Welcome Home Cookies

I bake these cookies

every time my husband returns

 from a business trip.

Sometimes I think he goes on

fakes trips just so that I will make 

these cookies.

So I suppose they don't 

have to be "Welcome Home" cookies.

They could just be, 

"Here have a cookie" cookies

or "Nice shirt, here's a cookie" cookies

or even,

"It's Wednesday, lets eat cookies" cookies

All I'm saying is,

you have GOT to try these cookies!

*Preferably with a big glass of ice cold milk

Here's what you'll need: 

1 cup butter

1/4 cup sugar

3/4 cup brown sugar

1 package of butterscotch instant pudding

2 eggs

1 teaspoon vanilla

1/8 cup cream cheese

2 1/2 cups flour

1 teaspoon baking soda

1/2 teaspoon salt

2 cups chocolate chips

Step one: Cream together the butter and sugar

Step two: Mix in pudding mix, eggs, vanilla, and cream cheese

Step three: Mix dry ingredients in a medium bowl

Step four: Combine dry ingredients and wet ingredients. 

Step five: Fold in chocolate chips

Step six: Cover and chill in refrigerator for 1 hour 

*or freeze for 15 minutes.

Step seven: Form round cookie dough balls 
and place on baking sheet. 

Step between 7 and 8: Eat cookie dough 

(or not, because it contains raw eggs and raw eggs are bad,

 or do because come on, it's cookie dough

 it's super yummy. Hey, it's your call.)

Step eight: Bake for 12 minutes

Step nine: Cool on baking sheet for 90 seconds

Step ten: Let cool on cooling rack

Enjoy!

Celebrating a birthday? 
Skip the cake!

Make these "Birthday Cookies"

Happy Birthday

Here's a stack of cookies!

Better than Subway's White Chocolate Raspberry Cheesecake Cookies

Sure you can buy these at Subway 3 for $1, 

but don't count on them being very fresh after sitting out for who knows how long. 

OR...

For about $5 you can make a few dozen at home, 

then proceed to eat them ALL because they are so darn tasty! 

I took a batch of these beauties to a BBQ and they were GONE within the first hour. 

You may already have these basic ingredients on hand: 

1/2 cup Butter (aka one stick) 

2 Tbs. Shortening (Crisco) 

1/2 cup Brown sugar 

2 Eggs

3/4 cup of All-purpose flour

Now you're probably wondering why only 3/4 cup of flour? 

There's no way I can make 3 dozen cookies with that! 

You're absolutely right, that's why you're going to want to pick up 

the secret weapon: 

2 Boxes of "Jiffy" muffin mix

Don't forget the cream cheese (4 oz.) and the white chocolate chips (1 1/2 cups). 

And milk because, let's face it after scarfing down a dozen of these, you're going to need it.

Step One: Let your butter and cream cheese soften while you make dinner. 

Okay you don't have to make dinner. 

Yes, you can just have these cookies for dinner, I won't judge. 

Step Two: Beat together the cream cheese, butter & shortening.

This is the part where you hug your husband 

thanking him for buying a KitchenAid stand mixer, 

which literally takes ALL the work out of beating cream cheese! 

Thanks, you get the first cookie! 

Step Three: Add brown sugar and Beat some more. 

Step Four: Add an egg and Beat some more. 

Step Five: Repeat Step Four.

Step Six: Fold in flour along with the secret weapon.

Step Seven: Stir in white chocolate chips 

Go ahead, give a couple chocolate chips to the four-year-old 

who refuses to let go of your leg. 

Step Eight: Let the dough chill out in the fridge for a half hour. 

This is the hard part, 

you may need to go watch an episode of Mindy or something. 

I suppose if you're a glutton for punishment, 

you'll wash the dinner dishes. Booo!

Step Nine: Preheat the oven to 350 and line a cookie sheet with parchment paper. 

If you're paranoid like I am, 

spray that sucker with nonstick spray for good measure.

Step Ten: Roll dough into 1-inch balls and place on cookie sheet.

Be sure to leave these guys some room because they're going to spread. 

Step Eleven: Bake for about 12 minutes until the edges turn golden brown. 

Step Twelve: Let them rest on the pan for a minute, 

then cool on a baking sheet until you just can't take it anymore. 

Then eat them, 

give some to family and friends, 

or just eat every last one and pretend nothing happened.

What cookies? I don't know what you're talking about! 

Adapted from Six Sisters Stuff, who adapted from Bakergirl