Saturday, July 14, 2012

Ice-Cream Sandwiches with Opa's Cookies

This was a delicious treat for me and my family.  I made these with Opa's Cookies that I made before.  I used my mom's camera for this picture!!!  My mom helped put in the ice cream but I did the rest myself. 

Ice-Cream Sandwiches with Opa's Cookies
adapted from Do It Myself Kids' Cookbook
12 chocolate-chip cookies
ice cream, slightly softened (any flavor)
sprinkles

1.  On the bottom of half of the cookies, place a scoop of ice cream.  Top with the other halves, bottom-side touching the ice cream.  Push ice cream out to edges and roll edges in sprinkles so that they stick on the ice cream. 

Opa's Chocolate Chip Cookies

These are delicious cookies that make really good ice cream sandwiches.  That's what we made them for, and we had a hard time not eating them all before that.  This is my Opa's (Grandpa's) recipe.  We only made a half recipe because the whole one makes a lot. 

Opa's Chocolate Chip Cookies
from my Opa; this is a half-recipe

1 cup butter, softened
1 cup brown sugar
1 cup white sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 eggs
2 1/2 cups flour
1 1/2 cups oatmeal (like quick oats)
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 (10-12 oz) package chocolate chips
3/4 cups chopped walnuts or pecans, optional

1.  Preheat oven to 400 F.  Mix butter, sugars, vanilla and eggs.  Mix well until smooth.  Add flour, salt, baking soda, baking powder, and oatmeal.  Mix in.  Stir in chocolate chips and nuts.  Shape into golf ball size balls and mash down slightly on lightly greased cookie sheet.  Bake 6-8 minutes.  Do not overbake.  Makes about 3 dozen. 

Sunday, July 8, 2012

Egg Cream

This was a delicious treat for me and my smaller brother. 

Egg Cream
adapted from Do It Myself Kids' Cookbook

1/2 cup cold milk
1 cup cold seltzer water (sparkling water)
2 tablespoons chocolate syrup

1.  Pour the milk into a tall glass.  Pour the seltzer water on top.  Stir in the chocolate syrup with a long spoon.  Drink right away.