Cookie Party!

Sunday night Ashley and I had our second annual cookie baking party! We made lots of great treats! Here is the proof!

🙂

Dr. Ash – concentrating on the cookies like they are her patients. 🙂

M&M cookies

PB Kiss cookies in the making:

Chocolate Covered Popcorn:

Almond Balls (I know they some other name, almond snowballs – who know?!)

There were lots of sweet treats consumed! I think we will even need to make more before Christmas!

🙂 Such a fun tradition!

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Supercharged!

After tonight’s dinner, and before we put up our Christmas tree,  I made a batch of Super Charge Me cookies for Healthy Ashley’s bake sale tomorrow. I won’t be selling this exact batch, but I made them in honor of the bake sale. I am going to take them to school and share them at my team meeting.

Here is a sneak peak of the dough:

And a preview of the cookies:

Check out the bake sale to raise money for Team in Training at Healthy Ashley !

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Homemade Low-fat Ice Cream Cookie Sandwiches

This weekend I wanted to make something fun for dessert for our cookout on Sunday. I debated between many things but decided on ice cream sandwiches because we were heading to a baseball game after dinner.

Homemade Low -fat Ice Cream Cookie Sandwiches

• 1 pouch of cookie mix – any kind
• 1/2 c. unsweetened applesauce
• 2 egg whites
• 1 container vanilla (or any flavor) yogurt

1. Make cookies using applesauce instead of oil and egg whites instead of eggs. Use a large cookie sheet to spread the dough thin instead of a 9×13. Bake for less time than directed.
2. When the cookies are done, let them cool.
3. Use a cookie cutter of your choice to cut the cookies out. You will need to 2 cookies per ice cream sandwich (duh, 🙂 )
4. Put a big spoonful of softened yogurt onto the cookie and place the 2nd cookie on top.
5. Wrap in plastic wrap and store in the freezer until ready to eat.

    

Inspiration from: ErinCooks. com

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Does it get any better than this?!

Angela is a GENIUS! I made her raw cookie dough recipe that she has been raving about, and I am totally hooked! It really was the best cookie dough I have ever tasted ( I thought she was lying when she said that).

Here is her recipe with my minor modification:

Cookie dough:

* 1 3/4 cups ground raw cashews – I used almonds

* 3/4 cup ground raw oats

* 1/4 cup Agave Nectar

* 2 teaspoon vanilla extract

* 1/4 cup coconut oil

Raw chocolate chips:

* 2 Tablespoon coconut oil

* 1/2 cup carob powder – used cocoa

* 1/2 cup cocoa powder

* 4 T agave nectar

* 2 teaspoon vanilla

Directions:

Dough:Simply place all ingredients in the processor and blend Mix until a dough forms and you can make a large ball. Refrigerate dough while you make the chocolate chips.

Chips: Mix all chocolate chip ingredients together in a medium sized bowl. Roll the dough out onto parchment paper and place in the freezer for about 30 minutes. Optional: Half way through at 15 mins., flip the chocolate sheet over for even freezing.

When chocolate is frozen, cut into chips. This is the fun part! I used a pastry slicer and it was SO fun making the chips.

Mix chips into dough and have fun!

I mixed the two together as I age. These are about a big tablespoon and a teaspoon in size.

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