A cup of joe and a cookie....

for breakfast!  I love to have cookies, cake or pie for breakfast. I know it's not a healthy choice but one can't always choose healthy over yummy.  Oh, I love pizza for breakfast too!

My Sweetie called me a few days ago and asked if I would help him make some cookies for a Thanksgiving luncheon that his company was having last Thursday.  Well, of course I would help him.  So, that evening when I arrived home he had rifled through the recipe box and selected two potential cookie recipes. He had started to gather the ingredients together for both recipes. Well, I have to admit when I saw it all, one eyebrow shot up and my engaging welcoming smile sort of turned lop-sided.  Really....2 cookie mixes? Isn't that double the work and double the trouble?  He quickly settled on the snickerdoole recipe and we started to work.  He creamed the soft ingredients and I took care of the dry ingredients.  We mixed the two together formed the cookie ball and popped them in the oven. I have to admit this is a perfectly simple cookie recipe with great taste!

Snickerdoodle Cookies

1 1/2 cups of sugar
1/2 cup of butter (softened)
1/2 cup of shortening
2 eggs
2 3/4 cups of flour
2 tsp of cream of tarter
1 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp of baking soda
2 tsp of cinnamon

Sugar mix: 1 cup of sugar and 1 tsp of cinnamon. 

Heat oven to 350.  Mix sugar, butter, shortening and eggs. In a another bowl ( I use a gallon sized baggie to mix the dry ingredients) mix the dry ingredients).  Add dry ingredients to creamed ingredients and mix by hand. Form into a cookie ball and press into sugar mix.  Place 2 inches apart on cookie sheet.  Bake for 12-15 minutes.

This is one of our favorite holiday cookie recipes.  I hope you enjoy it.

If you haven't already, be sure to sign up for my giveaway. You can click on the giveaway icon on the right side bar and it will take you to the sign up post. 

Til next time.

~willa~

Thyme for Another Give Away

Hi Blogger Friends, it's time for another giveaway.  This piece is called "Catch a Falling Snowflake".  When I designed this piece I knew I wanted a couple of snow fellas catching snowflakes and as I painted on this piece I had that little diddy of "catch a falling star and put it in your pocket, save it for a rainy day" going around in my head. This Aly's Room original design is painted on a cutting board. I finished it with a couple of white snowflake jingle bells, a cinnamon salt dough snowflake and a prim tag.

To be participate in this give away there are a few rules....of course.

1) you must be a follower of my blog.

2) leave a comment on this post and leave an email address where I can reach you.

3) Post this giveaway on your blog side bar or post to Facebook.

Please post only one comment; only 1 comment will be used in the drawing.

I will draw the name of the winner on December the 6th and will mail the package out on the 7th so the lucky winner can have it in time for their winter decorating. Good luck to everyone. 


Thanks for participating!

~willa~