Oreo Pudding Cookies

I am really behind in recipes, I haven't been trying lots of new ones lately but enough that need to be posted. This is one recipe that NEEDS to posted, it is a definite winner...I made a double batch and took all of them to work and left them on the counter in the breakroom, people tried them and then left but continually they kept coming back and grabbing stacks of 3 or 4 at a time and leaving again. Needless to say they didn't last very long. A couple of notes that I would make are is that I liked the cookies that had the candy bar chopped up a little finer and don't cook the cookies quite as long as they say, I think I cut off a minute or two and it made them the perfect softness (which in my opinion definitely changes the flavor of the cookie). 

Oreo Pudding Cookies

Recipe came from Cookies And Cups

Oreo Pudding Cookies

Ingredients

• 1 cup butter, room temperature
• 3/4 cup granulated sugar
• 3/4 cup light brown sugar
• 1 pkg (4.2 oz) Oreo pudding/pie filling mix
• 1 Tbsp vanilla
• 2 eggs
• 2 1/4 cup all purpose flour
• 3/4 cup old fashioned oats
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 1 tsp salt
• 2 cups chopped Cookies and Creme Bars (About 4 Hershey's)

How to Make

1. Preheat oven to 375°
2. In a stand mixer cream together butter, pudding mix and both sugars. Add in eggs and vanilla and mix until combined. Turn mixer to low and slowly add in flour, baking soda, salt and oats.
3. Stir until combined.
4. Stir in chopped candy.
5. Drop by tablespoon onto baking sheet and bake for 8-9 minutes. Let cool on baking sheet for 3 minutes before transferring to wire rack to cool completely.

Copycat Cheesecake Factory Raspberry Lemonade

A bunch of us got together a couple of weeks ago for Brea's birthday. I was put in charge of bringing a drink, and as I stopped drinking soda a month or so ago I really wanted to find a drink that was delicious and it at all possible did not include soda. My Mom had suggested that I could take juice or I thought that I would just take soda and then drink water. But at the last minute Saturday night I went searching through pinterest and blogs and found this drink that was supposed to be amazing...and it was! Everyone kept going back and forth to the kitchen to get more (finally to make it easier, especially for the pregnant ladies, we brought it into the living room). I didn't have the directions and threw the water in before the water was boiling, I'm not sure if that really changed anything but I added a little more sugar because it just needed a little more sweetness ;)

Copycat Cheesecake Factory 

Raspberry Lemonade

Recipe came from The Sexy Knitter

Copycat Cheesecake Factory Raspberry Lemonade

Makes 2 quarts

Ingredients:

1 cup water

1 cup sugar

1 cup fresh squeezed lemon juice

1 1/2 cups fresh or frozen raspberries

Extra sugar for sugaring the rim of your glass

Directions:
Bring the cup of water to a boil. Add the sugar and stir constantly for one minute until sugar is thoroughly dissolved; remove from heat and add to a blender with raspberries. Puree until smooth. Add puree to 2-quart container with lemon juice and enough water to make 2 quarts. Chill before serving. Serve over ice in sugared glasses. (Or, you know, glass, if you're going to hoard it.)

To sugar your glass, run one of your lemon rinds around the edge of the glass to moisten. Dip rim into dry sugar until coated to your liking.