Snickerdoodles from Cake Mix

I love to bake, can you tell?  But I dont always have time for 'homemade' stuff. Sometimes I have to do short cuts to bake or cook for the family.  Some of my favorite cookies to make are ones made from cake mixes.  My homemaking teacher from Gunter High School (Marilyn Davis) gave us a recipe my freshman year in high school (way back in 1984) that has been with me ever since.  It is probably the only 'recipe' card I kept from the recipe box we made that year.

This is my version of Snickerdoodles...

(I forgot to add the ground Cinnamon in the pictue)

Ingredients

1 Yellow cake mix
2 Eggs
1/3 cup Vegetable oil
1/2 cup Cinnamon-Sugar
2 teaspoons Vanilla extract
2 teaspoons Ground cinnamon
2 teaspoons Nutmeg

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees Fahrenheit.
2. In a large bowl mix cake mix, oil, eggs, nutmeg, ground cinnamon, and vanilla extract.
3. Stir until well blended.
4. Place your Cinnamon-Sugar in a small bowl
5. Form cookie dough into 1 inch balls.
6. Roll balls in cinnamon-sugar mixture until completely covered.
7. Place on cookie sheets.
8. Bake@ 350 for 12 mins or until lightly browned.

Sweet Baking,

Kim

Snicker Cookies...

So Clayton requested some kind of cookie made with Snickers Candy bars after I made the wonderful (if I do say so myself) Butterfinger Cookies this past weekend.  So after searching online and in my books I found a recipe that seemed simple enough.

Snicker Cookies

1 3/4 cup all purpose flour
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 tsp. baking soda
1/4 tsp. salt
1/2 cup butter
1/2 cup creamy peanut butter
1/4 cup honey
1 Tbsp. milk
24 miniature snickers  (I used 3 regular size candy bars cut into 8 pcs)


Combine flour, sugar, baking soda and salt. Cut in butter and peanut butter until mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Beat in honey and milk until well combined. Mold roughly 1 tablespoon of dough around candy. Place on ungreased cookie sheet, Bake 12 – 15 minutes at 350 degrees.


Makes 24


I started mixing and then realized no egg...hmmm okay.  When it came to the honey and milk...the smell of the 2 was not pleasant. 

Lets just say I wasnt impressed with the cookies too much.  Clayton said they were good, but the peanut butter overwhelmed it.  They seemed too heavy...maybe if the snickers were chopped and mixed in the dough....I dont know.

next time I think I am going to try a different one I found tonight on another blog...I will get back on this subject later.

Butterfinger Cookies

This was my first time to make Butterfinger Cookies...I have several cookie recipe books that I usually get my recipes from but this one was given to me from a friend.  Clayton and his girlfriend really like them, but Cheyenne said the batter was better than the cookie.  Clayton has requested Snicker's Cookies...yet another I have never made.  I might have to do some research on that one!

Butterfinger Cookies




1/2 cup unsalted butter, softened

3/4 cup granulated sugar

3/4 cup brown sugar, firmly packed

2 large egg whites

1 1/4 cups chunky peanut butter

2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract

1 cup all purpose flour

1/2 teaspoon baking soda

1/4 teaspoon salt

3 (2.1 ounce) Butterfinger Candy Bars, chopped

4.2 ounces milk chocolate chips

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Line baking sheets with parchment paper or foil. Set aside.

In electric mixer, cream together butter and sugars. Add egg whites and beat well. Blend in peanut butter and vanilla. Combine flour, baking soda and salt. Add to creamed mixture and mix well. Stir in candy bars and chocolate. Using a one ounce cookie scoop, place dough on baking sheet.

Bake for 12 minutes (do not over bake), just till the start to brown. Let the cookies sit on the baking sheet for a few minutes. Transfer to a wire cooling rack to cool completely. Makes about 3 dozen.