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White chocolate dulce le Leche cookies

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For my non chocolate loving friends, I present these – white chocolate chip cookies with dulce le leche baked in, for a hunt of caramel flavor.  I also tossed in some coconut extract, which you can leave out if you want.

These use all purpose flour and cake flour.  If you don’t have cake flour, you can add 1 1/2 tbs cornstarch to 1 1/2 cups flour slto make your own cake flour.   Remember to scoop your flour from your flour bag into your measuring cup so you get the right amount.   Also, I recommend chilling the dough for a few hours before baking.  And preheat your oven before baking. 

  • Ingredients list
  • 1 cup butter, softened
  • 1 1/2 cups sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • 3 tsp vanilla
  • 3 tbs dulce le leche
  • 1 tbs coconut extract
  • 1 1/2 cups cake flour
  • 1 1/2 cups all purpose flour
  • 1 tbs cornstarch
  • 1 tsp baking soda
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 2 cups white chocolate chips

Directions  – in a bowl,cream butter and sugar.  Add eggs, vanilla, dilce le leche, and coconut extract.  Blend in dry ingredients.   Fold in chips.  Scoop out 1/4 cups dough, form tall moundsm. Chill a few hours.  When ready to bake, preheat oven to 400 degrees.  Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper.  Stagger cookies on sheet. 

Bake 11 to 13 minutes, no longer.  Cool completely.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Nfl week 2 Sunday – hostess cupcake cookies

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Well, I get to enjoy a stress free NFL Sunday,  as my Bills played and beat the Lions on Thursday night.  Josh Allen and the offense have looked pretty good.   Defense needs to be better, but as New DC Jim Leonard pointed out this summer – new defensive scheme, some new faces, it’ll take some time.  So i will go along with our new DC.

Rob asked for a hostess cupcake type of treat.   I suggested cookies instead of cupcakes and he was on board with that.  They are topped with a marshmallow fluff filling, chocolate frosting, and a squiggle,  that is more of a line bc I can’t decorate worth squat.

  • Ingredients list
  • 1 cup butter, softened
  • 1 cup brown sugar, firmly packed into measuring cup
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • 2 tsp vanilla
  • 2 tbs corn syrup (or honey)
  • 1/2 cup bread flour
  • 2 cups flour
  • 1 cup unsweetened baking cocoa
  • 1 tbs malted milk powder
  • 1 tbs cornstarch
  • 1 tsp baking powder
  • 1/2 tsp baking soda
  • 1 tsp salt

Dirsctions – preheat oven to 350 degrees.  Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper and set aside.  In a bowl, cream butter, sugar and brown sugar.  Add eggs. Vanilla and corn syrup or honey.  Blend in dry ingredients..  scoop put 1/4 cups of dough and form tall mounds.   Bake 11 to 13 minutes,  no longer.  Cool comoletely.

  • Marshmallow fluff filling ingredients
  • 1/4 cup butter
  • 1 cup fluff
  • 2 -3 cups powdered sugar
  • 1 tsp vanilla
  • Milk

In a bowl, combine, butter and fluff, blend in powdered sugar.   Mix in vanilla and enough milk to get consistency you want.

  • Chocolate frosting ingredients
  • 1/3 cup butter melted
  • 2/3 cup unsweetened baking cocoa
  • 3 cups powdered sugar
  • 1 to 2 tbs milk

Directions – in a bowl, comnbine melted butter and cocoa.  Blend in powdered sugar and enough milk to get the consistency you want.  You may need to add more powdered sugar and/or milk.

  • Squiggle ingredients
  • 1/4 cup butter softened
  • 1 cup powdered sugar (or more)
  • 2 to 3 tsp milk
  • 1 tsp Vanilla

Directions – in a bowl, cream butter and powdered sugar.  Add 2 tsp milk and vanilla. You may need to add more powered sugar and/or milk to get the consistency you want.  Blemd well.  Scoop into a zip lock sandwich bag and cut out a small triangle in one of the bottom corners.  I placed the bag in the fridge for a half hour to help it firm up.

Assembly !

Top one cookie with fluff filling

Gently top with chocolate frosting

Top with a squiggle.

Store in covered container.

Go Bills.

Week one victory monday cookies (for a tuesday)

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So i asked Rob to choose the victory Monday treats, which i made today and will be brought into work tomorrow because I am off today.  He chose blondies with 3 kinds of chips – white, milk and semisweet.

It was a good win by the Bills, but a heart stopper, for sure.  I was at work and needed to not look at the game constantly in the final 2 minutes because of the stress, and, oh yeah, I needed to focus on my job.  I look up at one point, Houston is marching toward the end zone and there are 36 seconds left.  I look away and assume the game is done and there are… 30 seconds left.  Whenever one of my team is leading, the clock just stops, or seems to go backwards.  Yeesh.  Anyways.  1-0 is 1-0. 

Remember to scoop your flour from your flour bag into your measuring cup so you get the right amount.  Firmly pack your brown sugar into your measuring cup.   And preheat your oven before baking.   I think i may have taken these out a little too soon, but didn’t want them to wind up dry by overbaking by a minute or two, so i popped em in the fridge to firm up.

  • Ingredients list
  • 1 cup butter, melted and cooled 5 to 10 minutes (so your chips don’t melt)
  • 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
  • 2 tsp cornstarch
  • 1/2 tsp baking powder
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 2/3 cup white chocolate chips
  • 2/3 cup semisweet chocolate chips
  • 2/3 cup milk chocolate chips

Directions – preheat oven to 350 degrees.   Line and 8×8 pan with parchment paper and set aside.  In a bowl, combine melted butter, sugar and brown sugar.  Add eggs, yolk and vanilla.  Blend in dry ingredients.   Mix in chips.  Evenly press into prepared pan.   Bake 30 minutes, no longer.  Cool completely.  If bars seems gushy, pop them in fridge for a few hours to firm up.  Store in covered container.

Go Bills.

Frosted oatmeal chocolate chip cookies with crushed iced oatmeal cookies

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I love to put crushed cookies in cookies, like oreos in chocolate cookies, chips ahoy in chocolate chip cookies, etc.  So I saw some iced oatmeal cookies and thought they would be perfect in frosted oatmeal chocolate chip cookies.

These probably didn’t need frosting!

I used all purpose and bread flour in these, but you can use entirely all purpose flour if you want.  Just scoop it from your flour bag into your measuring cup so you get the right amount.   Chill individual doughs before baking, and preheat oven before baking.

  • Ingredients list
  • 1 cup butter, softened
  • 2/3 cup brown sugar, firmly packed into measuring cup
  • 1/2 cup sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 tsp vanilla
  • 1 cup flour
  • 1 cup bread flour
  • 2 1/2 cups quick oats
  • 1 tsp baking soda
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 16 iced oatmeal cookies, crushed
  • 1 cup chocolate chips

Directions – in a bowl, cream butter, sugar and brown sugar.  Add eggs and vanilla.   Blend in dry ingredients and oats.  Mix in chips.  Scoop out  1/4 cups of dough. Chill a few hours.  When ready to bake, preheat oven to 350 degrees.  Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper.  Stagger doughs on sheet.  

Bake 10 minutes, no longer.  Cool completely.

  • Frosting ingredients
  • 1 1/2 cups powdered sugar
  • 1 tsp vanilla
  • 3 tbs ice cream, melted (or 2 tbs milk)

Directions – in a bowl,  combine ingredients.  If needed add a little more milk to get the consistency you want.  Frost cookies. 

Store in covered container.

Thanks for stopping by today!

Black cocoa crushed oreo cookies with milk chocolate chips

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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.  

Bake 10 minutes, no longer.  Cool completely.  

Store in covered container.  

Crushed oreo cookies with peanut butter, semisweet or white chocolate chips

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I had a bag of oreos and thought those need to be crushed and baked in a chocolate cookie.   I made the dough, divided it into thirds.  In one third, I added peanut butter chips, I added white chips to another third and semisweet chips to the final third.   I made 15 cookies total, 5 from each third of dough. 

Remember to scoop your flour, powdered sugar and baking cocoa from your measuring cups so you get the right amounts.  Chill the individual doughs a few hours before baking.  And  preheat your oven before baking.

Ingredients list

1/2 cup butter, softened

1/4 cup crisco

1/4 cup plus 2 tbs sugar

4 1/2 tbs brown sugar, firmly packed into tablespoons

1/4 cup plus 2 tbs powdered sugar

1 1/2 eggs

1 tsp vanilla

1 /3 cup plus 3 tbs vegetable oil

1 1/2 cups and 1 1/2 tbs flour

4 1/2 tbs cornstarch

3/4 tsp baking soda

1/4 tsp plus 1/8 tsp baking powder

1/4 tsp salt

1/4 plus 1/8 tsp cream of tartar

32 oreos, finely ground

1 cup peanut butter chips

1 cup white chocolate chips

1 cup semisweet chocolate chips

Directions – cream butter, crisco, sugar, brown sugar and powdered sugar.  Add oil, egg and vanilla.  Mix in dry ingredients.   Fold in oreos.   Divide dough into thirds.  Add peanut butter chips to 1/3 dough, white chips to 1/3 of dough, and semisweet chips to the other third.  Chill individuals doughs for a few hours

When ready to bake, preheat oven to 350 degrees.   Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper.  Stagger cookies on sheet. 

Bake 9 minutes, no longer.  Cool completely.  

Store in covered container.

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Almond m&m milk chocolate chip cookies

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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. 

Cool completely.  Store in covered container.

Malted brown butter Special Dark brownies

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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.

Smores cookies (for the Sabres first playoff game in 15 years)

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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.  

Store in covered container.

Lemon cookies with crushed lemon oreos and lemon frosting

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For Sabres game night and MLB opening night, I made 2 treats – lemon frosted lemon brownies wuth crushed lemon oreos…and these lemon cookies with crushed lemon oreos and lemon frosted I am a huge fan of adding crushed cookies to cookie dough…. so when I saw these lemon oreos, I bought them and knew I could add them to a  lemon cookies recipe. 

I used a mix of cake flour and all purpose flour in these, but you can use entirely all purpose flour if you want.

Remember to scoop your flour from your flour bag into your measuring cup so you get the right amount.  Chill the dough a few hours before baking.  And, preheat your oven before baking

  • Ingredients list
  • 1 cup butter, softened
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 2/3 cup brown sugar,  firmly packed into measuring cup
  • 1 egg yolk
  • 1 egg
  • 1 1/2 tsp lemon extract
  • 2 tbs lemon juice (I used bottled)
  • 2 1/4 cups all purpose flour
  • 1 cup cake flour
  • 1 tbs cornstarch
  • 3/4 tsp baking soda
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 16 lemon oreos, finely crushed

Directions – in a bowl, cream butter, sugar and brown sugar.  Add egg, yolk, extract and lemon juice.  Blend in dry ingredients.   Mix in crushed oreos.   If dough seems a little dry, add a tbs or 2 of water.   Evenly divide dough into 10 tall mounds. 

Chill a few hours.  When ready to bake, preheat oven to 400 degrees.  Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper.   Stagger cookies on sheet.

Bake 9 to 11 minutes, no longer.   Cool completely. 

If you want, you can frost these.  Store in covered container. 

  • Frosting ingredients list
  • 1 1/2 cups powdered sugar
  • 2 tbs lemon juice

Combine these ingredients in a bowl.  If frosting seems too thick, you could add a tsp or 2 of water. Frost cookies. 

Store in covered container