Toffee Chip Pecan Sugar Cookies

Sugar cookies are one of my favorite kind of cookies. They’re soft and sweet, but not TOO sweet and delicate. Yum! Also....toffee is like one of my bff’s. Love it. I prefer it without chocolate but I’ll eat that too. So adding toffee chips to my favorite sugar cookie recipe just made good sense and adding pecans because well...pecans. Yummy cookies, guys!

Toffee Chip Pecan Sugar Cookies

1/2 cup sugar

1/2 cup powdered sugar

1/2 cup butter

1/2 cup shortening

1 egg

2 cups flour

1 teaspoon baking soda

1 teaspoon cream of tarter

1 teaspoon vanilla

1 cup toffee chips

1/2 cup chopped pecans

1/2 cup sugar ~ for rolling cookies

Place parchment paper on cookie pans. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. 

Cream sugars with butter and shortening. 

Add egg and vanilla and mix well. 

Add dry ingredients and mix well. 

Stir in the toffee chips and chopped pecans. 

Scoop into 1 inch balls and roll in 1/2 cup sugar. 

Place on prepared pan and flatten dough balls a little bit with your hand. 

Bake for about 10 minutes.

Allow to cool about 10 minutes then remove to a cooling rack. 

Makes about 2 - 3 dozen

Here we go...let's make some cookies!

Cream the sugars with the butter and shortening.

Then add the egg and vanilla.

Next, the dry ingredients.

Add the pecans and toffee chips.

Roll into balls then into the 1/2 cup sugar.

Flatten a bit then bake!

Don't forget the milk!

Salted Caramel Sugar Cookies

Oh my...you guys! These are SO good! I'm telling you! So. Good. Sugar cookies are one of my favorites and also caramel and also salted caramel so tweaking my recipe a little tiny bit made for a great little cookie! They are so tender but the caramel bits inside make them so yummy!! As soon as we polished off this batch, IT Guy asked when we'd (and by WE he meant ME) be making these again. You definitely want to put these on your "to make" list for the holidays.

Salted Caramel Sugar Cookies




1/2 cup sugar1/2 cup powdered sugar
1/2 cup butter
1/2 cup shortening
1 egg
2 cups flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon cream of tarter
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 10-ounce bag caramel bits (found in the baking aisle next to the chocolate chips)

Place parchment paper on cookie pans. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Cream sugars with butter and shortening.

Add the egg and mix well.

Add dry ingredients and mix well then add the vanilla.

Gently mix in caramel bits.

Scoop into 1 inch balls and place on prepared pan.

Flatten dough balls and sprinkle with a little sugar.

Bake for about 10 minutes.

Allow cookies to cool on cookies sheets for a few minutes before moving to a cooling rack.

Makes about 2 - 3 dozen


 
The goods.

 
Cream sugars with butter and shortening.

 
Add the egg.

 
Then the dry ingredients.

 
Add the vanilla.

 
Now the caramel bits.

 
Scoop, flatten, sprinkle, bake!



 
Eat!

Cinnamon Sugar Biscuits

Aren't biscuits just about the perfect food? We love them here in the SFFS house. Breakfast, lunch or dinner....we are fans. They're also great for dessert or as a little sweet treat. Try these fun biscuits with some apple butter! They're not as hard to make as you might think!

Cinnamon Sugar Biscuits



1/4 cup sugar ~ divided use
2 teaspoons cinnamon
2 cups flour
3 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
6 tablespoons COLD butter ~ cut into small cubes
1 cup milk
2 tablespoons butter ~ melted

Preheat oven to 450 degrees. Lightly grease a cookie sheet.

In a small bowl, measure out 3 tablespoons of the sugar. Combine with the cinnamon. Set aside.

In a medium bowl, combine the flour, baking powder, salt and remaining sugar.

Cut the 6 tablespoons of cold butter into the flour mixture with a pastry cutter until mixture resembles peas.

Pour in the milk and stir until just combined.

Turn dough out onto a lightly floured surface and pat gently into an 8-inch circle.

Sprinkle with half of the cinnamon/sugar mixture then fold dough in half and press down gently to make the dough a little bigger.

Cut with a 2-inch biscuit cutter and place on prepared greased cookie sheet.

Brush biscuits with melted butter then sprinkle with the remaining cinnamon/sugar mixture.

Bake biscuits for about 15 minutes or until done.

Serve with apple butter or jam.

Makes about 8 biscuits.

 

Let's make some biscuits.

 

In a small bowl, measure out 3 

tablespoons of the sugar. Combine 

with the cinnamon. Set aside.

 

Cut the 6 tablespoons of cold butter 

into the flour, baking powder, salt and 

remaining sugar until mixture resemble coarse crumbs.

 

Pour in the milk and stir until just combined.

 

Turn dough out onto a lightly 

floured surface and pat gently 

into an 8-inch circle then sprinkle 

with half of the cinnamon/sugar mixture

 

Fold dough in half and press down gently 

to make the dough a little bigger.

 

Cut with a 2-inch biscuit cutter and 

place on prepared greased cookie sheet. 

Brush biscuits with melted butter then 

sprinkle with the remaining cinnamon/sugar mixture.

 

Bake!

 

Enjoy with some apple butter or jam!

Key Lime Coconut Sugar Cookies

I can't tell you how yummy these cookies are. Light and airy and tender. The hint of lime makes them taste so fresh and the coconut just adds to the fun. This is a super easy sugar cookie recipe with no chilling and no rolling. Just scoop and bake. They'd be perfect for a cookie exchange but wrap them carefully as they are delicate!

Key Lime Coconut Sugar Cookies



1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup powdered sugar
1/2 cup butter
1/2 cup shortening
1 egg
1/2 teaspoon coconut extract
Zest from 2 limes (Key Limes or regular limes)
Juice from 2 limes ~ about 2 tablespoons
2 cups flour plus 2 tablespoons
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon cream of tarter
1 cup sweetened flake coconut
1 teaspoon vanilla
Sugar for sprinkling

Place parchment paper on cookie pans. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Cream sugars with butter and shortening.

Add egg, coconut extract and vanilla and mix well. 

Add lime juice and lime zest.

Add flour, baking soda, cream of tarter and coconut and mix well.

Scoop into 1 inch balls and place on prepared pan.

Flatten dough balls with your hand or the bottom of a glass then sprinkle with sugar.

Bake for about 10 minutes.

Makes about 2 - 3 dozen


 
Here we go!

 
Cream sugars with butter and shortening.

 
Add egg, coconut extract and vanilla and mix well.

 
Add lime juice and lime zest.

 
Add flour, baking soda, cream of 
tarter and coconut and mix well.

 
Flatten dough balls with 
your hand or the bottom 
of a glass then sprinkle with sugar.

 
Bake!

 
Yummy!

White Chocolate Peppermint Sugar Cookies

I love mint and chocolate. Andes mints...mint chocolate chip ice cream...great combo, I think. So I decided to take my standard drop sugar cookie and add white chocolate and peppermint to the recipe. Yep...it was a winner. IT Guy SAID he didn't really care for the chocolate/mint combo but these cookies went pretty quick and I know I wasn't eating them! He admitted that the flavor "grew on him"....haha. I KNEW I could win him over!!

White Chocolate Peppermint 
Sugar Cookies


 

1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup powdered sugar
1/2 cup butter
1/2 cup shortening
1 egg
2 cups flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon cream of tarter
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 1/2 cups white chocolate chips ~ divided use
1 1/2 cups crushed candy canes ~ divided use


Cream sugars with butter and shortening.

Add egg and vanilla and mix well.

Add dry ingredients and mix well.

Stir in 1 cup white chocolate chips and 1 cup crushed candy canes.

Scoop into 1 inch balls and place on prepared pan.

Flatten dough balls and bake for about 10 minutes.

Melt remaining 1/2 cup white chocolate. Add remaining 1/2 cup crushed candy canes.

Drizzle on cooled cookies.

For the cookies.....the ingredients 

show that I doubled this recipe.

Cream the sugar with the butter 

and shortening. Then add the eggs.

Then add the dry ingredients.

Crush up your candy canes. I used 

my food processor but you can whack 

the daylights out of them with a rolling 

pin if you need to work out some frustration.

Add the candy canes and the 

white chocolate to the dough.

Then bake 'em up!!

Melt the remaining white chocolate 

and add the remaining crushed candy canes.

Frost your cookies! Let the chocolate set then eat!

Pink Lemonade Sugar Cookies

I've had the idea for these little cookies in my head for a while so I figured it was time to put them in my mouth. These turned out so good. A little bit of pink lemonade concentrate transforms these basic sugar cookies into a tart and sweet treat! I loved the sparkling sugar crystals on top of the light pink frosting, too!


Pink Lemonade Sugar Cookies




1 cup butter
1 cup sugar
2 eggs
3 cups flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 cup frozen pink lemonade concentrate, thawed


Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Prepare 2 baking sheets with parchment paper or cooking spray.

In a large bowl, cream together the butter and sugar.

Add eggs, one at a time.

Add 1 cup of the flour and the baking soda to the butter mixture. Mix to combine.

Add half of the lemonade concentrate.

Gradually beat in another cup of flour, the remaining lemonade concentrate, then the last of the flour.

Drop mixture by cookie scoopfuls onto the prepared cookie sheet. (I used my 1 1/2 inch scoop)

Bake 8 to 10 minutes until lightly brown.

Cool. Frost with Pink Lemonade Frosting


Pink Lemonade Frosting
1/4 cup (approx.) frozen pink lemonade concentrate, thawed
3 cups powdered sugar
3 tablespoons softened butter
Sugar (Or sparkling sugar crystals. I found them in the cookie aisle at the grocery store.)

Combine powdered sugar and butter in a medium bowl. Mix until combined. Add enough lemonade concentrate until spreading consistency is reached. Frost cooled cookies. Then dip frosted cookies in sugar.

Makes about 3 dozen cookies.

Let's do this.

Mix the butter and sugar then 

add the eggs one at a time.

Add one cup of the flour along 

with the baking soda and mix.

Add a little of the lemonade concentrate.

Then another cup of flour.

Then more lemonade.

Then the last cup of flour.

Mix well.

Scoop into 1 1/2 inch balls onto 

your prepared baking sheet.

Flatten the dough balls out with the 

palm of your hand that's been wet 

with a little water or sprayed with 

cooking spray so the dough doesn't 

stick to your hand.

Here's what you need for 

the frosting. Just mix it all 

up to spreading consistency.

Frost the cooled cookies with the frosting.

Then flip them over and press into the sugar.

So sparkly!!!

I love the look of these!!

Really yummy!!