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Chocolate peanut butter cookies

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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.

Store in covered container.

Yellow cake mix whoopie pies

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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. 

Thanks so much for stopping by.

Mini m&m milk chocolate chip chocolate cookies

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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. 

Cool completely.   Store in covered container.

Blizzard day chocolate chip cookies

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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.

Thanks for stopping by today!  Stay safe and warm!

Peanut butter chip chocolate cookies stuffed with a homemade Reese’s pb cup

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I had some peanut butter chips to use up, so I decided to put them in chocolate cookies and stuff them with a homemade mini Reese’s peanut butter cup.  

And I covered the bottoms of the cookies with melted hershey kisses.  A lot, I know.   But I think they will be a big hit.

I chilled the individual doughs for a few hours before baking to help keep them puffy.  I also attempted to press a few extra chips on top of the cookies as soon as they came out of the oven.

For the cookies, remember to scoop the flour from your flour bag into your measuring cup so you get the right amount.  And, preheat your oven before baking

  • Homemade mini reeses
  • 1/4 cup butter
  • 1 cup peanut butter
  • 1/4 cup brown sugar,  firmly packed into measuring cup
  • 1 1/4 cups powdered sugar
  • Milk

In a saucepan, over medium heat, heat and stir butter, peanut butter and brown sugar to a boil.  Remove from heat. Add powdered sugar.  Blend in 1 to 2 tbs of milk so mixture is easy enough to form into balls.  (You might want to let it cool down before rolling into balls).   Once they are rolled, pop them in the fridge in a covered container to firm up.

  • Cookies ingredients
  • 1 1/2 cups butter, softened
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 1 cup brown sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 tsp vanilla
  • 3 1/2 cups flour
  • 1 cup unsweetened baking cocoa
  • 2 tsp baking soda
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 1 cup peanut butter chips

Directions- in a bowl, cream butter, sugar and brown sugar.  Add eggs and vanilla.  Mix in dry ingredients.   Stir in chips.  Scoop out 1,/4 cups of dough and divide in half.  Slightly flatten each half.  On one half, place a Reese’s ball.  Top with other flattened half.  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 12 to 14 minutes.  Cool completely.     If you want, melt some hershey kisses and dip the bottoms of cookies in.  Let chocolate  dry, bottom side up of cookies. 

Store in covered container. 

Frosted Sugar cookies bars

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Instead of making cutout cookies, I opted for sugar cookie bars.    The recipe is easy, it makes thick bars, with the texture of a fudgy brownie. A simple vanilla frosting, with unicorn graffiti sprinkles in the bars and on top of the frosting.

Remember to scoop your flour from your flour bag into your measuring cup so you get the right amount.   Also, preheat your oven before baking. 

  • Bars ingredients list
  • 1/2 cup butter, softened
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 tbs vanilla
  • 2 1/2 cups flour
  • 3/4 tsp salt
  • Unicorn graffiti

Directions – preheat oven to 350 degrees.   Line an 8×8 pan with parchment paper.  Set aside.  In a bowl, cream butter and sugar.  Add eggs and vanilla.  Blend in flour and salt.   Stir in unicorn graffiti.   Even spread into prepared pan.   Bake 15 minutes, no longer.   Cool completely.

  • Frosting ingredients
  • 1,/4 cup butter, softened
  • 1 tsp vanilla
  • 2 cups powdered sugar
  • 2 to 4 tbs milk

In a bowl, cream butter and vanilla.  Blend in powdered sugar.   Add enough milk to get the consistency you want.  Sprinkle unicorn graffiti on top.  

Store in covered container.  Thanks so much for stopping by.

Brownies made with ice cream and hot fudge

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Game day treat # 2!

In addition to oatmeal creme pies, I decided to whip up some brownies.   These use a brownie mix,

a friendly’s individual size ice cream sundae container,

hot fudge, eggs and vegetable oil.

  • Ingredients list
  • 1 brownie mix
  • 2 eggs
  • 1/2 cup vegetable oil
  • 1/4 cup hot fudge
  • 1 cup ice cream (I used a friendly’s individual sundae )

Directions – preheat oven to 350 degrees.  Spray a baking pan with baking spray.    In a bowl, combine brownie mix, eggs and oil.  Blend in ice cream and hot fudge.   Evenly spread into prepared pan.  If you use 9×13 pan, bake 20 to 25 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in center comes out with a few moist crumbs ( If you use and 8×8, bake 28 to 32 minutes). Remove from oven and immediately,  gently press chocolate chips in top of brownies. 

Cool completely. Thanks for stopping by.  Go Bills!  Go Sabres!

NFL Divisional round playoff Bills gameday treats –  oatmeal creme pies

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How cool that not only it is Bills playoff gameday but also Sabres game day.  The last time the Bills played a playoff game the same day as the Sabres had a game, both teams won.  Here’s hoping for that same result!

I broke out of the box a bit with these.  I have made oatmeal cookies which were well received, but felt the need to step it up because it is the Divisional round of the playoffs…. so I went with oatmeal creme pies.  

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 for the frosting)

  • Ingredients list
  • 1/2 cup butter, softened
  • 1/2 cup crisco
  • 3/4 cup brown sugar, firmly packed into measuring cup
  • 1/2 cup sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 tsp vanilla
  • 1 1/2 cups flour
  • 1 tsp baking soda
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 3 cups quick oats

Directions – preheat oven to 350 degrees.  Line a cookie sheet with nonstick baking liners.   In a bowl, cream butter, crisco, sugar and brown sugar.  Add eggs and vanilla.  Mix in flour, baking soda and salt.  Fold in oats.   Scoop out 3 tbs of dough and form tall mounds. 

Stagger on cookie sheet.

Bake 11 to 13 minutes, no longer (edges will be browned.   Cool completely.

  • Fluff filling
  • 1/2 cup butter, softened
  • 3/4 cup marshmallow fluff
  • 2 cups powdered sugar
  • 1 tsp vanilla
  • 2 tbs milk

Directions – in a bowl, cream fluff and butter.  Blend in powdered sugar.   Mix in vanilla and milk.  

Assembly directions – lay one cookie flat side up

Spoon some filling on top.

Top with another cookie flatside down.

Store in covered container.  I popped these in the fridge so the top cookie wouldn’t slide off the filling.

Thanks for stopping by!  Go Bills!  Go Sabres!

Large puffy triple chip cookies, in honor of the 2005-06 Sabres

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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!

Victory monday – wildcard version – frosted fudge brownies

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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. 

Store in covered container.

Thanks for stopping by!  Go Bills.