Selling Sweets

For years we’ve been asked if we would be willing to see our sweet treats. In the past we’ve declined, but folks the time has to come to share our passion for baking with our local community. Yes, you heard that right. Sister Sweetly Cookies will be available for sale in the Overland Park, Kansas area coming very soon. The details are still unfolding, but for now we can share that we will be featuring four types of cookies, each deliciously unique. Over the next two weeks we will be showcasing these yummies. Up this week are our Toffee Oatmeal Scotchies and Sea Salt Semi-Sweet Chocolate Cookies. Stay tuned for pricing and how to order. Thanks in advance for the support as we share SWEET joy through our homemade goodies.

Sea Salt Semi-sweet Chocolate Chip

Toffee Oatmeal Scotchies

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Sweet Summertime

Yay! Hooray! Yippee! Hallelujah! All of the cheers for summer. School is officially over. Time to celebrate. No surprise…our celebrations ALWAYS include sweet treats. We’re planning to make our favorite loaded chocolate chip cookies. We’ll sprinkle in a variety of red, white, and blue m and ms to honor our loved ones, military, and country. Happy Memorial Day! Happy summer!!!

Sister Sweetly’s Favorite Cookie Dough

Mom’s Are The Sweetest

There’s nothing much sweeter than a mother’s love. And she deserves nothing less a sweet treat full of all her favorite sweets. That’s why this Mother’s Day, we’re hosting a Make Your Own Brownie Trifle Bar. Brownies, ice cream, whip cream, pink frosting, and a variety of chocolates and toppings layered up just the way she wants in a cute little mason jar. May your Mother’s Day be the sweetest one yet!

Sweet Clean Out

Good thing it’s Saturday because our baking cabinets are full! We’ve been stockpiling ingredients like nobody’s business and it’s time to get organized! What better way to use these goodies than in our Loaded Oatmeal Cookies. Chocked full of all things chocolate, a variety of M&Ms, toffee, and for extra crunch – pretzels! We will get these cabinets cleaned out so we have room for tasty new ingredients to try!

Directions

Make Sister Sweetly’s Favorite Oatmeal Cookie Dough. Stir in dark chocolate chips, a variety of M&M flavors, Heath Bits, and pretzel pieces. Bake according to the recipe directions. Now go stock up again!

Spooks and Sweets on a Saturday

Isn’t it a great when two things you love happen on the same day. Halloween on a Saturday!!! Double the reason to get our bake on. And what’s more fitting for Halloween than monster cookies. Add a little cookie butter and few extra chocolate treats and you’ve got a “spooktacular” Halloween sweet for all your little monsters! Our Halloween Candy Cookie Butter Monster Cookies will definitely put the sweet in your trick or treat!

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup butter flavored Crisco
• 1 cup brown sugar
• 1/2 cup creamy cookie butter
• 1 large egg
• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 3/4 cup all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon cornstarch
• 1/4 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1 1/2 cups quick oats
• 1/2 cup dark chocolate chips
• 1 cup peanut M&M candies
• 1 cup Snickers baking bites
• 1/2 cup Heath Bits

Instructions

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line cookie sheets with parchment paper .
• In a large bowl of a stand mixer cream together the Crisco, brown sugar, and cookie butter until light and fluffy, about 2-3 minutes.
• Mix in the egg white and vanilla, scraping down the sides of the bowl as needed.
• In a separate bowl, add the flour, baking soda, cornstarch, baking powder, and salt and whisk to combine.
• With the mixer on low speed, slowly add the flour mixture to the wet ingredients and mix until just combined.
• Add the oats, dark chocolate chips, Heath bits, Snickers bites, and peanut M&M candies. Mix by hand just until dough is combined.
• Use a small/medium cookie scoop, or about 1-2 tablespoons cookie dough, and place on the baking sheets.
• Bake the cookies for 7-9 minutes until the edges are just starting to brown and the top still looks slightly undercooked.
• Remove from the oven and cool for 5 minutes on the baking sheet before moving them to a wire rack to cool completely.

Stovetop Skillet Sweets

When you are a baker and your oven decides to go kaput, you have two choices: 1) take a week off baking—which is never gonna happen or 2) use a different method. Enter the stovetop. With “her” help and a nonstick pan, our favorite oatmeal cookies will get a new spin on life. Stovetop Skillet Cookies. #winning!!!

Oatmeal Cookie Recipe

Sweet New Flavor

Have you heard the good news? M&M just came out with a brand new flavor. Fudge Brownie. As M&M and brownie conasuers, we felt like the creators must have had us in mind when creating a candy that fits our taste buds perfectly. Not only do we appreciate this, but our families will, as well. Because…this Saturday these little morsels will be the newest addition to our favorite Loaded Oatmeal Cookies. Fudge Brownie M&Ms for the win!

Sister Sweetly’s Loaded Oatmeal Cookie Recipe

Add Fudge Brownie M&Ms, Heath Bits, and dark chocolate chips to the batter. Bake up and indulge!

Making Hard Times a Little Bit Sweeter

Wow! What a week. These are hard, scary times. We are doing our best to stay positive and keep busy at home. Baking is our happy place. While others stocked up on toilet paper, we made sure to have plenty of cookie butter on hand (thanks Nana). Cookie Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies coming right up. Making life just a little bit sweeter one cookie butter cookie at a time. Stay well friends!

INGREDIENTS

• ½ cup butter flavored Crisco
• ½ cup granulated sugar
• ½ cup packed light brown sugar
• ½ cup cookie butter spread
• 1 egg white
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 1 ½ cups unbleached flour
• 1 tsp baking soda
• ¼ tsp sea salt
• 1 cup dark chocolate chips
• 1 cup Heath bits

INSTRUCTIONS

• Preheat oven to 350°F.
• Cream Crisco with both sugars until light and fluffy. Mix in the egg white, vanilla, and cookie butter.
• In a separate bowl, mix the flour, baking soda, and sea salt. Then add into the wet mixture until just combined. Fold in the dark chocolate chips and Heath bits.
• Drop the dough by large tablespoons onto baking sheet and bake for 6-8 minutes.

*recipe inspired by Kirbie’s Cravings

Royally Sweet

Ever tasted a Royal Cookie from
Nordstrom Cafe? We recently got our hands on one of these yummies. And WowZer! It’s like a cookie and magic bar rolled into one. Coconut, macadamia nuts, and chocolate chips. Incredible!!!Thankfully we found a copycat recipe and this Saturday we will be recreating our version of these goodies in the comforts of our own kitchen. Here’s to a Royally Sweet Saturday!!!

Ingredients

• 3 cups unbleached flour
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 cup butter flavored Crisco
• 1 1/2 cups brown sugar
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 2 large egg whites
• 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
• 1 cup shredded coconut
• ¾ cup chopped macadamia nuts
• 1 cup ounce bag dark chocolate chips
• 1 cup Heath Bits

INSTRUCTIONS

1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
2. In a bowl, stir together the flour, baking soda, powder and salt.
3. In the bowl of your electric mixer fitted with a paddle attachment, beat the Crisco and sugar together until light and fluffy, about 5 full minutes. Beat in each egg white one at a time. Beat in the vanilla extract.
4. Add the dry ingredients and beat on low speed until just combined, scraping the bottom of the bowl if needed. Stir in the shredded coconut and macadamia nuts until combined. Stir in the chocolate chips and heath.

5. Scoop out 1 1/2-inch sized balls of dough and place them on the parchment paper, about 2 inches apart. Bake for 16 to 18 minutes, or until the cookies are just golden on the edges. Let the cookies cool for 10 minutes on the baking sheet before transferring them to a cooling rack.

*recipe inspired by How Sweet Eats

Half Birthday Sweet

When it’s you son’s half birthday and it happens to be on a Saturday, you HAVE to bake cookies to celebrate. Of course, not any old cookie will do for my boy. He needs something as special and unique as he is. Enter Birthday Brookie Cookies. Half chocolate chip cookies, half brownie cookie. A perfect combination for a perfect guy on his half birthday.

1. Make our favorite Brownie Cookie Recipe.
2. Make our favorite Cookie Dough Recipe.
3. Add lots and LOTS of chocolate chips and Heath bits!
4. Scoop dough from each bowl and smush together to form one cookie.
5. Pop them in the oven for 8 minutes.
6. Celebrate!