Rainbow Center Butter Cookies

Ingredients:

1 cup butter(2 sticks) 

1 cup white sugar

1 egg

2 teaspoon vanilla extract

2 2/3 cup all purpose flour

1/4 teaspoon salt

7 rolls of sweet tart circles (mini kind)

Directions:

1. Preheat pven to 400°F. 

2. Combine butter and sugar in electric mixer and mix until light and fluffy.

2. Mix in egg and vanilla. Mix until fully combined. 

3. In a separate bowl, whisk together flour and salt. 

4. Mix flour mixture into the electric mixer until everything had come together. 

5. Roll out dough to about 1/3 inch thickness and cut out shapes. Place a candy in the middle of each. 

6. Bake for abou 10 minutes or until the edges are golden brown. 

Brownie Cookies

I now realize what one is supposed to do on a blog. Basically rant about life in a deep way. Every other friday I basically cry about chemistry (or math) and lament about my problems to my dog. The bane of my existence. Honestly I wanted to make cream puffs but the recipe I tried was screwed up and they came out as butter cardboard disks. Not fun times. So to make myself feel better, as redemption, I made these cookies because they taste good and you literally cannot screw these up intentionally. I wish i could have this redemption in my educational system. Can I just go to school in Finland? Enjoy baking!

Recipe:

Ingredients: 

1 1/2 cups all purpose flour

1/4 tsp salt

1/4 tsp baking powder 

1/2 cup (1 stick) butter

3/4 cup sugar 

1 egg

1/2 cup cocoa powder

Directions: 

1. Preheat oven to 350°F. 

2. Whisk flour, baking powder, and salt together in a bowl.

3. In a stand mixer (or hand mixer) cream together the butter and sugar. Then add the egg, vanilla extract, and cocoa powder. Mix until well combined.

4. Slowly add in your flour mixture and your batter should look like the picture above.

5. Roll out cookie dough (in my opinion chilling the dough isnt worth the time) into 1/4 inch thickness. Cut out your cookies. 

6. Place the cookies on a parchment lined baking tray and bake for 8-10 minutes or until the edges are firm and the middle is slightly soft. 

7. Place on cooling rack for a couple minutes before enjoying 1 or 2 or 5 of these delicious cookie-brownie hybrids.