Tiffany & Co. Bonbon Cookies

I've been sick for the past 2 weeks, so it's been very hard for me to bake. But I did yesterday :D and I made these! They are really good, and they're really simple to make. I got the recipe from my favorite cook book, CakeSpy Presents; Sweet Treats for A Sugar-Filled Life.  Seriously best book ever. Everything in there can give you a cavity it's amazing. Okay so what you will need:
1/2 cup (1 stick) of butter
3/4 cup of confectioners' sugar, sifted
2 teaspoons of vanilla extract
1 1/2 cups of all-purpose flour
1/4 teaspoon of salt
2 to 3 tablespoons of milk (I added 4)
food coloring to make them blueish
For the filling you can use chocolate, nuts, m&ms. I used leftover Christmas candy!


The icing you will need:
1 cup of confectioners' sugar
2 tablespoon of milk (I added like 4 tablespoons)
food coloring

Heat the oven 350 degrees. With an electric beater, mix together the butter, confectioners' sugar and vanilla. When you are done they should be fluffy. Then slowly add the flour and salt, mix them in. Add the milk to help the dough form a ball.  The coloring of the cookies should be a nice blue coloring because we're trying to get that nice Tiffany & Co. blue box. So I used 4 drops of blue and one drop of green.

Then use a largeish spoon and scoop out some dough, then put whatever you are putting in the middle of the cookie inside of it and close up the cookie by pinching the tops to cover it. Do that till all of the cookie dough is gone. Then place them on a cookie sheet and put them in the oven. Cook them for 12 to 15 minutes.

While they're cooking make the icing, which is really simple. In a small bowl (use one that you use for cereal, doesn't have to be special) and put in a cup of confectioners' sugar and 2 or 3 tablespoons of milk. Mix it and then add 1 drop of yellow food coloring, 3 drops of blue and one of green.

When the cookies are done let them cool. Then turn the cookies upside down and dip them into the icing. Once the icing is sorta hard you can put any type of sprinkles on them!

When I was making these all I could think about was Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany's.

Hershey Kiss drop cookies

So I made vegan, gluten free and peanut free Hershey Kiss drop cookies (not sure if that is what they are called) for my English class! My teacher (who is awesome) is vegan and allergic to gluten, and when kids bring in things for class(doesn't happen often) they don't make gluten free things. So I thought seeing as I know how to make gluten free things, I'll make something for the class, and something that she can have too. So I had a task to do I had to find things that I could replace eggs with, I've done it once when I really wanted pancakes, but didn't have any money or eggs. I replaced the eggs with bananas. Remembering that worked well once, I said "huh might as well do it again" because it was very good when I did it. 

Sadly I have not been able to figure out how to do gluten free cookies from scratch. But I'm close, sort of. But once I figure it out, I will tell you all, who care. So once again, I used the same box of cookie mix I did for the spice cookies.

I got the recipe from here but I  some of it, and made it peanut free, gluten free, and vegan.

1 box of Hodgson Mill, Gluten Free cookie mix (the ingredients in that are: Brown rice flour, sugar, tapioca, starch, amaranth flour, cornstarch, baking soda, xanthan gum, and flake salt)

1/2 cup of butter

1/2 cup of Soy Nut Butter (you can use, almond butter, sunflower butter, whatever you want. I just like soy nut butter a lot)

1/2 cup of sugar

1/2 cup of brown sugar

1/3 teaspoon of baking soda

a dash of salt

2 bananas 

Hershey Kisses

1 teaspoon of vanilla extract (I love this stuff, I use it all the time)

Preheat the oven to 375 degrees. First thing is to beat the butter till it's fluffy, then mash the bananas together. Then mix together the bananas and the butter. Add the 1/2 cup of soy nut butter. Add the two sugars (brown and regular) mix it together again. Then add the box of gluten free cookies and baking soda. 

Get a cookie sheet and dish out the cookie dough onto the sheet. Then put it into the oven for 10-15 minutes. Once they are done take them out, and as soon as you take them out put the hershey kisses in the very middle of the cookie. Then let them cool.

Enjoy xo