Flour De Lis: December 2011

Saturday, December 24, 2011

Chocolate Peanut Butter Caramel Cookies

I made these tonight and thought I would share the recipe here. If you already have all your cookies made for Santa, that's okay. You can try them later. And you'll want too! They are easy and delicious.
I mean the name says it all!
Three delicious ingredients = one super delicious cookie!

I started with a simple peanut butter cookie recipe and tweaked it just a little.

Chocolate Peanut Butter Caramel Cookies
Adapted from allrecipes

Ingredients:

1 cup unsalted butter

1 cup crunchy peanut butter

1 cup white sugar

1 cup packed brown sugar

2 eggs

2 cups all-purpose flour

1/2 cup baking cocoa

1 teaspoon baking powder

1/2 teaspoon salt

1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda

1 (11oz) bag Kraft caramels, unwrapped

2-3 TBPS milk

1/4-1/2 cup chocolate melting wafers, optional

Directions:

Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.
Cream together butter, peanut butter and sugars.

Beat in eggs.

In a separate bowl, sift together flour, cocoa, baking powder, baking soda, and salt.

Stir into batter.

Roll into 1 inch balls and put on baking sheets. Slightly flatten each ball with the back of a spoon or with you fingers.

Bake for about 9 minutes. Until cookies crackle slightly. Watch closely, do not over-bake.

Let cookie cool completely

Melt caramels and milk in microwave safe bowl. Stir until smooth.

Melt chocolate melts in microwave and stir until smooth.

Spoon a small amount of caramel onto top of each cookie.

Drizzle chocolate over cookies.

Let rest until caramel and chocolate are set.

I hope you enjoy these yummy treats as much as I did. We'll be sharing them on Christmas with all the other goodies.

Happy Holidays :)

I think Santa will enjoy these too!
We made a special plate just for him.

SAP
Flour De Lis

Friday, December 9, 2011

Christmas Wish Cookies (Update)

So far I've shipped off 7 boxes roughly 12 dozen cookies for the Christmas wishes!
I am so thankful to all the wonderful people who opened their hearts and shared their stories with me!
I've had lots of fun along the way!

Here are pictures of some of the cookies I've made so far.

Lots and lots of cookies flying out of here daily! 4 more boxes to ship out on Monday and than I'll finally get to packing! Only a few more days until we move to the new place!

Yay!

SAP
Flour De Lis

Tuesday, December 6, 2011

999 Facebook Fan Giveaway Sneak Peek!

I know you are wondering what I'll be giving away when I reach 999 "like" on Facebook. Right?.
I kinda teased you and said it would be AMAZING!
I love all of these things! They make cookie-ing easier and prettier and lots of fun!

The is prize package will include all of the following,

SAP

Wilton Decorating Basics Lesson Plan

Wilton Flowers and Cake Design Lesson Plan

Wilton Gum Paste and Fondant Lesson Plan

These three books have so many wonderful tips and guides! There are step by step pictures for the all the techniques you need to know. If you don't have them already, you need them!

4oz Nielsen-Massey Vanilla Bean Paste

This stuff is the BEST! There is no comparison to flavor and quality for baking. It's the only vanilla bean paste I use.

Plus 100, yep 100 cookie cutters! I don't have a picture of them, but they might be these ones here, it's hard to tell

They are a set of assorted plastic cutters, but not from Wilton. So a lot of mystery cutters :)

We only have 175 fans to go until we get to the giveaway, so please help spread the word!

Plus I am bound to add a few things I find here and there during the wait, so the prize will probably be ever better!

If you're not a fan on Facebook yet, what are you waiting for? Head on over here and join the fun!

Flour De Lis

Thursday, December 1, 2011

Thanksgiving Cookies

Here are a few more pictures of all the recent Fall cookies.

I made three trays of these for Thanksgiving, but my camera battery died after this picture! And it was Thanksgiving, I had too many other things to do!