All you need are 3 ingredients for these – a lemon cake mix, eggs and miracle whip or mayonnaise (i used light/low cal miracle whip). No, you can’t taste the mayonnaise, but it nicely brings out the lemon flavor.
Ingredients list
1 lemon cake mix
2 eggs
2/3 cup mayonnaise
I did put a light layer of frostinf on the bars while they were kind of still warm. I think it adds to the moistness and sweetness.
Directions – preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line an 8×8 pan with tin foil and spray with baking spray. Set aside. In a bowl, combine ingredients. Evenly spread into prepared pan. Bake 20 minutes, no longer. Cool completely.
Frosting ingredients
1/2 cup butter
3 cups powdered sugar
2 tbs lemon juice
Directions – in a bowl, combine ingredients. frost bars.
I made brownie truffles/ brownie bombs. But really I made a mess. These are super simple. I used a brownie mix – baked as directed, some canned frosting that was given to me. And they are coated in melted chocolate chips
Ingredients list
1 brownie mix, using ingredients listed on box and baked as directed in 8×8 pan. Cool completely.
1 cup frosting
2 cups chocolate chips
1 tbs crisco
Crumble brownie mix.. blend in frosting. Scoop out and roll into balls.
Microwave chips and crisco in 30 second increments until you can stir smooth. Dip brownie bombs into it. Place on wax paper. Store in covered container
While trying to come up with a treat idea, I thought of chocolate chip cookies stuffed with brownies. But instead of stuffing the cookies with brownies, I cut a batch of baked brownies into small squares and pressed chocolate chips in the top of each cookie before baking.
I used a browni mix and spread the batter into a 18×13 pan so the brownies would be thin and easier to incorporate into the dough as cubes. If you don’t have any bread flour, use entirely all purpose flour. I recommend chilling the individual doughs for several hours before baking
Ingredients list
1 brownie batch, baked as directed and completely cooled. Cut unto small cubes (i used a mix and baked the batter in a 13×18 pan at 325 degrees for 15 or so minutes.
1 cup butter, softened
1 cup brown sugar, firmly packed into measuring cup
3/4 cup sugar
2 eggs
2 tsp vanilla
2 cups all purpose flour
1 cup bread flour
2 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
Chocolate chips
Directions – in a bowl, cream butter, sugar and brown sugar. Add eggs and vanilla. Mix in dry ingredients. Gently fold in brownie cubes. Scoop out 1/4 cups of dough. Gently press chocolate chips into tops. Chill several hours. When ready to bake, preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper and stagger cookie doughs on sheet.
I made some tollhouse bars for Rob to take to his mom and had a lot leftover, so i decided to stuff the rest in brownie mix cookies. Of course, you can stuff them with whatever you want. I ran out of tollhouse bars, so the last 2 were stuffed with golden oreos. 🙂
Scoop your flour from your flour bag into your measuring cup so you get the right amount. Also chill the dough for a few hours before baking. Preheat your oven to 350 degrees before baking.
Ingredients list
1 brownie mix
1/4 cup flour
2 eggs
1/4 cup butter, melted
1 tsp vanilla
Tollhouse bars cut into small squares, or other stuffables
Directions – in a bowl, mix brownie mix, flour, eggs, butter and vanilla. Scoop out 1/4 cups dough and divide in half. Flatten each half slightly.
Place a tollhouse square on top of one half.
Top with another half.
Seal edges and place on covered container. Place in fridge for several hours. When ready to bake, line a cookie sheet with parchment paper, and preheat oven to 350 degrees. Stagger cookies on sheet.
Check cookies after 16 minutes to check how done they are. Bake another 5 if needed, so cookies are no longer gushy.
Cool completely. You can put in fridge to firm them up. Store in covered container.
There are another tweak of a brownie recipe. Four (!) ingredients – a brownie mix, one egg, melted butter and melted chocolate ice cream. You can use any flavor ice cream. I baked them at a lower temperature, 325, because sometimes I find my brownies edges are too crisp.
To melt the ice cream – place 1 1/2 cups in a microwave save bowl, microwave in 15 second increments until you can stir melted. Pour in another measuring cup to make sure you have one cup. Discard the rest.
Ingredients list
1 brownie mix
1 egg
1/4 cup butter, melted
1 cup melted ice cream
Directions – Preheat your oven to 325 degrees. Line an 8×8 pan with parchment paper and set aside. In a bowl, combine all four ingredients and stir until just combined. Spread in prepared pan. Bake 28 to 32 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in center comes out with a few moist crumbs. Cool completely.
Another lemon treat, this time, lemon blondies. Made in an 8×8 pan, with lemon glaze. Tangy, yet sweet. Very soft too!
Remember to scoop your flour from your flour bag so you get the right amount. Also, Preheat your oven before baking.
Ingredients list
1/2 cup butter, softened
3/4 cup sugar
2 eggs
1 tbs lemon extract
1/4 cup lemon juice
1 cup flour
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
Directions – preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line an 8×8 pan with parchment paper or tin foil and spray with pam. Set aside. In a bowl, cream butter and sugar. Add eggs and extract. Mix in dry ingredients amd lemon juice. Evenly spread into prepared pan. Bake 18 to 20 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in center comes out with a few moist crumbs. Cool completely.
The sun is out, so i thought i would make some lemon cake mix bars. Super easy, just a few ingredients, olus they are frosted!
Ingredients list
2 lemon cake mixes
4 eggs
1 1/3 cups mayo or miracle whip (i used a light kind)
3 tbs lemon juice
Directions – preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line a 9×13 pan with tin foil and spray with baking spray. Set aside. In a bowl, combine cake mixes, mayo eggs and lemon juice. Evenly spread into prepared pan. Bake 25 to 30 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in center comes out with a few moist crumbs. Cool completely.
I couldn’t resist and put a tiny bit of frosting on the warm bars. I find it makes treats even sweeter!
Frosting ingredients
1/2 cup butter, softened
3 to 4 cups powdered sugar
6 tbs lemon juice
In a bowl, using a hand mixer, blend well. Frost bars and store in covered container.
I really had to step up these Sabres victory treats, we came back from a 3-1 deficit in Montreal, in a must win last night and won 8-3. Yowsa. It was awesome! So i thought what can I do here? I decided to make melted ice cream brownies and stuff them inside melted ice cream cookies. Boom!
Brownies ingredients lost
1 cup chocolate ice cream, melted
1/2 cup butter, melted
1 cup sugar
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla
1 cup flour
1/3 cup baking cocoa
1/4 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
Directions – line an 8×8 pan with tin foil and spray with baking spray. Set aside. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. In a bowl, combine butter and sugar. Add eggs and vanilla. Blend in dry ingredients then ice cream. Evenly spread into pan. Bake 22 to 27 minues, or until a toothpick inserted in center comes out with a few moist crumbs. Cool completely. Then cut in small squares.
For the chocolate chip cookies, I used a mix of vanilla and chocolate ice cream. I also used a combo of all purpose and bread flour, but you can just use all purpose flour. I used milk chocolate chips, but again, whatever chip is fine.
Chocolate chip cookie dough ingredients
1 cup ice cream, melted
1 1/2 cups all purpose flour
1 cup bread flour
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 cup crisco
1 cup sugar
1 egg
1 tsp vanilla
1 cup milk chocolate chips
In a bowl, cream crisco and sugar. Add egg and vanilla. Blend in dry ingredients, then ice cream. Fold in chips. Scoop out 1/4 cups of dough and divide in half. Flatten each half. On one half, place a brownie square.
Top with another half.
Seal edges.
I recommend chilling these for a few hours. When ready to bake, preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper and stagger cookies on sheet. Bake 12 to 15 minutes, no longer. Cool completely. Store in covered container
I picked up some malted milk powder recently, after seeing it is a nice addition to cookies, brownies and cakes, especially when using brown butter I know Rob loves brownies so I thought I would try adding malted milk powder to a brownie recipe.
Remember to scoop your flour, baking cocoa and milk powder from you containers into your measuring cup so you get the right amount. Also preheat your oven to 325 degrees before baking.
Ingredients list
1/2 cup butter
2 cups powdered sugar
2 eggs and 1 yolk
1 tsp chocolate extract (or vanilla)
1/2 cup flour
2/3 cup unsweetened baking cocoa
1/3 cup malted milk powder
2 tbs cornstarch
1/2 tsp salt
1 cup chocolate chips
Directions – preheat oven to 325 degrees. Line an 8×8 pan with parchment paper and spray with baking spray. Set aside. in a pan, over low-medium heat, brown butter. you heat it until you start to see some brown specs lile below. Remove from heat.
Pour into bowl and stir in powdered sugar. Mix in eggs, yolk and extract. Fold in dry ingredients, then chips. Evenly press into prepared pan. Bake 28 to 33 minutes, until a toothpick inserted in center comes out with a few moist crumbs. Immediately sprinkle powdered sugar on top.
Cool completely. Cut and store in covered container.
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.
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