During the 12 days that we did not have water I did a lot of thinking about my blog. I have found that I don't have the follow through to blog about all the things I had planned to blog about at the first of the year. Plus there is not much going on here I would be blogging the same thing over and over. Every now and then I will throw some non cooking into my blog just to mix things up a bit.
I'm going to stick to what I love and that is cooking. I did very little cooking while we were out of water and I did miss it. I decided to make these simple cookies for my husband for his day after his birthday since he does not like cake. It's a little ironic since the cookies are made from a cake mix.
Pineapple Cream Cheese Spice Cookies
1 box Spice Cake Mix (I used Duncan Hines)
1/2 cup oil
2 eggs
Mix all ingredients together with an electric mixer. Form into a little larger than a quarter size balls. Note: cookie dough will spread. With the bottom of a glass press each ball down. Bake in a 350 degree pre-heated over for 7 to 8 minutes. Cool for 5 minutes before moving the cookies to a rack to cool completely.
Pineapple Cream Cheese Frosting
2 8oz packages of cream cheese room temperature
1/2 stick butter, room temperature
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
1 teaspoon vanilla seeds (I used the vanilla bean that I used making my own vanilla)
2 cups PLUS powdered sugar
8oz can crushed pineapple, drained and squeezed through cheese cloth
Using an electric mixer mix together cream cheese, butter, vanilla and vanilla seeds. Add the 2 cups of powdered sugar mix thoroughly, mix in pineapple. If the frosting is too thin keep adding powdered sugar 1/2 cup at a time until you get the consistency you desire. The more liquid you get out of the pineapple the better and the less sugar you will use. Pipe frosting onto a cookie and top with the other cookie.
Until Next Time,
Pam
8oz can crushed pineapple, drained and squeezed through cheese cloth
Using an electric mixer mix together cream cheese, butter, vanilla and vanilla seeds. Add the 2 cups of powdered sugar mix thoroughly, mix in pineapple. If the frosting is too thin keep adding powdered sugar 1/2 cup at a time until you get the consistency you desire. The more liquid you get out of the pineapple the better and the less sugar you will use. Pipe frosting onto a cookie and top with the other cookie.
Until Next Time,
Pam
Yum, they sound delicious!
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