups buttter, softened

1 1/3 cups granulated sugar

1 2/3 cups packed brown sugar

4 eggs

1 Tablespoon vanilla

5 1/2 cups all-purpose flour

2 teaspoons salt

2 teaspoons baking soda

2 (12 ounce) packages semi-sweet chocolate chips

In a large mixing bowl, cream together the butter and sugars with an electric mixer until well combined.  Beat in the eggs and vanilla and mix well.

In a medium bowl, mix together the flour, salt, and baking soda.  Add the dry ingredients to the creamed mixture and mix well.  Fold in the chocolate chips until mixed.

Using a teaspoon roll dough into cookie balls and place on cookie sheet (one that will fit in your freezer) place in the freezer until frozen solid.  Remove from cookie sheet and place in freezer bag.

To bake:

Place desired cookie balls on cookie sheet.  Turn on oven to 350.  Let cookies sit until oven is preheated.  (this gives them a little time to unfreeze)  Bake 10 minutes.  Eat!  Yummy!

Carmel Corn

We like popcorn around here.  And we love our popcorn popper!  I won't take a picture of it because it doesn't look this good.  This makes some YUMMY popcorn.  One of our favorite things to do with our popcorn is to make carmel corn. 


This recipe I got from my mom.  It is a great recipe to adjust to your taste.  If you like your carmel corn heavy on the carmel, use less popcorn.  If you like your carmel corn light on carmel heavy on corn use more popcorn.  My kids like the light on carmel heavy on corn version so I use two popped pots of corn.  It takes 1 cup unpopped kernels to fill up my popcorn pot.  

1 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup butter (1 stick)
1/4 cup corn syrup

Melt above together over medium heat until bubbly.
Continue to cook 5 minutes.
Remove from heat and add

1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon vanilla

Stir above ingredients into melted butter and sugar.  It will turn a carmel texture and color.
Poor over popped corn and mix (I like to use 2 table knifes to mix, watch out the carmel is HOT!)
Spread out on 2 cookie sheets and bake at 200 for 1 hour stirring every 15 minutes.

Allow to cool.  Break up and enjoy!
Keep in sealed container.

corn going in the oven

corn cooling

All yummy and ready to eat!

Enjoy!

Puffed Up Pancake

This was a fun recipe to make.  The recipe is called a puffed up pancake.  It does puff up when you cook it and them slowly deflates once you take it out of the oven.  I told the kids we were doing a science experiment!  It was yummy!  We served it with powder sugar and whip cream....just to sweeten things up a bit :)  Try it, it is easy and a good new breakfast treat!

Puffed Up Pancake Recipe

Peanut Butter Chip Cookies

If you are a peanut butter lover you will love these chewy peanut butter cookies with peanut butter chips in them.  The recipe calls for chocolate chips and we usually do half with chocolate chips since we have a chocolate chip lover in the family.  I prefer the peanut butter chips...so yummy!  I put them in my new Longaberger tea basket!  So cute, what a great gift!  It is my new favorite basket!

Enjoy

Peanut Butter Chip Cookies

Dipped Oreo Cookies

Here is a quick and fun idea.  Get a package of Oreo's (double stuffed are the best) and melt a package of white chocolate chips in the microwave.  Dip the cookies in halfway and let them cool.  I drizzled some melted chocolate over them and they were quick and yummy!

Enjoy!

French Breakfast Muffins

I am making a goal!  Goals are scary, but I thought I would make one anyway.  I am going to add to this blog every day...well ok maybe every other day...

So here is one of my childrens favorite breakfast on school mornings

French Breakfast Muffins from Family Fun.com

shown here of course in my Longaberger small entertaining basket (love it)

I change the recipe a bit.  I make them in mini muffin tins for tiny little bites.

I butter the tins (you can use spray)

Make a well in the dry ingredients and pour in liquids.

mix well with a wooden spoon

and bake.  I set the timer for about 7 min and watch after that.

Muffins waiting to be dunked in butter and cinnamon sugar-Yum!

I like to freeze them and take out as many as my little ones want in the morning and just pop them into the microwave for 5 seconds.  Just like hot out of the oven!

I have this picture to show you two of my favorite things..my glass 2 cup and 4 cup measuring cups.  They come in handy for mixing small amounts and melting items like butter or chips in the microwave.  Couldn't live without them!