I need to use up my Reese’s hearts so I can buy the Reese’s eggs, so I decided to use a peanut butter cookie mix,
a yellow cake mix,
some eggs, melted butter and one cup peanut butter. Tossed in about 20 of these and made bars.
Ingredients list
1 peanut butter cookie mix
1 yellow cake mix
3 eggs
1 cup butter, melted
1 cup peanut butter
Reese’s hearts, chopped into large pieces
Directions – preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line a 9×13 pan with tin foil and spray with baking spray. Set aside. In a bowl, mix cake and cookie mixes together. Add eggs and melted butter. Blend in peanut butter. Mix in Reese’s hearts. Evenly spread into prepared pan. Gently press extra Reese’s hearts on top.
Bake 19 to 24 minutes (edges will be golden). Cool completely. Cut into squares and store in covered container.
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.
With Valentine’s day approaching, I am trying to make as many different varieties of cutout cookies using my heart cookie cutters. These use crisco in the cookies and you can leave them plain, sprinkle sugar on top before baking or frost them, after they are completely cooled,with a simple vanilla frosting.
1 1/3 cups crisco
1 1/2 ,cups sugar
1 egg
1 1/2 tbs plus 1 tsp milk
2 cups flour
11/2 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
Directions – preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper. Set aside. in a bowl, cream crisco and sugar. Add egg, milk and vanilla. Blend in dry ingredients. Sprinkle a clean, flat surface with flour. Cut out cookies and stagger on prepared sheet.
A simple mid-week treat to help heat up the house on another frigid morning – milk chocolate chip bars. I used milk chocolate, but you can use whatever flavor chips you want.
I also had some finely ground macadamia nuts i wanted to use up, so I threw them in as well.
These come together quickly. Bake in 20 to 22 minutes.
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, and preheat your oven before baking.
Ingredients list
1 cup vegetable oil
1 cup brown sugar, firmly packed into measuring cup
1/2 cup sugar
2 eggs
1 tbs vanilla
2 1/2 cups flour
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1 1 /2 cups milk chocolate chips
1/2 cup macadamia nuts, finely ground (opt)
Directions- preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line a 9×13 pan with parchment paper. Set aside. In a bowl, combine oil, sugar and brown sugar. Add eggs and vanilla. Mix in dry ingredients. Stir in 1 cups chips. Evenly press into prepared pan.
Sprinkle remaining chips on top and gently press down into dough.
Bake 18 to 22 minutes, no longer (edges will be lightly golden).
While trapsing through the grocery store today, I stumbled up JIF chocolate peanut butter. So I used it in one of my peanut butter cookie recipes and topped them with melted hershey kisses.
Remember to scoop your flour from your flour bag into your measuring cup so you get the right amount. Also, firmly packed your brown sugar into your measuring cup. And preheat your oven before baking.
Ingredients list
1 cup crisco
1 1/2 cups chocolate peanut butter
2/3 cup sugar
2/3 cup brown sugar
2 eggs
4 tbs milk
2 tsp vanilla
2 cups all purpose flour
1 cup bread flour
2 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
Directions- preheat oven to 375 degrees. Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper. In a bowl, cream crisco, chocolate peanut butter, sugar and brown sugar. Mix in eggs, milk and vanilla. Blend in dry ingredients. Scoop our 1/4 cups of dough and roll tops in extra granulated sugar. Stagger cookies on sheet. Bake 10 minutes, no longer. Cool completely. Top cookies with melted hersey kisses.
The other day I made huge chocolate chip cookies, so today I decided to made some pretty big peanut butter cookies.
These use a combo of bread and all purpose flour, but you can use just all purpose flour if you want.
Remember to scoop flour from your flour bag into your measuring cups so you get the right amount.
Ingredients list
1 /2 cup butter, browned
1/2 cup peanut butter
3/4 cup brown sugar, firmly packed into measuring cup
1/4 cup sugar
1 egg
2 tsp vanilla
2 to 4 tbs heavy cream
1 1/4 cups all purpose flour
1/2 cup bread flour
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
1/2 cup peanuts, finely ground
Extra sugar
Directions – preheat oven to 375 degrees. line a cookie sheet with parchment paper. In a bowl, combine butter, peanut butter, sugar and brown sugar. Add egg, vanilla and 2 tbs heavy cream. Mix in dry ingredients. if dough seems a little dry, add more heavy cream. Divide dough into 3 equal pieces, then divide each of those pieces in half. Roll into balls, then each in extra sugar. Stagger cookies on sheet. Bake 14 to 15 minutes, no longer. Cool completely. Store in covered container.
These are awesome! I used a combo of hersheys unsweetened baking cocoa and black cocoa (I could not find hersheys special dark baking cocoa, so i tried to make my own). I used a vanilla frosting, but use whichever flavor you want (peanut butter or chocolate would be nice options too).
Remember to scoop your flour and baking cocoa from their containers into your measuring cups so you get the right amount. I recommend chilling the individual balls of dough for a day or two. And, preheat your oven before baking.
Ingredients list
6 tbs butter, melted
1 1/2 cups sugar
4 tbs honey
2 tsp vanilla
2 egg whites
1 1/3 cups flour
1 cup unsweetened baking cocoa
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 salt
Directions -in a bowl, combine butter, sugar, honey, vanilla and egg whites. Fold in dry ingredients. Scoop out 1/4 cups dough. Chill overnight. When ready to bake, preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper. Stagger cookies on sheet. Bake 7 minutes. Cool completely.
Frosting ingredients
1/4 cup butter, softened
2 to 3 cups powdered sugar
Milk
Vanilla
Combine ingredients, using enough milk to get the consistency you want. Frost cookies.
A simple sweet treat – cake mix whoopie pies. I used yellow today, but any flavor works. I used a simple white frosting filling recipe.
Ingredients list
1 cake mix
2 eggs
1/2 cup vegetable oil
Directions – preheat oven to 350 degrees. In a bowl, combine ingredients. Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper. Scoop out 2 tbs of dough and stagger each one on prepared cookie sheet. Bake 8 to 9 minutes, no longer. Cool completely.
Filling ingredients
1/4 cup butter, softened
2 to 3 cups powdered sugar
Milk or heavy cream
1 tsp vanilla
Combine ingredients. Add a little more powdered sugar if you want a little thinner consistency. Spread between 2 cookies. Store in covered container.
These originally were for Sabres game day, but since we hired our new Bills coach in Joe Brady, these are for that too! Plus, it is freezing, so I wanted to bake to heat up the house some more.
These are chocolate cookies filled with mini m&ms and milk chocolate chips and topped with inverted hershey kisses.
Remember to scoop your flour from your flour bag into your measuring cup so you get the right amount (same for the baking cocoa). I chilled the dough for a few hours before baking to keep them puffy. And preheat your oven before baking.
Ingredients list
1/2 cup butter, softened
1/2 cup crisco
1 cup brown sugar, firmly packed into measuring cup
1/4 cup sugar
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla
1/2 cup unsweetened baking cocoa
3 1/4 cups flour
1 tbs cornstarch
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
1 cup mini m&ms
1 cup milk chocolate chips
Hershey kisses, unwrapped
Directions – in a bowl, cream butter, crisco, sugar and brown sugar. Add eggs and vanilla. Mix in dry ingredients. (If mixture is too dry, add 1 or 2 tbs water). Fold in chips and m&ms. Scoop our 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 cookies on sheet. Bake 11 to 13 minutes, no longer. Right after removing from oven. Gently press 2 inverted kisses on top.
Another very cold day, so I decided to heat up the house a bit by baking more cookies. Rob asked for chocolate chip cookies. (I have so many to choose from). These use melted butter and a mix of all purpose and bread flour. And I also pressed extra chips into the tops of the cookies as soon as they came out of the oven.
Remember to scoop you flour from your flour bag into your measuring cup so you get the right amount. I chilled the individual doughs for a few hours to help keep them puffy while baking. And, preheat your oven before baking the cookies.
Ingredients list
1 cup butter, melted
2/3 cup sugar
1 cup brown sugar, firmly packed into measuring cup
2 eggs
2 tsp vanilla
2 tbs water
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
11/2 cups all purpose flour
1 1/2 cups bread flour
1 tbs cornstarch
1 1/2 cups chocolate chips
Directions – in a bowl, combine melted butter, sugar and brown sugar. Add water, eggs and vanilla. Stir in baking soda and salt. Mix in both flours. Fold in 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 11 to 14 minutes, no longer. Cool completely.
cookies by christine 