Did you collect anything when you were a kid? I was the queen of collections. To give you an idea, I collected rocks from our driveway (kids have simple minds), postage stamps (those things are maybe worth some money now…), Precious Moments figurines, and, best of all, Lisa Frank stickers. For all you roughly 20-to-30-something year-old ladies out there: REMEMBER LISA FRANK??
Lisa Frank stickers were the best because they were ultimate girly. Rainbow colors, butterflies, ponies, and I don’t even remember what else. And stickers, wow. Imagine the profits the Lisa Frank company was making on stickers. Stickers: tiny pieces of colorful, glossy paper with an adhesive back, marked up 300%. Maybe I should get into the sticker business.
Until that day, however, I’ll stay in the cookie business. (And by business, I do not mean to imply that I actually have a cookie business; rather, I just make a lot of them.)
This is another quality recipe from The Cookie Dough Lover’s Cookbook. I’d never even made whoopie pies before, but I’d always wanted to. So naturally, cookie dough whoopie pies seemed like a great place to start.
These are great sandwich cookies because the cookie halves are soft, chocolaty, and cake-like. And the cookie dough center? Can’t go wrong with that.
Mix together until dough is all moistened and no large lumps remain. The mixture should look like thick cake batter (and taste like it too!).
Bake for 10 to 12 minutes, until cookies are set. Let cool for a few minutes on the pan before removing to a wire rack to cool completely. They’ll look like rounded, fluffy cake cookies.
Start mixing up your cookie dough filling by beating your brown sugar and butter until light and fluffy.
Throw a dollop of cookie dough filling between two whoopie pie halves, and mush them together lightly until the filling reaches the edges.
Apparently April is National Grilled Cheese Month. I have never heard of this before, but who am I to complain? I love me a grilled cheese sandwich, so I thought I better squeeze this Jalapeño, Cream Cheese, and Cheddar Grilled Cheese Sandwich recipe in before the month officially comes to a close.
There’s something extremely comforting about eating grilled cheese. My grandma used to make grilled cheese sandwiches and soup for us every Sunday after we got home from church. I would always be absolutely staaarving (as children usually think they are) and subsequently thought that a can of Campbell’s soup and a regular grilled cheese sandwich never tasted better.
When my little brother was a toddler, he liked to eat lemons. Scratch that. We liked to give him lemons and watch him make a sour, puckered-up face after tasting the juice. It was so cute. And it wasn’t as mean as you might think, because even though he made the funniest face after sucking on one, he always reached for it again and again. So we weren’t just torturing him. Moral of the story: Lemons are fun to feed to kids.