My president taste tester, Rob, asked for some chocolate chip cookies, so I made a small batch. Our pup, Gracie, has quite a sweet tooth so she patiently waited for them to cool down. Rob gave her some non chocolate pieces, so that made her happy. Now she is enjoying a chilly fall night on the deck. Life is good.
Waiting patiently for the cookies on top of the stove to cool
Remember to spoon your flour from your flour container into your measuring cup to get the right amount. And, preheat your oven to 375 degrees for 20 minutes before baking So it cycles to the right temp.
Ingredients
1/2 cup butter, grated with a cheese grater
1 /3 cup brown sugar
1/3 cup sugar
1 egg
1 yolk
1 tsp vanilla
3/4 cup bread flour
3/4 cup flour
1 tsp baking powder
3/4 cup mini chocolate chips
1/4 cup chocolate chips
Directions – preheat oven to 375 degrees for 20 minutes. In a bowl, mix butter,sugar and brown sugar well. Add egg, yolk and vanilla. Blend in dry ingredients. Mix in chips. Scoop out 1/4 cups of dough. Freeze 20 minutes. Line a cookie sheet with nonstick baking liners. Stagger cookies. Bake 15 to 18 minutes (lightly brownes on bottom) cool completely. Store in covered container.
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An Oreo stuffed inside a chocolate chip sugar cookie
I have an abundance of Oreos so in an attempt to use them up, I decided to stuff them inside a chocolate chip sugar cookie. I used a Betty Crocker sugar cookie mix and added some chocolate chips. Then I stuffed an Oreo inside. And as soon as I took them out of the oven, I sprinkled them with powdered sugar. Feel free to use any cookie recipe (or mix).
Ingredients
1 sugar cookie mix
1/2 cup butter, softened
1 tbs water
1 egg
1 cup chocolate chips
Oreos
Cookie monster at it again!
Directions – preheat oven to 375 degrees for 20 minutes. In a bowl, combine cookie mix, butter, water and egg. Mix well. Add chips. Scoop out 3 tbs of dough. Evenly form around an Oreo. Stagger on a cookie sheet lined with nonstick baking liners. Bake 10 to 14 minutes, until light golden on bottom. Immediately sprinkle with powdered sugar after removing from oven. Cool completely. Store in covered container.
These are one of my many, many chocolate chip cookie recipes. Rob requests only two things – chocolate chip cookies and brownies. I don’t like making the same thing over and over, so I have a collection of various recipes for both. That way there is a little variety for me in my baking. These cookies came out a little gushier than normal because we are having issues with our oven. It is less than 4 years old. I was pleasantly surprised that we got the warranty with it. So we are getting it fixed for free. We are waiting on some parts to come in and the tech will be back to fix it.
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Some tips – scoop your flour from your flour container into measuring cup. Also, preheat your oven for 20 minutes before baking to allow it to cycle for the right temp.
Ingredients
1 cup butter, cold (I used a cheese shredder to shred it)
1 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup sugar
2 eggs
1 tbs vanilla
2 cups bread flour
1 cup cake flour
1 tbs cornstarch
1 tsp baking soda
2 cups chocolate chips
Directions – cream butter, brown sugar and sugar. Add eggs and vanilla. Blend in dry ingredients. Fold in 1 1/2 cups chocolate chips. Divide dough into 12 equal mounds of dough. Gently press remaining 1/2 cup chocolate chips into tops of each mound. Chill a few hours. Preheat oven to 400 degrees for 20 minutes. Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper or nonstick baking liners. Stagger cookies on prepared sheets. Bake 12 to 16 minutes, depending on how gushy you want your cookies. Cool completley. Store ina covered container. I also chilled them a little too in the fridge.
Cookie!!!
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Fall is here, so I decided to make something pumpkin flavored. These are somewhere between a cake and a bar cookie. I went with a vanilla frosting, but a cream cheese or brown butter one would work well too.
A little extra powdered sugar on top for extra sweetness
Ingredients
1 cup oil
15 oz can of pure pumpkin
1 3/4 cup sugar
4 eggs
2 cups flour
2 tsp baking soda
1 tbs cinnamon
1 tsp nutmeg
1 tsp pumpkin pie spice
Directions – preheat oven to 350 degrees for 20 minutes so your oven gets to the right temperature for baking. Spray a 10×15 pan with baking spray. In a bowl, combine pumpkin, sugar, oil and eggs. Blend in dry ingredients. Spread into prepared pan. Bake 18 to 22 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the middle comes out with a few crumbs.
Frosting
1/2 cup butter, melted
2 to 3 cups powdered sugar
2 to 3 tbs milk
1 tsp vanilla
Combine. Frost cake while still warm. Cool completely. Cut into pieces and store in covered container.
Happy football friday! Go Bills!
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The Bills got their first win of the season today in Miami, so victory Monday treats are in order. I went with fudge brownies topped with a fudgy frosting with crushed Oreos. A little over the top for only week 2, but I like to set the bar high.
Remember to preheat your oven to 350 degrees for 20 minutes before baking to make sure your oven heats up to the right temperature. Also, spoon your flour from your flour bag into you measuring cup so you get the right amount (and so the same with your baking cocoa)
All that chocolatey goodness!
Ingredients
12 tbs butter (1 1 /2 sticks)
1/3 cup chocolate chips
2 cups sugar
3 eggs
1 tbs vanilla
1 cup flour
1 cup baking cocoa
1 /2 tsp salt
1 cup chocolate chips
Directions -preheat oven to 350 degrees for 20 minutes. Line a 9×13 pan with parchment paper and spray with baking spray. Set aside. In a microwave safe bowl, heat butter and chocolate chips in 30 second increments until you can stir smooth. Add sugar. Blend in eggs and vanilla. Fold in flour, salt, and baking cocoa. Mix in chips. Mixture will be thick. Press into prepared pan. Bake 20 to 25 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center basically comes out clean. Cool completely.
Topping ingredients
1 cup white chocolate chips
1 cup milk chocolate chips
6 tbs heavy cream
2 cups powdered sugar
12 oreos, crushed
Directions – in a microwave safe bowl,melt both kinds of chocolate chips with heavy cream in 30 second increments until you can stir smooth. Blend in powdered sugar. Fold in Oreos. Frost brownies. Cut into squares. Store in covered container.
Rob, my chief taste tester, decided the brownie needed some marshmallow fluff
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These cookies were supposed to be puffy mounds of goodness for my goddaughter’s 13th birthday. Instead, they ended up flat as pancakes, but extremely large. So I brought them to work and made Sara something more acceptable looking! I blame these on the heat and humidity. They were well-received at work today. ☺
Note- you don’t have to use cake flour, you can entirely use regular flour of you want. Also preheat your oven to 410 degrees for 20 minutes before baking so it heats up to the right amount.
Ingredients
1/2 cup cup butter
1/2 cup crisco
1 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup sugar
1 tbs vanilla
2 eggs
1 1/2 cups flour
1 1/2 cups cake flour
1 tbs cornstarch
1 tsp baking soda
2 cups chocolate chips
Directions – cream butter, Crisco, sugar and brown sugar. Add eggs and vanilla. Blend in dry ingredients. Fold in chips. Divide dough evenly into 8 mounds. Chill at least a few hours. Preheat oven to 410 degrees for 20 minutes. On a cookie sheer lined with nonstick baking liners, stagger cookies. Bake 14 to 16 minutes (you will see light golden pathches on top) . cool completely. Store in covered container.
The cookie monster did not take a bite of this one, I promise!
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It seems like there is a National (insert name) day every day, doesn’t it? I remember recently seeing something about National Mutt Day (which we observe in our house really every day, because of Gracie). I saw that August 4th, 2021 is National Chocolate Chip Cookie day. I couldn’t let that go by without baking some ccc’s to bring into work (and perhaps let Rob eat one or two).
The cookie monster at it again!
Some cool facts about Chocolate Chip Cookies… 1) Ruth Wakefield “invented” them in 1930. She was making cookies for her roadside inn guests and was out of baker’s chocolate. She added broken pieces of Nestle’s chocolate. She thought they would melt, but did not.. and voila, a star cookie was born! 2) the chocolate chip cookie is America’s most popular cookie. 3) the first chocolate chip cookie was the size of a quarter (now, that’s just wrong) 4) there are 7 billion chocolate chip cookies eaten in the US every year, with only half of those being homemade (a travesty. that number should be bigger) 5) the number of cookies the average person eats in a lifetime is 35, 000. (yowsa)
Perfectly puffy!
Remember to spoon your flour from the flour bag into your measuring cup so you get the correct amount. if you pour directly into the measuring cup, you get too much flour and your cookies could be dry. once you scoop out the dough, chill it for a couple of hours to keep your cookies puffy. and, preheat your oven to 375 degrees for 20 minutes so it cycles to the right temperature for baking (that tip from Stanley, our LG oven tech, to whom I am indebted)
ingredients
1 cup butter, softened
1/2 cupcrisco
1 cup plus 2 tbs brown sugar
3/4 cup sugar
3 eggs
1 tbs vanilla
4 1/2 cups flour
3 tbs cornstarch
1/4 tsp baking soda
1 1/2 tspbaking powder
3 cups chocolate chips
directions – cream butter, crisco, brown sugar and sugar. Add eggs and vanilla. Blend in dry ingredients. fold in chocolate chips. Scoop out 1/4 cups of dough. Chill at least for a few hours. Preheat your oven for 20 minutes to 375 degrees. On a cookie sheet lined with nonstick baking liners or parchment paper, stagger mounds of cookie dough. bake 12 to 15 minutes – you will see light golden patches on top. Cool completely. Store in covered container.
Celebrating the greatest cookie!
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Double chocolate, triple chip brownies topped with powdered sugar
These brownies, dear friends, are one of the first treats I remember making my myself. They are an old Nestle tollhouse standby. I actually meased it up by melting 2 cups of chocolate chips instead of one, but I have never gotten any complaints, so I stuck with that “mistake”. Rob wanted me to add a combo of white, milk chocolate and semisweet chocolate chips, so I did. These aren’t super fudgy, but not cakey either. I think you will like them.
All that chocolate!
Reminders – preheat your oven to 350 degrees for 20 minutes before baking. Also, scoop your flour from your flour bag into your measuring cup so you get the right amount.
Ingredients
1/2 cup butter
2 cups chocolate chips
1 cup sugar
3 eggs
1 tsp chocolate extract
1 1/4 cups flour
1/4 tsp baking soda
1/3 cup chocolate chips
1/3 cup white chocolate chips
1/3 cup milk chocolate chips
Directions – preheat oven to 350 degrees for 20 minutes. Line an 8×8 pan with tin foil and spray with baking spray. in a microwave safe bowl, Melt butter and 2 cups chocolate chips in 30 second increments until you can stir smooth. Mix in sugar. Add eggs and extract. Blend in flour and baking soda. Fold in remaining chips. Spread into prepared pan. Bake 17 to 22 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in center comes out with a few moist crumbs. Cool completley. Store in covered container.
Someone stole one already!
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A friend was coming over to visit today with her baby and dog, and I know she loves peanut butter. So I needed to make something for her to take home. Instead of cookies, I did a cookie cake on a small cookie sheet and topped it with peanut butter frosting.
Remember to preheat your oven to 350 degrees for 20 minutes before baking So your oven cycles to the right temp. And, scoop your flour from your flour bag into your measuring cup so you get the correct amount. If you pour it directly into the cup, you pack it in and it’s over the amount you need and makes for a dry treat.
Peanut butter perfection!
Ingredients
1/2 cup peanut butter
1/2 cup butter
1/4 cup milk
1 egg
1 tsp vanilla
1 cup sugar
1 cup flour
1/2 tsp baking soda
Directions – preheat oven to 350 degrees for 20 minutes. Line a small cookie sheet (I used a 9×13 cookie sheet) with parchment paper. In a saucepan, combine. Cook peanut butter and butter, stirring occasionally, until it is melted and comes to a boil. Remove from heat. Add sugar. Blend in egg, milk and vanilla. Fold in flour and baking soda. Spread evenly into prepared pan. Bake 15 to 20 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out with a few crumbs. Cool completley.
Frosting ingredients
1/4 cup butter
1 /4 cup peanut butter
2 to 4 tbs milk
2 cups powdered sugar
Directions – in a saucepan, cook and stir peanut butter and butter, stirring occasionally to a boil. Remove from heat. Add powdered sugar then enough milk to get the consistency you want. Frost cookie cake. Store in covered container.
They’re thin, so have two!
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Rob, my president of taste testing, could not decide between a chocolate chip cookie and chocolate chocolate chip cookie, so I made both kinds and smooshed (or is it smushed?) them together. They are very large cookies. Oh, and I dipped the bottoms in melted Hershey kisses just because that makes them even more magical. You’re welcome.
Melted chocolate on the bottom takes these up a notch!
Chocolate chocolate chip cookie dough ingredients
1/2 cup butter
2/3 cup chocolate chips
3/4 cup brown sugar
1/4 cup sugar
2 eggs
1 tsp chocolate extract
1/4 cup baking cocoa
1 3/4 cups flour (scooped from your flour bag into your measuring cup)
1 tbs cornstarch
1 tsp baking powder
1 cup chocolate chips
Directions – in a microwave safe bowl, melt 2/3 cup chocolate chips and butter in 30 second increments until you can stir combo melted. In another bowl, beat brown sugar, sugar and eggs 2 minutes. Add melted chocolate mixture, chocolate extract and eggs. Fold in dry ingredients. As you chill this dough in the fridge for 20 minutes, make the chocolate chip cookie dough
Chocolate chip cookie dough ingredients
1 cup butter, soft
1 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup sugar
2 eggs
2 yolks
2 1/2 cups flour (scooped from your flour bag into your measuring cup)
1 1/2 cups cake flour (scooped from your flour bag into your measuring cup)
1 tbs cornstarch
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda
2 cups chocolate chips
Directions – cream butter, sugar and brown sugar. Add eggs and yolks. Fold in dry ingredients. Mix in chips.
Cookie assembly directions – Scoop out 3 tbs of chocolate chip cookie dough and 3 tbs of chocolate chocolate chip cookie dough. Form one large mound. (You may have extra chocolate chip cookie dough). Chill the dough mounds for an hour or so. Preheat oven to 400 degrees for 20 minutes. On a cookie sheet lined with nonstick baking liners or parchment paper, stagger cookies. I think I put 6 to 8 on one sheet. Bake for 10 minutes. I do not recommend linger than 11 minutes total because cookies will dry out. Cool completely. Cover bottoms of cookies in melted Hershey kisses (I microwave unwrapped kisses in 30 second increments, in a microwave safe bowl until it can be stirred smooth). Let chocolate set. Store in covered container.
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