I wanted to bake a treat for my non peanut butter, non chocolate loving work friends. And I needed to make them quickly after running errands, so I opted for sugar cookies using melted butter. The dough does not need chilling. The cookies come out nice and soft and thick.
I used a combo of all purpose flour and bread flour. You can entirely use all purpose flour. Scoop your flour from your flour bag into your measuring cup so you get the right amount. Also preheat your oven before baking.
Ingredients list
1/2 cup butter, melted
3/4 cup sugar
1 egg yolk
2 tsp vanilla
3/4 cup plus 2 tbs flour
1/4 cup bread flour
1/2 tbs cornstarch
1/4 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
Directions – preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line a cookie sheet with nonstick baking liners. In a bowl, mix melted butter and sugar. Blend in yolk and vanilla. Stir in dry ingredients. Scoop out 1/4 cups of dough. Roll into balls and slightly flatten. Stagger on prepared cookie sheet. Sprinkle tops with extra sugar. Bake 11 to 14 minutes, no longer. (Bottoms will be light golden). Cool completely. Frost with a simple vanilla frosting, if desired.
Frosting ingredients
2 tbs butter, melted
2 cups powdered sugar
1 tsp vanilla
Heavy cream or milk
In a bowl, combine butter, powdered sugar and vanilla. Add enough milk or cream to get the consistency you want. Frost cookies. Store in covered container.
In honor of the US women’s Olympic hockey team winning the gold medal and our men’s team taking on Canada for gold Sunday, I really wanted to step up my dessert game. I saw Costco has this new chocolate chip cookie bar cake – a chocolate cake layer, creamy filling with pieces of edible cookie dough, chocolate chip cookie cake, topped with a thin layer of chocolate frosting. I think next time, I would put the cookie cake layer on the bottom (because it is kind of heavy) or make a yellow layer and add chocolate chips to it. It took a while to make, but the weather is not great, so why not try this?
Remember to scoop your flour from your flour bag into your measuring cups so you get the right amount. Same goes for your powdered sugar and baking cocoa. And, preheat your oven before baking.
Before you start this process, take out 4 and 1/2 sticks of butter and set aside, so they soften.
Also take out 3/4 cup ice cream and put in a cup before baking, in the fridge, so it melts.
I used chocolate chip cookie dough
I didn’t want to make this using 9×13 pans, so I found these 8×10 at the dollar tree.
Fudgy chocolate cake layer ingredients
1/2 cup butter, melted
1 1/4 cups brown sugar, firmly packed into measuring cups
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla
1 cup flour
1 /4 cup plus 2 tbs unsweetened baking cocoa
1/2 tso baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 cup hot water
Directions -Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line an 8×10 pan with parchment paper and set aside. In a bowl, combine melted butter and brown sugar. Add eggs and vanilla. Mix in dry ingredients. Pour in water and just stir until batter evenly blended. Pour into prepared pan. Bake 25 to 30 minutes, until a toothpick inserted in center comes out with a few moist crumbs. Cool completely.
Chocolate chip cookie cake ingredients
1 cup butter, melted and cooled 5 minutes
1 cup brown sugar, firmly packed into measuring cup
3/4 cup sugar
2 eggs
1 egg yolk
2 tsp vanilla
2 1/2 cups flour
1 tbs cornstarch
1/2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp salt
1 cup chocolate chips (plus 1/2 cup)
Directions – preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line an 8×10 pan with tin foil and spray with baking spray. Set aside. In a bowl, blend butter, sugar, brown sugar, eggs, yolk and vanilla. Add dry ingredients. Mix in 1 cup chips. Press into prepared pan. Sprinkle 1/2 cup chips on top. Gently press down gently. Bake 30 minutes (edges will be golden). Cool completely.
Ice cream flavored filling ingredients
1/2 cup butter, softened
3/4 cup ice cream, melted
3 1/2 cups powdered sugar
Milk
Directions – in a bowl, using a hand mixer, blend butter and melted ice cream smooth. Slowly, blend in powdered sugar and enough milk to get the consistency you want.
Edible cookie dough ingredients
2 cup flour (heated in a microwave safe bowl for 60 seconds for safety purposes)
1/4 cup butter, softened
1/2 cup brown sugar, firmly packed into measuring cup
1 tsp vanilla
1/2 cup mini chocolate chips
Directions – in a bowl, using a hand mixer, beat brown sugar and butter for 2 minutes. Add vanilla. Mix in flour then mini chips. Scoop out tsp of dough. Set aside.
Chocolate frosting ingredients
2 tbs butter, melted
2 tbs unsweetened baking cocoa
2 cups powdered sugar
2 tbs milk
Directions – in a bowl, blend butter and cocoa. Mix in powdered sugar. Add enough milk to get the consistency you want.
Now it’s time to assemble this monstrosity! I am putting this together like Costco does… but next time, I think I will put the chocolate chip cookie cake layer on the bottom, perhaps leave out the cookie dough pieces from the filling and maybe skip the frosting, or drizzle melted chocolate chips.
These are for another Team USA men’s hockey win (featuring a goal by Buffalo Sabres forward Tage Thompson) and for gameday for the US women’s hockey team vs Sweden.
A while back, I found a recipe that had some sort of marshmallow swirl in brownies. Of course I can’t find thst recipe, but it go me thinking of making a vanilla version of a treat with crushed golden oreos
and fluff.
And instead of vanilla flavoring, I used cake batter extract for a different flavor. For the frosting, I used some crushed oreos, fluff and cake extract too.
Remember to scoop your flour from your flour bag into your measuring cup so you get the right amount. (Same for the powdered sugar for the frosting).
Ingredients list
3/4 butter, softened
3/4 cup sugar
1 1/2 eggs
1 tsp cake batter extract (you cam use vanilla instead)
2 tbs water
2 1/4 cups flour
11/2 tsp baking powder
5 tbs marshmallow fluff
10 golden oreos, finely crushed
Directions – in a bowl, cream butter and sugar. Add egg and a half, water and extract. Blend in dry ingredients. Mix in fluff then crushed oreos. Scoop out 1/4 cups dough. Chill a few hours. When ready to bake, preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line a cookie sheet with nonstick baking liners or parchment paper. Stagger cookies on sheet.
Bake 11 to 13 minutes. No longer. Cool completely.
Frosting ingredients list
6 tbs butter, softened
2 1/4 cups powdered sugar
2 tbs cream
5 tbs fluff
1 tsp cake batter
In a bowl, cream butter and powdered sugar. Mix in cream, fluff and extract. Frost cookies.
Another option to use my heart shaped cookie cutters on – melted butter sugar cookies.
Another tweak after making some cookies with softened butter and another batch with crisco. These come together quickly and are super soft.
Remember to scoop your flour from your flour bag into your measuring cup so you get the right amount. And, remember to preheat your oven before baking.
Ingredients list
1/2 cup butter, melted
1 cup sugar
1 egg
2 tsp vanilla
2 tbs water
2 1/2 cups flour
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
Directions – preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper. In a bowl, combine butter and sugar. Add egg, water and vanilla. I added some red food color here to make the cookie dough pink. (Totally optional step)
Mix in dry ingredients. If dough seems a little dry, add another tbs or two of water. Sprinkle flour on a flat surface to desired thickness. Cut out cookies.
Place on prepared sheet. Bake 7 to 10 minutes.
These look remarkably similar after baking!
Cool completely. Frost with vanilla frosting.
Store in covered container. Thanks so much for stopping by
I am trying to find different cutout recipes to use my heart shaped cookie cutters, so I thought “why not brown sugar cinnamon sugar? And I was in a bit of a hurry, so I decided to use brown butter too.
Remember to scoop your flour from your flour bag into your measuring cup so you get the right amount. Also preheat your oven to 375 degrees before baking.
Ingredients list
10 tbs butter
1/2 cup brown sugar, firmly packed into measuring cup
2 tbs egg beaters or egg whites (or one half of an egg
2 tbs water
1 3/4 cups flour
1 tbs cornstarch
1 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
1 tsp cinnamon
Directions – preheat oven to 375 degrees. Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper. Set aside. In a pan, over medium low heart, brown butter. It takes 10 minutes or so and looks like this.
Pour in a bowl and let it sit at room temp for 10 minutes. Blend in brown sugar. Mix in water and egg beaters/egg whites/half egg. Blend in dry ingredients. If dough seems a little dry, add another tbs or 2 of water. Sprinkle fllour a flat surface to whatever thickness you want. cut out cookies.
place on prepared sheet.
Bake 7 to 9 minutes. Cool completely.
Frost or make sandwich cookies. I used a buttercream frosting and added cinnamon sugar.
With Valentine’s day approaching, I am trying to make as many different varieties of cutout cookies using my heart cookie cutters. These use crisco in the cookies and you can leave them plain, sprinkle sugar on top before baking or frost them, after they are completely cooled,with a simple vanilla frosting.
1 1/3 cups crisco
1 1/2 ,cups sugar
1 egg
1 1/2 tbs plus 1 tsp milk
2 cups flour
11/2 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
Directions – preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper. Set aside. in a bowl, cream crisco and sugar. Add egg, milk and vanilla. Blend in dry ingredients. Sprinkle a clean, flat surface with flour. Cut out cookies and stagger on prepared sheet.
Another frigid day, so another baking day for me. Instead of making snowball or mini chip snowball cookies, I opted for bar form. One half contains mini chocolate chips, the other side is plain. And I frosted them.
Remember to scoop your flour from your flour bag into your measuring cup so you get the right amount (same goes for the powdered sugar). Preheat your oven to 350 degrees before baking.
Ingredients list
1 cup butter, softened
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup powdered sugar
1 egg
1 tsp vanilla
2 1/4 cups flour
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
1 cup mini chocolate chips
Directions – preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line and 8×8 pan with tin foil and spray with baking spray. In a bowl, cream butter, sugar and powdered sugar. Add egg and vanilla. Mix in dry ingredients. Scoop out 1/2 of dough and evenly spread into one side of the prepared pan. Add mini chips to rest of dough. Spread evenly into other side of pan.
Bake 25 minutes, no longer. Remove from oven and sprinkle powdered sugar on top. Cool completely. I then frosted them with vanilla frosting.
The other day I made huge chocolate chip cookies, so today I decided to made some pretty big peanut butter cookies.
These use a combo of bread and all purpose flour, but you can use just all purpose flour if you want.
Remember to scoop flour from your flour bag into your measuring cups so you get the right amount.
Ingredients list
1 /2 cup butter, browned
1/2 cup peanut butter
3/4 cup brown sugar, firmly packed into measuring cup
1/4 cup sugar
1 egg
2 tsp vanilla
2 to 4 tbs heavy cream
1 1/4 cups all purpose flour
1/2 cup bread flour
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
1/2 cup peanuts, finely ground
Extra sugar
Directions – preheat oven to 375 degrees. line a cookie sheet with parchment paper. In a bowl, combine butter, peanut butter, sugar and brown sugar. Add egg, vanilla and 2 tbs heavy cream. Mix in dry ingredients. if dough seems a little dry, add more heavy cream. Divide dough into 3 equal pieces, then divide each of those pieces in half. Roll into balls, then each in extra sugar. Stagger cookies on sheet. Bake 14 to 15 minutes, no longer. Cool completely. Store in covered container.
Today’s cookies are somewhere between the size of a baseball and softball. Felt appropriate give, the Bills introduced new coach Joe Brady and it is Sabres game night.
A listener sent me a link fir the recipe from AK pizza in Seattle. I changed it to cups and tsp in measurements and for baking in a conventional oven. Really pleased with how these came out. I brought an actual sharp knife into work so people can cut them up.
Scoop your flours from their containers into measuring cups so you get the right amount, firmly packed brown sugar into measuring cups and chill dough a few days before baking.
Don’t cook these longer than 7 minutes or the bottoms will burn.
Ingredients list
1/2 cup butter
1/4 cup butter, softened
1 2/3 cups brown sugar
1 cup and 2 tbs white sugar
1/3 cup heavy cream
1/3 cup dried milk powder
1/4 tsp salt
2 1/4 tsp baking powder
2 1/3 tsp baking soda
2 eggs
1 yolk
2 tsp vanilla
1 cup bread flour
4 cups flour
2 cups chocolate chips
Directions – in a saucepan, brown butter over medium heat. Remove from heat. Add milk powder then cream. Chill in fridge an hour. Them, add sugar, brown sugarand vanilla. Mix in eggs and yolk. Stir in dry ingredients. Fold in chips.. scoop out 3/4 cups dough. Chill 2 days. Line cookie sheet with parchme paper. Preheat oven to 435 degrees (that is correct). Stagger cookies on sheet. Bake 7 minutes, no longer.
It’s been a week that’s felt like a year. From the Bills’ season ending loss to Sean getting fired to the team’s press conference that got everyone all kinds of worked up. And it is Sabres gameday, which is a beacon of light. So I present quadruple chip cookies. These are made with browned butter, all purpose and bread flour, and four kinds of chips – semisweet, dark, mini and milk chocolate.
Scoop your flour from your four containers into your measuring cup so you get the right amount. Firmly packed brown sugar into measuring cups. And preheat oven before baking. Don’t bake longer than 13 minutes.
Ingredients list
11/4 cups butter, browned
1 1/2 cups brown sugar
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla
1 tsp salt
2 tbs water
1 1/3 cups bread flour
11/3 cups all purpose flour
1 1/2 tsp baking powder
3/4 tsp baking soda
1/2 cup semisweet chocolate chips
1/2 cup milk chocolate chips
1/2 cup mini chocolate chips
1/2 cup dark chocolate chips
Directions – preheat oven to 350 degrres. Place butter in a fry pan and cook over medium heat until brown specs appear, likely 7 to 10 minutes. Place in fridge for 20 minutes to cool. In a bowl, mix butter and brown sugar. Add eggs, water, vanilla and salt. Blend in flour, baking powder and baking soda. Mix in chips. Line cookie sheets with parchment paper. Scoop out 1/4 cups of dough. Stagger on prepared sheets. Bake 13 min, no longer. Cool completely. Store in covered container.
cookies by christine 