Another thing I love about Christmas time is baking. I love to experiment and make new things. I also like to bake for my students. My 4th and 5th grade choir sang You're a Mean One Mr. Grinch this year, so when I saw these cute Grinch cookies on Pinterest, I had to make them. I got the recipe from this blog. Here is the recipe:
Grinch Cookies
- 1 18.25 oz box French vanilla cake mix (I just used white cake mix)
- 6 T butter
- 2 eggs
- Green food coloring
- 1 c. powdered sugar
- 1 t corn starch
Preheat the oven to 375°. Melt the butter and set aside to cool. In a shallow dish, mix together the powdered sugar and cornstarch with a fork. In a large bowl, mix together the cooled butter, cake mix and eggs. This will be a little hard to stir together. Add the green food coloring and make sure it is all mixed in.
Take two spoons and drop a blob of dough in the powdered sugar. Move it around with spoon until it is mostly covered in powdered sugar. Then, once it is already covered, roll it into a ball and place it on a cookie sheet.
Make sure you don't over crowd the baking sheet because these cookies spread out.
Bake them for 8-9 minutes. They will look slightly puffed up.
Take them out of the oven and cool for one minute. Then move onto a cooling rack. They will drop a little, but will still be nice and chewy.
I also made a batch using red velvet cake mix for my piano studio's recital but I forgot to take a picture. They tasted awesome! My husband took the leftovers to work the next day and they got rave reviews from his coworkers.
I also made cake pops for my piano studio's recital. I have never wanted to make these before because the traditional method of making them uses frosting to hold together crumbled up cake. I do not like most kinds of frosting so these didn't sound appetizing. Lately, several companies have made devices and pans for making these by just baking cake in a round shape. I used the Nordicware cake pop pan that I purchased it at Target for mine.
I used the recipe on the package. The recipe created brownie like cake that was very dense and rich. Here it is:
Fudgy Cake Pops
- 3/4 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
- 1/2 cup butter
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 3 Tbsp cocoa
- 2 eggs
- 3/4 cup flour
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 24 lollipop sticks
- 1 package chocolate bark coating (I also used regular white almond bark)
- assorted sprinkles (I used colored sugar)
I also decorated some by dipping them in the white almond bark and then drizzling some of the chocolate bark over it. I let them dry by sticking the stick end into a block of floral foam. I displayed them at the piano recital in some parfait glasses that I picked up at a thrift store. The sticks were shorter than I thought so I filled the parfait glasses with some coffee beans then stuck the pops in. They turned out so cute and they were a big hit with my piano students and their siblings.
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