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Day 3: Chocolate Birthday Cake Cookies

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Day 3: Chocolate Birthday Cake Cookies. Sprinkles aren’t just for birthdays, folks. Who says you can’t use them year round in your baking? And you totally should! How can you resist these star sprinkles? IMG_8068

Man, making a 12 days of cookies is a lot harder when you have a little one. I need to manage my time better. How do you moms (and dads) do it all? There just isn’t enough hours in a day.
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While I figure out some more exciting things to write about, I’ll just leave you with the recipe for these chocolate cookies.
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Chocolate Birthday Cake Cookies

Ingredients

  • 1 Stick (1/2 cup) Unsalted Butter, softened
  • 1/2 cup White Sugar
  • 1/2 cup Light Brown Sugar (packed)
  • 1/4 cup Dark Brown Sugar (packed)
  • 1 Large Egg + 1 Egg Yolk
  • 2 teaspoons Pure Vanilla Extract
  • 1 cup All Purpose Flour
  • 1 and 1/2 cup Chocolate Cake Mix
  • 2 tablespoons Instant Chocolate Pudding Mix
  • 1 teaspoon Baking Soda
  • 1/2 teaspoon Salt
  • 1/2 cup Rainbow Sprinkles
  • 1 and 1/2 cup Semi Sweet Chocolate Chips

Directions

  1. Cream together the butter and both sugars. Add in egg, egg yolk, and vanilla extract.
  2. Gradually stir in the flour, cake mix, pudding mix, baking soda, and salt until just combined.
  3. Fold in sprinkles and chocolate chips. Cover and refrigerate dough for 2 hours.
  4. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line a baking sheet with Silpat.
  5. Scoop out dough balls onto baking sheet.
  6. Bake for 8 minutes.
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Day 2: Triple Chocolate Toffee Bars

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Day 2 of my 12 days of cookies: Triple Chocolate Toffee Bars. You know how I like to mix things up with some cookie bars in my countdown. This was made especially for National Cookie Day, December 4th!
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Krusteaz helped me celebrate this wonderful day with some cookie mixes. I used one of the recipes on their site to spruce it up a bit and added some chopped toffee chocolate bars.
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Easy peasy. I also added some chocolate sprinkles on top for good measure. img_6197

This recipe is a good one for the kiddos to help out with and get in the holiday spirit since it’s made using a pre-made package. fullsizeoutput_44ad

If you think forming cookies is too much work from a boxed mix, you could follow these directions and omit the toffee to make triple chocolate chunk bars. It’s easier to throw the entire batter into one pan than roll balls of dough, right? But c’mon, that’s just too easy.
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Krusteaz has a variety of other boxes available to bake with if chocolate chunk isn’t your cup of tea. fullsizeoutput_44ac

This recipe comes from Krusteaz.

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Triple Chocolate Toffee Bars

Ingredients

  • 2 (1.4 oz each) milk chocolate English toffee bars
  • 1 package Krusteaz Triple Chocolate Chunk Cookie Mix
  • 1 egg
  • 1/2 cup butter, softened

Directions

  1. Preheat oven to 350°F.
  2. Chop English toffee bars into approximately 1/4-inch pieces. Place in medium bowl. Add Krusteaz Triple Chocolate Chunk Cookie Mix, egg and butter. Stir together until dough forms, hand kneading if necessary. Press dough into a lightly greased, 8x8x2-inch pan.
  3. Bake 23-28 minutes or until light golden brown. Cool completely and cut into bars.
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This is a sponsored post, but the opinions expressed are my own.

Day 1: Lemon Sugar Cookies

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Hurrah! It’s time to kick off my 12 days of cookies! I’ve been doing it every year for a while now, and it’s not about to stop any time soon. I may not get through all 12 cookies by Christmas (helloooo mom world), but I’ll definitely make it by the end of the year.

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Lemon desserts are slowly growing on me. They have to be really, really good for me to like it, though. I liked this cookie because the lemon flavor isn’t overpowering. It’s subtle, but there. You could definitely up the amount of lemon extract/juice or even add some zest into the mix if you want a more powerful flavor. IMG_8753

After all, it’s hard to not like a sugar cookie. How can you go wrong with something so simple?

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I hope you are all getting into the holiday baking spirit! Happy December! Recipe from Two Peas and Their Pod.

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Lemon Sugar Cookies

Ingredients

  • 2 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • Zest of 2 large lemons
  • 1 1/2 cups granulated sugar
  • 1 cup unsalted butter, at room temperature
  • 1 large egg
  • 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1/2 teaspoon lemon extract
  • 2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
  • 1/2 cup granulated sugar for rolling cookies

Directions

  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
  2. Cream together the butter and sugar. Mix in the zest, egg, vanilla extract, lemon extract, and lemon juice until smooth.
  3. Gradually stir in the flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt.
  4. Roll rounded tablespoons of dough into balls and roll in sugar. Place on baking sheets two inches apart.
  5. Bake 8 to 10 minutes or until cookies are slightly brown around the edges and set.
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