New Recipe for 2017 #31: Peanut Butter Cup-Filled Brownie Cookie Sandwiches

Why do I keep doing recipes from The Cookie & Cups Cookbook? Because they are delicious!

This weekend I made Peanut Butter Cup-Filled Brownie Cookie Sandwiches. It's two chocolate cookies with a peanut butter cup sandwiched between while the cookies are still hot. Yumm!

I didn't like how the dough looked with only a cup of flour, so I added an extra half a cup. I also noticed that after the dough sat out at room temperature for 10 minutes, it was easier to scoop. Because of the extra flour, I ended up with 25 sandwich cookies instead of only 12.

This would be interesting to repeat but put Rollos between the cookies.

New Recipe for 2017 # 29 and #30: Pound Cake Cookies and Flourless Chocolate Cookies

Two more recipes from the wonderful Cookie & Cups Cookbook by Shelly Jaronsky.

I'm not sure why I keep trying out Pound Cake Cookie recipes. Every time I end up with a soft, bland-tasting cookie. People seem to really like them, but I'm more "meh".

The Flourless Chocolate Cookies are supposed to be decorated with flakes of salt. I'm not a fan of this whole salt/sweet trend so no salt decoration. The batter didn't look very scoopable at first so I Devo-d it. I whipped it real good. They are delicious and chocolately. I heartily recommend this gluten-free recipe. These are basically meringue cookies, so they can be crumbly.

Pound Cake Cookie (left) and Flourless Chocolate Cookies (right)

New Recipe for 2017 #28: Strawberry Cake Mix Cookies

I found this recipe with a cookie spatula I bought. They are very tasty cookies. It would be interesting to try this recipe using different flavors of gelatin like lime.

Recipe:
1 box yellow cake mix
1 3 oz. box of strawberry-flavored gelatin
2 eggs
6 Tbsp butter, melted

Stir together. Drop tablespoons of dough on ungreased cookie sheets. Bake for 9-12 minutes at 350 degrees.

New Recipe for 2017: Red Velvet Crinkle Cookies

This recipe can be found on the side of a box of Duncan Hines Red Velvet Cake Mix. They were OK. Nothing to write home about. I've never been able to make my crinkle cookies look as good as the recipe photo.