Triple Chocolate Brownie Cookies

Submitted by Laura


Ingredients 
* 4 ounces unsweetened chocolate, chopped
* 3/4 cup butter, cubed
* 4 eggs
* 2 cups sugar
* 1-1/2 cups all-purpose flour
* 1/2 cup baking cocoa
* 2 teaspoons baking powder
* 1/2 teaspoon salt
* 2 cups (12 ounces) semisweet chocolate chips, divided
* 2 teaspoons shortening


Directions
* In a microwave melt chocolate and butter; stir until smooth. Cool slightly. In a large bowl, beat eggs and sugar. Stir in chocolate mixture. Combine the flour, cocoa, baking powder and salt; gradually add to chocolate mixture and mix well. Stir in 1-1/2 cups chocolate chips.

* Cover and refrigerate for 2 hours or until easy to handle.

* Drop by tablespoonfuls 2 in. apart onto greased baking sheets. Bake at 350° for 7-9 minutes or until edges are set and tops are slightly cracked. Cool for 2 minutes before removing from pans to wire racks to cool completely.

* In a microwave, melt remaining chips and shortening; stir until smooth. Drizzle over cookies. Let stand for 30 minutes or until chocolate is set. Store in an airtight container. Yield: 6 dozen.

Snicker Surprise Cookies

Submitted by Meliss

Ingredients

1 bag Dove miniature milk or rich dark chocolate

1 bag Snickers Minis

1 cup butter, softened

1 cup creamy peanut butter

1 cup granulated sugar

1 cup light brown sugar

2 eggs

1 tsp vanilla

3 1/2 cups flour, sifted

1 tsp baking soda

1/2 tsp salt

Confectioners' sugar (optional)

2 greased cookies sheets

Directions

Beat together butter, peanut butter and sugars with electric mixer on low-medium speed until light and fluffy.  Slowly add the eggs and vanilla, beating until well mixed.  Mix in the flour, baking soda, and salt.  Cover and chill dough in the refrigerator for 2-3 hours.

Preheat oven to 325. Remove dough from refrigerator. Divide dough into 1-tablespoon pieces and flatten each dough piece.

Unwrap enough Snickers Minis to have one for each dough piece. Place a Snickers Mini in the center of each dough piece.  Form dough into a ball around each Snickers.

Place on greased cookie sheets.  Bake for 10-12 minutes.

Remove from oven; transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.

Melt the Dove chocolate in microwave for 1 minute, then remove and stir chocolate.  Return to microwave for 30 seconds more, or until all pieces have melted.  Drizzle melted chocolate over the top of the cookies.

1st Annual Cookie Weekend - December 2011

Featured Recipes:

Magic Cookie Bars

Lace Cookies

Flourless Peanut Butter Cookies

Snickerdoodles

Sugar Cookies

Choco-Caramel Delights

Buckeyes

Swedish Cookies

Chocolate Chip Cookies

Lemon Butter Spritz Cookies

We brought just a few ingredients.

Packaging our goodies

Decorating the Gingerbread House

This is what happens when Erin is left alone with the gingerbread house...

...Santa and Frosty need to watch their backs.

Magic Cookie Bars

Submitted by Michelle

prep time: 10 minutes

makes 2 to 3 dozen bars

1 ½ C  graham cracker crumbs

½ C  (1 stick) butter, melted

1  14oz can of sweetened condensed milk

2 C  (12 oz) semi-sweet chocolate chips

1 ⅓ C  flaked coconut

1 C  chopped nuts (optional)

1. Preheat oven to 350˚ F (325˚ for glass dish).

2. In small bowl, combine graham cracker crumbs and butter; mix well. Press crumb mixture firmly on bottom of lightly greased 13x9 inch baking pan/glass dish.

3. Pour sweetened condensed milk evenly over crumbs. Layer evenly with remaining ingredients; press firmly down with fork.

4. Bake 25-30 minutes or until lightly browned, do not overbake! Let cool and chill if desired. Cut into bars. Store covered at room temperature or in refrigerator.  

Flourless Peanut Butter Cookies

Submitted by Meliss

Makes: about 2.5 dozen

Prep: 10 minutesBake: 10 minutes per batch

 

Ingredients

• 1  cup  peanut butter, chunky or creamy
• 1  cup  packed light- or dark-brown sugar
• 1  large  egg, slightly beaten
• 1  teaspoon  baking soda
• 1  cup  semisweet chocolate chips (6 ounces)

1. Heat oven to 350°F.
2. In medium-size bowl, beat together the peanut butter, brown sugar, egg and baking soda until the mixture is smooth and well blended. Stir in chips until evenly distributed.
3. Drop the dough by slightly rounded teaspoonfuls onto ungreased baking sheets, spacing the mounds about 2 inches apart.
4. Bake one baking sheet at a time in the 350°F oven until the cookies are puffed and slightly golden but still soft to the touch, about 10 minutes. Let the cookies cool on the baking sheet on a wire rack for about 5 minutes. Then transfer the cookies to the wire rack; let cool completely.

Chocolate Chip Cookies

Submitted by Lori

2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
1 cup (2 sticks, 1/2 pound) butter, softened
3/4 cup granulated [white] sugar
3/4 cup packed brown sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 eggs
2 cups (12-ounce package) NESTLE TOLL HOUSE Semi-Sweet Chocolate Morsels
1 cup chopped nuts







COMBINE flour, baking soda and salt in small bowl. Beat butter, granulated sugar, brown sugar and vanilla in large mixer bowl. Add eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition; gradually beat in flour mixture. Stir in morsels and nuts. Drop by rounded tablespoon onto ungreased baking sheets.

BAKE in preheated 375-degree [Fahrenheit] oven for 9 to 11 minutes or until golden brown. Let stand for 2 minutes; remove to wire racks to cool completely. Makes 5 dozen.

Snickerdoodles

Submitted by Erin

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup butter, softened
• 1/2 cup shortening
• 1 1/2 cups white sugar
• 2 eggs
• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 2 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
• 2 teaspoons cream of tartar
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 2 tablespoons white sugar
• 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon

1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C).
2. Cream together butter, shortening, 1 1/2 cups sugar, the eggs and the vanilla. Blend in the flour, cream of tartar, soda and salt. Shape dough by rounded spoonfuls into balls.
3. Mix the 2 tablespoons sugar and the cinnamon. Roll balls of dough in mixture. Place 2 inches apart on ungreased baking sheets.
4. Bake 8 to 10 minutes, or until set but not too hard. Remove immediately from baking sheets.

Double Batch Swedish Cookies

Submitted by Lora

1 1/2 cups of shortening crisco margarine combined

1 tsp baking soda in hot water
1 cup white sugar
1 cup of brown sugar
2 eggs
pinch salt
4 cups of flour

Beat eggs, shortening, and sugar. Mix together remaining ingredients.  Add flour mixture to sugar mixture. Make two rolls.  Wrap in wax paper and freeze.

Slice and sprinkle sugar crystals.

Bake  350 for 10 min or lightly browned. 

Lace Cookies

Submitted by Laura

• 1 1/2 c uncooked oatmeal
• 1 1/2 c brown sugar
• 2 Tbsp flour
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 2/3 c melted butter
• 1 egg, lightly beaten
• 1/2 tsp vanilla

• Preheat oven to 350°.
• Mix oatmeal, brown sugar, flour, salt.
• Stir in melted butter, add egg and vanilla.
• Mix well.
• Arrange by scant half-teaspoonfuls, about 2 inches apart, on cookie sheets.
• Bake until lightly browned, about 5 min.
• Cool slightly on trays, remove when firm.

Be advised, these spread out like crazy.