Cookies!!!

So last week I made a couple different new varieties of cookies. The first one, kinda odd, were Rootbeer Float Cookies. Recipe was off Tastykitchen.com. Took me forever to find the extract, but finally tracked it down at Raley's. Once I got past the idea of eating root beer in cookie form, I thought they didn't turn out half bad!

Root Beer Float Cookies

• 1 cup Unsalted Butter, At Room Temperature
• 1 cup Granulated Sugar
• 1 cup Packed Light Brown Sugar
• 1 whole Large Egg
• ½ cups Vegetable Oil
• 2 Tablespoons Milk
• 1 teaspoon Vanilla Extract
• 4 teaspoons Root Beer Extract
• 3-½ cups Flour
• 1 teaspoon Cream Of Tartar
• 1 teaspoon Baking Soda
• ⅛ teaspoons Salt
• 1-½ cup White Chocolate Chips

1. Preheat oven to 350F. Place butter and sugars in a large bowl. Using an electric mixer at medium speed, cream. Beat in egg. Continue to beat until mixture is fluffy. Beat in oil, milk, vanilla and root beer concentrate.

2. In a large bowl whisk together flour, cream of tartar, baking soda and salt. Add to butter mixture and mix until combined. Fold in white chocolate chips.

3. Drop about 2 tablespoonfuls of dough at a time onto ungreased cookies sheets. Bake 10 minutes. Let cool 5 minutes on the cookie sheet and them remove to a wire rack to cool completely.

Second cookie I made was a Spicy Molasses cookie. Recipe was a combination of two recipes off Tastykitchen.com. I decided on recommendation, to try grating the spices fresh. I think it really made a difference although it's a tedious process. Couldn't make the cloves work on the grater so went out and got a mortar and pestle.

Spicy Molasses Cookies

• 1 cup Sugar
• ¾ cups Crisco (vegetable Shortening)
• ¼ cups Molasses
• 1 whole Egg
• 2 cups Flour
• 2-½ teaspoons Baking Soda
• 1 teaspoon Cinnamon
• 1 teaspoon Ground Ginger
• ½ teaspoons Ground Cloves
• 1 teaspoon Ground Nutmeg
  
• ¼ teaspoons Salt

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Mix sugar, shortening, molasses, and egg together until well combined. Dump in dry ingredients, stirring dry ingredients together lightly. Mix together until dough is combined.

In your hands roll dough into walnut-sized balls, then generously coat each ball with sugar. Place balls on a baking sheet and bake for 8 minutes, allowing to bake for about a minute after cookies begin to crack. Be careful not to overbake!

Remove cookies from baking sheet and allow to cool.