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 haven’t made these in a while! They suit so many cookie tastes – peanut butter, oatmeal, m&ms, milk chocolate chips. I baked these directly from the freezer and they stayed perfectly puffy too!
Remember to scoop your flour from your flour bag into your measuring cup so you get the right amount. Freezer your individual doughs for at least a few hours and preheat your oven to 350 degrees before baking.
Ingredients list
1 /2 cup butter, soft
1/2 cup peanut butter
3/4 cup brown sugar firmly packed into measuring cup
1/4 cup sugar
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla
1 3/4 cups flour
1 tsp baking soda
1 tbs cornstarch
1 cup old fashioned oats
1 cup mini m&ms
1 cup milk chocolate chips
Directions – in a bowl, cream butter, peanut butter, sugar and brown sugar. Add eggs and vanilla. Mix in dry ingredients and oats. Add m&ms and chips. Scoop out 1/4 cups of dough. Freeze several hours, at least. Bake directly from freezer. 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.
Chocoholics will rejoice with this treat. Chocolate cookies made with black cocoa, crushed oreos and milk chocolate chips!
I used a mix of all purpose and bread flour, but you can use entirely all purpose flour. Either way, spoon it from your flour bag into your measuring cup so you get the right amount. I recommend chilling individual doughs for a few hours before baking and preheat your oven before baking.
Ingredients list
1/2 cup butter, soft
1/2 cup crisco
1/2 cup sugar
1 cup brown sugar firmly packed into measuring cup
2 eggs
1 tsp chocolate extract (or vanilla)
1 2/3 cups all purpose flour
1 cup bread flour
1/2 cup black cocoa
6 tbs cornstarch
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
16 oreos, crushed
1 cup milk chocolate chips
Directions – in a bowl, cream butter, crisco, sugar and brown sugar. Add eggs and extract. Blend in dry ingredients. Fold in crushed oreos, then chips. Scoop out 1/4 cups dough. Chill a few hours. When ready to bake, preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper. Stagger cookies on sheet.
What’s better than a humid 90 degree day? Turning on your oven to bake cookies and heat your houseboat even more. Although these have smores cookies, which are a summer staple, so perhaps that makes it all ok.
I used chocolate graham crackers in these, but regular grahams are just fine.
These feature mini marshmallow bits. I don’t recommend mini marshmallows because I think they would get all melty during the baking process. If you don’t have or can’t find marshmallow bits, perhaps toast some marshmallows ans put them on top of cookies after baking.
I also used 1 cup of bread flour, but feel free to use entirely all purpose flour.
Remember to scoop your flour from your flour bag into your measuring. Up. And chill the individual doughs before baking.
Ingredients list
1 cup butter, softened
3/4 cup sugar
3/4 cup brown sugar
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla
1 cup bread flour
1 1/4 cups all purpose flour
1 tbs cornstarch
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1 1/4 cups crushed chocolate graham crackers
1 cup milk chocolate chips
1 cup marshmallow bits
14 mini hershey bars, chopped
Directions- in a bowl, cream butter, sugar and brown sugar. Add eggs and vanilla. Blend in dry ingredients then graham cracker crumbs. Fold in chips, bits and hershey bars. Scoop out 1/4 cups dough. 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. 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
cookies by christine 