Showing posts with label Cookies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cookies. Show all posts
March 2, 2018
October 19, 2017
Creepy & Fun Food Ideas for Halloween
It's no secret - I love a theme. Around Halloween I can't help but look for fun food, decor and costume inspiration. It's my Christmas. Normally, overly fussy foods bore me, but make them creepy and I'll sit cutting eyeballs out of olives for hours. A few years back I made this Halloween spread, featuring mini mummy calzones, eyeball pizzas, graveyard layer dip with tortilla headstones and witch finger cookies:
Like I said, I love a theme. 😎 I've been poking around pinterest and google to find more new ideas for Halloween treats, and now I've got more options than I know what to do with! Here are my top 20 Halloween food inspirations:
Are you making any fun Halloween treats this year?
October 12, 2017
Pumpkin Walnut Chocolate Chip Cookies
Those things are awesome! So is pumpkin. So are these cookies.
Ingredients
• 1/2 C butter, melted
• 3/4 C brown sugar
• 1/4 C white sugar
• 1 egg
• 1/3 C canned pumpkin
• 1 t vanilla extract
• 1/4 t salt
• 1 t cinnamon
• 1/8 t nutmeg
• 1/8 t cloves
• 1/4 t ginger
• 3/4 t baking soda
• 1.5 C flour
• 1 C chocolate chips
• 2/3 C chopped walnuts
Instructions
1. Mix melted butter with the brown sugar, white sugar and egg in a large bowl.
2. Stir in pumpkin and vanilla extract and mix together well.
3. Stir in salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, ginger and baking soda.
4. Pour in the flour in half cup increments, and stir to combine until all flour is added.
5. Stir in chocolate chips and walnuts.
6. Cover the dough and refrigerate for at least one hour.
7. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
8. Line a cookie sheet and place 1” dough balls about 2” apart.
9. Cook for 9-12 minutes until edges are golden brown.
10. Remove cookies from the oven and allow them to cool on the cookie sheet for a few minutes (they’ll firm up a bit) before moving them to a wire rack to cool.
What are you baking this fall?
Any great cookie recipes to share?
Any great cookie recipes to share?
November 5, 2014
ETC: Halloween Instagram Recap
This was my first Halloween in forever without an official costume. Boooooo! Not the good kind of scary Halloween 'boo!' either - the bad 'this sucks!' kind. Because we didn't have party plans and I've been busy with all kinds of Maid of Honor projects lately, this just wasn't a year for painstakingly handmade costumes. Instead, I focused my creative Halloween energy into themed food because we all gotta eat, right? We had a small gathering which included the treats seen below, as well as everyone accidentally eating fake cobwebs all night (don't put them near food!).
Mummy Calzones // Eyeball Pizzas
Graveyard Taco Dip // Witch Finger Cookies
My Witchy Pumpkin // My Boyfriend's "Pumpkin" (his rotted before he got to paint it)
My Grandfather's Poodle in a Pumpkin Costume // My Halloween Wreath
{You can follow me on Instagram: @neonrattail}
What were your Halloween plans? Any costume contest winners out there? Did you make or eat anything that looked like an eyeball?
December 17, 2011
Almond Biscotti & Pistachio-Cranberry Biscotti Recipes
Nothin’ says lovin’ like something from the oven, so what better way to show your love during Christmas time (or anytime) than a batch of freshly baked treats? My indulgence of choice is Biscotti and I bake a batch or two every Christmas to give as gifts. They’re fairly simple to make and you get a lot of recipients thinking you're some kind of kitchen genius because they never even knew that it was possible to make biscotti yourself (because they obviously come from the elusive biscotti tree). In other words, pretty minimal effort with a big ‘I’d-say-thank-you-but-my-mouth-is-full-of-Italian-cookie-goodness’ factor.
I like to make an almond batch and a pistachio-cranberry batch, which is both delicious and Christmas-colored, so win-win. Here’s the basic recipe for the almond biscotti but you can replace the almond with any other nut and/or add dried fruits, various extracts (anise is also popular) or other goodies.
What You Need
2 Cups Flour
1 1/4 Cups Sugar
1/2 Cup Butter
1 Cup Slivered Almonds
3 Eggs
2 Tsp Almond Extract
2 Tsp Baking Powder
2 Tsp Milk
Dash of Salt
How to Make It
1. Mix butter and 1 cup of sugar in a mixing bowl until fully incorporated. Add eggs and beat well. Stir in almond extract.
2. In a separate bowl, mix flour, baking powder and salt. Add to butter-sugar mixture and fold in slivered almonds.
3. Divide dough in half and spread each half into a rectangle (about 3" - 4" wide) onto a cookie sheet lined with greased foil. Brush each with milk and sprinkle with remaining 1/4 cup of sugar.
4. Bake at 375 degrees for about 20 minutes or until golden brown. Remove from oven and lower temperature to 300 degrees.
5. Cool both rectangles for 15-20 minutes on a wire rack or wood cutting board. On cutting board, slice rectangles into 1" thick pieces (the ends will need to be cut off and discarded - into your belly). I use a bread knife for this.
6. Lay down cut pieces on ungreased cookie sheet and bake for 10-15 minutes to toast. Flip over and toast the other side for 10-15 minutes.
Wrap in festive tissue paper, place in a nice gift bag or box and attach a handmade gift tag to make to perfect heartfelt gift.
Optional: Melt dark chocolate and dip one end of each biscotti into it, allowing it to cool and harden on wax paper.
To make the pistachio-cranberry biscotti, replace almonds with pistachios and add 1 cup dried cranberries (Craisins).
xoxo,
Michelle
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