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.
I wanted to make another recipe using my malted milk powder, so I opted for blondies with mini chocolate chips and topped with malted milk frosting.
Remember to scoop your flour from your flour bag into your measuring cup so you get the correct amount (do not pour from flour bag because that packs it in and can result in a dry blondie). Also firmly packed your brown sugar into your measuring cup. And preheat your oven before baking.
Ingredients list
1/2 cup butter, softened
1/4 cup crisco
1 cup sugar
1/2 cup brown sugar
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla
1 1/2 cups flour
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 cup malted milk powder
1 cup mini chips
Directions – preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line a 9×9 pan with tin foil and spray with baking spray. Set aside. In a bowl, cream butter, crisco, sugar and brown sugar. Add eggs and vanilla. Blend in flour, baking powder and milk powder. Stir in chips. Spread evenly into prepared pan.
Bake 30 to 33 minutes, until golden on top, no longer. Cool completely.
Frosting ingredients
1/2 cup butter, softened
2-3 cups powdered sugar
1/4 cup malted milk powder
1 tsp vanilla
2-3 tbs heavy cream
Directions – in a bowl, cream butter, milk powder and powdered sugar. Add vanilla and heavy cream. You may need to add more powdered sugar and /or heavy cream to get the consistency you want. Frost bars.
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.
For game five against the Bruins tomorrow, I asked Rob what to make and he suggested chocolate chip cookies. So these use a combo of browned butter and regular room temp butter, and a tsp of active yeast.
We are one win away from our first playoff series win in 19 years! Very exciting!
Ingredients list
1/2 cup butter, browned
1/4 cup butter, softened
2 1/4 cups flour
3/4 tsp baking soda
1 tsp active dry yeast
3/4 cup brown sugar, firmly packed into measuring cup
1/2 cup sugar
1 egg
1 tbs vanilla
2 tbs water
1 cup chocolate chips
Directions – after you have browned 1/2 cup butter, pour into bowl and set aside. In a separate bowl, combine flour, baking soda and yeast. Using a pasty cutter or fork, cut in 1/4 cup butter. Set aside. To brown butter bowl, add sugar and brown sugar, then egg, water, and vanilla. Combine with flour bowl. Mix in chips. Scoop out 1/4 cups dough and chill a few hours. Preheat oven to 375. Line a cookie sheet with nonstick liners or parchment paper. Stagger cookies on sheet.
Bake 10 to 12 minutes, no longer. Cool completely and store in covered container.
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.
My other treat for work, in honor of opening day of the NHL and NBA Playoffs and my Sabres first playoff game in forever, is for all my peanut butter loving friends- peanut butter cookies with mini peanut butter m&ms
And stuffed with reese’s eggs.
Boom!
Remember to scoop your flour bag into your measuring cup so you get the right amount. Also firmly packed your brown sugar into your measuring cup so you get the right amount. Chill the dough at least a few hours before baking to keep them puffy and preheat the oven before baking.
Ingredients list
1/2 cup butter, softened
3/4 cup peanut butter
3/4 cup brown sugar
1/4 cup sugar
1 egg
1 tbs milk
1 tsp vanilla
2 cups flour
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
1 cup peanut butter mini m&ms
Reeses eggs, unwrapped (not the regular size ones)
Directions – in a bowl, cream butter, peanut butter, brown sugar and sugar. Add egg, vanilla and milk. Blend in dry ingredients then m&ms. Scoop out 1/4 cup of dough and divide in half. Flatten each half. On one half, place a Reese’s egg. Place other half on top and seal edges. 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 11 to 13 minutes, no longer. cool completely.
In honor of opening day of the Stanley Cup and NBA playoffs and my Sabres first playoff game in more than a decade on Sunday, I present italian chocolate chip cookies. What makes them Italian, you ask? I used olive oil instead of butter or crisco 😉
Remember to scoop your flour from your flour bag into your measuring cup so you get the right amount. Firmly packed your brown sugar into your measuring cup. I used mini chocolate chips, but you can use regular. I do recommend freezing the dough for a half hour to an hour, or chilling it in the fridge for a few hours. And preheat your oven before baking.
Ingredients list
1 cup olive oil
1 tsp vanilla
3/4 cup sugar
3/4 cup brown sugar
1 egg
2 tbs vanilla
1 tsp salt
2 1/4 cups flour
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp vanilla
1 cup mini chocolate chips
1/2 cup walnuts, ground
Directions – in a bowl, combine oil, sugar and brown sugar. Add egg, vanilla and water. Mix in dry ingredients. Fold in chips and nuts. Scoop out 1/4 cups dough. Freeze 30 minutes. Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper. Stagger cookies on sheet.
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.
Celebrating the Sabres first division title in a looooong time. Next level cookie dough brownies, featuring a brownie mix.
Ice cream and hot fudge
Mini m&ms
And melted hershey bars
Ingredients list
1 brownie mix
2 eggs
1/2 cup vegetable oil
1 cup ice cream (not melted)
1/4 cup hot fudge
1 cup mini m&ms
Directions – preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line a 9×13 pan with parchment paper. Set aside. In a bowl, combine brownie mix, eggs and oil. Blend in ice cream and hot fudge. Spread evenly into prepared pan. Bake 25 to 30 minutes (toothpick inserted on center comes out with a few moist crumbs) cool completely
Cookie dough topping ingredients
1/2 cup butter, melted
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/4 cup sugar
2 tbs heavy cream
1 tsp vanilla
3/4 cup flour (scooped from flour bag into measuring cup)
1 cup mini chocolate chips
Directions – in a bowl, cream butter, brown sugar and sugar 2 to 3 minutes. Add cream and vanilla. Blend in flour then chips.
Grab a spoon!
Evenly spread over cooled brownies.
Top with melted milk chocolate.
Cut and store in covered container.
Thanks for stopping by. Can’t wait for the playoffs!
I have not made any banana flavored treat in quite some time. So today, I decided to make chocolate banana bars with milk chocolate chips and brown butter frosting.
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.
Ingredients list
3 very ripe bananas, mashed
1/2 cup butter, melted
1 cup sugar
1/2 cup brown sugar, firmly packed into measuring cup
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla
1 cup flour
1/2 cup unsweetened baking cocoa
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1/4 cup milk
1 cup chocolate chips
Directions – preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spray a 9×13 pan with baking spray and set aside. In a bowl, blend bananas and melted butter. Mix in sugars. Add eggs and vanilla. Blend in dry ingredients then milk. Fold in chips. Evenly spread into prepared pan. Bake 20 to 25 minutes (toothpick inserted in center comes out with a few moist crumbs). Cool completely.
Frosting ingredients
1/2 cup butter
3 1/2 cups powdered sugar
1 tsp vanilla
3 tbs milk
Directions – in a pan, cook butter over low-medium heat until browned, like below.
In a bowl, combine browned butter, powdered sugar, vanilla and milk. Frost cooled bars.
