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Frosted oatmeal cookie bars

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I didn’t have time to make oatmeal cookies, so I made them in bar form.   And I frosted them with a simple vanilla frosting.  Perfect for Sabres game day and our ESPN Radio broadcast of the Big 12 title game tonight.

Remember to scoop your flour from your flour bag into your measuring cup so you get the right amount.  And preheat your oven before baking.

  • Ingredients list
  • 1 cup butter, melted
  • 2 cups brown sugar, firmly packed into measuring cup
  • 1/4 cup molasses
  • 1 tsp vanilla
  • 2 eggs
  • 2 cups quick oats
  • 1 tsp cinnamon
  • 1 tsp baking powder
  • 1 1/2 cups flour

Directions – preheat oven to 350 degrees.  Line a 10×15 pan with tin foil and spray with pam. Set aside. In a bowl, mix butter and brown sugar.  Add molasses and vanilla.  Mix in eggs.  Stir in remaining ingredients.   Evenly press into prepared pan (I moistened my hands with water to do this).  Bake 20 to 24 minutes, no longer.  Cool completely.

  • Frosting ingredients list
  • 1 1/2 cups butter
  • 3 to 4 cups powdered sugar
  • Heavy cream or milk (enough to get the consistency you want)
  • 1 tsp vanilla

Directions- combine ingredients in a bowl.  Frost bars.

Cut and store in covered container

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Go Sabres!

2 kinds of chips cookies with crushed cookie dough oreos

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On this Friday,  I present milk chocolate and semisweet chocolate chip cookies with crushed cookie dough oreos.   (I wanted to use up the oreos I had left).  These are large and puffy and spectacular!

Remember to scoop your flour from your flour bag into your measuring cup so you get the right amount.   And chill the individual doughs for a few hours before breaking.  As always, preheat your oven before baking.

  • Ingredients list
  • 1 cup butter, softened
  • 1/2 cup crisco
  • 1 1/2 cups brown sugar, firmly packed into measuring cups
  • 3/4 cup sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • 2 tsp vanilla
  • 3 3/4 cups flour
  • 2 tsp baking soda
  • 1 tsp baking powder
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 1 cup crushed cookie dough oreos
  • 1 cup milk chocolate chips
  • 1 cup semisweet chips

Directions- in a bowl, cream butter, crisco, sugar, and brown sugar.  Add eggs and vanilla.  Blend in dry ingredients, then crushed oreos.  If dough seems a little dry, add a tbs or 2 of water.  Mix in chips.  Scoop out 1/4 cups dough.  Chill a few hours. When ready to bake, preheat oven to 350 degrees.  Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper.  Stagger cookies on sheet. 

Bake 13 to 15 minutes, no longer.   Cool completely.

   Store in covered container.

Melted butter sugar cookies

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I needed to bake something for my non chocolate loving,  non peanut butter loving friends.  So a sugar cookie is perfect.  Plus everyone loves a sugar cookie.  With or without frosting.

  • Ingredients list
  • 1/2 cup butter, melted
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 1 egg
  • 2 tsp vanilla
  • 1 1/2 cups flour
  • 1 cup bread flour
  • 1/2 tsp baking powder
  • 1/2 tsp salt

Directions – in a bowl, mix sugar and melted butter.  Add egg and vanilla.  Blend in dry ingredients.    If dough seems too dry, add a tbs or two.  Scoop out 3 tbs of dough,  roll into balls then in extra sugar. Chill a few hours.    Preheat oven to 350 degrees.  Bake 7 to 9 minutes.  Cool completely.

  • Frosting ingredients
  • 1/4 cup butter, softened
  • 1 1/2 cups powdered sugar
  • 1 tsp vanilla milk

Frost and store in covered container.

Chocolate snowball cookies

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My hockey team’s won 8 in a row ans to celebrate,  I made these chocolate snowball cookies that resemble pucks, but are soft and sweet.  Only a few ingredients and a piece of cake to make.

Go Sabres!

  • Ingredients list
  • 1/2 cup butter, melted
  • 1/4 cup sugar
  • 2 tbs cocoa powder
  • 2 tsp vanilla
  • 1 tbs hershey syrup
  • 1 cup flour
  • 1/2 tsp salt

Directions- in a bowl, combine butter and sugar.  Add remaining ingredients.  If dough seems a little dry, add more hershey syrup.   Scoop out 1/4 cups dough.  Chill a few hours.  Preheat oven to 350 degrees.  Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper.  Bake 10 to 15 minutes.  After removing from oven, sprinkle hot cookies with powdered sugar. 

Cool completely.   Store in covered container.

Chocolate chip cookies with crushed chips ahoy

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I am a big fan of adding crushed cookies or crushed nuts to treats to take it up a notch.  These chocolate chip cookies have some finely crushed chips ahoy mixed in the cookies and sprinkled on top before baking. 

I chilled the individual mounds of dough for a few days and they stayed nice and puffy.   Remember to scoop your flour from your bag into your measuring cup so you get the right amount.  And, preheat your oven before baking

  • Ingredients list
  • 1 cup butter, softened
  • 1/2 cup crisco
  • 3/4 cup sugar
  • 11/2 cups brown sugar, firmly packed into measuring cup
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 tsp vanilla
  • 3 3/4 cups flour
  • 2 tsp baking soda
  • 1 tsp baking powder
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 2 cups finely crushed  chips ahoy
  • 1 cup chocolate chips (I used mini in these)

Directions – in a bowl, cream butter, crisco, sugar and brown sugar.  Add eggs and vanilla.  Mix in dry ingredients, then crushed chips ahoy.  Stir in mini chips.  Scoop out 1/4 cups dough. 

Roll tops and sides of individual doughs  in extra crushed chips ahoy.

Chill a few hours.  When ready to bake, preheat oven to 350 degrees.  Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper, stagger cookies on sheet. 

Bake 13 to 15 minutes, no longer.  

This is what happens when you forget to set the timer and have to keep checking the bottoms of the cookies with a spatula

Cool completely.   Store in covered container.

Peanut butter cookies nutritional yeast version

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I substituted 1/4 cup toasted active yeast (also can use 1/4 cup ground cashews or almonds)

  • 1/2 cup butter
  • 1 /4 cup brown sugar
  • 1/4 cup sugar
  • 1 egg
  • 1 tbs vanilla
  • 3/4 cup peanut butter
  • 1 1/4 cups flour
  • 1/2 tsp baking soda
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 1/4 cup nutritional yeast
  • 1/2 cup finely ground peanuts (opt)

Cream butter, peanut butter, brown sugar, sugar, vanilla and egg.  Add dry ingredients then ground peanuts (if using)  divide dough into 12 equal pieces.  Roll in sugar.  Chill 2 hours or more. 

Bake at 350 for 10 minutes.  No longer

Black cocoa sugar cookie bars

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Instead of brownies, I thought I would make chocolate sugar cookie bars with black cocoa.  And topped with ganache (a fancy word for melted chocolate and heavy cream). 

Remember to scoop your flour from your flour bag into your measuring cup so you get the right amount (same for the black cocoa).  And preheat your oven to 350 degrees before baking.

  • Ingredients list
  • 1 cup butter, softened
  • 2 cups sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 tsp chocolate extract (or vanilla)
  • 2 cups flour
  • 1 cup black cocoa
  • 1 tsp baking powder
  • 1/2 tsp salt

Directions- preheat oven to 350 degrees.   Line a 9×13 pan with parchment paper and set aside.  In a bowl, cream butter and sugar.  Add eggs and extract.  Blend in dry ingredients,  slowly.   Evenly spread into prepared pan.  Bake 20 to 22 minutes, no longer.   Cool completely.

  • Ganache ingredients
  • 3/4 cup heavy cream
  • 2 cups chocolate chips

Directions- in a microwave safe bowl, heat cream 2 minutes.  Add chocolate chips.  Let sit 3 minutes.  Stir smooth.   Let sit 10 minutes, then frost bars. 

Cut and store in covered container..

Carrot cake snickerdoodle bars with mini chocolate chips and cream cheese frosting

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I noticed a carrot cake mix and a snickerdoodle cookie mix and thought they’d be perfect together in bar form, with some mini chocolate chips and cream cheese frosting.   Super easy recipe for the bars  just 5 ingredients! 

A perfect treat for Sabres game day as we go for a 6th straight win!

  • Ingredients list
  • 1 carrot cake mix
  • 1 snickerdoodle mix (minus the cinnamon sugar packet)
  • 3 eggs
  • 1 cup butter, melted
  • 1 cup mini chocolate chips (opt)

Directions – line a 9×13 pan with tin foil and spray with baking spray.  Set aside.   Preheat oven to 350 degrees.  In a bowl, blend cookie and cake mixes.  Mix in eggs and melted butter.  Stir in chips.  Evenly spread into prepared pan.  Bake 18 to 22  minutes (no longer).  Cool completely.  

  • Frosting ingredients
  • 1/2 cup butter, softened
  • 8 oz cream cheese, softened
  • 3 cups powdered sugar (scooped from container into your measuring cup so you get the right amount)
  • 2 tbs heavy cream
  • 1 tsp vanilla

Directions – in a bowl, cream butter and cream cheese.  Slowly blend in powdered sugar. Mix in vanilla and cream.  Frost bars. 

  Cut and store in covered container in fridge

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Toasted sugar, graham cracker, milk chocolate chip cookies stuffed with mallo cups

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Now that’s a cookie!

I had a bag of mallo cups and wanted to use them up, so I thought of making a s’mores related treat. 

I also have seen some articles that suggest using toasted sugar in cookie recipes, so I thought i would use the mallo cups stuffed in milk chocolate chip cookies made with toasted sugar and some finely ground graham crackers.

Stuffed with mallo cups

First about toasting the sugar- you don’t have to.. but if you want to – place the cup of sugar on a cookie sheet and spread to a relatively thin layer.  Bake in a preheated oven (350 degrees) for 15 minutes, or so, stirring every so often, until sugar is a light golden, like below.

I also used a combo of all purpose flour and bread flour.   Bread flour makes cookies a little more chewy.  You can use just all purpose flour entirely.

These are stuffed with Reese’s pb hearts (the mini chips are the marker)

Remember to scoop your flour from your flour bag into your measuring cup so you get the right amount.  I recommend chilling the dough a few hours before baking.  And, preheat the oven before baking.

  • Ingredients list
  • 1 cup butter, softened
  • 1 cup brown sugar, firmly packed into measuring cup
  • 1 cup sugar, toasted (see above for directions)
  • 3 1/2 tsp baking powder
  • 2 tsp baking soda
  • 2 tsp salt
  • 4 eggs
  • 3 cups all purpose flour
  • 1 1/2 cups bread flour
  • 1/2 cup finely crushed graham cracker crumbs
  • 2 cups milk chocolate chips
  • Mallo cups

Directions – in a bowl, cream butter, brown sugar, toasted sugar, baking soda, baking powder and salt.  Add eggs and blend well.  Mix in flours, then graham cracker crumbs.  If dough seems a bit dry, add a tbs or two of water.   Scoop out 1/ cup of dough.

Divide in half and slightly flatten each half.  

  On one half, place a mallo cups.

Top with other flattened half and seal edges. 

Chill a few hours.  When ready to bake, preheat oven to 350 degrees.  Line a cookie sheet with nonstick baking liners. Stagger cookies on sheet.  Bake 16 to 20 minutes (golden spots on top).  Cool completely.  Store in covered container.

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Chocolate cake mix cookies stuffed with cookie dough oreos!

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I found these oreos in the “aisle of shame” at aldi. 

If you are not familiar with it, it is an aisle of stuff you “probably” don’t need, but the price is great and you think “why not”?   That aisle is the best!  It is how I wound up with an electric cake pop maker and churro maker (both work like the George foreman electric plug in grill), which i have yet to use.  Each was 7$.

Use any cake mix flavor and any oreo flavor you want.  I used chocolate cake mix and cookie dough oreos today.

Preheat your oven to 350 degrees before baking.

  • Ingredients list
  • 1 cake mix
  • 1/3 cup vegetable oil
  • 1 egg
  • 2 tbs
  • Oreos

Directions – preheat oven to 350 degrees.  Line a cookie sheet with nonstick baking liners.  In a bowl, mix cake mix, oil, egg and water.  Scoop out 3 tbs dough.

Divide in half.  Flatten both.   Lay one half on a flattened surface.

Top with an oreo.

Place other flattened half on top and seal edges. 

Stagger on cookie sheet. 

Bake 10 minutes, no longer.  Cool completely.   Store in covered container.

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