Who's the best darn sister in the world?

So my sister is doing some kind of "for fun" group assignment for her class and she felt it was essential that she brought her friends over to our house. That means that Julie had to give up her morning cleaning the bathrooms, clearing the laundry and baking snacks. If this doesn't prove I love my sister, I don't know what will. HURR HURR.

But I enjoyed the baking part of it. If anything, it was incredibly therapeutic. Cleaning up after myself, however, was not.

(Here are my little babiez!)

Recipe for those of you interested!

Cookie Batter:
> 1-1/3 cups and 1 tablespoon all-purpose flour
> 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
> 1/4 teaspoon baking powder
> 1/2 cup butter, softened
> 3/4 cup white sugar
> 1/2 egg (beat up one egg and pour half of it into the mixture)
> 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract

1. Cream together butter & sugar
2. Add egg & vanilla
3. Mix together flour, baking soda, baking powder in a separate bowl.
4. Combine wet and dry ingredients.

I divided the batter in 3 because I made 3 kinds of cookies:

Cream Cheese Sandwich Cookies:

1. I added a few drops of red food coloring to 1/3 of the batter (just my preference)
2. Roll teaspoon-sized amounts of batter onto a baking sheet lined with parchment paper and flattened them out a little.
3. Bake at 375 for 8 minutes.
4. Take them out and leave them to cool in the tray for a little bit, and then move them to a cooling rack (I just used one of the oven racks hehehe...)

Cream Cheese Filling:
> 6 oz. cream cheese at room temperature
> 4 tbs unsalted butter at room temperature
> 1/2 cup of powdered sugar
> 1 tsp vanilla

5. Cream together butter and cream cheese, then add everything else and mix until smooth.
6. ASSEMBLE: pair up the cookies and sandwich them with some cream cheese.

**NOTE: I had a shit ton of cream cheese left...for me to eat. Perks of the job. But feel free to cut the filling recipe in half if you don't want to make too many.

"Milanos":

1. Roll teaspoon-sized amounts to he cookie sheet lined with parchment paper and flatten them a little bit.
2. Bake at 375 for 8 minutes.
3. Allow to cool just like before.

Chocolate Filling:

> About a 1/2 cup of chocolate truffles (or any other chocolate)
> A little over 1 tbs of milk

4. Melt chocolate and milk for 20 second intervals in the microwave until there are no lumps.
5. ASSEMBLE AS BEFORE.

Snickerdoodles
1. Roll teaspoon-sized amounts again.
2. Roll the batter in a mixture of cinnamon and sugar.
3. Bake at 375 for 8 minutes.

So in total, I made 8 of each sandwich cookie and 16 snickerdoodles, or 32 cookies. Unfortunately, I can't eat them *CREY*


IN OTHER NEWS:
My first driving lesson is today, and my first day as MENACE OF THE STREETS. *Vroom vroom!*