Very late....

Hey guys its Yum Yum's here. Im sorry Ive been a bit of MIA lately. I haven't exactly been able to bake up a storm :( I made some cookies for someone and I was only able to take a pic of the finished product. I promise soon ill be back on my regular baking habits soon.

These here were butter cookies. Cute weren't they?

~~Recipe~~

*1 cup of Butter, room temperature. (2 sticks)
*1 cup of Sugar
*1 Egg
*2 tablespoons Almond
*1 tablespoon Vanilla
*2 1/2 cup Flour
*1 teaspoon Baking powder

Directions:
1)Combine 1 cup butter, sugar and egg in large bowl. Scraping bowl often. Add almond and Vanilla, mix well.
2)Add the flour and baking soda gradually.
3) Divide dough into 3 equal parts and wrap with plastic wrap. Refrigerate For 2-3 hours.
4) Heat oven to 350. Roll dough out and Use different cookie cutters for any occasion. Place on a cookie pan lined with wax paper. Bake for 5-7 minutes (make sure you watch, I had trouble getting them to come out perfect. Check at the 5 minute mark)Let cook and decorate.

~~Icing~~

*1 cup powder sugar
*2 teaspoons milk (to start with, add if needed)
*2 teaspoons light corn syrup
*1/4 teaspoon vanilla
*1/4 teaspoon Almond
*1/4 teaspoon Coconut
*Food coloring of choice (optional)
*splash of Amaretto (optional)

Directions:
1)In a bowl stir together the powder sugar and milk till smooth.(add more if not smooth enough) Whisk in corn syrup and extracts. (add amaretto too if adding)
2)(optional) Separate into different small dishes , add food coloring to get disired color.
3) Use a small painting brush, paint cookies and let dry. May need to re paint for good coverage. Add jimmies ,sprinkles ....ect for more decoration. Enjoy :)

Cookies Trio :)

Hey guys! Its Yum Yum's, I made some pretty awesome cookies this time around. So lets get into it.

These cookies were fun to make indeed. Although my idea of using a whisk wasnt very smart.


Since im so special, i wanted to make all my cookies interracial. :) this is before i added the cocoa powder of course



And this is after the cocoa. And now its time to get started.


This was after i baked them. It wasnt finished yet though. It was really easy to make them like this all you had to do was take a little from both the regular, and chocolate dough and press together than proceed to roll into a ball.


And this was the end product, They were very good. I decided to try this cookies with different kisses, and I made these (the better ones) with Hug's and I made some with Kisses that were Cookies and cream.

~~Recipe~~
*1/2 cup unsalted butter (1 stick),Softened
*1/2 cup shortening
*1 cup sugar
*1 egg
*1 Tsp. vanilla
*2 cups + 2 Tbsp. flour, divided
*1 Tsp. baking powder
*1/4 Tsp salt
*2 Tbsp. Hershey's Cocoa powder
*24 Hershey's HUGS unwrapped

Directions:
1) preheat oven to 350
2) Beat butter ,shortening,and sugar till smooth
than add the egg, and vanilla
3)add the 2 cups of flour , baking soda,and salt gradually to the butter mix.
4) Divide the dough into 2 parts. In one bowl add the remaining 2 Tbs of flour , and to the other add the other dough.
5) pinch together some regular and chocolate dough ( or you can make some with only one kind of dough if you like) and roll into balls and place on a non stick cookie sheet.
6) bake for 9-10 minutes than cool on a wire rack. Cool for 1 minute and than press a piece of the HUG'S in the center. than remove from rack and cool completely. and enjoy :)

Lost?

Hey guys its Yum Yum's! I know Nommie and I have been a little MIA lately but don't worry we are coming back with avengence. We are both real people and have lives so bear with us. We are planing new things to bake so we WILL be updating :D

So now that im done with that sorry, Hey guys i have been meaning to do this next entry for a while now and have finally found the time for it. Ive been planing on making these cookies for a while but no one uses lemons in my house, so you know. So lemon cookies , thats on todays menu

These cookies are very easy to make. From the above picture u can see ,this was with all the ingredients added already.It was a light yummy lemon cookie :)


Some people like to do them in a designer way, but i think the little ball shape is cute and bite size


So heres the outcome. They looked so nice the way they were i didnt add the glaze. Now the back round Nommies dad has been pestering me about making these so i finally did . He said he enjoyed them, but wanted the glaze next time. I believe hes joking but i told him next time i do these ill bring the glaze so he can have it.

~~Recipe~~
*1/2 cup butter, soft
*3/4 sugar
*1 egg
*1 tbs lemon zest
*1 1/2 tsp lemon extract
*a squeeze of lemon juice
*3/4 tsp vanilla extract
*1/4 tsp baking soda
*1/2 tsp baking powder
*1 1/4 cup flour

Directions:
1)Preheat oven to 350
2)In a bowl mix butter and sugar till well combined.
3)Add in the egg and mix. Than ass zest,vanilla,lemon,lemon juice till blended.
4)Add flour,baking soda,and baking powder gradually to the mixture,till forms dough. (better to use dry clean hands)
5) roll into small balls and place on a non stick pan and bake for 10-14 mins.

***add favorite lemon glaze to enhance***

Sweet payback.

Hello again bloggers and followers,Yum Yum's here. So lets get this kicked off. As you can see from the tittle its payback! yea not the, Im going to murder you kind.The here's something back ,thanks for doing _______ for me kind. The payback is for my good buddy Nommie :)

Well this actually looks very nasty. I bet you cannot guess what im making from this picture....so todays recipe is called "Easy Strawberry cookies"


You can sort of see it now(meaning all the pink-ness) but this is super easy all you need is cake mix and some other things.


How can you not look at this and say mmmmm.They are super easy so even if this is your 1st time baking or what you can make these.

Recipe
-2eggs
-2/3 veg. shortening
-1 box of strawberry cake mix( you can sub other flavors im sure)
-1/2 cup coconut flakes
-1/2 cup nuts of your choosing (optional)
-1/4 tsp coconut extract
-1/4 tsp vanilla extract


*preheat oven to 350
*combine eggs and shortening in a bowl(it doesn't really combine all that awesome, so if you look at the 1st pic thats how it should look before you continue)
*Add 1/2 of the cake mix and blend well,than add the rest of the mix,vanilla and coconut extract.
*when blended add the flakes and mix with clean,dry hands.(you would add the nuts too if you are adding them)
*With a spoon scoop out some dough and roll into balls than place on cookie sheet described below.(the dough is very oily so make sure your hands are dry when touchy the dough)
*bake on a cookie sheet lined with parchment paper,and spray lightly with butter flavor cooking spray,for 8-10 minutes.(mine took 15 minutes so watch it carefully)
*let cool and firm up than enjoy :)

Flour in THEE house!!!

Sooo Yum Yum's here! HELLO WORLD! Okay now to the topic at hand,cookies! Yes cookies. I don't know what woman doesn't have a craving for chocolate sometime every month. Well I don't really like to eat chocolate like water,but I was wanting some chocolate overload this time. Hmmm okay sounds fair enough....walk over to cupboard....OH! theres a problem....NO FLOUR!!! WHAT?! how can there be no flour :( Well I told my mom to get some asap,Because I wanted to make some chocolate cookies!


Well as you can see cookie dough was started,meaning pshh my mom only needed to hear once that I was making Chocolate Cookies. So here is just the wet stuff before the flour and whatnot.



As you lovely bakers can see I have a hand electric mixer. If you have one do not be shy,it works a lot when making yummy's. Well to a certain point anyway ,with cookie dough.


Mmmmmm looks good don't it? Yes it looks super good already...well wait till they are baked! Yes you guys can see now its double chocolate cookies. Best thing on earth let me just say. I looked up multiple recipes for these cookies and found the best one,but the website is down right now so I will put the recipe in .I did look at all reviews though and changed somethings to it. Like the sugar. Recipe calls for 1-1/2 cups of white sugar. Well I did 1 cup white and 1/2 cup of light brown sugar(lightly packed).


WOOO they are done!Well here a closer pic (kind of blurry,sorry my camera kind of sucks )......

Yes,Mmmm looks too good! Well let me just say I think the site needs to change the name of them cookies. They were more like brownies! OMG very good and like an explosion of chocolate in every bite! Quote from my mom "I don't want them,but at the same time I cant stop myself from picking up another one..." If thats not enough for you guys make them and go to heaven .

Recipe:
1 cup butter,soften'd
1 cup white sugar
1/2 cup light brown sugar(lightly packed)
2 eggs
2 tsp vanilla
2/3 Cocoa powder
2 cups flour
3/4 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp salt
2 cups of semi-sweet chocolate chips

*Preheat oven to 350
*In large bowl, beat butter, sugar, eggs, and vanilla until light and fluffy.
*Combine the flour, cocoa, baking soda, and salt; stir into the butter mixture until well blended.
*Mix in the chocolate chips.
*Using a table spoon scoop cookie dough and roll into ball with hands and place on a cookies sheet lined with parchment paper.
*Bake for 8-10 minutes (now you must watch it after this time, I took mine out after 8 minutes and it still wans't done,it took up to 15 for mine to be just right)
let cook and enjoy :)

Mothers day baking :)

Okay so for once Yum Yum's will be posting WOOO. :) Anywhooo, so yesterday was mother's day. Nommie and I have been baking for friends or parties,or just to try stuff out. Well my mother has been...hmm how would I say COMPLAINING? yes thats the word- about how I haven't made her anything blah blah blah. So hey its mothers day why not?! so here we go :)
So right here is the beginning of something I would have to say was YUM. I pretty much was looking for some white chocolate raspberry cookies or something to that affect and found NOTHING! so hey why not make it your self Yum Yum's?! sooo I did :) as you can see (well yea duh they can theres a picture) its NOT gross looking its just butter ,sugar and vanilla right there.

Now right above ^ is the close-to-finish of the dough part. Now I was pretty much making up as I went with these cookies. I followed a basic vanilla cookie recipe. (no I don't have the site because I grab and take from several sorces and tweak it)

Ahh finished....well not quite. well I know you can see the pieces all up in the dough and wondering hmm is that chocolate chips?
well let me answer that burning question:no it isn't. Like I mentioned before i was trying to go for the white chocolate raspberry cookies. Well for some reason Hershey decided that they wanted to discontinue their "raspberry chips" (basically is a chocolate chip but instead its made of raspberry) so I was looking online for something I could use or get my hands on in a day for these cookies. while looking I happened to come across a forum asking the same question and someone said to try to use the Hershey's bliss in the raspberry meltaway one. So I bought a bag and took maybe 10-15 and cut them up into little cubes and threw them in the mix.

So as you can see they are in my oven :) well they were very hard to manage. very sticky so next time I will be using a ice cream scope with the ...metal thing to make it come out easier. But they spread out a lot while they were cooking. so space is the answer here kiddies.

Mmmmm looks good. Well as you can plainly see they came out looking real good. They smelled like vanilla goodness. My mom loved them she wanted more. I melted some white chocolate chips and drizzled a small amount on the cookies before i put them in the oven. If you love chewy cookies, vanilla,raspberry and chocolate than this is a must try :)

Recipe:
1-1/2 cup flour
1/2 tsp salt
1/4 baking powder
1/2 cup unsalted butter,room temp(1 stick)
1-1/4 sugar
1-1/2 tsp pure vanilla extract
2 large eggs
10-15 Hershey's bliss raspberry meltaways (cubed)
1/2 cup white chocolate chips (for melting)

Directions:
Preheat oven to 375
In a medium bowl place the flour ,salt and baking powder and wisk till blended.
In another bowl cream the butter will smooth, than add the sugar and vanilla extract, beat till well combined.
Next add eggs to the butter mixture and beat.After add the flour mix and blend well.
Add the bliss chocolates and fold in.
Now make into little ball and place on a cookie sheet lined with parchment paper,add a drizzle of white chocolate before putting in the oven.
Bake for 10-14 minutes ,after cool on a wired rack. and enjoy :)