Victory Tuesday cookies for my beloved Bills are a day late.. the reason – we traveled back from celebrating my grandma’s 99th birthday.
It was a wonderful celebration of a wonderful lady, who loves the Bills and watches every game and is quite knowledgeable.
My dad died at age 67, so i know how lucky I am still have her and my mom (who is 78) in my life. I take no one for granted.
Our girl, Gracie, made the trip (6 1/2 hours one way) and as always, was a trooper. Quite a hit among my family.
Ingredients list
3 cups flour
2 tbs cornstarch
1 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
2 eggs
1 tbs vanilla
1 cup butter, cold and cubed
3/4 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup sugar
2/3 cup white chocolate chips
2/3 cup semisweet chocolate chips
2/3 cup milk chocolate chips
Directions – cream butter, brown sugar and sugar. Add eggs and vanilla. Fold in dry ingredients. Mix in chips. Scoop out 1/4 cups dough. Chill 24 hours. line a cookie sheet with parchment paper. Stagger cookies. Bake at 375 degrees. 12 min.
A simple, easy treat for nfl week 6 – little Debbie brownie cookies, frosted, with rainbow chips on top. These are made with a brownie mix and a few extra ingredients. They might not need frosting, but I think everything is better with frosting! I don’t recommend baking these longer than 10 minutes. They seem undone on top, but pop them in the fridge to firm them up before frosting them and keep them in the fridge for a few hours. Better a gushy cookie than a dry, overbaked one, right?
Big game for my Bills this week – at the Jets on Monday night football. Our third straight on the road and our 4th night game in 6 games this season. I gotta admit the night games are killing me!
Ingredients list
1 brownie mix (18 oz or 18.2 oz)
2 tbs unsweetened baking cocoa
2 eggs
1/4 cup butter, melted
1 tbs chocolate syrup
1 cup mini chocolate chips
Directions – preheat oven to 375 degrees. In a bowl, combine brownie mix, cocoa, eggs, butter and syrup. Fold in chips. Scoop out 2 tbs dough. Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper. Stagger cookies. Bake 8 to 10 minutes. Cool
Frosting ingredients
1 cup powdered sugar
1 tbs unsweetened baking cocoa
2 tbs water
1 tsp vanilla
1 tbs chocolate syrup
In a bowl, combine all ingredients. If you want a thicker frosting, add additional powdered sugar. Feost cookies. Sprinkle with rainbow chips, sprinkles or m&ms. Store in covered container.
Some friends are coming over and love peanut butter treats, so I wanted to make them some peanut butter cookies. I ended up frosting these.. but I think next time, melted milk chocolate chips or hershey kisses would be better.
Remember to scoop your flour and powdered sugar from their respective containers so you get the right amount. If you have time, I recommend chilling the dough so the cookies spread less.
Ingredients
1/2 cup butter softened
1/4 cup crisco
1 cup peanut butter
1 1/4 cups sugar
3/4 cup powdered sugar
2 tbs water
2 eggs
4 cups flour
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp cream of tartar
1 tsp salt
Extra sugar
Directions – in a bowl, cream butter, crisco, peanut butter, sugar, powdered sugar and water. Add eggs. Fold in flour, baking soda, cream of tartar and salt. Scoop out 1/4 cups of dough. roll into balls. Spray the bottom of a glass with Pam and dip in extra sugar. Gently smush cookies (I left mine kind of thick). Chills for a few hours. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper. Bake 9 to 11 minutes (no longer). Cool completely. Top with melted milk chocolate. Store in covered container.
These Bills gameday treats for week 3, a request from Rob- brownies. I grabbed the wrong size pan (8×8) instead of what my recipe indicated (9×9), so these are thicker and took a bit longer to bake. Oops! 🙂 I will have the directions for the 9×9 pan in this recipe.
Remember to scoop your flour from your flour bag into your measuring cup so you get the right amount. Also preheat your oven so it cycles to the right temp.
Ingredients list
12 tbs butter
1 1/2 cups dark chocolate chips
1 cup sugar
1/2 cup brown sugar
4 eggs
1 tsp vanilla
1/2 tsp salt
1 cup flour
1 cup chocolate chips
Directions – preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line a 9×9 pan with tin foil and spray with baking spray. In a microwave safe bowl, melt butter and chips in 45 second increments until you can stir smooth. Add brown sugar and sugar. Mix in eggs, one at a time, and vanilla. Fold in flour and salt. Blend in chips. Evenly spread into prepared pan. Bake 25 to 30 minutes (toothpick inserted in center comes out with a few moist crumbs). Sprinkle warm brownies with powdered sugar. Cool completely. Cut and store in covered container.
Bills gameday week 3, treat # 1 – cookies and cream cookies. These are a basic chocolate chip cookie dough recipe with pieces of oreo, milk chocolate chips and white chocolate chips. These are very large – 6 cookies, but I shall cut them in half or thirds for tomorrow.
Remember to scoop your flour from your flour bag into your measuring cup so you get the right amount. I recommend chilling the individual doughs for a half hour or so to keep them puffy. Also make sure you preheat your oven so it cycles to the right temp.
Ingredients list
1/2 cup butter, softened
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/4 cup sugar
1 egg
1 tsp vanilla
2 cups flour
1/2 tso baking soda
1 1/2 tsp baking powder
1 tbs cornstarch
1 tsp salt
1 cup oreos, broken into pieces
1 /2 cup milk chocolate chips
1/2 cup white chocolate chips
Directions – in a bowl, cream sugar, brown sugar and sugar. Add egg and vanilla. Blend in dry ingredients. Mix in oreos and chips. Divide into 6 even pieces and form into tall mounds. Chill 30 minutes to an hour. Line a cookies sheet with parchment paper. Stagger cookies on sheet like below.
Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Bake 14 minutes (no longer). Cool completely. Store in covered container.
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For part 2 of the week 2 Bills victory treats, I present frosted chocolate chip cake bars. You can use any flavor cake mix (I used French vanilla), any kind of chips (I used traditional semisweet), and any kind of frosting (I used vanilla).
Bars ingredients list
1 cake mix
1/3 cup vegetable oil
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla
1 cup chocolate chips
Extra chocolate chips
Directions – preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line a 9×13 pan with parchment paper. Set aside. In a bowl, combine cake mix, oil, eggs, and vanilla. Mix in 1 cup chocolate chips. You may want to wet your hands for this next part – gently, evenly press dough into prepared pan. Sprinkle extra chips on tip. Bake 15 to 18 minutes (toothpick inserted in center comes out with a few moist crumbs). Cool completely.
Frosting ingredients
1/2 cup butter, softened
1 tsp vanilla
4 cups powdered sugar (scooped from powdered sugar container into cup)
Milk or heavy cream
Directions – in a bowl, cream butter and vanilla. Blend in powdered sugar and enough milk or heavy cream to get the consistency you want.
Thanks for stopping by! Have a wonderful day! Go Bills!
Since the Bills win over the Dolphins ended after 11 pm, there was no time to make victory treats. I needed to go to bed because I had a 430 am wakeup to work out! Oh, and I do not believe in premature baking of the victory treats. They can not be made until the victory is complete. The football gods must not be angered. So these will be brought in Monday. Dark chocolate brownies, requested by Rob.
Couple of notes – these bake at 325, lower than most brownie recipes. Remember to scoop your flour from your flour bag into your measuring cup so you get the correct amount.
Ingredients list
1 1/3 cups dark chocolate chips
1 cup sugar
1/3 cup butter
2 tbs water
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla
3/4 cup flour (scooped from your flour bag into your measuring cup so you get the right amount)
1 tsp salt
Additional 1/2 cup chocolate chips (opt)
Directions
Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Line an 8×8 square pan with tin foil and spray with baking spray. Set aside. In a microwave safe bowl, heat in 45 second increments – – 1 1/3 cups dark chocolate chips, butter, sugar and water until you can stir mixture smooth. Add eggs, one at a time, then vanilla. Blend in dry ingredients. Mix in additional chips, if using. Evenly spread into prepared pan. Bake 20 to 25 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out with a few moist crumbs. Cool completely. Cut and store in covered container.
Thanks so much for stopping by today. I wish you peace, love and joy today. Remember to be kind. We are all fighting a battle and some are more difficult than others.
Confession – These are huge cookies because I got a late start and used my quarter cup scoop to make the baking process go faster. I also didn’t have a chance to chill the dough. So I cut them in half after they cooled down and brought them into work.
Does oatmeal make them healthier? 😉
Ingredients list
2 1/2 cups quick oats
2 cups flour
1 cup sugar
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
1 cup vegetable oil
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla
1 cup chocolate chips
Directions – in a bowl, combine dry ingredients. Mix in vegetable oil, eggs and vanilla. Fold in chips. Scoop out quarter cups of dough. I recommend chilling the dough for a few hours. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper. Stagger cookies in a row of 2, one, two and one, as seen below.
Bake 10 to 12 minutes. Bottoms will be browned. Tops may be gushy, but let the cookies cool and pop them in the fridge to firm up.
Store in covered container. Thanks for stopping by today. Hope you have a wonderful day. Remember to be kind. Everyone is fighting some sort of battle.
Instead of putting a brownie inside a chocolate chip cookie, I went with more of a brookie (brownie plus cookie) approach. I made a recipe of a batch of brownies for a 9×13 pan, as well as a recipe for a batch of chocolate chip cookies. I spread the brownie dough in the pan and then gently pressed blobs of cookie dough on top. I probably took them out a little sooner than I should have, so I put them in the fridge after they completely cooled down to firm up a bit more.
For the cookie recipe, you will only need half of the dough to top the brownies. I used the other half and stuffed them with oreos. Also, I used some homemade maple syrup. You can use honey or corn syrup.
Remember to scoop your flour and your cocoa from your bag/container into your measuring cup so you get the right amount.
Brownie batter ingredients
1 cup butter, melted
3/4 cup unsweetened baking cocoa
2 1/4 cups sugar
1/2 tsp salt
3 eggs
1 tsp vanilla
1 1/3 cups flour
1/2 tsp baking powder
Directions – preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line a 9×13 pan with tin foil and spray with baking spray. In a bowl, combine butter and baking cocoa. Mix smooth. Add sugar, salt, eggs (one at a time) and vanilla. Blend in four and baking powder. Evenly spread into prepared pan
Chocolate chip cookie dough ingredients (you will only need about half of this recipe. Use the rest as you wish)
1 cup butter, melted and cooled 10 minutes
1 1/2 cups brown sugar
1/2 cup sugar
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla
1/4 cup maple syrup/corn syrup/honey
3 1/4 cups flour
1 tbs cornstarch
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp salt
1-2 cups chocolate chips (I used milk chocolate for these)
Directions – in a bowl, combine butter, sugar, and brown sugar. Add eggs, vanilla, and maple syrup. Blend in dry ingredients. Fold in chips. Scoop out 2 tbs of dough and place on top of brown batter in pan. Gently press down.
Bake in oven preheated to 350 degrees for 30 to 35 minutes (toothpick inserted in brownie batter basically comes out clean). (I would not bake longer than 35 minutes, though, because the edges may get too crispy.) Cool completely. (If the brownies seem doughy after you cut them, pop them in the fridge, in a covered container.) Store in covered container.
It’s 90 and humid out, so why not turn on the oven and bake cookies? These are another chocolate chip cookie recipe. I made them with condensed milk, an ingredient I have seen used in various brownie recipes. so i tried it here! I froze the individual cookie doughs before baking bc I was hoping it would help avoid having them spread. It did. These are pretty big and perhaps a little gushy. I will pop them in the fridge to help them firm up.
Remember to scoop your flour from your flour bag into your measuring cup so you get the right amount. I recommend chilling the individual doughs for a few hours at least. And as always, preheat your oven before baking.
Ingredients list
1 1/2 cups butter, melted
1 cup sugar
1/2 cup brown sugar
1 cup condensed milk (almost all of a 14 oz can)
4 1/3 cups flour
1 tbs cornstarch
1 tsp baking soda
2 tsp baking powder
2 cups chocolate chips
Directions – in a bowl, combine butter, sugar and brown sugar. Blend in condensed milk. Slowly fold in dry ingredients. Mix in chips. Scoop out 1/4 cups of dough. Chill or freeze a few hours. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line a sheet with parchment paper. Stagger chilled/frozen cookie doughs on prepared sheet like below..
Bake 10 minutes, no longer. Tops will be gushy, but bottoms will be browned. Cool completely. Chill to firm up if you want. store in covered container.
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cookies by christine 