Rainy/Windy Oregon Day

Sound familiar? Yes another nasty day here in beautiful Oregon. AHHHHHH where is Spring already I want some sun any sun, cold sun is just fine! But there is good news..Mike and I were running around doing our errands, well and our power went out for 3hrs so it forced us to go do something. As we were running around Mike found a shamrock cookie cutter that he just had to have! He is just a giant kid at heart its so cute! So as the story goes we got home put everything away and made Irish Whiskey sugar cookies with Bailey's Irish Cream frosting! Yes in spirit of St .Patricks day! Oh did they turn out Om Nom Nom!

Rolled sugar cookies with a twist!

1/4 cup butter, softened

1/2 cup white sugar

1egg

1/2 teaspoon Irish Whiskey

1-1/4 cup All purpose flour

1/2 teaspoon backing powder

1/4 teaspoon salt

Cream together butter and white sugar.

Add in egg and blend well, while still mixing on low add in Irish Whiskey.

Add all dry ingredient and mix.

Cover and Chill dough for a least 1hr.

Preheat Oven 400 degrees

Roll dough out on floured surface about 1/2 inch thick and cut into shapes

Place cookies 1inch a part and bake for 6-8mins let cool before frosting.



Bailey's Irish cream Frosting

• 1cup confectioners’ sugar         

 • 1/4 unsalted butter, room temperature

 • 1T Baileys Irish Cream

Cream butter untill fluffy

Add in confectioners sugar a little at a time

Than add in Baileys Irish Cream

Oh yes & 5 drops or so of green food coloring!



Toasted Coconut Chocolate Chip Cookies

I have been baking like a made woman! I just made as the title says Toasted Coconut Chocolate Chip Cookies! I am on Pinterest and love seeing the recipes people find and this one I found which took me to Chef in Training blog and I wanted to try it! I added some directions that I thought needed to be there but I put them in Bold so you could tell what I added!

Toasted Coconut Chocolate Chip Cookies

1 cup butter

1 cup brown sugar

1/2 cup sugar

2 eggs

2 tsp. vanilla

3 cup flour

1 tsp. baking soda

1 tsp. salt

semi-sweet chocolate chips

Shredded Coconut

Put shredded coconut on a cookie sheet and broil until toasted.

It was my 1st time toasting coconut and it took me two tries before getting it right.. The thing that final worked for me was putting parchment paper on a baking sheet and only putting a little coconut so it is all spared out not lying on top in piles than only putting them in for like 1min @ 375 degrees. Check them often and kinda shake them around on the pan!

Cream butter and sugars together.

Add in eggs & vanilla blend well.

Add all dry ingredients and mix together.

Add semi-sweet chocolate chips

Roll into 1-inch balls and press some of the toasted coconut on top.  I use a cookies scoop!

Bake at 375 F for 8-10 minutes.

Enjoy!