Cool Whip Cookies!

This morning my girls and I made cookies again. I'd gotten a recipe from my mother in law for Cool Whip Cookies. Very easy, very yummy, and lots of variety available!

All it takes is:

1 egg

1 8oz container of whipped cream (Cool Whip or any brand will do)

1 cake mix, any flavor (oh think of the possibilities!!!

Bowl of powdered sugar.

We used a yellow cake mix to make our this morning. I'd made these once before with a spice cake mix and discovered a little trick... 

Put the egg in your mixing bowl first, then the cool whip, then the cake mix. (Last time I started mixing the cool whip and cake mix before adding the egg. The texture ended up really weird.) 

I used my smallest scooper to drop a scoop into the powdered sugar, then just shook the bowl around to coat the dough ball. Worked well and much cleaner than my last batch when I rolled it around by hand! 

Put them in a greased cookie sheet, and bake at 350 for 10 minutes. Let them mostly cool on the tray. 

One batch made this way made close to 4 dozen yummy cookies!!! I plan to try these with some mini chocolate chips mixed in, soon! 

Easy Sugar Cookies

My older two girls have been asking me for a few days if we can make cookies. It's been tough to find the time to do a whole lot with them lately, G3 is only 2 months old and takes up quite a bit of time!

   I knew that we wouldn't have time to make a whole batch from scratch, so easy Betty Crocker Sugar Cookie pre-mix saved the day!!! As it happened, we used the last stick of butter last night making mashed potatoes (probably my favorite side dish ever), so I grabbed a applesauce cup. It was a 4oz (half a cup) 'snack cup' for the girls, but they didn't mind giving one up... after all, it WAS for cookies!

   So, the mix, applesauce and 1 egg went into the bowl. I used my smallest scooper to put them on a greased pan, and let the girls decorate with sugar sprinkles!

   I used cupcake wrappers to hold the sprinkles for them, and they each got to decorate half a pan.

  G1 (age 3.5 years) decorated hers fairly evenly throughout her half of the pan...

   While G2 (age 2.5 years) seemed to put most of her attention (and sprinkles) onto the same cookie over and over!

  I baked them for 7-8 minutes or so at 350 (just followed the directions on the bag) and let them cool enough to not burn our fingers and tongues. 

   I was pleasantly surprised at the texture of the cookie itself. It was almost cake-like. It was a soft chewy sugar cookie! I love crispy sugar cookies, the kind that crumble in my fingers and melt in my mouth, but lets face it, they aren't the best for young kids! These were perfect! 

   I have been packaging just about everything into plastic bags lately, it's just easier for us right now. So into snack sized bags these cookies went! 

   The girls are very excited for the hubs to get home so they can show off their baking accomplishments of the day!