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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Rob asked for brownies today, with some crushed oreos on top. So I made those, cut out a few for him and wantes to make the rest a little fancy, so I topped them with caramel frosting, melted milk chocolate chips and crushed oreos.
My caramel layer got a little thicker and harder to than I wanted, because I went to let Gracie in and the cold air hit it and really made it too thick to spread, so I microwaved it for 30 seconds and was able to spread it.
Remember to scoop your flour from your flour bag into your measuring cup so you get the right amount. Also preheat your oven to 350 degrees before baking.
Brownies ingredients
1 cup butter
1 3/4 cups dark chocolate chips
1 1/2 cups sugar
1/2 cup brown sugar, firmly packed into measuring cup
5 eggs
2 tsp vanilla
1 1/4 cups flour
1 tsp salt
2 tbs special dark cocoa
1 cup chocolate chips
Crushed oreos
Directions – preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line a 9×13 pan with tin foil and spray with baking spray. Set aside. In a microwave safe bowl, melt butter and dark chocolate chips. Mix in brown sugar and sugar. One at a time, beat in eggs, then vanilla. Do not overnight. Blend in dry ingredients. Mix in chips. Evenly spread into pan. Sprinkle crushed oreos on top. Bake 25 to 30 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in center comes out with a few moist crumbs. Cool completely. Using the bottom of a wooden spoon, poke holes, about halfway down, in brownies.
Caramel frosting ingredients
6 tbs butter
1 3/4 cups brown sugar, firmly packed into measuring cups
1/4 cup plus 3 tbs heavy cream
Pinch of salt
2 tsp vanilla
Directions – in a saucepan, heat butter, brown sugar, heavy cream and salt over medium heat to a boil, stirring occasionally. Once boiling, contstantly stir until thick (from 5 to 10 minutes). Remove from heat and add vanilla. Wait a minute or two, then pour over brownies. Let set about 5 minutes.
In a microwave safe bowl, melt 1 cups milk chocolate chips in 45 seconds until you can stir melted. Pour over caramel layer. Top with more crushed oreos.
I had a lot of leftover chocolate chip cookie dough from my cookie dough cookies, so I made some brownie cookies to help use it up! I also used ice cream frosting on top. You can use any flavor ice cream (i used cookie dough), or you can use a vanilla buttercream.
Remember to scoop your flour from your flour bag into your measuring cup so you get the right amount. After you scoop out the individual doughs, chill a few hours or overnight. And preheat your oven before baking.
Cookie dough ingredients
2 tbs butter, softened
1/4 cup brown sugar
1/2 tbs heavy cream
1 tsp vanilla
1/4 cup flour (heated in a microwave safe container for 30 seconds)
2 tbs mini chocolate chips
Directions – in a bowl, cream butter and brown sugar for 3 minutes. Add vanilla and cream. Mix in flour. Blend in chips. Scoop out tsp of dough and freeze.
6 tbs butter, melted
1 1/2 cups
1 tsp vanilla
4 tbs corn syrup (or honey)
1 tbs vanilla
2 egg whites
1 1/2 cups flour
1 cup baking cocoa (I used rodelle dark)
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
Directions – in a bowl, mix butter, and sugar. Add egg whites, vanilla and corn syrup. Blend in dry ingredients. Scoop out 1/4 cups of dough. Chill a few hours or overnight. When ready to bake, preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line a cookie sheet with nonstick baking liners. Stagger cookies on sheet. Bake 10 to 12 minutes, no longer. Cool completely.
Frosting list
1/4 cup butter, softened
1 cup powdered sugar
1 tsp vanilla
2 tbs ice cream, melted
In a bowl, blend butter, powdered sugar and vanilla. Blend in ice cream. Add more powdered sugar if you want a thicker consistency.
Frost cookies.
Top with cookie dough bites and store in covered container
cookies by christine 