Fool proof cookies. Can’t… stop… eating them…

Here’s what you need:

• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon sea salt
• 2/3 cup coconut oil
• 1 cup brown sugar (packed down, as always)
• 1/2 cup cane sugar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 2 large eggs
• 1 2/3 cups chocolate chips

Here’s what you do:

1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
2. In small bowl, combine flour, baking soda, and sea salt.
3. In a larger mixing bowl, beat together coconut oil, brown sugar, cane sugar, and vanilla.
4. Beat in the eggs one at a time. Beat them well, they will thank you.
5. Gradually add the flour mix. If you have been using a whisk, go ahead and switch to a wooden spoon. This can be an arm workout.
6. Stir in the chocolate chips. The dough should be uniform and all blended together by the end of this step.
7. Drop the cookies onto a baking sheet (no need for PAM). I measured mine using a tablespoon that I have that’s perfectly round.
8. Bake the cookies for 7-10 minutes.
9. OM NOM NOM NOM NOM
10. Step 10 omitted because Amy was too full of cookies to write it.

These are my new FAVE snack. After I took some pictures of these, I ate the entire batch. And I’m not apologizing. I wish I had more. These things are packed with Fiber, too. So after eating these, the following video should come to mind:

I know. That was inappropriate. But true.

Here’s what you need:

• 1 can of Chickpeas (or Garbanzo Beans)
• Whatever spices you want! I used Cumin, Garlic Powder, Salt, and Pepper.
• Parchment Paper

Here’s what you do:

1. Preheat oven to 475 degrees.
2. Put some paper towels on a cookie sheet.
3. Drain the chickpeas from the can.
4. Pour the chickpeas onto the paper towels and rub them with another paper towel to dry them. Rub them until they are mostly dry. The skins will come off of some of them. Just throw those skins away.
5. Pour the chickpeas into a medium mixing bowl. Add the spices until they are as seasoned as you want them. I used about 3/4 of a teaspoon of cumin, about 1/2 a teaspoon of garlic powder, about 1/2 a teaspoon of sea salt, and a pinch of pepper (I don’t love pepper). But if you like it spicier, add some chili powder.
6. Toss the chickpeas until they are evenly coated.
7.  Dry off the cookie sheet and cover it with parchment paper. Pour out the chickpeas onto the tray and put them in the oven.
8. Cook the chickpeas for 20 minutes, stirring them at the 10 minute mark.
9. EAAAAAAAAAAAT
10. Repeat.

I’m going to go eat more chickpeas now.

I got this recipe out of an actual cookbook. WOW. I changed it a little, but the basic concept is there. I would never have bought a cookie cookbook, because, well, I’m pretty solid on cookies… but the book came with a silpat. And I needed one of those. And a silpat is usually $20 and the set was $15. So I totally scored. And got a praline recipe.

What you need:

• 1/2 cup (one stick) Butter
• 1 cup Brown Sugar (packed down)
• 2 tsp Baking Powder
• 1 egg
• 2 tsp Pure Vanilla Extract (swing for the real stuff)
• 2 cups Flour
• 1 cup Chopped Walnuts

How to do it:

1. Preheat the over to 375 degrees
2. Soften the butter. Using an electric mixer, beat the butter for 30 seconds. Add the brown sugar and the baking powder and blend together. Then add the vanilla and the egg and blend some more. Then add the flour (either mix this in with a spoon, or, if you are using an electric mixer, be real careful – put it on the lowest setting).
3. Stir in the nuts.
4. Drop onto an ungreased cookie sheet (or silpat) in little balls about a teaspoon big, about 2 inches apart.
5. Cook for 8 to 10 minutes
6. EAT EAT EAT
7. Eat some more.

First, they were for my very successful sister, Holly. See in our family, even though two of us have food blogs, we don’t like to cook on Holidays and when we cook it always seem to end up one of two ways:

1. We cook about 900000 dishes so that everyone has something they like.
2. Someone ends up eating almost nothing because there isn’t anything they like (usually Holly – Little Ms. Cranberry Sauce).

So a few years back we started going to this restaurant Texas de Brazil, and they have these rolls… oh these rolls…. they are so amazing. And we always tease Holly because she eats approximately 8930594758 of them. So I searched high and low for a recipe. and I found a lot but all of them used parmesean cheese and I wanted cheddar. I tried just substituting cheddar for parmesean and it was… just okay. Not as awesome as the other ones. So I combined a few recipes and made my own. For her.

Now these are also a surprise for my friend Hope because she has Celiac and these are GLUTEN FREE. And I also wanted to make something to thank her for taking me to Charleston for Spring Break (I know!). So instead of making more “Yay, more salad!” jokes, I made a recipe that uses Tapioca Flour, which is gluten free.

A recipe that s a gift for two people? I know. I’ve already put in my application for Sainthood, so no need to do it for me.

So here’s what you need:

• 1 egg
• 1/2 cup milk
• 1/4 cup vegetable oil
• 1 cup Tapioca Flour (don’t use other kinds of flour it isn’t the same)
• 2 tsp salt (I used iodized sea salt)
• 2 cups cheddar cheese.

Here’s what you do:

1. Heat oven to 400 degrees
2. If your muffin pan is not non-stick, spray it.
3. Put everything but the cheese in a blender and let her rip. Blend until smooth.
4. Add the cheese, and pulse until there are no more lumps of cheese.
5. Pour into muffin tin, filling each section about 3/4 of the way full.
6. Put in the oven and cook for 15 – 20 minutes (closer to 15, is better, I find)
7. EAT THEMMMMMMM.

I used this recipe for the muffins:

http://www.kingarthurflour.com/recipes/doughnut-muffins-recipe

It worked very well!

And I used this recipe for the glaze:

http://deep-fried.food.com/recipe/krispy-kreme-doughnuts-copycat-51199

Once the muffins had cooled, I dipped the tops of them in the glaze, then rolled them in cinnamon sugar.

***SIDE NOTE – never ever buy cinnamon sugar. Why would you? Buy sugar. Buy cinnamon. Mix them together until they turn a pretty brown. The end.