Potato Chip Cookies

Hello friends! I am back with a recipe I would love to share. I have been wanting to make this since this cute little boy in my Husband's class came up to me wanting to make conversation. It was the very first time they had ever seen me and there was not a chance I could hang out with them because they were getting ready to march in a parade. But this cute little boy [his name is William] came up to me and made conversation with me... He comes up and asks, "Mr. Randolph says you bake, do you know how to make potato chip cookies... because I really like them?" I did not know what to tell him because I had never seen or heard of potato chip cookies before! So I said, "I haven't really heard of those but I am going to look it up and see what I can do about it." I looked it up the minute he walked away. I seriously had no idea what those cookies were! And John had talked up this mean game to his kids how awesome I was and how I could make all kinds of stuff. LOL

Six months later, after going through at least thirty recipes from different sources, I finally came up with one that I like the best. 

POTATO CHIP COOKIES

Makes 30 cookies
Preheat at 350

You need:

2 sticks of unsalted butter, softened [not melted]

1/2 cup sugar
3/4 cup crushed potato chips [ridged or regular will do]
1/2 cup ground toasted almonds
1/4 cup toasted sesame seeds
1 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
2 cups All Purpose Flour

What You Do:


Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line your cookie sheets with parchment paper or if you have a Sil-Pat, you can use that too.


Cream butter and sugar together until light and fluffy about 3 minutes. Slowly add potato chips, ground almonds, and sesame seeds. Mix well. Then add vanilla. Mix in flour, just until it is incorporated well. DO NOT OVERWORK YOUR dough. 


Using a scoop or two spoons together form dough into 1 inch balls. Place 2 inches apart on cookie sheets. Flatten slightly with a flat bottom glass or measuring cup. 


Bake for 10-12 minutes or until cookies are golden on the edges. Cool on wire rack. 


If you want you can drizzle your cookies with melted chocolate and sprinkle toasted sesame seeds on top.


I hope the next cute little boy or girl that comes up to me will ask me about something that I have actually heard of! John [my husband] said I turned beet red when the kid asked me that question... He knew he was in trouble for telling the kids how I'm like the Cookie Fairy Godmother! But I know William will be so happy when Mr Randolph hands him a bag of goodies from me to make up for that really awkward first conversation. :)

See you all soon!

C is for Cookie

Hello friends! It is only Tuesday and I already feel like it's Friday. A lot is going around here. The weather is bad, bad, bad; we are still trying to straighten our house out from being moved around so many times in the past week and by we, I mean ME; and this is also the time of the year where I help my Aunt Betty whip her yard back into shape. She is almost 90 and she is living by herself, doesn't want to go to Assisted living apartments just yet so every year for the past five years we would hang out mid-spring and get that beautiful yard of hers manicured and pruned... This is also a rough time for the husband. He is a teacher so work is stressful and everything is organized chaos with awards, graduation, spring productions, and add to that my husband wanting to up the pay scale and taking another job offer. So now, he is juggling doing the things he loves and the stuff he is sick of plus the stuff we are doing to our house. Even though we feel like plucking our eyelids off, I believe we are keeping a good balance between home and work [that's what I tell myself at least! lol]. : )

So yesterday, it was awards day where my Hubby works. To help him out, I wrote all the names in the certificates during the weekend. It was a lot but I knew I didn't miss to write anybody's name. I know those kids' names and I know them personally. I have worked on and off at his school in the past couple of years. It about gave him a heart attack when there were three kids that didn't get called up the stage because there was not a s certificate for them and one of the kids were almost in tears when all of her classmates have been called except for her! So Mr. Randolph had to do some serious damage control and  tell the truth that he actually didn't notice that there were three certificates he didn't grab as he was hurrying to the gym for the awards ceremony. I got a phone call immediately right after from him and I knew he was feeling really bad so I did some damage control myself. I didn't want him to leave them with bad memories, so I made these cupcakes and handmade cards for the three kids:

And here's my QUALITY CONTROL person:

Have a great rest of the week everyone! 

Hugs,