Super simple bisquick chocolate chip cookies

Review by Lyndee:  1/2 cup butter, softened 1 cup brown sugar, packed 2 teaspoons vanilla 1 egg 2 3/4 cups Bisquick baking mix 1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips (6 oz) Heat oven to 375°F. In large bowl, mix butter, sugar, vanilla and egg. Stir in Bisquick mix, chocolate chips and nuts. Drop dough by rounded teaspoonfuls onto ungreased cookie sheet, d about 2 inches apart; flatten slightly. Bake 8-10 minutes or until golden brown. Remove from cookie sheet to cooling rack. These were a very easy cookie to throw together and they tasted great. I did small cookies for portion controls o we ended up with 36 and the boys enjoyed a few bites of cookie dough as well.  You could easily add white chocolate chips, peanut butter chips, cranberries or nuts to these for some variety.

Lazy cake cookie bars

Review by Lyndee:

It was a crazy, busy week with lots of travel, tragedy and heartbreak.  But the bright spot of my weekend was a visit from an old friend that I adore.  She was coming Saturday afternoon and I wanted to make a dessert to have on hand, but didn’t want to spend all afternoon doing it. So I found this recipe and gave it a try.

Ingredients:

1 box yellow or white cake mix (I used yellow)

2 eggs beaten

5 T melted butter

2 C M&M’s or mini chocolate chips (I used regular size chocolate chips)

Mix all ingredients together.  Put in a greased 9×13 pan and bake at 350 for 20 min or until golden brown.  Cut and serve once cool. 

These were definitely easy to make and tasted pretty good for as little effort as they took.  You can never go wrong with chocolate chip cookie bars.  

Paradise Chocolate Chip Cookies

Review by Lyndee

1 cup butter

1 cup sugar

1/2 cup brown sugar

2 eggs

2 teaspoons vanilla

2 1/4 cup flour

1 teaspoon baking soda

1/2 teaspoon salt

1 12 ounce bag semi-sweet chocolate chips

Preheat oven to 350 degrees .  In mixer, cream together butter and sugar. 

If I can make cookies in my 1975 Hamilton Beach hand me down mixer, anyone can do it.  Think it's time to upgrade?  I'm sure a new mixer would make all my baking much easier, but alas, it is not in the budget right now.  Beat in eggs and vanilla. In a separate bowl  combine flour, salt, and baking soda. Gradually beat into butter/sugar mixture. Add chocolate chips and stir in. 

Spoon and drop onto ungreased cookie sheet. Bake 8 minutes or until edges begin to turn golden brown.  The recipe said 375 degrees for 9 minutes but that was too long for our oven.  The second batch I did at 350 for 8 minutes and that was perfect.  I was using a dark cookie sheet and they say sometimes that makes a difference so just keep that in mind.  

These cookies are amazing! The recipe makes about 4 dozen small to medium size cookies.  I made a batch Friday afternoon and by Sunday night, my husband the kids were asking me to make another because they had gobbled them all up.  Easy recipe to follow and most ingredients are in your cupboards.  These were a definite hit and will be made again and again at our house!