Betty Crocker Butter Pecan Cake Mix Cookies, MImicking La Moderna Marianita Cookies

It'd been awhile since I'd baked cookies using cake mix. Betty Crocker caught my eye with the Butter Pecan cake flavor. The sale price of $1 was compelling. I tried to duplicate La Moderna Marianita pecan flavor cookies, cheap at about 68 cents for a roll of 28 cookies (6.5 ounces). Read the entire article and comment there, please.

Sweet Bakings--A Few Re-peerings

Last month, I blogged about sweet bakings, recipe undertakings spread over 13 years of blogging. Recipes I spotted on the web inspired me to experiment, not merely replicate. i came up with 28 cooky recipes and 19 cake and cake-ish recipes. ... Maybe surprisingly, I'd done several of the recipes seldom since blogging about them. A few never-agains are because a particular ingredient, usually a cake mix, is either no longer available, formulation is different, or weight is different (mostly less). Read the entire article and comment there, please.

Pt 1 Sweet Bakings--Cookies, Mostly

In the cooky-centric video of 28 items, I list my blog catalog number with the article title and finished-item image (newest at top). Read the entire article and comment there, please.

Pt 2 Revisiting Simplest Scratch Oatmeal Cookies, Closer Looks at Process

 

"Pt 1 Revisiting Simplest Scratch Oatmeal Cookies, Plain and Chocochip Batch" describes the different methodology of a recipe I had blogged about almost 10 years ago. The ingredients are the same for half the batch. For the other half batch, I've added four ounces of chocolate chips.

This article details more about the equipment in this updated oatmeal cooky process. Read the entire article and comment there, please.

Pt 1 Revisiting Simplest Scratch Oatmeal Cookies, Plain and Chocochip Batch

Almost 10 years ago, I blogged "Simplest Scratch Oatmeal Cookies". At that time, I included a few images, not having learned to make movies yet. My methodology was simpler but more labor intensive.

Back then, I used a manual pastry blender, and measuring-tablespoon-and-rubber-spatula method to dispense the dollops. This time, I used a tilt-head mixer, helpful for saving on elbow grease, and a cooky scoop for dispensing most of the dollops. Read the entire article and comment there, please.

Kool-Aided Cake Mix Cookies Combo Batch

Around winter holiday season, chocolate-covered cherries tend to float into my consciousness. Another chocolate and cherry concoction has also been staring at me recently when I open the freezer: ice cream with cherries and chocolate chips. The basic cooky recipe uses cake mix, eggs, and oil. For flavor and color enhancements, I added a package of Cherry Kool-Aid and 10 drops of red food coloring. Another cooky variation is a chocolatey covered one. Read the entire article and comment there, please.

Scent o' mintal Journey, Part 5, Choco Minty Sandwich Cookies

 

These cookies are actually Plan B use of remaining unadorned mint chocolate cookies from "Scent o' mintal Journey, Part 4, Choco Unadorned/Coated Minty Cookies". I had run out of melted chocolate after having coated only about one-third of my 40 cookies. Read the entire article and comment there, please.

Scent o' mintal Journey, Part 4, Choco Unadorned/Coated Minty Cookies

My journey started out as intent to make chocolate-covered mint-flavored chocolate cookies. Such examples are Girl Scout Thin MInts, Hill Country Fare Fudge Mint Cookies, and Fudge Mint Cookies (Back to Nature brand). This cooky recipe uses cake mix, eggs, oil, mint extract, and chocolate chips. Read the entire article and comment there, please.

Scent o' mintal Journey, Part 3, Spearymintal Choco Chip Cookies

These cookies have the chippy looks of mint chocolate chip ice cream, and avoiding overdosing the mint extract and food coloring.  Read the entire article and comment there, please.

Scent o' mintal Journey, Part 2, Nose 4 Mints N Chips

My mind percolated about making cookies that would integrate yellow cake mix, mini chocolate chips, mint extract, and blue food coloring. The info emphasizes mint oils and extracts, and research on how much additives. Read the entire article and comment there, please.

Scent o' mintal Journey, Part 1, Sweetish Thoughts

I recently tried some chocolate-covered mint chocolate cookies, Fudge Mint Cookies (Back to Nature brand), recommended by a friend. Mmmm. Got me to thinking about similar minty chocolate cookies and sweets. Read the entire article and comment there, please.

Pie D'oh to Plan B Cookies, Sweet-Tweaked

Initially, I started out with a rolled, refrigerated pie crust, which I had intended to use in my MayDay lemon meringue pie. The box had info about letting the dough warm up a few minutes to room temperature before unrolling it onto a pie pan. Or could microwave for a few seconds. I mistakenly microwaved the dough too long, which rendered it unrollable. D'oh! The dough became Plan B cookies, sweet-tweaked. Read the entire article and comment there, please.

EZ Mini M&M Confetti Cookies

*** 7/4/2016
Accompanying video now available at YouTube—"EZ Mini M&M Confetti Cookies"

My cake mix cooky recipe is the summer counterpart (summer-temperature tolerant) to my winter cake mix cooky recipe "Minty Choco Chip Cake Mix Cookies". I wanted to bake some cookies that have chocolate that melts in your mouth, not in your hand. Read the entire article and comment there, please.

Rainbow Nonpareil Cake Mix Cookies

Multicolor sprinkle decorations for packaged cookies, cakes, and cake mixes tend to more often be jimmies than nonpareils. These cookies vary from the ones I made when I used the Betty Crocker Rainbow Chip cake mix. Instead of using cake mix that already includes multicolor jimmies, I used basic cake mix and added rainbow nonpareils. Read the entire article and comment there, please.

EZ Buttery Confetti Cake Mix Cookies

This recipe features Betty Crocker Party Rainbow Chip cake mix. Using butter makes the cookies softer and fluffier than using oil. Read the entire article and comment there, please.

Minty Choco Chip Cake Mix Cookies

This recipe uses the other half of chocolattey cake mix that I used in the choco cranberry sauce cake mix cupcakes. Also uses half chocolate chips and half crème de menthe baking chips. Read the entire article and comment there, please.

Diff Kinda Choco-chip Cake Mix Cookies

Another cake mix cooky recipe, this one features marble cake mix, chocolate chips, and coconut. I also include a table with caloric info if including the chips and coconut, omitting one or the other, or both. Read the entire article at http://whilldtkwriter.blogspot.com/2013/06/diff-kinda-choco-chip-cake-mix-cookies.html and comment there, please.

PC Cookies

Personal Computer? Politically Correct? Printed Circuit? Peanut Cluster? Nah! I wanted to think of a way to recall main ingredients for this cookie recipe. Sooo, using a recognizable pair of letters would help—pecan coconut. Read the entire article at http://whilldtkwriter.blogspot.com/2013/05/pc-cookies.html and comment there, please.

Simplest Scratch Oatmeal Cookies

This oatmeal cooky recipe uses the minimal amount of ingredients, for those who want a nekkid cooky that has lots of oatmeal …. As a bonus, I include information for resoftening a brown sugar brick into its spoonable form. Read the entire article at http://whilldtkwriter.blogspot.com/2012/07/simplest-scratch-oatmeal-cookies.html and comment there, please.

Cake Mix Macaroon Cookies

How about a macaroon cooky that tastes a lot better than a gluey coconut clump? How about a cooky that chews like a softish cooky and has dominant coconut texture and flavor? Use a cake mix for the dry-ingredient base.

Read the entire article at http://whilldtkwriter.blogspot.com/2012/06/cake-mix-macaroon-cookies.html and comment there, please.