Yellow Cake Mix Cookies

Since we got our "new" cookie jar (bottom of page), I've been on a cookie-kick!
While Aubree, Hailee and Felicity worked on their homework, Sadie and I decided to surprise everyone with cookies.  Hailee mentioned earlier that she wanted peanut butter cookies but Aubree doesn't like peanut butter.

So here's what we did...

Sadie and I each got our own bowls and we put half of a yellow cake mix in each (1 1/2 cups is half)

Sadie added 1/4 cup olive oil to her bowl-I added 1/8 cup olive oil to my bowl

We each added 1 egg into our bowl

Don't let the Crisco confuse you, it doesn't get added

Then Sadie added 1/2 cup of peanut butter and 1 Tablespoon of Water to her bowl - I added 1/4 cup of Sugar- and then we each stirred the ingredients together in our separate bowls.

So now we have two different kinds of cookies made at the same time; peanut butter cookies and sugar cookies.

We dusted them all with sugar and criss-crossed them with a fork. You could ice, sprinkle or roll out the sugar cookies, but for a weeknight treat-that's too much work!

We baked them in a 350 degree oven for 7 minutes.

Service with a smile :)

Whooo wouldn't love our "new" cookie jar

 

I've wanted the owl cookie jar from Anthropologie, but every time I think I'm going to buy it, I talk myself out of it.  $68-$128 is a lot to spend on a cookie jar especially since I like the look of the white one and the size of the orange. So I spent $10 on this one instead, which is the size of the orange.  I'm considering Anthro-ing it up but I'm haven't completely decided yet.

A Real Hoot Canister-Anthropologie

Wise Ol' Canister-Anthropologie

Thumb Print Cookies

These are so much fun and pretty delicious!

Mix up the following (in order)
1 c. butter
2/3 c. sugar

Felicity and Sadie demostrating :)

1 egg
1 tsp. vanilla (or almond)
2 1/2 c. flour
1/2 tsp. salt

(with clean hands) take a teaspoon of dough and roll it into a ball.

They look so serious :)
 

 Press a thumbprint in each cookie.

Fill the thumbprint with jelly/jam or whatever sounds good to you.  The girls and I decided to use our homemade grape jelly.  (It doesn't sound that good-grape jelly on a cookie-but trust me...it's delicious!)

Bake in a 350 degree oven for 8 minutes.  These cookies won't really brown and they stay the same size. You know when they are done because they still look like dough but they are hard (that makes them 

sound awful, but they really are good).

Make a thumbprint in each cookie

Cookie Closeup 

I kept emphasizing "carefully fill the thumbprints
with jelly", but then just decided, "oh well" and let
her fill them in her 3 yr old way :)

You won't see Sadie in this picture, I have her trained...

Me: Sadie, I'm opening the oven

Sadie: *Gasp* I'm going to the frig.

The frig is the safe place from the oven :)

This is what they look like when they're done

Variation

We also took the same dough, 

rolled into balls (except Felicity, 

she made them cube shaped...they

turned out very cool looking!) and

hid a chocolate chip inside.  They

weren't as good as the jelly ones,

but still good!