Cookie Cups

looks good

Today I wanted to do something quick and easy. My friend gave me some cookie dough she didn’t need and I have some left over cream cheese so I am going to make cookie cups.

Ingredients

½ roll of cookie dough

1 ½ ounces cream cheese softened

½-1 cup powdered sugar

2 tablespoons butter softened

¼ teaspoon vanilla

Food coloring (optional)

Sprinkles (optional)

Preheat oven to 350 

Pinch off some cookie dough and roll into a ball and place in a mini cupcake pan. If you have any empty cups feel with water, it helps keep the pan from burning.

you can also do this with brownies

Before you put them in the oven press your thumb into the dough to create the cup.   

While they are baking for about 6-10 minutes, I’m going to make the same cream cheese icing I made for the Red Velvet Cake balls.  

cream cheese icing

Make cream cheese icing by mixing butter, cream cheese, sugar and vanilla until all ingredients are fully blended. Start with ½ cup of powdered sugar then add more if the icing is soupy. Make sure the butter and cream cheese is just softened not melted or you will have to refrigerate. 

little dark but still good

Let the cookie cups cool some then repress in the cups. Then take out of pan and cool completely. I had to use a knife to get them out of the pan. 

 

Dye the icing if you like. I would dye mine, but I left my food coloring at a friend’s house.

 

Put the icing in a bag and cut the edges. I attempted to cut it in a fourth so that it looked close the start tip.

Then sprinkle if you want. All my sprinkles are at my friend’s house, too.

Red Velvet Cake Balls

So rich

Valentine’s Day is Thursday! I’m going to make Red Velvet Cake balls to give to my friends instead of the traditions valentines that you buy at the store. I have only made cake balls once before but they are really easy and fun. They also come in handy if your cake falls apart when you take it out of the pan.

I choose red velvet cake because it is one of my favorites. My mom normally makes me some type of red velvet sweet for my birthday every year.  She has made red velvet cake with chocolate icing, red velvet cupcakes and cheese cake.  

Ingredients

3 large eggs

1 ¼ cup water

1/3 cup vegetable/ canola oil

Red velvet cake mix

3 ounces cream cheese softened

1-2 cup powdered sugar

¼ cup butter softened

½ teaspoon vanilla

White chocolate chips or simi- sweet

Sprinkles

Choose a pan and spay with cooking oil; I will probably use a cupcake pan or my brownie pan that is 9 by 9 to bake the cake in. It doesn’t really matter what you use just as long as the cake gets cooked.  Pre-heat at 350.  

Mix together cake mix, eggs, water, and oil in a large bowl at low speed if you have a mixer if not stir at a low speed until batter is red. Then mix faster until at a medium speed until all ingredients are fully blended. 

So weird looking but so good

Pour into pan and bake for about 20-30 minutes it depends on you pan: cupcakes- about 20 min, cake pan -30-40 minutes)

So much fun!

Let it cool then crumble (if it’s not cool you can burn your hands)

Make cream cheese icing by mixing butter, cream cheese, sugar and vanilla until all ingredients are fully blended. Start with 1 cup of powdered sugar then add more if the icing is soupy. Make sure the butter and cream cheese is just softened not melted or you will have to refrigerate. 

Like playdough but you can eat it

Add crumbled cake to icing and mix together (use your hands it makes it easier.) Then pinch off a half a tablespoon size amount and roll into a ball.  

Only time I will eat white chocolate

While making the balls melt white chocolate chips in microwave in 30 second increments at 50% power.  Stirring between each increment until melted. If it starts to harden instead of melt you have burned it. 

Dip balls into chocolate coating the ball then roll in sprinkles and enjoy.