Ashley's Famous Home Made Oreo Cookies

These are the EASIEST cookies and get eaten SO fast around here.
They do take a while to make the entire batch, but I always find it to be worth it.


Home Made Oreo's Preheat oven to 400 degrees F'

2 sticks of butter (slightly softened)

4 eggs

2 devils food cake mixes

frosting:

1 package of cream cheese

1 stick of butter (slightly softened)

3 cups of powdered sugar

1 teaspoon of vanilla

Mix the cookie ingredients together, roll into 1/2 inch-1 inch balls, try to make them all about the same size and place them about 2 inches apart on the ungreased cookie sheet, I usually can do about 4 a row and 6 rows. I also usually have about 3 cookie sheets that I alternate. cook them for 5 minutes max. They don't look done but don't do it longer, unless you like them crispt, I don't. Sometimes if the balls are rolled a little bigger than I might do it a titch longer.

After all the cookies are cooked, place them in vertical rows of two, each cookie having a match. turn over one cookie and leave the other. I usually do this on tin foil.

make the frosting

mix all the ingredients together

put in a frosting dispenser or in a ziploc with the tip cut

put the frosting on the cookie that is turned over and place the other one on on top.

We put these in the freezer, they are so so so yummy this way. My family loves them in the freezer or the fridge. I think this makes about 50 cookies.

* you can also color the frosting for certain holidays and do little flower or polka dot designs on top too. These are always a hit!

Pancakes

Pancakes from Scratch

2 cups milk

2 cups flour

2 eggs

1/4 cup vegtable oil

1/4 cup sugar

1 Table Spoon baking powder

1 teaspoon salt

Mix ALL ingredients together with a whisk.

spray skillet with cooking spray and pour pancake mix into small circles onto pan flip when bubbly.

These are SO much better than the Krusteez or Bisquick mixes and in my opinion faster and cheaper. My kids LOVE them and so do I! Its so easy and so yummy.

Yummy Low-Cal Tropical Smoothie

2 Tbls. skim milk
1 to 1 1/3  c. crushed ice (or 6-9 ice cubes)
3-4 whole frozen strawberries
1/3 c. drained mandarin oranges
1 rounded tsp. orange sunrise crystal light powder (I use the wal-mart brand)
1/3 c. water
1 capful coconut extract
1 capful vanilla extract

Blend until smooth. Enjoy! The magic bullet works perfectly for this! I figured the calories once and I should have written it down then but I didn't... I think it was just over 80 calories. I'm sure you could change the fruit, crystal light, extract combination to make more yummy smoothies... I like this one so much that I haven't felt a need to change it up yet! The crushed ice works far better than the cubes too:)

You can substitue 1/2 of a fresh orange or 1 fresh mandarin orange for the canned mandarin oranges. I really like using the canned mandarin oranges, the smoothies come out smoother that way. lol... I buy the small cans (11.5 oz. I think), drain them and divide them into thirds. Just put the other 2 thirds into separate baggies and refrigerate for later.