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.
I recently bought extra large cake pan and wanted the first thing I baked in it to be a cookie cake.
I though I would make one using a yellow cake mix, sugar cookie mix, some eggs, melted butter, vanilla and top it with a simple vanilla buttercream frosting and sprinkle it with yellow and blue colored sugar (Go Sabres).
Ingredients list
1 yellow cake mix
1 sugar cookie mix
3 eggs
1 cup butter, melted
1 tbs vanilla
Directions – preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line a large round cookie pan with tin foil and spray with baking spray. Set aside.
In a bowl, combine cake and cookie mixes. Blend in eggs, one at a time, then butter and vanilla. Press evenly into prepared pan. Bake 18 minites, no longer. Cool completely.
Frosting ingredients
1/2 cup butter, softened
4 cups powdered sugar
2 tbs milk
1 tsp vanilla
Directions – in a bowl, mix butter and powdered sugar. Blend in milk and vanilla. You can add more milk and/or powdered sugar to get the desired consistency. Frost cooled cookies.
1 1/4 cups butter, browned and cooled to solid stage
2 eggs
1 1/2 tsp baking powder
3/4 tsp baking soda
1 tbs vanilla
2 2/3 cups flour
2/3 cup white chocolate chips
2/3 cup semisweet chocolate chips
2/3 cup milk chocolate chips
Directions- in a bowl, cream butter and brown sugar. Add eggs, vanilla, and salt. Mix in dry ingredients. Fold in chips. Scoop out 1/4 cups of dough. Chill a few hours. When ready to bake, Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Stagger cookies on sheet lined with parchment paper. Bake 12 to 15 minutes, no longer.
Triple chip cookies, starring brown butter and semisweet, milk chocolate and white chocolate chips. I didn’t chill these as long as I usually do, so they are a little flatter than i prefer. But rob said they are good, so that works for me!
I used a combo of bread and all purpose flour for these. You can use entire all purpose flour, but either way, remember to scoop it from the flour bag into your measuring cup so you get the right amount.
Chill the scooped out dough for a few hours and preheat the oven before baking.
Ingredients list
1 1/4 cups butter, browned and cooled until it solidifies (might take an hour or so for that to happen)
1 1/2 cups brown sugar, firmly packed into measuring cups
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla
2 tbs water
1 cup bread flour
1 2/3 cups all purpose flour
3/4 tsp baking soda
1 1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
1 tbs cornstarch
1 cup semisweet chocolate chips
1/2 cup white chocolate chips
1/2 cup milk chocolate chips
Directions – in a bowl, cream solidified brown butter and brown sugar. Add eggs, water, and vanilla. Blend in dry ingredients. Mix in chips. Scoop out 1/4 cups of dough and chill a few hours. When ready to bake, preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper or nonstick baking liners. Stagger cookies on sheet.
Bake 10 to 12 minutes, no longer. Cool completely.
I didn’t have time to make oatmeal cookies, so I made them in bar form. And I frosted them with a simple vanilla frosting. Perfect for Sabres game day and our ESPN Radio broadcast of the Big 12 title game tonight.
Remember to scoop your flour from your flour bag into your measuring cup so you get the right amount. And preheat your oven before baking.
Ingredients list
1 cup butter, melted
2 cups brown sugar, firmly packed into measuring cup
1/4 cup molasses
1 tsp vanilla
2 eggs
2 cups quick oats
1 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp baking powder
1 1/2 cups flour
Directions – preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line a 10×15 pan with tin foil and spray with pam. Set aside. In a bowl, mix butter and brown sugar. Add molasses and vanilla. Mix in eggs. Stir in remaining ingredients. Evenly press into prepared pan (I moistened my hands with water to do this). Bake 20 to 24 minutes, no longer. Cool completely.
Frosting ingredients list
1 1/2 cups butter
3 to 4 cups powdered sugar
Heavy cream or milk (enough to get the consistency you want)
1 tsp vanilla
Directions- combine ingredients in a bowl. 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.
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.
It’s been a week that’s felt like a year. From the Bills’ season ending loss to Sean getting fired to the team’s press conference that got everyone all kinds of worked up. And it is Sabres gameday, which is a beacon of light. So I present quadruple chip cookies. These are made with browned butter, all purpose and bread flour, and four kinds of chips – semisweet, dark, mini and milk chocolate.
Scoop your flour from your four containers into your measuring cup so you get the right amount. Firmly packed brown sugar into measuring cups. And preheat oven before baking. Don’t bake longer than 13 minutes.
Ingredients list
11/4 cups butter, browned
1 1/2 cups brown sugar
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla
1 tsp salt
2 tbs water
1 1/3 cups bread flour
11/3 cups all purpose flour
1 1/2 tsp baking powder
3/4 tsp baking soda
1/2 cup semisweet chocolate chips
1/2 cup milk chocolate chips
1/2 cup mini chocolate chips
1/2 cup dark chocolate chips
Directions – preheat oven to 350 degrres. Place butter in a fry pan and cook over medium heat until brown specs appear, likely 7 to 10 minutes. Place in fridge for 20 minutes to cool. In a bowl, mix butter and brown sugar. Add eggs, water, vanilla and salt. Blend in flour, baking powder and baking soda. Mix in chips. Line cookie sheets with parchment paper. Scoop out 1/4 cups of dough. Stagger on prepared sheets. Bake 13 min, no longer. Cool completely. Store in covered container.
Tonight, the Sabres are celebrating the 2005-06 team, which was quite a team. If not for all those injuries to defenseman, I believe we would have beaten Carolina in the East final and Edmonton in the Stanley Cup final. I loved those 05-06 and 06-07 squads (as well as 97-98 and 98-99), so tonight’s festivities will be fun to watch. So these cookies are celebrating them and the current Sabres team, which is playing great 🏒!
These use a combo and bread flour and all purpose flour. I like the thicker texture bread flour gives to cookies. But you can use all AP flour if you want. just remember to scoop it from your flour bag to your measuring cup so you get the right amount.
And these feature 3 types of chips!
I also froze the dough for about a half hour before baking
Ingredients list
1 cup butter, softened
1 1/2 cups brown sugar, firmly packed into measuring cup
1/2 cup sugar
2 eggs
1 tbs vanilla
2 tbs water
2 cups bread flour
2 cups flour
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp salt
2/3 cup white chocolate chips
2/3 cup semisweet chocolate chips
2/3 cup milk chocolate chips
Extra chips
Directions – in a bowl, cream butter, sugar and brown sugar. Add eggs, water and vanilla. Blend in dry ingredients. Mix in chips. (I used my hands here near the end to get dough to come together). Divide dough equally into 12 pieces. Roll into balls and slightly flatten. Chill or freeze for 30 minutes. Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper. Stagger cookies on it.
Bake 16 to 18 minutes, no longer. Remove from oven and press extra chips on top.
Cool completely.
Store in covered container. Thanks so much for stopping by today! Go Sabres!
For my last Christmas cutout cookies recipe for this season, here are the traditional sugar cookies. I made most of them into cookie sandwiches so people can actually tell what they are.
This is a recipe from a family friend, one that brings back so many wonderful memories. I used a traditional buttercream frosting recipe.
Remember to scoop your flour from your flour bag into your measuring cup so you get the right amount. Make sure you flour your surface enough to roll out the dough and sprinkle flour in your cookie cutters too. And preheat your oven before baking.
Ingredients list
1 1/2 cups crisco
1 1/3 cups sugar
4 eggs
1 tbs vanilla
4 cups flour
1 tsp salt
1 tsp baking powder
Directions – in a bowl, cream crisco and sugar. Blend in eggs well. Add vanilla. Mix in dry ingredients. You can chill the door in a covered container for a few hours if you want. Or bake them right away. When ready to bake, preheat oven to 350 degrees, and line a cookie sheet with parchment paper. Flour a flat surface with flour. Roll dough to desired thickness and cut. Place on cookie sheet. Bake 7 to 8 minutes, no longer. Cool completely.
Buttercream frosting/filling ingredients
1/2 cup butter, softened
1 tsp vanilla
4 cups powdered sugar (scooped from container into your measuring cup so you get the right amount)
Milk
In a bowl, cream butter and vanilla. Carefully blend in powdered sugar, a cup at a time. Add enough milk to get consistency you want. Frost or fill sandwich cookies.
cookies by christine 