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CHEWY MOLASSES SPICE COOKIE

Holiday baking season is in full swing! Cookies, bars, candies and more are hopefully filling your kitchen, and your bellies. I’m off to a Cookie Swap tonight and I’m excited to share the recipe for Chewy Molasses Spice Cookies today. This recipe has been in my holiday rotation for a few years now and the smell of the dough is amazing. It doesn’t require a lot of ingredients and is fairly quick to pull together.

I ran out of ground nutmeg and had some real nutmegs to use. Using freshly ground spices is a sure fire way to create some delicious cookies! You can get whole nutmegs in the Whole Foods bulk section if you want to try just a couple. Use a microplaner to grate the nut.

CHEWY MOLASSES SPICE COOKIE

The perfect holiday cookie
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Prep Time: 25 minutes
Total Time: 25 minutes
Course: Dessert, Snack
Cuisine: American
Keyword: Cookies

Ingredients

  • 2 cups All purpose flour
  • 1½ teaspoons baking soda
  • 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
  • ½ teaspoon ground nutmeg
  • ½ teaspoon salt
  • 1¼ cup sugar
  • ¾ cups unsalted butter softened 1½ sticks
  • 1 large egg
  • ¼ cup molasses

Instructions

  • Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
  • In a medium bowl, whisk together the flour, baking soda, cinnamon, nutmeg and salt.
  • In an electric mixer, beat butter and 1 cup of sugar until fluffy. Beat in egg one at a time and then molasses until combined. Reduce speed to stir/low and slowly mix in the dry ingredients until a dough forms.
  • Create balls with the dough, about one tablespoon each. (slightly smaller than a ping pong ball)
  • Roll ball in a small bowl of the reserved ¼ cup of sugar.
  • Arrange the balls on baking sheets, 12 per sheet.
  • Bake for 12-14 minutes. Remove from oven and let cool for one minute before transferring to racks to cool. Cool completely and store in an airtight container.
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Easy cookie swap recipe-- Chewy Molasses Spice Cookies

Now it’s your turn! What is your favorite holiday cookie recipe? Leave a note in the comments.

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Cranberry White Chocolate Cookies

Cranberry White Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe

If you are stuck inside during a blizzard, you must make cookies. Not only is it a fun activity to keep the kids busy, but it makes the whole house smell delicious. In honor of Valentine’s Day, I made these red and white Cranberry White Chocolate Cookies. They are easy to make, delicious, and a nice departure from your everyday chocolate chip cookie.

Cranberry White Chocolate Cookies

CRANBERRY WHITE CHOCOLATE COOKIES

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Course: Dessert
Keyword: Cookies

Ingredients

  • 1 stick of butter softened
  • 1 cup brown sugar
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 2 eggs room temperature
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 3 cups all-purpose flour or white whole wheat flour
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 2 tablespoons milk
  • 1 1/2 cups dried cranberries
  • 1 1/2 cups white chocolate chips

Instructions

  • Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
  • In a large bowl, mix together the flour, baking soda, and salt. Whisk to combine.
  • Beat the butter and sugar together in a mix until well blended. Add eggs, one at a time until combined. Add vanilla and milk.
  • Slowly add the flour mixture on a low speed setting. Mix until just combined.
  • Fold in cranberries and white chocolate chips.
  • Drop large spoonfuls of cookie dough onto parchment or silpat lined cookie sheets.
  • Bake 13-15 minutes. Let rest two minutes on cookie sheet, then transfer to cooling racks.
  • (I bake two racks at a time and use my convection oven setting. Halfway through I switch the trays so they bake evenly.)
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Adapted from Table for Two.

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Healthy Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies

Pumpkin chocolate chip cookies

I just can’t get enough pumpkin these days. Muffins, breads, lattes and finally, pumpkin chocolate chip cookies.  I created this recipe for Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies using Stonyfield yogurt to replace the butter and fats called for originally.  The cookies come out very moist and are healthier than the average cookie.  It makes me feels better when I reach for more than one!

Recently I teamed up with Stonyfield as part of their Clean Plate Club. Here you can find lots of family friendly healthy recipes sure to make your kids join the Clean Plate Club. I am excited to come up with challenges in the coming months of how to use more yogurt in recipes to create healthier options, like these pumpkin chocolate chip cookies.

Blend the sugar, pumpkin, and yogurt.
Pumpkin chocolate chip cookies

Healthy Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies

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Course: Dessert
Keyword: Cookies

Ingredients

  • 1 cup Stonyfield Organic Yogurt Plain or French Vanilla. (I think Greek would work fine too)
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 1 cup pumpkin puree not pumpkin pie mix
  • 1 egg
  • 2 1/2 cups white whole wheat flour
  • 1 tsp baking soda
  • 1 tsp cinnamon
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 1 1/2 cups chocolate chips

Instructions

  • Mix yogurt, sugar, and pumpkin. Don’t over mix.
  • Add egg and mix well.
  • In a separate bowl, mix the dry ingredients. Add to pumpkin mixture and mix well.
  • Stir in chocolate chips.
  • Drop spoonfuls onto a greased cookie sheet.
  • Bake at 375 for 10-12 minutes. Let cool for 2 mins before transferring to a cooling rack.
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Mix dry ingredients in a separate bowl

 

If you ever wonder how to swap out fattier ingredients for yogurt, here is a handy reference guide.

Enjoy!

 

 

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Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Sea Salt Cookies

Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Sea Salt Cookies. Sweet and salty cookies, the perfect combo!

All parties are better with cookies.  Even better are cookies that are both salty and sweet like Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Cookies with Sea Salt.  This week I hosted a group of bloggers and blog contributors from the Parent Talk Matters blog.  We got our work done and then checked out these lovely cookies over a glass of wine. A perfect treat for the end of the day.

Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Sea Salt Cookies. Sweet and salty cookies, the perfect combo!

CHOCOLATE CHIP OATMEAL SEA SALT COOKIES

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Course: Dessert
Keyword: Cookies

Ingredients

  • 2 sticks of butter room temperature
  • 3/4 cup brown sugar
  • 1/4 sugar
  • 2 large eggs
  • 2 tsp vanilla extract
  • 1 1/2 cup white whole wheat flour or all purpose flour
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 3 cups old fashioned oats
  • 2 cups semisweet mini chocolate chips 12 oz package
  • Sea salt flakes or kosher salt

Instructions

  • Beat butter and sugars together in a mixer until creamy.
  • Add in the eggs and vanilla, beat until thoroughly combined.
  • In a separate bowl, mix the flour, baking soda and salt.
  • Slowly add flour mix to the egg and sugar mix.
  • Stir in oats and chocolate chips until combined.
  • Drop rounded teaspoons onto cookie sheet
  • Press down each cookie slightly and sprinkle with sea salt.
  • Bake 10-12 minutes in a 350 degree oven, or until golden brown.
  • Cool for 3 minutes and then transfer to cooling rack.
  • Makes 4 dozen small cookies or about 3 dozen large.
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Enjoy!

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Chocolate Chip Cheesecake Cookies

What’s not to love about Chocolate and Cheesecake and Cookies?  Put it all together and you get one rocking cookie.  We had these over Easter weekend and they did not disappoint.  I also used white whole wheat flour to up the healthy quotient.  No one was the wiser 😉
Recipe was adapted from Sister Wisdom.

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CHOCOLATE CHIP CHEESECAKE COOKIES

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Course: Dessert
Keyword: Cookies

Ingredients

  • 2 cups of flour ~ I used white whole wheat
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1/8 teaspoon baking soda
  • 10 tablespoons butter
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 1 egg
  • 3 ounces cream cheese softened
  • 1 tsp vanilla
  • 12 ounces chocolate chips
  • 3/4 cup chopped pecans

Instructions

  • Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
  • Combine dry ingredients in one bowl and whisk to combine. In a mixer, blend butter, sugar, egg, cream cheese and vanilla. Slowly add the flour mixture until all incorporated. Stir in the chocolate chips and pecans.
  • Drop rounded spoonfuls onto a cookie sheet, 12 per sheet.
  • Bake 10-12 minutes or until golden brown around the edges.
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Enjoy!

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