Hershey Kiss Cookies

1/2 cup butter
1/2 cup shortening
1 cup sugar
1 cup brown sugar
2 teaspoons vanilla
2 eggs
2 1/2 cups flour
3/4 cup cocoa
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking soda
Hershey Kisses (any kind)

Heat oven to 375 degrees

Cream the first four ingredients together. Add the vanilla and eggs.  Mix in the flour, cocoa, salt and baking soda until combined.  Unwrap kisses and place in a bowl.  Grab about a tablespoon of dough and place a kiss in the middle and cover with the cookie dough.

Bake for 6-8 minutes (I did 7 minutes and let them sit on the pan for a minute after I pulled them out of the oven.)

Let cool on cooling sheet.

Enjoy!

Carla Hall's Gingerbread

This is the best recipe I have found for Gingerbread. It is super easy and you can make cookies or Gingerbread houses out of it.

1 cup brown sugar
2 eggs
1 teaspoon ginger
1 teaspoon salt
6 cups flour
1 cup butter
1 1/4 cups molasses
1 tablespoon cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon cloves
1 teaspoon baking soda

Cream butter and sugar, add molasses and eggs (slightly beaten). In a separate bowl mix all the dry ingredients. Add to wet ingredients a little at a time, mix well. Refrigerate for 2 hours.

Roll out to make houses or roll into balls and roll into sugar for cookies.

350 degrees and I bake for 8 minutes and then pull them out of the oven and let sit for 1 minute on cookie sheet before transferring cookies to cooling rack.

Enjoy!

Famous Ginger Snaps

2 cups sugar
2 cups shortening
1/2 cup molasses
2 eggs
pinch of salt
1 teaspoon cloves
2 teaspoons cinnamon
2 teaspoons ginger
4 teaspoons baking soda
4 cups flour

Cream sugar and shortening.  Mix in molasses and eggs, mix well.  Combine dry ingredients and blend into above mixture.  Roll dough into balls.  Roll into sugar and bake 335 degrees for 10 minutes.

Chocolate Chip Cookie Dessert

2 (8oz) pkgs. Cream Cheese
1/2 cup Sugar
2 rolls of Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough
1 egg
2 teaspoons Vanilla

Press one roll of cookie dough on to a 9x13 pan.  Beat cream cheese, sugar, egg and vanilla together and spread over cookie dough.  Cover cream cheese mixture with the remaining roll of cookie dough.

Cook at 350 degrees for 30 minutes.

ENJOY!!

Peanut Butter Cookies

This recipe is so simple and yummy.

1 cup Peanut Butter
1 cup Sugar, plus a little more for rolling
1 egg

Heat oven to 375 degrees.  Stir together the ingredients.

Roll dough into 1 inch balls.  Put some sugar on a plate and roll balls in it to coat.  Place on cookie sheets.  Press each cookie with a fork making a crisscross pattern.  Bake for 10 minutes or until cookies just start to brown on edges.

Remove and Enjoy!

Cakesters

1 pkg chocolate cake mix

1 tsp mint extract

½ cup vegetable oil

2 eggs

Powder sugar

Mix everything but powder sugar together.  Roll into balls and roll into powder sugar.  Place on cookie sheet, bake at 375 for 7-8 minutes.  Take out and cool for 1 minute on cookie sheet than cool on racks.  Once cooled put frosting on the bottom of one cookie and make a sandwich out of it. Place in dish and put in freezer to chill or place in Zip lock bag and freeze until ready to eat.