Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies

 Ingredients:
1 cup canned 100% pumpkin puree
1 cup sugar
1/2 cup vegetable oil
1 egg
2 cups all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon milk
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
3 cups semi-sweet chocolate chips

Directions:
Mix pumpkin, sugar, oil, and egg in a large bowl or electric mixer; mix well.  In a separate medium bowl combine flour, baking powder, cinnamon; mix well.  In a small bowl dissolve baking soda in the milk, then add to pumpkin mixture.  Add the flour to pumpkin mixture and mix well.  Add vanilla and chocolate chips and mix gently until incorporated.  Place spoonful size cookies on a greased or parchment lined baking sheet (I used parchment paper) and bake for 10-14 minutes.  When finished baking, immediately remove cookies from cookie sheet and place them on a cooling rack.

Then sit back and enjoy this wonderful, fluffy, moist cookie.

Candy Corn Sugar Cookies

Ingredients:
2 sticks unsalted butter, softened
1 cup sugar
3 cups flour
1 egg
2 tablespoons lemon juice
2 teaspoons lemon zest
1/8 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
Red Food Coloring
Yellow Food Coloring
1/2 cup granulated sugar (dusting)

Directions:
Cream butter and sugar in electric mixer.  Add lemon juice, lemon zest, egg, and salt.  Mix until well combined.  Add flour and baking soda.  Mix until well combined.  Divide dough into thirds.  Press 1/3 of the dough into a lined (wax, foil, parchment) loaf pan.  Place another 1/3 dough into a bowl and add food coloring to make orange.  Follow the direction on the food coloring box.  Once your dough is the preferred color of orange press on top of the white dough in the loaf pan.  Next mix the remaining 1/3 dough in a bowl with yellow food dye until desired color.  Press on top of orange layer.  Cover and refrigerate until chilled (2 hours, but best overnight).  Once chilled remove from loaf pan and cut 1/4 inch thick.  Then cut those slices into triangles (about 5-6 triangles per slice).  Place on a parchment lined or greased cookie sheet and bake at 375 degrees for 7-10 minutes.  Once cookies are baked immediately dip in sugar to dust them.  Cool on wire rack.

Brownie Roll-Ups

 Ingredients:

Brownie mix (or brownies from scratch)

Frosting (1/2 recipe):
1 1/2 sticks salted butter, room temp.
1/4 cup vegetable shortening
3.5-4 cups powdered sugar (1 lb)
1/4 cup milk
vanilla, to taste


Directions:  Make brownies according to the box and bake.  If you have a favorite brownie recipe feel free to use it.  Once brownies are cooled make the frosting.  Cut brownies into desired sizes.  Lightly roll one brownie between 2 pieces of parchment paper.  Spread with a thin layer of frosting and gently roll together.

Italian Turkey Sliders with Honey Dijon Mayo

Slider with sweet potato fries

Bake Time: 15-20min @ 350 degrees

Ingredients:

20 ounces lean ground turkey
2 tablespoons shredded Parmesan cheese
1 clove of garlic, minced
1/2 teaspoon dried basil
1/2 teaspoon dried oregano  
1 teaspoon salt
fresh ground pepper
dinner or slider rolls
1/3 cup mayonnaise
1 tablespoon honey dijon mustard**
  
Directions: Combine turkey, cheese, garlic, and seasoning together.  Mix well.  Shape into small patties and place on greased baking sheet.  Bake for about 10-20 minutes (pending the size of patties).  Flip patties half way through.  While cooking mix mayonnaise and mustard and place it back in the refrigerator to keep cold.  Toast slider buns if desired.  
**if you don't have honey mustard on hand like me, make your own with dijon and honey.  Then make it to taste.

Monkey Muffins

Prep: 5-10 minutes
Bake : 15 minutes @375 degrees

Ingredients:
Leftover bread dough (or refrigerated  biscuit dough)
cinnamon
sugar
butter
sweetened condensed milk
vanilla (optional)






Directions:  In the bottom of the muffin tin put 1/2 teaspoon butter, 1 teaspoon sugar, and 1/4 teaspoon of cinnamon.  Form dough into walnut size balls (if using store bought biscuits cut each biscuit into fourths) and place 3-4 in each tin.  Sprinkle with 1/3 teaspoon of sugar, some cinnamon, and another 1/2  teaspoon of butter.  Bake for 15 minutes at 375 degrees.  Once they are golden brown and butter/sugar is bubbly take out of the oven and immediately spoon a rounded teaspoon of sweetened condensed milk on each one.  Allow them to sit to soak up the milk.
 

Homemade Oreos

Yields: 12 sandwich cookies
Prep: 10 minutes
Cook: 20 minutes
Bake at 350 degrees

Ingredients

Cookie:
1 box devils food cake mix
2 eggs
1/3 cup vegetable oil

Filling:
4 ounces cream cheese, softened
1/4 cup butter
1 1/2-2 cups powdered sugar
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract

Directions:
Mix cake mix, eggs, and vegetable oil together.  The batter will be very thick so don't use a whisk.   Roll dough into balls smaller than a golf ball.  Place cookies on a parchment paper lined cookie sheet.  Pat down with fingers so the balls form round disk shapes.  There will be 12 cookies per cookie sheet.  Bake for 8-10 minutes (I did full 10) then take out of the oven and leave on the cookie sheet for 3 minutes.  Then remove cookies and place on a wire rack to finish cooling.  Once cooled make the frosting.  Then frost the bottoms of the cookies and sandwich them with the remainder.  Serve chilled.

Snack Attack Part 3: Crispy Chickpeas

Ingredients:
1 can garbanzo (chickpeas) beans, drained
desired seasonings (I used Johnny's seasoning)
1 tablespoon olive oil



Directions:  Rinse the drained chickpeas and pat dry.  Toss with oil and seasoning.  Bake at 400 degrees for 30-40 minutes, until golden brown.