This is one of two treats for Bills gameday. Large, thick chocolate chip cookies made with melted butter and a mix of all purpose flour and cake flour. You can use entirely all purpose flour, if that’s what you have. Remember to chill the dough for a few hours before baking.
Ingredients list
3/4 cup butter, melted
1 cup brown sugar, firmly packed into cup
1/4 cup sugar
1 egg
1 egg yolk
2 tsp vanilla
2 1/4 cups all purpose flour
2/3 cup cake flour
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
2 cups chocolate chips
Directions – in a bowl blend butter, sugar and brown sugar. Add egg, yolk and vanilla. Blend in dry ingredients. If dough seems a little dry, add a tbs or two of heavy cream or milk. Mix in chips. Divide dough into 8 individual pieces and roll into balls. Chill a few hours. When ready to bake, preheat oven to 400 degrees and line a cookie sheet with parchment paper. Stagger doughs on prepared sheet. bake 10 to 12 minutes, no longer (edges will be golden). Cool completely.
I wanted to use up a half bag of heath toffee baking bits and decided to put them in brown sugar snowball cookies. I thought that dough would work best.
Remember to scoop your flour from your flour bags into your measuring cup so you get the right amount. I used 3 cups all purpose flour and 1 cup bread flour, but you can use all AP flour if you want. These stay puffy bc of the bread flour and 1/2 cup crisco.
Ingredients list
1/2 cup butter, softened
1/2 cup crisco
2 cups brown sugar, firmly packed into measuring cup
2 eggs
2 tbs heavy cream
1 tbs vanilla
3 cups all purpose flour
1 cup bread flour
1 1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1 cup healh bits
1 cup milk chocolate chips
Directions – in a bowl, cream butter, crisco and brown sugar. Add eggs, cream and vanilla. Blend in dry ingredients. If dough seems dry, add another tbs or 2 of heavy cream. Mix in heath bits and milk chocolate chips. Scoop out 1/4 cups of dough and chill and hour in fridge. Preheat oven to 350 degrees when ready to bake. Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper and stagger doughs on sheet. Bake 11 to 12 minutes , no longer.
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.
To celebrate the Bills week 2 win, another stuffed cookie recipe.. this one uses a brownie mix, eggs, flour, water
and stuffed with tollhouse bars. Simple and sweet!
Notes – scoop your flour from your flour bag into your measuring cup so you get the right amount. Chill the stuffed doughs 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 vegetable oil
Tollhouse bars, baked, cooled and cut into small squares
Directions – in a bowl, combine brownie mix, eggs, and vegetable pil. Add a tbs or two of water if dough seems too dry. Scoop put 2 tbs of dough. Divide in half and slightly flatten each.
Take one half.
Top with a tollhouse square.
Top with other half and seal edges.
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 to 12 minutes, no longer.
Cool completely. Pop in fridge to firm up. Store in covered container.
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.
For week one of the NFL season, i present – double chocolate, triple chip cookies. If you love chocolate, you will love these. They are a chocolate cookie dough with a box of instant pudding mix added, 3 kinds of chips – semisweet,
milk
and dark chocolate.
I used bread flour and all purpose flour, but you can just use all AP if you want. I recommend chilling these for a few hours before baking to help keep them puffy.
Ingredients list
3/4 cup butter, softened
3/4 cup brown sugar, firmly packed into measuring cup
1/4 cup sugar
2 eggs
1 tbs vanilla
3.4 oz box instant chocolate pudding mix
1/4 cup unsweetened baking cocoa
1 cup flour
1 cup bread flour
1 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp salt
2/3 cup milk chocolate chips
2/3 cup dark chocolate chips
2/3 cup semisweet chocolate chips
Directions – in a bowl, cream butter, sugar and brown sugar. Add eggs and vanilla. Blend in pudding mix and cocoa. Stir in flour, aking soda and salt. Mix in chipsm. Scoop out 1/4 cups dough. Form into tall cylinders. 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.
With how today’s wildcard win in Jacksonville played out, one victory monday treat is not enough. So in addition to snowball cookies with mini chocolate chips, I made frosted fudge brownies. Simple and sweet
Ingredients list
10 tbs butter
11/4 cups sugar
3/4 cup unsweetened baking cocoa
1 tsp vanilla
2 eggs
1/2 cup flour (scooped from flour bag into your measuring cup)
1/2 tsp salt
Directions – preheat oven to 325 degrees. Line an 8×8 pan with tin foil. Set aside. in a microwave safe bowl, hear butter, sugar and cocoa in 45 second increments until butter is melted. Stir smooth. Add vanilla and eggs. Blend in flour and salt. Mixture will be thick. Spread evenly into prepared pan. Bake 25 to 30 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out with a few moist crumbs. Cool completely.
Frosting ingredients
1/4 cup butter, melted
1/4 cup baking cocoa
2 tbs corn syrup
11/2 cups powdered sugar
1 tsp vanilla
2 tbs heavy cream
In a bowl, combine butter and cocoa. Add corn syrup powdered sugar and vanilla. Stir in heavy cream. Frost brownies.
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.
In honor of the Bills 21 point win over the defending Super Bowl champion Rams, I felt a celebratory treat was in order. Rob suggested blondies, so here they are.
Remember to preheat your oven to 350 degrees for 20 minutes so it cycles to the right temp. Also, spoon your flour from your flour bag into your measuring cup so you get the right amount. If you pour the flour directly into the measuring cup, it gets packed in and you actually wind up with too much flour and your treats could be dry. A grave offense.
Ingredients
1/2 cup butter, melted and cooled 10 minutes
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/3 cup sugar
1 egg
1 tsp vanilla
1 cup flour
1 1/2 cups chocolate chips
Directions – line an 8×8 pan with parchment paper and spray with baking spray. Preheat oven to 350 degrees for 20 minutes before baking. In a bowl, combine butter, brown sugar and sugar. Add egg and vanilla. Fold in flour. Mix in 1 cup chips. Press evenly into prepared pan. Sprinkle remaining 1/2 cup chips on top of dough and lightly press into dough. Bake 20-25 minutes. Bars will be light golden around edges. Cool completely and cut. Store in covered container.
Cookie monster!!!
I am so happy football season is here. We get the Sunday ticket once again for free and I am absolutely thrilled. Hope you have a wonderful day and thanks for stopping by.
I figured I would up my treats game with the NFL super wildcard weekend. The Bills win over the Patriots was the best game I ever saw played by a Bills team. Just about everything went right and Josh Allen was flawless. Such a performance deserves a special cookie. So I present the smores whoopie pie – a Graham cracker cookie, fluff filling and melted chocolate on top. Each cookie is 1/4 cup of dough. The final whoopie pie is quite large, so next time I may only use 2 tbs dough for each cookie. Although I don’t expect any complaints at work with XL cookies
A few reminders – let your butter soften on the countertop for 45 minutes to an hour. Scoop your flour from your flour bag into your measuring cup. Preheat your oven for 20 minutes before baking So your ovem cycles to the right temp.
Ingredients for cookies
3/4 cup butter, softened
3/4 cup sugar
1 1/2 cups brown sugar
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla
3 1/2 cups flour
2 1/4 cups graham cracker crumbs
2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
Directions – preheat oven to 350 degrees for 20 minutes. Line a cookie sheet with nonstick baking liners or parchment paper. In a bowl, cream butter, brown sugar and sugar. Add eggs and vanilla. Blend in dry ingredients, including Graham cracker crumbs. Scoop out 1/4 cups of dough. Slightly flatten. Bake 10 to 12 minutes. These are kind of hard to tell when they are done, but you don’t want to overcook them in the oven. Cool completely.
Filling ingredients
1/4 cup butter, melted
1 cup marshmallow fluff
2 1/2 cups powdered sugar
Milk
Directions – blend fluff and butter. Mix in powdered sugar. Add a little milk if filling seems too thick. Now for the assembly.
Place a cookie, flatside upTop with a dollop of fillingPlace another cookie, flatside down, on topFrost with melted chocolate
Thank you for stopping by today. I hope you have a wonderful day filled with joy. And I hope the Bills win 3 straight games these playoffs!
