No Butter? No Problem.. Cookies

There are plenty of "no butter cookies" recipes on the internet, but this particular recipe is one that works best  for me.

What you will need:
1 1/2 cups flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 cup granulated sugar
1/2 cup packed light brown sugar
1/2 cup vegetable oil
1 large egg
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 cup chocolate chips(1/2 cup white, 1/2 cup milk)

What you need to do:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F
Stir together flour, baking soda, and salt.
In another bowl whisk both sugars, oil, egg, and vanilla. Slowly add the flour mixture, stir until blended. Stir in chocolate chips.

Use a tablespoon to scoop out dough and form into balls; place on ungreased cookie sheets. The dough balls will be bursting with chocolate chips.

Bake for about 12 minutes.

These cookies turned out to be very delicious. You can tell there is something missing, but they still taste amazing, and are quite fluffy.

Hedgehog Shortbread Cookies

This is a recipe I found on Pinterest.
To be honest I wasn't expecting mine to turn out...
 I figured I could make an ironic "nailed it" post,
but lo and behold they are not half bad.

What you need:
1 cup softened butter
3/4 cup sugar
1 egg
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
1 1/2 cup flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 bag chocolate chips
sliced almonds

What you need to do:
Mix the butter and the sugar, add the egg and vanilla. In a different bowl combine the flour, baking powder, and salt. Slowly add the dry ingredients to the rest, and mix well.

Squish the mixture into oval shapes with a point at the end for the hedgehog's nose. Put on cookie sheets and bake at 375 degrees Fahrenheit for about 10-15 minutes; until a toothpick comes out clean. I chose to drizzle chocolate on the cookies rather then dip them, but either way would obviously work. Sprinkle almonds on the wet chocolate and dot the eyes and nose. 

*How I melted my chocolate: I put a bag of chocolate chips in a big ziplock bag and microwaved it at 15 seconds intervals until it was smooth. I cut a corner of the bag off to create a nice way to squeeze out chocolate and create dots for the face.