Hawaiian Cookies!

I have really enjoyed using oats in my cookies lately - it offers such a great texture and adds just a hint of flavor!

After making some awesome/tradition oatmeal chocolate chip cookies, I decided to make a remix (based what I had in the pantry!).  They turned out amazing, and I have dubbed them "Hawaiian Cookies" ... not really sure why but with the coconut it seemed right.

You'll need:
1 stick of butter (room temp)
6 tablespoons os sugar
1/2 cup brown sugar
1 1/4 teaspoons of vanilla extract
1 egg
1 cup of rolled oats 
3/4 cup of flour
1/2 teaspoon of baking soda
1 cup of white chocolate chips
1 cup of coconut  (if you don't like too much coconut, use 3/4 cup)

Step-by-step:
1. Preheat oven to 350 2. In a medium bowl beat butter (at room temp), sugar, and vanilla.  Beat in egg.  Slowly add in the oats.3. Add dry ingredients on low speed, until just mixed.4. Finally add in the white chocolate chips and coconut.  Mix slowly! 5. Shape dough into 1 to 1.5 inch balls and drop them onto cookie sheets (with either a baking sheet or parchment paper).  Using the back of a spoon (or your hand) slightly flatten out the top of each cookie.6. Bake for 10-12 minutes 7. Leave cookies on cookie sheet for about 5 minutes before transferring to cooling rack.  


Enjoy!
-DD

Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies!

Yikes!  It's been a while since I've blogged... just so busy with a best friend's engagement/wedding planning, a 10 day trip to the UK & Ireland, and of course work!

Anyway - I made these delicious oatmeal chocolate chip cookies for a coworker's office baby shower!  They were quite the hit, and a hit for me because they were so easy to make!

Delicious!

You'll need:

1 stick of butter (at room temp)

6 tablespoons of sugar

1/2 cup of brown sugar

1 1/4 teaspoon vanilla 

1 egg

1 1/4 cup of oats (I use quick oats, but you can use rolled)

3/4 cup of flour

1/2 teaspoon of baking soda

1 cup of chocolate chips 

Step-by-step:
1. Preheat oven to 340 (I found 350 made mine to crispy)
2. In a medium bowl beat butter (at room temp), sugar, and vanilla.  Beat in egg.  Slowly add in the oats.
3. Add dry ingredients on low speed, until just mixed.
4. Finally add in the chocolate chips.  I mixed mine by hand.
5. Shape dough into 1 to 1.5 inch balls and drop them onto cookie sheets (with either a baking sheet or parchment paper).  Using the back of a spoon (or your hand) slightly flatten out the top of each cookie.
6. Bake for 10-12 minutes (these cook FAST so watch them!)
7. Makes 15-18 cookies!

Enjoy!
-Domesticated Duchess

Gender Reveal Party - Number 2!

More babies!!  My friend Heather is due on September 1st!  I am so excited to meet the sweet little baby!  

On April 13th we hosted a gender reveal party for my friend Heather and her husband Henry!  I hosted another gender reveal party about 2 years ago, so I was definitely ready to throw another one!

This time to greet guests at the door, we had a sign ready:

Voting board - with stickers!  The final voting board was 13 to 12!  Very close!  

Name suggestion - same as last time!  I framed the invite next to the suggestions, just for an extra touch!

"What are you craving" Table!  This was a big hit and I got the idea from the "Jessica Craves it Table" from my last gender party I hosted.  In front of each food, I put a small sign "sweet" , "sour", "crunch", "chewy", "salty"!

THE SPREAD:

Sweet - cupcakes

Salty - Chips, Salsa & Spinach Dip

Sour - Fruit Trey

Chewy - Chocolate Chip Cookies

Crunchy - Veggie Trey with Ranch Dip!

Words of Wisdom for the new parents!  Last time we did "Wishes for Baby" so this was something fun and different!

Since I'm not a mom, I just thought of advice that
seem important in all big parts of life!

And finally, for the big reveal my friend Danni help me create the below box!  It is quite hard to decorate a massive box - but I think it is the cutest box ever :)!

The morning of the party I stuffed it with PINK balloons for the big reveal!  

We had so much fun celebrating!  Babies are a blessing - and we are excited to have another baby girl in our group of friends!

Throwing bridal showers and gender reveal showers could just be my favorite things!

-Domesticated Duchess