Cookies # 5 & 6

Cookie #5 - Lemon Sour Cream Cookies

 

Ingredients:

     

    3 cups flour

    1 t. baking powder

    1/2 t. baking soda

    1/2 t. salt

    16 T. butter

    1 1/2 cups sugar

    2 eggs

    1 cup sour cream

    2 t. lemon zest (plus 1/4 cup juice)

    1 oz. cream cheese

    3 cups confectioner's sugar

 

Nevada's Cookies

 

My Cookies

Of course, at this point I don't remember much about the baking of these cookies but they turned out pretty good.

Cookie #6 - Pumpkin Cheesecake Bars

Ingredients:

    1 can pumpkin
    2 t. pumpkin pie spice
    1/2 t. salt
    15 whole graham crackers (crumbled)
    1/4 cup sugar
    1 t. ground ginger
    8 t. butter
    1 pound cream cheese
    1 T. lemon juice
    2 t. vanilla
    4 eggs

These were pretty good and I made them in early December and then again for Christmas. 

 

Batch #1

 

 

Still Batch #1

 

Nevada's Cheesecake Bars

Not sure you can tell, but Nevada's bars were much lighter than mine -- when making my second batch I realized that I had only used half the cream cheese.  I'm guessing that she had made it correctly.  In my second batch, I did some feathering, which turned out okay.  I pulled out some of the cream cheese mixture before adding the pumpkin and used it for the feathering -- I used about a cup.  If I make it again, I will use less of the cream cheese mixture.