Mom's cookies

I got this recipe from my mom, she is the author. I'm SOOO grateful, because they are mine & my husband's favorite. I try and keep this cookie dough in my freezer at all times (you know, when you need a "go to" dessert, friends are coming over and I have not prepared a darn thing, or just because I feel  like eating a cookie, RIGHT NOW!!)

I love to cook really yummy food, BUT....At heart, I am a dessert girl! (Hence the two posts today are desserts!) And I also really like cookies in the category of sweets.   My favorite cookie growing up that I made all the time was a peanut butter cookie. I still love those, but my mom's cookies are at the top now.



Christyn's Cookie Recipe

2 cubes butter, softened
2 cups brown sugar
1 cup sugar
4 eggs
1 cup veg. oil
1 T vanilla
2 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
4 1/2 cups flour
12 oz. pkg milk choc. chips
1 1/2 cups chopped pecans toasted
2 1/2 cups oatmeal

Cream together butter and sugar. Then add eggs, oil and vanilla to creamy mixture. Add dry ingredients, mix well and fold in the last three ingredients. Bake @ 375 for 9 minutes.

Enjoy, and just a warning, you might have to make a double batch, they go VERY fast! I have to keep the baked cookies in my freezer just so I don't pop them in like popcorn. YES...the warning is real!!

My Oreo Cheesecake

My infamous Oreo Cheesecake!! I made this for our Mother's day dinner this year. I pull this one out on holidays, otherwise it would be too dangerous to keep around!!!

CRUST:

2 cups oreo cookie crumbs (take out the filling of the cookie before you crush them in the food processor)

6 Tbsp. melted butter

4 Tbsp. sugar

FILLING:

5 pkg (8 oz. each) cream cheese, softened (or 2 1/2 lbs)

1 cup sugar

3 Tbsp. flour

1 Tbsp. vanilla

1 cup light sour cream

4 eggs

3 cups crushed oreo cookies

1 tube cream cheese frosting

12-15 whole oreo cookies for the top

DIRECTIONS:

Preheat the oven to 325 degrees. Mix crumbs, sugar and butter, press firmly onto bottom and up the sides of a spring form pan. Bake 10 minutes.

Beat cream cheese, sugar, flour and vanilla in electric mixer on medium speed until well blended. Add sour cream, mix well. Add eggs mixing on low speed after each addition just until blended. Stir in crushed oreos. Pour over crust. Bake 1 hour 10 min. or until center is almost set. Cool completely, keep covered in fridge for 4 hours or overnight until ready to frost, decorate and serve. Frost cake with cream cheese frosting and decorate with whole oreo cookies.

Makes 16 servings, one slice each. ENJOY!!

The best RED, WHITE & BLUE dessert!

Who doesn't love the 4th of July? We not only love to celebrate by wearing our country's colors, but we love to make all sorts of desserts with them, too! This Fruit Pizza has a few variations from the one I originally make. First, get a tube of cookie dough from the refrigerated section in the grocery store!! Yes, this is a VERY semi-homemade dessert!!

Press it out into a 9 inch cake pan...the WHOLE tube!! Bake at 350 for about 20-25 min, til the top is golden brown and it is set.

Let cool before you spread this goodness on! Here's the variation: instead of cream cheese, sugar, lemon juice & sour cream...I simply spread on pineapple flavored Greek yogurt!! It was the perfect texture and the chunks of pineapple gave it the flavor that the lemon juice would have provided.

Then pile on your favorite fruits with the colors red & blue! Even blackberries would have been a wonderful alternative! I cute up strawberries into bite size pieces, then layered blueberries and raspberries!

Dig in and enjoy! this one I could eat for every meal and not feel so bad.