Warm with a great cake cookie recipe

Good Morning Augusta

This morning we have partly to mostly cloudy skies with a high of 38ºF. Winds will be from the WSW at 5 to 10 mph.

Tonight it will be partly cloudy. Lows will be near 20ºF. Winds will be from the WNW at 5 to 10 mph.

The readings from my weather instruments in the North field are:

Humidity is 86%, the dew point is 19ºF, outside it's -5.0ºC and 23.0ºF.

The wind direction is Southeast between 0.4 MPH and 1.3 MPH, generating a wind chill of 23.0ºF.

The Barometric pressure is 29.59 / HPA 1003.3 and rising with a weather graphic indicating sun.

The UV rating is 0 out of 16, Sunrise is at 7:00 a.m. Sunset is 4:44 P.M. Moon rise is at 7:51 a.m., Moon set is 6:45 p.m. and tonight we have a new moon.   

The RAW METAR reading from the airport in Augusta maine is:

No METAR reading is available from the airportr today.

Visibility is 10.0 miles / 16.1 Kilometers with

We didn't receive any rain or snow here over the past 24 hours.

Space Weather for this morning is:

Today's Solar flux is 78, the solar wind speed is 480 Kilometers per second and the chance of a solar storm is 1%.

Okay, now that the weather is starting to loosen up a little bit, how about a recipe that produces something you can put in a napkin and drop in your pocket while you're outside chipping up that stubborn patch of ice?

CREAM CHEESE CAKE MIX COOKIES (Oh yeah, Good!)

1 box cake mix, any flavor

8 oz. cream cheese, room temperature

¼ cup butter, room temperature (margarine is okay)

1 large egg

1 tsp. vanilla (optional, depending on cake mix flavor; substitute accordingly)

1 cup any add-ins (flavored chips, candy, nuts, etc.).  Amounts can be varied according to taste.

          For chocolate chip cookies, you might need a 12 oz. bag of chocolate chips.

DIRECTIONS:

Preheat oven to 375⁰.  Cream together butter and cream cheese.  Add egg and vanilla; mix until well blended. 

Stir in cake mix a little at a time until it's all blended.  Add any add-ins you like.

Spoon onto a cookie sheet (line with parchment or foil), and bake for about 10 min. until edges are brown.  Cookie tops will feel soft but the inside should be almost dry with a good crumb.

Makes about 4 dozen cookies without snitching.