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Frosted malted blondies with mini chocolate chips and malted frosting

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I wanted to make another recipe using my malted milk powder, so I opted for blondies with mini chocolate chips and topped with malted milk frosting.

Remember to scoop your flour from your flour bag into your measuring cup so you get the correct amount (do not pour from flour bag because that packs it in and can result in a dry blondie).  Also firmly packed your brown sugar into your measuring cup.  And preheat your oven before baking.

  • Ingredients list
  • 1/2 cup butter, softened
  • 1/4 cup crisco
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 1/2 cup brown sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 tsp vanilla
  • 1 1/2 cups flour
  • 1/2 tsp baking powder
  • 1/2 cup malted milk powder
  • 1 cup mini chips

Directions – preheat oven to 350 degrees.   Line a 9×9 pan with tin foil and spray with baking spray.   Set aside.   In a bowl, cream butter, crisco, sugar and brown sugar.  Add eggs and vanilla.  Blend in flour, baking powder and milk powder.  Stir in chips.   Spread evenly into prepared pan. 

Bake 30 to 33 minutes, until golden on top, no longer.   Cool completely.

  • Frosting ingredients
  • 1/2 cup butter, softened
  • 2-3 cups powdered sugar
  • 1/4 cup malted milk powder
  • 1 tsp vanilla
  • 2-3 tbs heavy cream

Directions – in a bowl, cream butter, milk powder and powdered sugar.  Add vanilla and heavy cream.  You may need to add more powdered sugar and /or heavy cream to get the consistency you want.  Frost bars.  

Store in covered container. 

Almond m&m milk chocolate chip cookies

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Rob bought some almond m&ms and I thought they would be perfect in a cookie!

   I used a basic chocolate chip cookie recipe, instead of vanilla, I used almond extract.   I also used part bread flour along with all purpose flour.  They spread out a little more than I prefer, so maybe next time I add a little more flour and bake  the dough frozen to see if that helps.

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

  • Ingredients list
  • 1 cup butter,  softened
  • 1 1/4 cups brown sugar, firmly packed into measuring cup
  • 1/2 cup sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 tsp vanilla
  • 2 cups flour
  • 1 cup bread flour
  • 1 tbs cornstarch
  • 1 tsp baking soda
  • 1/4 tsp salt
  • 1 cup of almond m&ms
  • 1/2 cup milk chocolate chips

Directions – in a bowl, cream butter, sugar, and brown sugar.  Add eggs and vanilla.  Blend in dry ingredients then m&ms and chips.   Scoop out 1/4 cups of dough and freeze.   When ready to bake, preheat oven to 375 degrees and line a cookie sheet with parchment paper.  Stagger dough on sheets.  

Bake 10 to 12 minutes, no longer.  Immediately gently press extra chips into tops of cookies. 

Cool completely.  Store in covered container.

Malted brown butter Special Dark brownies

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I picked up some malted milk powder recently, after seeing it is a nice addition to cookies, brownies and cakes, especially when using brown butter    I know Rob loves brownies so I thought I would try adding malted milk powder to a brownie recipe.

Remember to scoop your flour, baking cocoa and milk powder from you containers into your measuring cup so you get the right amount.  Also preheat your oven to 325 degrees before baking.

  • Ingredients list
  • 1/2 cup butter
  • 2 cups powdered sugar
  • 2 eggs and 1 yolk
  • 1 tsp chocolate extract (or vanilla)
  • 1/2 cup flour
  • 2/3 cup unsweetened baking cocoa
  • 1/3 cup malted milk powder
  • 2 tbs cornstarch
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 1 cup chocolate chips

Directions – preheat oven to 325 degrees.  Line an 8×8 pan with parchment paper and spray with baking spray.  Set aside.  in a pan, over low-medium heat, brown butter.  you heat it until you start to see some brown specs lile below.  Remove from heat.

Pour into bowl and stir in powdered sugar.  Mix in eggs, yolk and extract.    Fold  in dry ingredients, then chips.  Evenly press into prepared pan.  Bake 28 to 33 minutes, until a toothpick inserted in center comes out with a few moist crumbs. Immediately sprinkle powdered sugar on top. 

Cool completely.    Cut and store in covered container.

Ultra thick chocolate chip cookies for Sabres gameday, game 5, first round

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For game five against the Bruins tomorrow, I asked Rob what to make and he suggested chocolate chip cookies.  So these use a combo of browned butter and regular room temp butter, and a tsp of active yeast.  

We are one win away from our first playoff series win in 19 years!  Very exciting!

  • Ingredients list
  • 1/2 cup butter, browned
  • 1/4 cup butter, softened
  • 2 1/4 cups flour
  • 3/4 tsp baking soda
  • 1 tsp active dry yeast
  • 3/4 cup brown sugar, firmly packed into measuring cup
  • 1/2 cup sugar
  • 1 egg
  • 1 tbs vanilla
  • 2 tbs water
  • 1 cup chocolate chips

Directions – after you have browned 1/2 cup butter, pour into bowl and set aside.  In a separate bowl, combine flour, baking soda and yeast.  Using a pasty cutter or fork, cut in 1/4 cup butter.   Set aside.  To brown butter bowl, add sugar and brown sugar, then egg, water, and vanilla.   Combine with flour bowl.   Mix in chips.  Scoop out 1/4 cups dough and chill a few hours.  Preheat oven to 375.   Line a cookie sheet with nonstick liners or parchment paper.  Stagger cookies on sheet.

Bake 10 to 12 minutes, no longer.  Cool completely and store in covered container.

Thanks for stopping by!

Smores cookies (for the Sabres first playoff game in 15 years)

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The Sabres play our first playoff game in 15 years tomorrow.  As I racked my brain to determine what treat might be special enough, I put the question to my husband – what kind of cookie – smores cookies, rocky road, brownie Rockies road, twix?  He settled on smores- a milk chocolate chip cookie dough with crushed graham crackers and mini marshmallow bits.  

Special enough?  I hope so. 

Note – my parents gave me this Sabres golf ball in 1999 and I have had it on display next to our kitchen sink since we bought our house in 2001.  Plenty of lean years since then, but my Fandom never left me. 

I started getting nervous/ excited on my drive home from work today at 5.   Not sure what i will be like tomorrow at work during Sunday night baseball.   Pray for my crew.

Remember to scoop your flour from your flour  bag into your measuring cup so you get the right amount.  preheat your oven to 350 degrees before baking.   I did not chill these and they puffed up nicely.  

  • Ingredients list
  • 1 cup butter, softened
  • 1 1/3 cups brown sugar, firmly packed into measuring cup
  • 2 eggs
  • 3 tsp vanilla
  • 1 1/3 cups finely crushed graham cracker crumbs
  • 3 cups flour
  • 2 tsp baking soda
  • 1 tbs cornstarch
  • 1 /2 tsp salt
  • 2 cups marshmallow bits
  • 2 cups milk chocolate chips

Directions – preheat oven to 350 degrees.  Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper.  Set aside.   In a bowl, cream butter and brown sugar.  Add vanilla and eggs.  Blend in dry ingredients.  Using your hands, mix in chips and marshmallow bits, like you would do with meatballs.  Scoop out 1/4 cups dough.  Stagger on prepared sheet.Bake 8 to 10 minutes, no longer (edges of bottoms will be golden brown)  cool completely.  

Store in covered container.

Mini Peanut butter m&m peanut butter cookies stuffed with Reese’s eggs

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My other treat for work, in honor of opening day of the NHL and NBA Playoffs and my Sabres first playoff game in forever, is for all my peanut butter loving friends- peanut butter cookies with mini peanut butter m&ms

And stuffed with reese’s eggs.  

Boom!

Remember to scoop your flour bag into your measuring cup so you get the right amount.  Also firmly packed your brown sugar into your measuring cup so you get the right amount.  Chill the dough at least a few hours before baking to keep them puffy and preheat the oven before baking.

  • Ingredients list
  • 1/2 cup butter, softened
  • 3/4 cup peanut butter
  • 3/4 cup brown sugar
  • 1/4 cup sugar
  • 1 egg
  • 1 tbs milk
  • 1 tsp vanilla
  • 2 cups flour
  • 1 tsp baking soda
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 1 cup peanut butter mini m&ms
  • Reeses eggs, unwrapped  (not the regular size ones)

Directions – in a bowl, cream butter, peanut butter, brown sugar and sugar.  Add egg, vanilla and milk.  Blend in dry ingredients then m&ms.   Scoop out 1/4 cup of dough and divide in half.  Flatten each half.  On one half, place a Reese’s egg.  Place other half on top 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 11 to 13 minutes, no longer.  cool completely.  

Store in covered container.

Ice cream hot fudge m&m cookie dough brownies with melted hershey bars

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Celebrating the Sabres first division title in a looooong time.   Next level cookie dough brownies, featuring a brownie mix.

Ice cream and hot fudge

Mini m&ms

And melted hershey bars

  • Ingredients list
  • 1 brownie mix
  • 2 eggs
  • 1/2 cup vegetable oil
  • 1 cup ice cream (not melted)
  • 1/4 cup hot fudge
  • 1 cup mini m&ms

Directions – preheat oven to 350 degrees.  Line a 9×13 pan with parchment paper.  Set aside.  In a bowl, combine brownie mix, eggs and oil.  Blend in ice cream and hot fudge.  Spread evenly into prepared pan.  Bake 25 to 30 minutes (toothpick inserted on center comes out with a few moist crumbs)  cool completely

  • Cookie dough topping ingredients
  • 1/2 cup butter, melted
  • 1/2 cup brown sugar
  • 1/4 cup sugar
  • 2 tbs heavy cream
  • 1 tsp vanilla
  • 3/4 cup flour (scooped from flour bag into measuring cup)
  • 1 cup mini chocolate chips

Directions – in a bowl, cream butter, brown sugar and sugar 2 to 3 minutes.  Add cream and vanilla.  Blend in flour then chips. 

Grab a spoon!

Evenly spread over cooled brownies.   

Top with melted milk chocolate. 

Cut and store in covered container.

Thanks for stopping by.  Can’t wait for the playoffs!

Sugar cookie yellow cake mix (blue and gold version)

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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. 

  I sprinkled colored sugar on top.

Cut and storte in covered container.

Hot fudge brownie cookies with crushed nutter butters and peanuts butter chips

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A day late Sabres victory treat!

I didn’t have time to bake victory treats after our win over the Lightning, so I stepped it up today – hot fudge brownie cookies with crushed nutter butters and peanut butter chips! 

These are simple, using just a few ingredients  – brownie mix, flour, water, oil, egg, hot fudge, nutter butters and Reese’s peanut butter chips.  And yes, you can leave the nutter butters out, use a different crushed cookie, and also use a different chips flavor!

  • Ingredients list
  • 1 brownie mix
  • 1/2 cup flour (scooped from flour bag into measuring cup)
  • 1 egg
  • 1/4 cup vegetable oil
  • 5 tbs water
  • 1/4 cup hot fudge (room temp is easiest to work with)
  • 16 nutter butters, finely crushed
  • 1 cup peanut butter chips
Using a food processor is easiest way to crush nutter butters

Directions – preheat oven to 350 degrees.  Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper and set aside.  In a bowl, blend brownie mix, flour, egg, water and vegetable oil.  Blend in hot fudge, then nutter butters.  Mix in chips.  Scoop our 1/4 cups of dough and stagger on prepared cookie sheet. 

Bake 12 minutes, no longer.  Cool completely. 

I put mine in the fridge to help firm them up a bit.  Store in covered container.

Baby food carrot cake cookies with mini chocolate chips and cream cheese frosting

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For Sabres victory treats, Rob chose carrot cake cookies with mini chocolate chips and cream cheese frosting.  Grating carrots is not my favorite thing, so I used baby food carrots!

I used a combo of bread flour and all purpose flour.  You can use entirely all purpose flour.  I ran out of time to chill the dough, so they spread more than I prefer.   I recommend chilly individual mounds of dough for a few hours before baking.  Also preheat your oven before baking.

  • Ingredients list
  • 3/4 cup shortening
  • 1 1/2 cups sugar
  • 1/4 cup brown sugar, firmly packed into measuring cup
  • 1 egg
  • 1 tbs vanilla
  • 2, 4 oz jars carrot baby food
  • 1 cup all purpose flour
  • 1 cup bread flour
  • 1 1/2 tsp baking powder
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 1 1/2 tsp cinnamon
  • 1/4 tsp nutmeg
  • 1 cup mini chocolate chips

Directions – in a bowl, cream crisco, sugar and brown sugar.  Add egg and vanilla.  Blend in dry ingredients then baby food.  Stir in chips.  Evenly divide into 12 doughs.  Chill a few hours.   When ready to bake, preheat oven to 400 degrees.  Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper.  Stagger cookies on sheet. 

Bake 12 minutes, no longer.

Cool completely.  

  • Frosting ingredients
  • 6 oz cream cheese, softened
  • 3/4 cup butter, softened
  • 4 cups powdered sugar
  • 1 tsp vanilla

Directions – in a bowl, cream butter and cream sugar.  Blend in powdered sugar, slowly.  Add vanilla.  Frost cookies. 

Store in covered container.