Dark Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookies

So this weekend I had a 80s movie night with my friends and I wanted to make something that we all would like. I decided to make giant dark chocolate cookies with peanut butter chips. I took a Hershey’s recipe and tweaked it.

Ingredients

2 sticks of butter

1 ½ cups of sugar

2 eggs

2 teaspoons vanilla

2 cups of all purpose flour

2/3 cups of dark cocoa (use regular if don’t want it to be super rich)

¾ teaspoon baking soda

¼ teaspoon salt

1 bag of reese chips (I didn’t have a full bag so I add some regular chocolate chips)

Preheat oven to 350 degrees

Mix butter, sugar, eggs, and vanilla in a bowl until it is fluffy.

 

 

I didn’t want to get another bowl dirty so I mixed the dry ingredients (flour, cocoa, baking soda, and salt) in a baggy.

 

Then mix the two mixtures together until all the dry ingredients are mixed in.

Stir in chips then grab a spoon fool and roll into a ball. To make to cookies giant the balls were a little smaller then my palm which makes the balls be about 2 inches across. 

Place balls on a cookie sheet and bake for 15 to 20 minutes.  I’m using my pampered chief stone bar pan.

Once cookies are done cool before moving onto a wire rack or they will break into pieces.

Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookie Bars

I went home this weekend and I was trying to decide what I wanted to bake something that I didn’t need a lot of ingredients. My mom had the ingredients for cookie bars and I decided to make them. They are perfect for any chocolate and peanut butter lovers.

Ingredients

Chocolate chip cookie mix (Betty Crocker)

Peanut butter cookie mix (Betty Crocker)

1 stick of butter

3 eggs

3 tablespoons of vegetable/ canola oil

2 tablespoons of water

 11.5 oz bag of chocolate chunks

Pre-heat oven to 375 degrees

In a medium bowl mix the chocolate chip cookie mix, butter and 1 egg until all mix in blended in.

Spread dough in a 13 by 9 casserole dish and lay aside.

Get the medium bowl back out and mix the peanut butter cookie mix, 2 eggs, oil, and water. I used the same bowl because it did not matter if the doughs mixed and I don’t like washing more dishes then I have to.

Spread peanut butter dough on top of chocolate chip dough and sprinkle with chocolate chunks. Make sure the top if covered. I didn’t use the whole bag but it wouldn’t have hurt if I did.

Put into the oven on the middle rack and bake for about 20 minutes.

Let cool then cut into rectangles and enjoy.

Cookie Cups

looks good

Today I wanted to do something quick and easy. My friend gave me some cookie dough she didn’t need and I have some left over cream cheese so I am going to make cookie cups.

Ingredients

½ roll of cookie dough

1 ½ ounces cream cheese softened

½-1 cup powdered sugar

2 tablespoons butter softened

¼ teaspoon vanilla

Food coloring (optional)

Sprinkles (optional)

Preheat oven to 350 

Pinch off some cookie dough and roll into a ball and place in a mini cupcake pan. If you have any empty cups feel with water, it helps keep the pan from burning.

you can also do this with brownies

Before you put them in the oven press your thumb into the dough to create the cup.   

While they are baking for about 6-10 minutes, I’m going to make the same cream cheese icing I made for the Red Velvet Cake balls.  

cream cheese icing

Make cream cheese icing by mixing butter, cream cheese, sugar and vanilla until all ingredients are fully blended. Start with ½ cup of powdered sugar then add more if the icing is soupy. Make sure the butter and cream cheese is just softened not melted or you will have to refrigerate. 

little dark but still good

Let the cookie cups cool some then repress in the cups. Then take out of pan and cool completely. I had to use a knife to get them out of the pan. 

 

Dye the icing if you like. I would dye mine, but I left my food coloring at a friend’s house.

 

Put the icing in a bag and cut the edges. I attempted to cut it in a fourth so that it looked close the start tip.

Then sprinkle if you want. All my sprinkles are at my friend’s house, too.

Cookies my Way

So colorful

I wanted to make something easy his weekend.  So I decided to make cookies, but I wanted to have a lot of fun with it. I decided to make what I call Cookies My Way. I get the store bought break and bake sugar cookies and bags of chocolate chips, reese's chips, butterscotch chips and whatever else I think will be good in a cookie.

This is something you can do with friends are kids. I have done it with both.  Everyone gets to make the cookies they like.  This time I made it with my best friend and her sister.

What you will need.

Break and bake sugar cookies

Food coloring

Assortment of baking chips (this time I used chocolate, reese's and butterscotch)

Any other candy (mm's, snickers, ect.)

Sprinkles

Powdered sugar

Milk

Preheat the oven to 325.

Break off a piece of cookie dough and roll into a ball. 

I had so much fun

If you want to dye it add one drop or less if possible and mix in. your hands will get messy. I tried doing this in a baggy and it did not work. The dye will come of your hands in about a day with soap and water. Finger nail polish should help get it off quicker.  

 Then if you want add chips, about 8 chips is good for each cookie. Make it fun and add multiple types to the same cookie.

Add sprinkles or wait until they are cooked

can't eat it yet

Add to the cookie sheet and bake for about 13-15 minute a little longer if you want crispy cookies. 

 Once they come out of the oven let them cool on sheet then on a rack 

Make a glaze icing by starting with about 2 tablespoons of powdered sugar and ½ a teaspoon of milk in a sandwich bag. I have to adjust this all the time and don’t normally measure just make sure the glaze isn’t soupy and add more powdered sugar to make it thicker or milk to make it thinner.  You can also dye the icing I would start with one or two drops.  Close the bag and make sure to get most of the air out then mix it together then cut a corner off and drizzle over cookies. I only added the icing to the cookies that were plain.

 After icing add sprinkles then enjoy. They go fast. 

This is what our hands looked like after one washing.