Another variation of Stephanie's cookies
Cherry Chocolate Cookies
1 white cake mix
1 cup Hershey chocolate syrup
3 eggs
1 cup chocolate chips
Cover 1/2 cup of dried cherries, 1 cup of chopped almonds & a shot of cherry brandy with boiling water and soak overnight. Drain and grind.
Grind chips.

Combine all ingredients into stiff batter.
Spread the dough in a jelly roll pan (a cookie sheet with sides).
Bake for about 20 minutes at 350 degrees F.

This is the frosting for the previous cookies, sprinkled with chocolate jimmies.
Got it years ago on Gail's Recipe Swap from: Dawn/NYS -- VERY sweet
caramel/butterscotch frosting
1 cup brown sugar, firmly packed
5 Tbsp butter
1/2 tsp salt
1/4 cup milk
1 1/2 cup confectioners (powdered) sugar
Sift sugar if lumpy, and combine sugar, butter, and salt in saucepan. Bring to a boil, stirring constantly.
Add milk and reduce to low heat; simmer for about 3 minutes. Let cool.
Add powdered sugar and whisk until thickened.

Chocolate Butterscotch Bar Cookies
1 Devil's Food cake mix
3 eggs
1/2 cup oil
1 cup chopped butterscotch chips

Mix together.
Spread thick dough in 15x11 cookie sheet
Bake for 20 minutes at 350 degrees.
Cool, remove, frost, cut in small squares.

Making toasted coconut/butterscotch blondies, blueberry cookies, and cowboy cookies for the apartment house this month.
Found the recipe for the blueberry cookies here - http://www.phuocndelicious.com/2011/05/20/marblised-chocolate-and-blueberry-cream-cheese-cookies/
We skipped the chocolate dough for marbling and used only the blueberry dough, They are a nice blue color with bits of fruit. The first pan at 12 minutes was a little too overdone, so the others were in for only 10 minutes.

The monthly cookie bake for the apartment house - 15 dozen fruit&nut oatmeal, 7 dozen peanut butter, and 6 dozen sugar.
I blame the hubby for the odd flower middles - he tilted the rack before they were dry and they flowed. We sent birds, flowers, alligators, lizards, roosters, and two varieties of fish; but Tommy wanted to keep all the caterpillars at home.

The ladies have requested more delicate, ladylike cookies; so I made some coconut macaroon-like ones using the recipe from the December 10th post.
Yellow cake mix,
1/2 cup oil,
2 large eggs,
3/4 cup chopped maraschino cherries and juice,
1 cup or so of coconut (ground finer in the Magic Bullet) and
2/3 cup finely-ground almonds.

Spread in a jellyroll pan.
Bake for about 20 minutes at 350 degrees F.
The pink icing uses the remaining maraschino cherry juice and more coconut. It's a lovely pink.
Will post photos later.

Here are a couple of Perler bead owls.
I saw a similar one recently, and will post the link when I locate it. I think the purple one needs some changing, so haven't ironed them yet.
Hope you like them.