Cookie of the Week #30 -Cream filled Coconut Macaroons

Hi sweet readers! Here is my hubby's choice for cookie of the week this week. They were sooo delicious! The filling was a creme of coconut filling that was simply divine and the crunchiness and chewiness of the macaroon just added more to the bliss. Everyone was very happy with these with the exception of my youngest who apparently doesn't care for coconut. Maybe someday he'll come around. He doesn't know what he's missing!

On a different note, I have a very special post coming up to document how very blessed I am...stay tuned!

Cookie of the Week #29 - Chocolate Sandwiches

Yeah, it's back! This is my older son's choice for cookie of the week. Ah! I have been so bad about the COTW lately. The last new cookie I made was in the first week in October! I have made several others and a bagillion cupcakes since then, as you know, but I was doing so well at the COTW every week! And I fell off the wagon for a bit. So, if you want to see one each week, feel free to keep me honest about it and shoot me a comment or email if by Thursday of each week you haven't seen one, k?

This cookie was tasty, but not one of my favorites. The chocolate cookie part was slightly chewy and not crunchy. The two cookies together slightly overpowered the very delicious white chocolate ganache sandwiched in between. I could eat that stuff all by itself! The family liked it, but again, not one of their top picks.

Thanks for stopping by, sweet readers!

Cookie of the Week - Sort Of

I didn't actually get to do an official cookie of the week this week because I was doing to many other cookies, pops, and cupcakes. So here is one that was a delicious hit awhile back. They were a moist chocolate cookies stuffed with dried cherries and huge chunks of dark chocolate. Delish! Thanks for checking in! Have a great weekend!

Cookie Of The Week #28 - Gingersnap Raspberry Sandwiches

These were my younger son's choice. Even my hubby who isn't a big ginger fan really liked these. I like them, too. And it goes without saying that the boys liked them :) The cookies are not too soft, not too hard and are perfectly sweet. Delicious!

Happy Thursday!

My Favorite Cookie of the Week So Far

As I mentioned earlier, I am going to post some of the previous cookies of the week periodically. I hope you don't mind! :) I think this was our first cookie of the week and it was my favorite so far! These are Chocolate Malt Sandwiches and they are FABULOUS! This was my younger son's choice. Both boys have a way of picking complicated recipes with many ingredients. But these were so different and soooo tasty! They have some interesting ingredients like malted milk powder and creme fraiche. You want to eat more than one until you think about it and you are actually eating two cookies and lots of good (e.g. fattening) stuff in the middle. Oh well!

Because she has it posted on her website and I don't actually have to type it out, here is the recipe if you want to give it a go. I encourage you to do so. You will NOT be dissapointed!

Ingredients for Chocolate Malt Sandwiches (from Martha Stewart Cookies)

Makes about 1 1/2 dozen

• FOR THE COOKIES
• 2 cups plus 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
• 1/2 cup unsweetened Dutch-process cocoa powder
• 1/4 cup plain malted milk powder
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon coarse salt
• 1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, room temperature
• 1 3/4 cups sugar
• 1 large egg
• 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
• 1/4 cup creme fraiche
• 3 tablespoons hot water
• FOR THE FILLING
• 10 ounces semisweet chocolate, coarsely chopped
• 4 tablespoons (1/2 stick) unsalted butter, cut into small pieces
• 1 cup plain malted milk powder
• 3 ounces cream cheese, room temperature
• 1/4 cup plus 2 tablespoons half-and-half
• 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Make cookies: Sift together flour, cocoa powder, malted milk powder, baking soda, and salt. With an electric mixer, beat butter and sugar on medium-high speed until pale and fluffy. Mix in egg, creme fraiche, and hot water. Reduce speed to low; mix in flour mixture.
2. Space tablespoon-size balls of dough 3 1/2 inches apart on parchment paper-lined baking sheets. Bake until flat and just firm, 10 to 12 minutes. Let cool on parchment on wire racks.
3. Making filling: Melt chocolate and butter in a heatproof bowl set over a pan of simming water, stirring. Let cool. With an electric mixer, beat malted milk powder and cream cheese on medium speed until smooth. Gradually mix in half-and-half, chocolate mixture, and vanilla. Refrigerate, covered, until thick, about 30 minutes. Mix on high speed until fluffy, about 3 minutes.
4. Assemble cookies: Spread a heaping tablespoon filling on the bottom of one cookie. Sandwich with another cookie. Repeat. Cookies can be refrigerated between layers of parchment in airtight containers at room temperature up to 3 days.

Cookie Of The Week #27 - Lime Meltaways

Hi Everyone! Here is the cookie of the week, my choice. These are our 27th cookie of the week, and all but one have been out of the Martha Stewart Cookie book. It's a great book. These are crisp and clean and tangy. I actually had my eye on these before my sweet hubby picked last week's key lime bars. At least we still had limes around!

I am working on two different batches of cupcakes with two different frostings right now. Also, another yummy and pretty goodie...I hope I get the time to get them all done!

Have a great day, sweet readers!

Key Lime Bars - Not a Cupcake and Not so Key! This is the Cookie of the Week!

Hi Sweet Readers! What you are seeing is not a cupcake! :) They are actually key lime bars which are the "cookie of the week".

What is the "cookie of the week", you ask? This is the story. I don't only make cupcakes because I am a sweet fanatic. I like most every kind of sweet and I love to bake! My family cheers me on and so I kindly oblige. Some months ago, I purchased "Martha Stewart Cookies". This is a fabulous cookie cookbook full of wonderful full color photos for each of the 175 cookies found within. Sooooo, I decided, and my family agreed, that we would have a cookie of the week from there on out. I would do my best to make one of the cookies in the book once a week. We rotate through our family for who gets to choose and we try to keep it a secret until it's "unveiling". (the secret part rarely happens :) It's been pretty consistent and these bars were our 26th cookie! I did skip a week or two, and once made a cookie from another great baking book, but other than that, it's been fun experimenting and enjoying.

I'm thinking it might be fun to show you some of the cookies we have done. Some have been incredibly delicious, others so so. I keep notes in the cookbook. I took pictures, too, so perhaps someday Martha might have me on her show...hee hee. No, just for fun and documentation. I am a scrapbooker, after all.

Oh, and why are these key lime bars not "key"? Because the recipe called for key limes (23 of them!!) and I could not find them (to be honest, I really didn't look). Good thing for me. It actually only took 9 regular limes and so I had to juice a whole lot less! These are really good, though. The crust is probably my favorite part - graham crackers, sugar and butter. The lime is tangy yet sweet and so refreshing. They were a big hit with this week's chooser, my dear hubby. They were not my prettiest cookie, but they sure passed the taste test!

Next week is my choice! Yeah!