This moist apple sheet cake is filled with sweetness and warmth from the brown sugar and cinnamon and tied together with lots of fresh chopped apples. It’s a great dessert to enjoy in the fall when apples are in season. 

I love sheet cakes because they are really fast to mix up, they bake pretty fast, and they can feed a crowd. This apple cake takes a little longer because the apples add so much moisture to the batter. But the wait is worth it. 

Ingredients Needed to Make Apple Cake:

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• all purpose flour
• white sugar
• brown sugar
• ground cinnamon 
• salt
• baking powder
• baking soda
• olive oil
• eggs
• vanilla extract
• buttermilk – if you don’t have buttermilk just make your own with milk and a splash of lemon juice to make it thicken 
• apples, any variety will work 

Making this cake is literally so simple. I make it in a mixing bowl with a spoon. 

How to Make Apple Sheet Cake:

1. Mix all the dry ingredients together.
2. Add the wet ingredients and mix. 
3. Add the peeled and chopped apples.
4. Spread evenly in pan and bake at 350 degrees for 40 minutes or until the center of the cake tests done with a toothpick. Make sure you’re not sticking the toothpick in an apple chunk! 
5. Let the cake cool and enjoy! 

I hope you enjoy the apple sheet cake!

~Rachel Ballinger ☕️🍎

More Apple Recipes for You to Enjoy:

• Oatmeal Apple Cookies
• Apple Cinnamon Scones
• Cinnamon Apple Dutch Baby
• Cranberry Apple Pie

“A lot of living happens in the kitchen.”    ~Rachel

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Apple Sheet Cake

This moist and delicious apple sheet cake is full of brown sugar and cinnamon goodness and stuffed with apples. Perfect fall treat!

Course Dessert

Cuisine American

Keyword Apple, Apple Sheet Cake, Cake, dessert

Prep Time 15 minutes minutes

Cook Time 40 minutes minutes

Total Time 55 minutes minutes

Servings 24 Servings

Ingredients

• 2 1/4 cup all purpose flour
• 1 cup white sugar
• 1 cup brown sugar
• 2 tsp ground cinnamon
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 1 cup olive oil
• 3 large eggs
• 2 tsp vanilla extract
• 1/3 cup buttermilk
• 4 large apples peeled and diced

Instructions

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees and oil a sheet pan.
• In a large mixing bowl, combine all the dry ingredients.
• Add the wet ingredients and stir to combine well.
• Add the apples and mix in.
• Scrape into greased sheet pan and spread batter evenly.
• Bake for 40 minutes or until the center tests done with a toothpick.
• Let cool completely before cutting into it.

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Banana Bread Cake is your classic warm and cozy banana bread with chocolate chips and a hint of cinnamon but baked in cake form! It bakes faster and is so easy to serve. 

This recipe is a great way to use up bananas that are overripe and rotting on your counter. It seems we always have some of those bananas laying around. My daughters love to tease me and dramatically open the trashcan and pitch the old bananas in while saying “YOU’RE NOT GOING TO BAKE THE BREAD, MOM!” Hahaha! They’re right more often than not. But everybody sure does love it when somebody gathers the mental fortitude to actually bake the bread instead of pitching the bananas. It’s such a yummy cake! I hope y’all love it.

Ingredients Needed to Make Banana Bread Cake:

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• ripe bananas
• melted butter, I use salted butter for everything 
• baking soda 
• salt
• ground cinnamon 
• white sugar
• eggs
• vanilla extract
• all purpose flour
• semisweet chocolate chips 

How to Make Banana Bread Cake:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees and grease a 9”x 13” baking pan with olive oil. Here’s the link for my baking pan. 
• In a bowl, mash the ripe bananas with a fork. Add the melted butter and mix.
• Stir in the baking soda, salt, cinnamon, sugar, eggs, and vanilla extract. Then add the flour and mix. 
• Stir in the chocolate chips.
• Pour into prepared cake pan and bake for 45 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. 
• Remove from oven, let cool, cut and serve! 

Happy Baking!

~Rachel Ballinger ☕️💕

More Cake Recipes You Might Like:

• Strawberry Shortcake
• Italian Whole Orange Cake
• Lemon Cake with Lemon Cream Cheese Icing
• Carrot Cake Scones

“A lot of living happens in the kitchen.”     ~Rachel 

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Banana Bread Cake

This is your classic banana bread with chocolate chips but baked in a cake form. So fast and easy and delicious!

Course Dessert

Cuisine American

Keyword Banana, Cake, Chocolate Chip, dessert

Prep Time 15 minutes minutes

Cook Time 45 minutes minutes

Total Time 1 hour hour

Servings 18 Servings

Ingredients

• 6 ripe bananas
• 2/3 cup butter melted
• 2 tsp baking soda
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 1 tsp ground cinnamon
• 1 1/2 cup white sugar
• 2 eggs
• 2 tsp vanilla extract
• 3 cups all purpose flour
• 1 cup semisweet chocolate chips

Instructions

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees and grease a 9”x13” pan with olive oil.
• In a mixing bowl, mash the bananas with a fork until smooth. Stir the melted butter into the mashed bananas. Mix in the baking soda, salt, and cinnamon. Stir in the sugar, eggs, and vanilla extract. Add the flour and mix well. Stir in chocolate chips.
• Pour the batter into the greased pan and bake for 45 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
• Remove from oven and cool completely before slicing and serving.

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These glazed peach scones are crisp and moist and packed full of peachy flavor. Scones are so fun and quick to make and the result is so worth it. They look fancy and are perfect for breakfast and brunch.

Scones are one of my favorite things to bake for several reasons. They are fast and easy to mix up and yet they feel fancy. I love working the dough with my hands and then cutting them into triangles. They’re a delicious mix between a biscuit and a cookie. They’re not dry if they’re made right but moist and full of flavor. 
Most sources will tell you not to mix the dough in a mixer and gently work it by hand but I’ve found that I can successfully mix it up in a mixer being careful not to overmix and then shape it into a circle by hand and they turn out great. Not dry at all. 

Ingredients Needed for Glazed Peach Scones:

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• all purpose flour
• white sugar
• baking powder 
• ground cinnamon 
• salt 
• salted butter
• whole milk
• vanilla extract 
• a peach, peeled and chopped 
• powdered sugar 

How to Make these Peach Scones:

• Preheat the oven to 400 degrees.
• In a mixer, combine all the dry ingredients.
• Add the butter and mix until it’s small pea sized lumps. It’ll take awhile but be patient until you get there. If the butter is left and baked in too big of chunks, there will be craters and dips in the s ones that don’t look nice.
•  Mix in the milk and vanilla extract and then add the peaches and mix just till combined. 
• Place the dough on a floured surface and divide into two equal pieces. 
• Shape each piece into a circle and cut into 8 triangles with a dough cutter, pizza cutter, or knife. 
• Place them on a baking sheet and bake in preheated oven for 17 minutes or until golden brown on top. 
• Remove from oven and place on parchment paper to cool.
• Mix up the glaze ingredients and pour into a ziploc bag. Snip a tiny corner of the bag and drizzle the glaze across each scone.
• Enjoy a delicious glazed peach scone! 

These scones are perfect for a tea party, breakfast and brunch, and they also make great gifts. I make them in all different flavors and it’s so much fun! 

Happy Baking,

~Rachel Ballinger ☕️💕

Here are some more of my favorite scone recipes for you:

• Chocolate Chip Orange Scones
• Apple Cinnamon Scones
• Maple Bacon Chocolate Chip Scones
• White Chocolate Cranberry Scones
• Carrot Cake Scones

”A lot of living happens in the kitchen.”    ~Rachel

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Glazed Peach Scones

These glazed peach scones are moist and packed full of peachy flavor. Scones are so fun and quick to make and the result is so worth it. They look fancy and are perfect for breakfast and brunch.

Course Breakfast, Dessert

Cuisine American

Keyword dessert, Peach, Scones

Prep Time 15 minutes minutes

Cook Time 17 minutes minutes

Total Time 32 minutes minutes

Servings 16 Scones

Ingredients

• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1/4 cup white sugar
• 1 tbsp baking powder
• 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 6 tbsp salted butter
• 3/4 cup whole milk
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 1 peach peeled and cubed, about 1 cup

Glaze:

• 1/2 cup powdered sugar
• 1 tbsp whole milk
• Sprinkle of ground cinnamon

Instructions

• Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
• In your mixer combine flour, sugar, baking powder, cinnamon, and salt. Cut the cold butter into smaller pieces and add to the dry mixture. Mix together until the butter is broken into small little pieces. It will take time so just be patient and it will break down!
• Mix in milk and vanilla extract until moistened. Add the chopped peaches and mix till combined.
• Turn out the dough onto a floured surface. Divide dough in half and by hand form both sections into circles. You want the dough about an inch thick. Then cut each circle into 8 pieces like a pie with a pastry cutter, sharp knife, or pizza cutter.
• Place 2 inches apart on a cookie sheet.
• Bake in preheated oven for 17 minutes or until golden brown.
• Mix glaze ingredients and drizzle on cooled scones. Store in an airtight container.

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These delicious pumpkin chocolate chip bars are really easy to make and a great way to enjoy the classic pumpkin chocolate combo that we all love. 

I can mix these bars up in about ten minutes and have them in the oven by the time it preheats. They bake fast because it’s a thin cake. You could ice them with some cream cheese icing but you honestly don’t need it because it’s so moist and delicious just the way it is. 

Ingredients Needed to Make Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Bars:

• all purpose flour
• white sugar
• salt
• baking soda
• baking powder
• ground cinnamon
• vanilla extract
• eggs
• olive oil
• pumpkin puree 
• semisweet chocolate chips

How to Make the Bars:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
• Mix all dry ingredients in a bowl.
• Add the rest of the ingredients and mix well. 
• Spread in a greased half sheet pan and sprinkle a couple chocolate chips on top so they show up once baked. 
• Bake for 25 minutes or until it tests done in the center with a toothpick.

I bake the bars in a half sheet pan. These pans are so handy for all kinds of things like these bars but also for sheet cakes, roasting veggies and potatoes, and for freezing fruit. You can get my favorite pans here.

Enjoy the bars!

~Rachel Ballinger ☕️💕

Here are a couple more pumpkin recipes you’ll want to check out: 

• Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Muffins
• Pumpkin Snickerdoodles
• Pumpkin Chili

”A lot of living happens in the kitchen.”   ~Rachel

 

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Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Bars

These delicious pumpkin chocolate chip bars are easy to make and give you a delicious way to eat the pumpkin chocolate combo that we all love!

Course Dessert

Cuisine American

Keyword Chocolate Chip, dessert, Fall, Pumpkin

Prep Time 15 minutes minutes

Cook Time 25 minutes minutes

Total Time 40 minutes minutes

Servings 24 Servings

Ingredients

• 2 cups all purpose flour
• 2 cups white sugar
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 4 eggs
• 1 cup olive oil
• 1 cup pumpkin puree
• 1 cup semisweet chocolate chips mixed with 1 tbsp flour to keep them from sinking to the bottom

Instructions

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• Put all the dry ingredients into a mixing bowl and mix together thoroughly.
• Add the rest of the ingredients and beat until well mixed.
• Pour the batter into a greased half sheet pan and sprinkle a couple chocolate chips on top.
• Bake for 25 minutes or until a wooden toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.

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These oatmeal raisin cookies are full of oats, raisins, and the warm flavors of brown sugar and butter. I consider this nostalgic old fashioned recipe a comfort food. Back before the chocolate chip was ever invented,  there was the humble raisin. And it is still loved and appreciated by many and it is absolutely delicious baked into this oatmeal cookie.

Ingredients Needed to Bake These Cookies:

• brown sugar 
• butter, I use salted butter for everything 
• eggs
• vanilla extract 
• baking powder
• salt
• baking soda, I dissolve the baking soda in a little bit of warm water to make sure there are no lumps 
• flour
• raisins
• quick oats, you can use regular oats too, the texture will be a little different but still delicious 

How to Make Oatmeal Raisin Cookies:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• In the bowl of a mixer, cream together the brown sugar and butter. 
• Add the eggs and vanilla extract and beat. 
• Add the rest of the ingredients except the oats and mix.
• Lastly, add the oats and mix till combined.
• Drop dough on cookie sheets with a spoon.
• Bake for 14 minutes. The outer edges will be browned but the center will appear unbaked but that’s ok. They will harden as they cool.
• Store in an airtight container. 

My favorite cookie sheets that I’ve used for years are a set I got at a Pampered Chef party at my friend’s house. You can buy them here. 

I hope you enjoy the cookies! It’s a classic recipe to add to your recipe box. 
~Rachel Ballinger ☕️💕

Here Are Some More Of My Cookie Recipes For You To Enjoy: 

• Peanut Butter Cookies
• Chocolate Chip Cookies
• Snickerdoodle Cookies
• Oatmeal Apple Cookies 

“A lot of living happens in the kitchen.”   ~Rachel

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Oatmeal Raisin Cookies

These oatmeal raisin cookies are soft and comforting, made with brown sugar, raisins, and oats.

Course Dessert

Cuisine American

Keyword Cookie, dessert, Oatmeal, Raisin

Prep Time 15 minutes minutes

Cook Time 28 minutes minutes

Total Time 43 minutes minutes

Servings 4 Dozen

Ingredients

• 2 cups brown sugar
• 1 cup butter 2 sticks
• 2 eggs
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 1/8 tsp salt
• 1/2 tsp baking soda dissolved in 4 tbsp hot water
• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 2 cups raisins
• 4 cups quick oats

Instructions

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• In the bowl of a mixer, cream the sugar and butter together.
• Add eggs and vanilla extract and beat till light and fluffy.
• Add the rest of the ingredients and mix well. Drop by spoonful onto cookie sheets.
• Bake in 350 degree oven for 14 minutes until lightly browned around the edges.

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These old fashioned peanut butter cookies with their traditional crisscross pattern on top are perfect with a glass of cold milk. Soft in the middle and slightly crunchy on the outside, they practically melt in your mouth.

This is a tried and true classic recipe and will most likely become your favorite peanut butter cookie. The recipe you write down and place in your recipe box and hand down to your kids and grandkids. It’s that good! 

Ingredients Needed to Make Peanut Butter Cookies: 

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• white sugar
• brown sugar
• creamy peanut butter
• butter, I use salted butter for everything 
• eggs
• vanilla extract 
• salt
• baking powder
•  baking soda
• all purpose flour 

How to Make The Cookies:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• In the bowl of a mixer, cream together the sugars, peanut butter, and butter.
• Add the eggs and vanilla extract and beat.
• Add the rest of the ingredients and beat well. 
• Shape dough into 1” balls and flatten with the palm of your hand. Use a fork to make a crisscross pattern on top of each cookie.
• Bake cookies in preheated oven for 12 minutes. The centers will be very soft and appear unbaked but they are done. They harden as they cool off. 
• This recipe makes about 3 dozen cookies depending on what size you make them. 
• Enjoy! 

I like to make these cookies nice and soft but if you prefer crunchy peanut butter cookies, just bake them for a couple minutes more and you’ve got it. 
If you love peanut butter then you would also enjoy my Peanut Butter Blossom Cookies! I always make them at Christmas time and Valentine’s Day. Peanut butter and chocolate is a winning combo every time!

Enjoy!

~Rachel Ballinger ☕️💕

“A lot of living happens in the kitchen.”    ~Rachel

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Peanut Butter Cookies

These soft and chewy peanut butter cookies are perfect with a glass of cold milk. They have the classic crisscross on top of each cookie and practically melt in your mouth.

Course Dessert

Cuisine American

Keyword Cookie, dessert, peanut butter

Prep Time 10 minutes minutes

Cook Time 12 minutes minutes

Total Time 22 minutes minutes

Servings 3 Dozen

Ingredients

• 1 cup white sugar
• 1 cup brown sugar
• 1 cup creamy peanut butter
• 3/4 cup salted butter
• 2 eggs
• 2 tsp vanilla extract
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 1 1/2 tsp baking soda
• 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour

Instructions

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
• In the bowl of a mixer, cream together the white and brown sugars, peanut butter, and butter until nice and fluffy.
• Add eggs and vanilla and mix. Add remaining ingredients and mix well.
• Using your hands, roll the dough into one inch balls or just scoop dough onto cookie sheet with a cookie scoop. Press flat with palm of hand. Make a criss-cross pattern on top of each cookie with a fork.
• Bake at 350 degrees for 12 minutes or until very lightly browned. They will still be soft in the middle but harden as they cool.

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This zesty key lime pie is refreshingly tart but with just enough sweetness to make this the perfect summer dessert! The creamy filling is in a graham cracker crust, topped with fluffy homemade whipped cream, and garnished with some fresh lime zest. 

Key Lime Pie freezes really well so you can make it ahead of time and pop it in the freezer until you want to serve it. Let it thaw in the fridge overnight or for a couple hours before serving. 

Ingredients Needed to Make Zesty Key Lime Pie: 

• Graham crackers
• sugar, white granulated sugar 
• butter, I use salted butter for everything 
• sweetened condensed milk 
• egg yolks
• key lime juice, I use Nellie and Joe’s lime juice 
• heavy whipping cream 
• vanilla extract 

Instructions for Making This Pie:

• Make the crust. Bake it and let it cool. 
• Make the filling. Pour the filling in the crust and bake. Let cool completely in the fridge. 
• Make the whipped cream. Spread evenly on pie and garnish with some fresh lime zest.

I like these ceramic pie pans. They’re the perfect size for my pie recipes. I have the red and the white ones. 

I hope you enjoy this refreshing pie! It’s perfect for spring and summer and anytime you’re craving something zesty. 

~Rachel Ballinger ☕️💕

“A lot of living happens in the kitchen.”     ~Rachel 

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Zesty Key Lime Pie

This zesty key lime pie is full of fresh citrusy flavor and topped with sweet whipped cream making it the perfect summer dessert.

Course Dessert

Cuisine American

Keyword dessert, Lime, pie

Prep Time 30 minutes minutes

Chill Time 4 hours hours

Total Time 4 hours hours 30 minutes minutes

Servings 1 9” Pie

Ingredients

Graham Cracker Crust:

• 1 sleeve graham crackers
• 3 tbsp sugar
• 4 tbsp butter melted

Pie Filling:

• 1 can 14 oz. sweetened condensed milk
• 4 large egg yolks
• 1/2 cup key lime juice

Whipped Cream:

• 1 cup heavy whipping cream
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 3 tbsp white sugar

Instructions

To Make the Crust:

• Mix all ingredients together in a 9” pie pan.
• Bake the crust for 7 minutes in a 350 degree oven.
• Let cool while you mix up the pie filling.

To Make the Pie Filling:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
• In a bowl, use a handheld mixer to beat together the condensed milk and egg yolks until smooth. Add the lime juice and mix well. Mixture will slightly thicken.
• Pour the filling into the baked and cooled pie crust.
• Bake for 15 minutes in preheated oven.
• Let cool at room temperature. Cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate for at least 4 hours or overnight.

To Make the Whipped Cream:

• When you’re ready to serve the pie, make the whipped cream. Place all ingredients in a mixing bowl and beat with a hand mixer until thickened.
• Spread on top of chilled pie and garnish with fresh lime zest if desired.

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This blueberry peach cobbler tastes like heaven in your mouth! Warm blueberries and peaches under a bed of soft sweet cake, it’s a delicious dessert perfect for summer gatherings. Or any time of the year because you can use frozen fruit for the same amazing results as fresh fruit. 

My absolute favorite way to enjoy this cobbler is scooping some into a bowl while it’s still warm from the oven and adding some cold milk. Mmmmm, so good!!! 

Ingredients Needed to Make this Cobbler:

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• blueberries, fresh or frozen work 
• peaches, fresh or frozen work 
• white sugar
• water
• butter, I use salted butter for everything 
• all purpose flour 
• baking powder
• salt
• milk
• ground cinnamon 

How to Make Blueberry Peach Cobbler: 

• In a saucepan, mix and heat the blueberries, peaches, sugar, and water. 
• Place butter in the baking pan and place it on the oven to melt while the o em preheats to 350 degrees. 
• In a bowl, mix together the flour, baking powder, salt, and milk. 
• Pour batter into hot pan over melted butter. 
• Pour cooled fruit over and the batter. 
• Sprinkle the top with cinnamon. 
• Bake for 45 minutes. 
• Serve with whipped cream, ice cream, or cold milk.

You can use any fruit to make this cobbler. Peaches and raspberries, blackberries, strawberries, etc. 

Enjoy,

Rachel Ballinger 🫐🍑

“A lot of living happens in the kitchen.”   ~Rachel 

 

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Blueberry Peach Cobbler

This blueberry peach cobbler tastes like heaven in your mouth! Warm blueberries and peaches under a bed of soft sweet cake, it’s a delicious dessert perfect for summer gatherings.

Course Dessert

Cuisine American

Keyword Blueberry, Cobbler, dessert, Peaches

Prep Time 15 minutes minutes

Cook Time 45 minutes minutes

Total Time 1 hour hour

Servings 12 Servings

Ingredients

• 2 cups blueberries fresh or frozen
• 2 cups peeled and sliced peaches fresh or frozen
• 2 cups white sugar divided
• 1/2 cup water
• 1 stick butter
• 1 1/2 cups all purpose flour
• 3 tsp baking powder
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 1 1/2 cups milk
• ground cinnamon

Instructions

• Preheat oven to 350 °F.
• Combine the peaches, blueberries, 1 cup sugar, and water in a saucepan and mix well. Bring to a boil and simmer for 10 minutes. Remove from the heat.
• Put the butter in a 9”x13” baking pan and place in oven to melt.
• Mix together remaining 1 cup sugar, flour, baking powder, and salt. Add the milk slowly to prevent clumping. Pour mixture over melted butter. Do not stir.
• Spoon the cooked fruit on top, gently pouring in the syrup. Sprinkle the top with ground cinnamon. Batter will rise to the top during baking.
• Bake for 45 minutes until browned and sides pull away from the pan.
• Serve with whipped cream or vanilla ice cream. Or my personal favorite is to pour cold milk over the warm cobbler and eat it like that.

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These are the chocolate chip cookies that you want to fill your cookie jar with and put the recipe in your recipe box! Butter and brown sugar give them a warm caramelized flavor and combined with chocolate chips it makes for that classic chocolate chip cookie we all crave!

No matter how many other amazing and delicious cookies I make, my kids will still always request and choose good old chocolate chip cookies if they get the chance. They’re just the most classic cookie and I don’t actually know but I would venture to guess the most popular cookie in the world. 
My personal favorite cookie is oatmeal chocolate chip but that is not relevant to our current conversation. Lol! 

The great debate about chocolate chip cookies is how many chocolate chips to add, how much butter to use, and whether white sugar, brown sugar, or a combo of both make the best cookies. 
I say add chocolate chips till your heart says stop, and you’ll be surprised to know that less butter makes better cookies, and our family prefers brown sugar which gives them that rich buttery caramelized flavor. 

Ingredients Needed to Make Chocolate Chip Cookies:

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• salted butter
• brown sugar
• eggs
• vanilla extract 
• salt
• baking soda 
• all-purpose flour
• semi sweet chocolate chips 

How To Make The Cookies:

• In the bowl of a mixer, cream together the sugar and butter.
• Add the eggs and vanilla and beat till creamy.
• Add salt, baking soda, and flour and mix till combined.
• Add the chocolate chips and mix just till combined. 
• Drop on baking sheets and bake at 350 degrees for 11 minutes. The outside edges will be baked and the center will look unbaked but that’s good.
• Remove from oven and let rest on the baking sheet for one minute. Transfer to baking rack and let cool.
• Store in an airtight container. 

It only takes 8 ingredients and about 20 minutes to make these delicious cookies. Let’s get to baking! 
-Rachel Ballinger ☕️🍪

“A lot of living happens in the kitchen.”   ~Rachel 

 

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Chocolate Chip Cookies

This is the chocolate chip cookie recipe you want to fill your cookie jar with. Butter and brown sugar give them a warm caramelized flavor and combined with chocolate chips it makes for that classic chocolate chip cookie we all crave!

Course Dessert

Cuisine American

Keyword Chocolate Chip, chocolate,, Cookie

Prep Time 10 minutes minutes

Cook Time 11 minutes minutes

Total Time 21 minutes minutes

Servings 30 Cookies

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup salted butter softened
• 1 1/2 cup brown sugar
• 2 eggs
• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 cup semisweet chocolate chips

Instructions

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• In the bowl of a mixer, cream together the butter and sugar.
• Beat in the eggs and vanilla until light and fluffy.
• Add the salt, baking soda, and flour and mix well. Mix in the chocolate chips just till combined. The batter will be stiff.
• Drop by tablespoonfuls on a cookie sheet. Do not press down.
• Bake in preheated oven until lightly browned on top, about 11 minutes.
• Remove from oven and let cool on the baking sheet for one minute and then remove to a cooling rack or parchment paper to cool.
• Store cookies in airtight container.

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These simple snickerdoodle cookies deliver that classic sugar cookie flavor with the unmistakable tangy flavor that makes these cookies so addicting. 

What makes a snickerdoodle different from your average sugar cookie is cream of tartar. It gives the cookies a tangy flavor and helps the tops crinkle perfectly. I add 2 teaspoons of cream of tartar but you can use less if you find it too tart for you. The tang is more of an after taste. 

Ingredients Needed for Snickerdoodle Cookies: 

(Keep scrolling down for complete recipe with measurements and directions.) 

• white sugar
• butter, I use salted butter for everything – you want the butter slightly soft but not too soft or the cookies will flatten too much 
• eggs
• vanilla extract 
• salt
• baking soda
• cream of tartar – the star of the recipe! 
• all purpose flour 

Simple Steps to Baking Snickerdoodle Cookies: 

• First cream together the sugar and butter.
• Add the eggs and vanilla and mix till creamy and whipped
• Add the rest of the ingredients and mix till combined. The dough will be thick. 
• Scoop the dough onto cookie sheets, roll them each in cinnamon sugar topping, and bake.
• Cool and enjoy!

It’s a simple dough but it packs a big flavor. You can mix it up and bake them right away, no refrigeration required. But if you want too to make them ahead and refrigerate the dough until you’re ready to bake, that does work and is perfectly fine. 

I store these cookies in an airtight container on the counter. They’re great for close to a week. If you need to keep them longer than that, then I recommend refrigerating them. 
Y’all enjoy! Who doesn’t love a snickerdoodle cookie?! 
~Rachel Ballinger ☕️💕

“A lot of living happens in the kitchen.”   ~Rachel

 

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Snickerdoodle Cookies

These simple snickerdoodles deliver that classic sugar cookie flavor with the unmistakeable tangy flavor that makes these cookies so addicting.

Course Dessert

Cuisine American

Keyword Cookie, dessert, Snickerdoodle

Prep Time 15 minutes minutes

Cook Time 10 minutes minutes

Total Time 25 minutes minutes

Servings 36 Cookies

Ingredients

Topping:

• 3 tablespoons sugar
• 1 tablespoon cinnamon

Cookie Dough:

• 1 1/2 cups white sugar
• 1 cup salted butter softened
• 2 eggs
• 2 tsp vanilla extract
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 1 1/2 tsp cream of tartar
• 2 3/4 cups flour

Instructions

• Combine topping ingredients in a small bowl and set aside.
• Cream sugar and butter together. Beat in eggs cream and vanilla. Add remaining ingredients. Stir until combined.
• You can either bake right away or chill in the fridge for half an hour or more and then bake.
• Place 1” balls on a baking sheet. Sprinkle each cookie with cinnamon sugar topping.
• Bake at 350 degrees for about 10 minutes.

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