Favorite Chocolate Chip Cookies

 Does anyone like Houston, Texas? We spent our first married summer there while my husband sold security systems. Boy..is it hot and humid! I know we only spent a summer there and if we had been there longer and actually had time to explore and get to know the area, I'm sure I would have liked it more. I worked in the office scheduling the installations for the technicians as Porter was out selling in the Houston heat.  Some days it would poor rain and we would come home to little baby frogs all over our apartment. We lived on the bottom floor of our apartment building, so I'm sure that was part of the reason. One night a pillow fell off our bed, in the morning it was completely covered by ants...gross! I promise I kept the apartment clean..I vacuumed almost everyday! They were nice apartments too so I came to the conclusion that this was just Texas. One of our friends invited people over one night and made cookies. She left the plate on the floor during the night and the next morning got up, not really looking at the plate, picked up a cookie, took a bite and swallowed. She then felt something tingling in her throat and then little pinches. She looked down at the cookie, and to her surprise there were ants all over it.  Luckily these don't have any ants on them. After being the only one in the office and working 12 hour days we finally got another girl to come work with me and so I got to have some time off. Some days I would go to my friends apt. and we'd make these delicious cookies. She always had cookie dough in her freezer and we had to be careful or we would eat the whole batch.

 Favorite Chocolate Chip Cookies 

1c Shortening 

3/4c sugar

3/4 brown sugar

2 eggs

1t vanilla 

1t baking soda

1t salt

2 1/2c flour

2c chocolate chips

Instructions:

Cream together shortening and sugars. Scrape down to make sure it is all mixed.  While mixing at 1 egg at a time, make sure it completely mixed in and add the rest of the ingredients. Scoop into balls and bake at 350* for 8min. I love mine really gooey so I take them out right at 8 min. 

Mixed Berry Peach Cobbler

Sunday Sept. 16th we celebrated my wonderful husbands 29th Birthday! He wasn't too excited about being older and has been trying to stay healthy, so he didn't want a big cake! We thought and thought of what we could do and finally he decided that this Mixed Berry Peach cobbler and Vanilla frozen yogurt would do. Even though I'm not sure how much better it is for you.

 Mixed Berry Peach Cobbler

2 quart sized jar of canned peaches
1 bag of frozen mixed berries
1 1/2-2 white or yellow cake mix
1/2 c Butter

Instructions:

• pour peaches and berries into 9"13' baking dish
• sprinkle cake mix over the top. (I love the crust so i always put extra) 
• melt butter and drizzle over the top 

•  Bake at 350 degrees. Check after 30min and if the sides are bubbling and the top is browned then it's done if not leave it in for another 10min.

 

 

White Chocolate Trifle

This is such a great dessert! It's so rich and creamy, you just can't get enough. This was one of the desserts I did for our Graduation Party but I made  individual servings in water glasses. I'll have to make the individual one again to get a picture!  

 

White Chocolate Trifle

Source: Adapted from allrecipes.com

 Ingredients

• 1 (19.8 ounce) package brownie mix
• 1 Egg
• 1 3/4 cups cold milk
• 2 (3.3 ounce) packages Jello instant white chocolate pudding mix
• 2 cups frozen cool whipped topping, thawed
• 3 (1.4 ounce) bars chocolate covered toffee bars, chopped

Directions

1. Prepare brownies according to package directions, except add 1 extra egg than it calls for. Bake and cool completely. Cut into 1 inch cubes.
2. In a medium bowl, whisk together milk and pudding mix until mixture begins to thicken.  Fold in whipped topping.
3. Fill a piping bag with pudding mixture
4. In a glass serving bowl, layer one-third of brownie cubes, one-third of pudding mixture and one-third of candy. Repeat layering until all ingredients are used. Chill 30 minutes in refrigerator before serving.