Ice Cream Cups?

Hannah forced me to make these with her. She had a pie craving, but we had nothing to fill it with, so we attempted to make cookie dough cups in a muffin tin to fill with ice cream.

The recipe was the generic cookie dough recipe from below (using Ghirardelli chips) but with these additions by Hannah:

few teaspoons cinnamon

maybe 1/2 c. Nesquik powder

~ 1 tbsp honey

some milk to moisten

and we had to add one more egg to make up for the added solids. They didn't bake so well, but they came out tasting like chocolatey chip cookies. The muffin cups, though, stuck perilously to the dough, and only the most patient of people could remove one; so the rest of the dough was made into normal cookies. No one has eaten them yet, though -- they look slightly terrifying and blobular.

Truffles for Nana

Nana's first love in life is dark chocolate, so I decided to try out these truffles for her birthday party. They were puuuurdy simple! I beat:

3/8 c. cream cheese

1 c. confectioner's sugar

to get this mix:

and then beat in:

1 c. melted Ghirardelli dark chocolate chips

1/2 tsp vanilla

and then refrigerated it for an hour. Took it out and rolled it into one-inch balls, and rolled it in

confectioner's sugar

rainbow sprinkles

walnuts

They came out a lot more intact than I envisioned...

Pig Cookies

These cookies were supper one night; I got out of class at 10 PM and didn't feel like making real food. Consequently, of course, too many were consumed by me...

I made two batches of the following recipe, but to one I added a bag of Ghirardelli semi-sweet chocolate chips, which Bean had purchased to make muffins with (HA!).

Cream:

3/4 c. butter, softened

1 c. sugar

Add:

2 eggs

1/2 tsp vanilla

And then:

2 1/2 c. flour

1 tsp baking powder

a sprinkle of salt

The plain sugar cookies were allowed to cool for about an hour, which made them very easy to roll out and shape with the pig-and-man cookie cutters which I pilfered so long ago from my parent's house. Less than 24 hours later, all of the chocolate chip cookies are long gone, and a few lonely pigs linger on the kitchen counter.