Saturday, December 24, 2011

Pam-cakes with Buttered Honey Syrup

1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons sugar
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
2 cups buttermilk
2 large eggs
1/4 cup butter, melted

Combine flour and next 4 ingredients in a large bowl. Whisk together buttermilk and eggs. Gradually stir buttermilk mixture into flour mixture. Gently stir in butter. (Batter will be lumpy.)

Pour about 1/4 cup batter for each pancake onto a hot buttered griddle or large nonstick skillet. Cook pancakes 3 to 4 minutes or until tops are covered with bubbles and edges look dry and cooked. Turn and cook 3 to 4 minutes or until golden brown. Place pancakes in a single layer on a baking sheet, and keep warm in a 200° oven up to 30 minutes. Serve with Buttered Honey Syrup.

Buttered Honey Syrup
1/3 c. butter
1/2 c. honey

Melt butter, add honey, heat until hot. Eat.

Sunday, December 11, 2011

Snickerdoodle Cookie Cups with Cinnamon Cream Cheese Frosting

For the cookies
1 cup butter
1 1/2 cups white sugar
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla extract
2 3/4 cups flour
1 tsp baking soda
1 Tbs cinnamon
1 tsp cream of tartar
1/4 tsp salt
3 Tbs white sugar
2 tsp cinnamon

Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. Grease mini muffin pan.

In a large bowl, combine butter and sugar. Mix in eggs one at a time blending well after each. Add vanilla and mix. In another bowl, stir together flour, baking soda, 1 Tbs cinnamon, cream of tartar, and salt. Gradually add to the wet mixture.

Combine the 3 Tbs sugar and 2 tsp cinnamon in a small bowl. Shape the dough into walnut sized balls and roll in the cinnamon sugar mixture. Place dough balls in the mini muffin pan.

Bake for 8-10 minutes. Let cool for one minute then take a 1 tsp measuring spoon and make an indention in each cookie. (My cookies fell in on their own and I didn’t have to do this step.) Let cookies cool in pan for 5 more minutes before transferring to a wire rack to cool completely.

Cookie Recipe from The Crunchy Mamacita

For the frosting
2 8 oz pkgs cream cheese, softened
1 stick butter, softened
2 cups powdered sugar
1 tsp vanilla
1 tsp cinnamon (more or less)

Cream together butter and cream cheese. Add vanilla and sugar and cinnamon and beat well. Pipe onto cooled cookies. Or eat it by the spoonful. I won’t judge you.