The second treat for our game 4 win – extra large puffy peanut butter cookies rolled in sugar. Sometimes in the playoffs, the victory treat game must be stepped up.
Ingredients list
1 cup butter, softened
1 1/2 cups sugar, firmly packed into measuring cup
1/2 cup sugar
1 cup peanut butter
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla
3 1/2 cups cake flour
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp salt
1 cup peanuts, finely ground
Perfectly puffy!
Directions – in a bowl, cream butter, sugar, brown sugar and peanut butter. Add eggs and vanilla.. blend in dry ingredients then peanuts. Scoop out 1/4 cups dough. Roll in extra sugar. 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 14 minutes, no longer.
Due to time constraints, life stuff and work, am a little late in baking these treats for our first playoff series win in 19 years, but i feel i made up for it with my effort – these cookie bars have 3 types of chips (semisweet, milk, and white,
2 kinds of m&ms (regular and mini peanut butter,
and crushed chips ahoy cookies….
with hershey kisses on top!
It was stressful, but wonderful watching our sabres win game 6 in Boston and move on (as a Buffalo fan, ending a Boston team’s season is sweet, considering all the pain they have caused us). Now, we meet up and meet Tampa or Montreal in round 2!
These treats I jazzed up a lot. You can keep them simple, if you like. You absolutely do not need to add the crushed chips ahoy!
1/2 cup butter, softened
1/2 cup shortening
3/4 cup sugar
3/4 cup brown sugar, firmly packed into measuring cup
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla
2 1/2 cups flour
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
14 chips ahoy, finely crushed (opt)
2 1/2 cups worth of chips, m&ms or whatever additions you want.
Directions – preheat oven to 375 degrees. Line a 9×13 pan with tin foil and spray w pam. Set aside. In a bowl, cream butter, crisco, sugar and briwn sugar. Add eggs and vanilla. Fold in dry ingredients. Mix in crushed chips ahoy then m&ms and chips. Evenly spread into pan.
Bake 18 minutes. No longer. Remove from oven and immediately press hershey kisses on top.
Rob bought some almond m&ms and I thought they would be perfect in a cookie!
I used a basic chocolate chip cookie recipe, instead of vanilla, I used almond extract. I also used part bread flour along with all purpose flour. They spread out a little more than I prefer, so maybe next time I add a little more flour and bake the dough frozen to see if that helps.
Remember to scoop your flour from your flour bag into your measuring cup so you get the right amount, freeze the individual doughs before baking and preheat your oven before baking.
Ingredients list
1 cup butter, softened
1 1/4 cups brown sugar, firmly packed into measuring cup
1/2 cup sugar
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla
2 cups flour
1 cup bread flour
1 tbs cornstarch
1 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp salt
1 cup of almond m&ms
1/2 cup milk chocolate chips
Directions – in a bowl, cream butter, sugar, and brown sugar. Add eggs and vanilla. Blend in dry ingredients then m&ms and chips. Scoop out 1/4 cups of dough and freeze. When ready to bake, preheat oven to 375 degrees and line a cookie sheet with parchment paper. Stagger dough on sheets.
Bake 10 to 12 minutes, no longer. Immediately gently press extra chips into tops of cookies.
These are quite a concoction to honor the Sabres first playoff win in 15 years in our first playoff game in 15 years. I wondered how nervous I would be, as I would be working in studio for Sunday night baseball on espn radio. The answer – very. I was extremely antsy, much like for Bills playoff games. And for 52 minutes, I did not take a breath. We were down 2-nothing, scored 4 unanswered goals and beat Boston 4-3 in game one. What i loved seeing is all the videos of people inside Key Bank Center and at various places indoors and outdoors, watching. It was just awesome. i am not sure how far this sabres team will go, but it just feels different.
Because it was such an impressive comeback win, these treats are a doozy- chocolate chip cookie layer on the bottom, a layer of oreos, a layer of brownies, and pieces of mini hershey bars pressed into the bars immediately after taking them out of the oven.
Remember to scoop your flour from your flour bag into your measuring cup so you get the right amount. And firmly packed brown sugar into your measuring cup. And, preheat your oven before baking.
Chocolate chip cookie layer
3/4 cup butter, softened
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup brown sugar
1 egg
1 yolk
1 1/2 cups flour
1 cup chocolate chips
Directions – preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spray a 9×13 pan with baking spray. Place parchment paper on top of sprayed pan. Set aside. In a bowl, cream butter, brown sugar and sugar. Add egg, yolk and vanilla. Blend in flour. Mix in chips. Gently press into prepared pan.
Top with a layer of oreos.
Brownie ingredients
1/2 cup butter
1 cup dark chocolate chips
1 cup sugar
2 eggs
1/2 cup flour
1/4 cup unsweetened baking cocoa
Directions – in a microwave safe bowl, melt butter and chips in 45 second increments until you can stir melted. Add sugar and eggs. Blend in flour and cocoa. Drop by large spoonfuls on top of oreo layer and spread evenly.
Bake 28 to 33 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in center comes out with a few moist crumbs.
The Sabres play our first playoff game in 15 years tomorrow. As I racked my brain to determine what treat might be special enough, I put the question to my husband – what kind of cookie – smores cookies, rocky road, brownie Rockies road, twix? He settled on smores- a milk chocolate chip cookie dough with crushed graham crackers and mini marshmallow bits.
Special enough? I hope so.
Note – my parents gave me this Sabres golf ball in 1999 and I have had it on display next to our kitchen sink since we bought our house in 2001. Plenty of lean years since then, but my Fandom never left me.
I started getting nervous/ excited on my drive home from work today at 5. Not sure what i will be like tomorrow at work during Sunday night baseball. Pray for my crew.
Remember to scoop your flour from your flour bag into your measuring cup so you get the right amount. preheat your oven to 350 degrees before baking. I did not chill these and they puffed up nicely.
Ingredients list
1 cup butter, softened
1 1/3 cups brown sugar, firmly packed into measuring cup
2 eggs
3 tsp vanilla
1 1/3 cups finely crushed graham cracker crumbs
3 cups flour
2 tsp baking soda
1 tbs cornstarch
1 /2 tsp salt
2 cups marshmallow bits
2 cups milk chocolate chips
Directions – preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper. Set aside. In a bowl, cream butter and brown sugar. Add vanilla and eggs. Blend in dry ingredients. Using your hands, mix in chips and marshmallow bits, like you would do with meatballs. Scoop out 1/4 cups dough. Stagger on prepared sheet.Bake 8 to 10 minutes, no longer (edges of bottoms will be golden brown) cool completely.
Directions- preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spray an 8×8 pan with pam and line with parchment paper, set aside. In a bowl, combine water, oil and cocoa. Microwave 45 seconds. Let sit 2 minutes. Blend in eggs and vanilla. Add flourand salt. Mix in chips. Spread into pan. Bake 18 to 19 minutes, no longer.
1 1/4 cups butter, browned and cooled to solid stage
2 eggs
1 1/2 tsp baking powder
3/4 tsp baking soda
1 tbs vanilla
2 2/3 cups flour
2/3 cup white chocolate chips
2/3 cup semisweet chocolate chips
2/3 cup milk chocolate chips
Directions- in a bowl, cream butter and brown sugar. Add eggs, vanilla, and salt. Mix in dry ingredients. Fold in chips. Scoop out 1/4 cups of dough. Chill a few hours. When ready to bake, Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Stagger cookies on sheet lined with parchment paper. Bake 12 to 15 minutes, no longer.
I didn’t have time to bake victory treats after our win over the Lightning, so I stepped it up today – hot fudge brownie cookies with crushed nutter butters and peanut butter chips!
These are simple, using just a few ingredients – brownie mix, flour, water, oil, egg, hot fudge, nutter butters and Reese’s peanut butter chips. And yes, you can leave the nutter butters out, use a different crushed cookie, and also use a different chips flavor!
Ingredients list
1 brownie mix
1/2 cup flour (scooped from flour bag into measuring cup)
1 egg
1/4 cup vegetable oil
5 tbs water
1/4 cup hot fudge (room temp is easiest to work with)
16 nutter butters, finely crushed
1 cup peanut butter chips
Using a food processor is easiest way to crush nutter butters
Directions – preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper and set aside. In a bowl, blend brownie mix, flour, egg, water and vegetable oil. Blend in hot fudge, then nutter butters. Mix in chips. Scoop our 1/4 cups of dough and stagger on prepared cookie sheet.
Bake 12 minutes, no longer. Cool completely.
I put mine in the fridge to help firm them up a bit. Store in covered container.
In addition to making lemon cookies with crushed lemon oreos and lemon frosting for Sabres game night and MLB opening night, I also made these lemon brownies with crushed lemon oreos and lemon frosting. (Confession – i wanted to finish using the lemon oreos).
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
1/2 cup butter
3/4 cup white chocolate chips
3/4 cup sugar
2 eggs
1/4 cup lemon juice
1 1/4 cups flour
1/4 tsp salt
15 to 20 finely crushed lemon oreos
Directions – line an 8×8 pan with tin foil and spray with baking spray. Set aside. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. In a microwave safe bowl, heat chips and butter for 1 minutes. Stir until melted. (You may need to do another 30 seconds to ensure chips are melted). Add sugar, eggs and lemon juice. Mix in dry ingredients, then crushed oreos. Evenly spread into prepared pan. Bake 20 to 25 minutes, until a toothpick inserted in center comes out with a few crumbs. Cool completely.
Frosting ingredients
3 cups powdered sugar
1/3 cup lemon juice.
Directions – combine powdered sugar and juice in a bowl. You may need to add more powdered sugar to get the thickness you want. Frost cookies and store in covered container
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.
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