Category: Lunchbox it
Cream Cheese Sugar Cookies
Better than basic!
Dough
- 1 cup soft butter (softened)
- 8 ounces cream cheese (softened)
- 1 1/2 cup sugar
- 1 large egg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/2 teaspoon almond extract
- 3 1/2 cups flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
Frosting
- 2 cups powdered sugar
- 2 tablespoons soft butter
- 1/4 teaspoon almond extract
- Milk to desired consistency
Layered Overnight Salad
Make this ahead, and thank yourself later!
- 8 cups leaf lettuce, torn into pieces
- 1 small red onion, thinly sliced
- 10 oz frozen peas
- 1 (3 oz) can water chestnuts (sliced)
- 1 cup shredded cheddar cheese (or other favorite cheese) (reserve 1/4 cup for the top)
- 1 (14 oz) can quartered artichoke hearts, roughly chopped
- 1 (2.25 oz) can black olives (sliced)
- 1 lb bacon, cooked crisp and crumbled (reserve 1/4 cup for the top)
- 3/4 cup mayonnaise
- 3/4 cup sour cream
Chickpea Salad Pinwheels
Cool and delicious!
- 2 15-ounce cans chickpeas drained and rinsed
- 1 large avocado or 2 small avocados
- 1 jalapeño chopped
- 1/2 red onion chopped
- 1/4 cup mustard
- 1/4 cup vegan mayo
- pepper to taste
- garlic salt to taste
- hot sauce to taste
- 2 large tortillas or wraps
- 2 handfuls baby spinach
Black Cocoa Triple Chocolate Cookies
I had you at ‘triple chocolate’, didn’t I?! 🙂
- 170g (1.5 sticks or 6oz) butter, softened
- 1/2 cup white sugar
- 3/4 cup brown sugar (soft)
- 2 (large/size 7) eggs
- 2 tspn vanilla essence or paste
- 1 1/3 cups plain flour
- 2/3 cup black cocoa powder (you can use regular dutch cocoa too)
- 1 tspn baking powder
- 1 tspn salt
- 1/4 tspn baking soda (use 1/2 tspn if using regular cocoa powder)
- 1 1/12 cups white chocolate, chopped
- 1 cup dark chocolate, chopped
- 1/4 cup peanut butter (optional)
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