Instead of almonds, I wanted to try pistachios. I prefer the pistachios!
Candied Pistachios
Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies
A soft, cake like cookie. This is a very sweet cookie, so reduce sugar if desired. While mini chocolate chips are preferred, I think these are best with a mix of dark chocolate and milk chocolate chips.
Cheese Cake
This is an easy to customize recipe! See notes below for ideas.
Patmos “Amazing Oatmeal Cookies”
Andrea learned how to make these cookies while working in the kitchen over the past few summers. This is our favorite way to make them.
Macadamia Nut Cookies
The white chocolate chips make these a super sweet cookie, so we reduced the sugar by over a half cup. According to our taste testers, these are the the perfect sweetness.
(Hint: While these are great cookies, Momma prefers with part chocolate chips)
Chocolate Sausage
Rolled into a sausage shape and then cut, this is a simple and very customizable treat.
No Bake Chocolate Cookies
Megan discovered these on the snack table at church. So I had to find her a recipe and she made them right away.
Chocolate chip, brown butter, pecan cookies
Marble Cookie Squares
Another recipe from Aunt Bonnie’s recipe box. We baked ours in a pie pan which worked very well also. The card did not included time to bake, but we just let our set up like a cookie.
One thing I really like about many of the recipes from Aunt Bonnie is the recipe makes a small amount. There was enough here for us, but no left overs. I am not sure when she copied this recipe, but when I looked it up, it looks like it was popular in the early 1960’s.
“Frantic Mother Cookies”
I have no idea where Mom found this recipe years ago. I am pretty sure it was in a “how to Mom” type book. We rarely made chocolate chip cookies growing up, but we made these often. Usually we made them drop cookies, but bar style gets them done a lot faster! They are a dryer, crispier cookie, so add a little extra water if desired.
While you can use any type of cereal, corn flakes or rice cereal is the best. One day I made them for the family I was babysitting and used Cheerios. Dom informed me that I could put most anything I wanted into the cookies I made for them, but NEVER use Cheerios again 🙂
Use 1 cup of your favorite “fillings”. Growing up we usually used half unsweetened coconut flakes and chocolate chips. But mix and match with walnuts, pecans or other favorite nuts, raisins, craisins or dried cherries (or other dried fruit sliced in small pieces) and your favorite chocolate chips.