Pretzel Rolls and Button Cookies

If you don't know this already, I'll say it again...I am obsessed with Pinterest!
Some of my recent pins include pretzel rolls and button cookies.

I borrowed took hostage my MIL's KitchenAid mixer to make the cookies but decided to take advantage of the mixer and make the pretzels rolls, as well.

So, yesterday I gave the pretzels rolls a try.

On a scale from 1-5 with 5 being difficult, they were about a 3. The recipe itself was super easy to follow with simple ingredients... they were just invloved and time consuming. I had to mix the dough and let it rise for an hour. Then roll each individual roll out and let them rise again for another 30 mintues. After that I had to boil them for 30 seconds on each side in a water and baking soda mixture.

But let me tell you, they were DELISH and very much worth the time! So good!

 

I ended up using them to make chicken and swiss cheese sandwiches. Yum!

Then this morning I starting making button cookies for my SIL's baby shower that is this Saturday. It's amazing how much easier making cookies is when you have a mixer!

The cookies were super easy. I found a simple recipe on allrecipes.com which only called for 4 ingredients: butter, sugar, flour and vanilla.

Batch #1 is finished. I still have a purple batch and a peach batch to go.

 I don't think I am ever going to give the mixer back to my MIL!  :oP