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Rosemary Bourbon Sour

Rosemary Bourbon Sour

A Few Pertinent Facts:  It’s August, it’s still summer, it’s hot, and it’s ridiculous that school is starting so soon!  Let’s celebrate that it’s still summer!! So light and refreshing with just a hint of rosemary, this bourbon sour is the perfect summer cocktail.  I […]

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Cream Cheese Danish

Cream Cheese Danish

Bagel, Biscuit or Danish?  Every time, give me a danish.  There’s something irresistible about the tender, flaky pastry topped with creamy cheese, fruit, or both.  Many thanks are extended to my test subjects for trying multiple Pinterest failures.  The problem, cream cheese filling that continued […]

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Cake Mix Chocolate Crinkles

Cake Mix Chocolate Crinkles

Chocolate crinkles1Before Roddy’s parents built the family room on the back of their house, the small screened in back porch became a refrigerator during cold Louisville winters.  Thanksgiving marked the beginning of the baking season for my mother-in-law, and by Christmas Eve, there were 20 (or more) Christmas tins containing all types of delicious goodies.  I loved many of her treats, but my favorite was the Chocolate Crinkle cookie.  I could take down the entire tin in one sitting.Chocolate Crinkles 3#

Last Christmas, I baked multiple batches, each one failing to measure up.  I tried cooking at a different temperature and time, without much success (I blame it on this oven here in Atlanta).  I remembered a cookie recipe using a cake mix, my friend Denise gave me. Amazingly, they tasted just like Grandma’s crinkles, and not to mention, foolproof.

Like snowflakes, no two look alike.

Cake Mix Chocolate Crinkles

Ingredients

1 Devil’s Food Cake Mix

2 cups frozen whipped topping, thawed

1 egg

1/2 cup confectioners’ sugar

Directions

  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Lightly grease baking sheets
  2. Beat together whipped topping and egg.  Add the cake mix and continue to mix until smooth
  3. Drop by teaspoonfuls into bowl of confectioners sugar and roll to coat. Place cookies on the prepared baking sheets.
  4. Bake 8-10 minutes.
  5. Cool
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