Healthy Oatmeal Cookies

By: Jessica Elliott, taken from Sara Elliott

*This is a relatively healthy cookie that your kids will love.

2 sticks softened butter
2 c. sugar or evaporated cane juice
2 large eggs
2 tsp. vanilla
1 and 3/4 c. Kamut flour (can use whole wheat or spelt)
1/4 c. buckwheat flour
3/4 tsp. baking powder
3/4 tsp. baking soda
1/2 tsp. salt
1 tsp. cinnamon
1 tsp. cloves
1/2 tsp. ginger
3.5 c. old fashioned rolled oats
1 c. raisins

Cream butter and sugar. Add eggs and vanilla until incorporated. Whisk dry ingredients (except raisins and flour) and add slowly to creamed mixture on low. Stir in oats and raisins. Bake 10 minutes on 350 until almost firm. Let stand 2 minutes before transferring to cooling rack. (I always use parchment paper when baking cookies to prevent from sticking to cookie sheet.)

Chocolate Toffee Caramel Bars

By: Jessica Elliott

This was the one million dollar recipe at the Pillsbury Bake-off years ago. You will understand why once you make them!

1 box Pillsbury Moist Supreme Butter Recipe Cake Mix
1/3 c. oil
2 eggs
12 oz. bag semisweet chocolate chips
1 c. vanilla chips (I leave these out.)
12 mini Heath bars, chopped coarsely
1 stick of butter
32 Milk Maid caramels
14 oz. can sweetened condensed milk

1. Grease 9x13 pan. In large bowl, combine cake mix, oil, eggs; blend well. Stir in chips, and Heath. Press half of mixture in bottom of pan; bake for 10 minutes on 350.

2. Meanwhile, combine butter, caramel, and milk. Cook over med-low until mixture is smooth. Pour over partially baked crust. Top with remaining cake mixture.

3. Bake an additional 20-25 minutes, or until golden. Cool 20 minutes. Run knife around edges of pan. Cool 40 minutes and cut into bars. Refrigerate and store in fridge.

Pumpkin Cookies

By: Hessed Pearl Yune Kim



Ingredients:



1 can pumpkin

2 Tablespoons milk

2 teaspoons baking soda



Mix above ingredients in bowl, set aside



2 cups sugar

1 cup oil (I use olive oil)

2 eggs

4 cups flour

2 teaspoons vanilla

2 t cinnamon

4 t baking powder

1 c. Chocolate chip morsels

1 c. butterscotch morsels



in bowl, mix flour, cinnamon, baking powder

in mixer, add eggs, sugar, oil and vanilla and then add pumpkin mixture

add dry ingredients to wet and mix.

Add morsels

Bake @ 350 degrees for 15 mins.



These cookies are a bit tricky when baking…it can take anywhere from 12-15 mins. Just a minute or two over can make the whole batch dry or vice versa…just need to keep an eye on them and taste test a cookie to your liking.