http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Chocolate-Mint-Crinkle-Cookies/Detail.aspx
These cookies were delicious and made a great addition to my Christmas cookie trays. Very easy to make and looked wonderful too
The next cookie recipe that I made was this:
http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Chocolate-Peanut-Butter-Blossom-Cookies/Detail.aspx
Another great addition to my cookie tray for Christmas.
When making these cookies with Reynolds Parchment Paper I noticed that I was able to re-use the parchment paper quite a few times. In fact I used 2 cookie sheets and only 2 pieces of parchment paper for the whole baking session. As Reynolds suggests in the recipes you can take the baked cookies right on the parchment paper and transfer to a cooling rack. After cooling the cookies just slid right off of the parchment meaning hardly any clean up at all. Great value.
In deciding which cookies to make and give as gifts to friends and family my hubby suggested that I make a cake. Now I am not a great cake baker so this seemed like a great challenge to me. I went in search of an easy cake recipe. Of course on AllRecipes. I found this flourless chocolate cake recipe that looked very easy to make and the reviews showed that it was a delicious cake that was gluten free too. Now I do not have celiac's disease, but I thought that some of my friends might be so I decided to add this to my gifts.
http://allrecipes.com/recipe/flourless-chocolate-cake-ii/detail.aspx
After reading almost all of the reviews, 437 of them, I decided to make this cake with all chocolate instead of using the cocoa powder as some had suggested. The other thing that I noticed in the reviews was that a ton of people who complained that the cake stuck. A couple of reviewers had mentioned using parchment paper after well greasing a springform pan, so this is what I did. Now as I have said I am not a cake baker so I kind of winged this but tried it anyway. The cake took quite a while longer to bake than shown in the recipe, however, the biggest drawback was that the grease used to make the parchment paper stick, ran out of the pan and burned. Had to clean the oven yet again. Big drawback. The cake was very good though. Hubby liked the cake so much that when it was gone I decided to make it again for our Christmas Day dessert. This time, I decided to use Reynolds parchment paper but not to grease the pan. It made it slightly more difficult to get the parchment to stand on its own, but negligible really. I just used 2 paperclips to hold the side pieces together.
The top photo as you can see shows just the paper, the second shows the filled cake pan before cooking with paperclips removed. Perfectly lined pan.
The finished cake just ready for eating. (Don't be disappointed if this cake sinks in the middle, remember there is no leavening in this cake, so it is normal for it to sink. Just fill the dip with fresh fruit or whipped cream) Yummmm.
Needless to say the only family and friends that got to eat any of the above cake(s) that I made were my hubby and I. We loved it.
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