Although I enjoy baking cookies, I don't normally participate in cookie exchanges due to the multiple food allergies in our family. This year's Virtual Cookie Exchange at Treasuring Life's Blessings looks awesome, though. I can pick my favorites and adapt the ingredients as needed.
These are the chocolate snowflake cookies that Addison and Brennan made a few weeks ago to take to the single Airmen at the Air Force Base. There is a big Cookie Crunch at our base where people drop off homemade goodies. The treats are all repackaged and distributed to the military men and women living in the dorms on base. Many of these young people may not get to travel home for the holidays and will definitely appreciate homemade treats.
Although these cookies are not allergy friendly for our family, they are easy for the big kids to make on their own. I often keep the ingredients on hand for those last-minute occasions where they need to take a dessert to an activity.
Cool-Whip Cookies
Ingredients;
1 box of cake mix
1 small tub of Cool Whip (8 ounces)
1 egg
Powdered sugar
Mix all the ingredients well. Scoop out into small balls, roll in powdered sugar, and place on a cookie sheet. Bake at 350* for approximately 12-15 minutes.
Choose a cake mix based on the flavor and/or color you'd like the cookies to be. We've had a lot of success with red velvet cake, chocolate, and lemon.
I originally found this recipe on my friend Amy's blog -- Bow of Bronze, and she graciously allowed me to share it here as part of this year's Virtual Cookie Exchange.
These look good. Think they would work with a gluten-free cake mix?
ReplyDeleteI've never tried them gluten free -- figuring out both an egg and a Cool Whip substitute was too much work for me.
ReplyDeleteThanks so much for participating! :) I have a recipe posted on my blog (under recipes) for black bean brownie pops (sounds weird but they are GOOD). I don't know what your allergies are, but there is no flour & no eggs (flax egg which is 1 Tbsp ground flaxseed mixed w/3 Tbsp water). I wonder if this substitute for eggs would also work for the above poster.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Jenn. It looks like the brownie pops recipe would work perfectly for me and my youngest daughter. I'm excited to be able to fix her a special treat this weekend.
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