Milky Way Salted Caramel Chocolate Chip Cookies

This was the 2nd cookie I decided to make, along with the funfetti cookies, to take over to my friends' house. It sounded like a good combination of a cookie and it definitely was. The sea salt added a lot of good flavor to the cookie. The cookie itself was really rich but oh so good. One thing I learned was that once the sheet came out of the oven, the cookies had to rest on the cookie sheet for at least 5 minutes before being transferred to a cookie rack, otherwise the caramel would drop out of the cookie. Other than that, the prep work was a little more time consuming but the cookies were pretty easy to make. I'd make these again! I found these on Pinterest as well via www.instructables.com.

Milky Way Salted Caramel Chocolate Chip Cookies (30+ cookies):

Pkg of Milky Way Simply Caramel Fun Size candy bars
4 c flour
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp sea salt
1 1/2 c unsalted butter, melted
2 c brown sugar
1 c granulated sugar
1 tbsp vanilla extract
2 eggs
2 egg yolks
3 c semi-sweet chocolate chips

Preheat oven to 325. Sift the flour with the salt and baking soda; set aside. In a mixer, cream together the melted butter, brown sugar and granulated sugar. Once incorporated, beat in the eggs, then the vanilla. After the wet ingredients are combined, add in your dry ingredients. Mix until just combined and then add the chocolate chips.

Cut the milky way candies in half and dip them into sea salt to seal the open caramel end. Take a ball of dough, just big enough to cover the half-mini-bar, add more dough if needed. Roll into a ball and sprinkle the top with more sea salt.

Bake for 17 minutes on a cookie sheet. Let cool 5 minutes before transferring to a cooling rack. Enjoy!




The wet ingredients...






Chocolate chips mixed into the dough...






Sea salt...






Salting the cut end of the milky way...






About to wrap up the milky way into the dough...






Sprinkled with salt and ready to be baked...






Cooling on a cookie rack...






Enjoy!...

M&M Funfetti Cake Mix Cookies

I love baking but I don't usually like to eat what I bake so it all goes to waste. So I made a deal with some friends of mine..I would bake and they could get the majority of what I bake as long as they keep providing me with my friend Jeremiah's beef stew, which I'm in love with. They are both sugar fans and they have kids living with them so I knew the cookies wouldn't be wasted. My friend loves funfetti and I've always wanted to try turning a cake mix into a cookie. I found this recipe on Pinterest via www.thefrugalgirls.com.

The cookie was super easy to make. I'm not too sure I liked it because it's a softer cookie. I like soft cookies...if they are full of chocolate or caramel or peanut butter. I brought these cookies, along with the milk way cookies over to my friends' house and they loved them so I guess that's what matters!

M&M Funfetti Cake Mix Cookies (About 2 dozen cookies):

1 (15.24 oz) Pillsbury Funfetti Cake Mix
1 1/2 c M&Ms
2 eggs
1/2 c veggie or canola oil

Combine the cake mix, eggs and oil in large mixing bowl and beat well. Stir in the m&ms. Drop onto ungreased cookie sheets in rounded balls. Bake for about 8-9 minutes, or until done at 350. Cool on a wire rack. Enjoy!




M&Ms mixed into the batter...






Ready to be baked...






Cookies cooling on the rack...






Perfect cookie...






Enjoy!...

Cookies in Muffin Cups

I found this idea on Pinterest tonight when I found the orzo recipe. The idea came from this blog: www.myfridgefood.blogspot.com It's a good idea, one that I should have thought of! I found some refrigerated cookie dough in my fridge so I used that. I decided to use paper cups as well. I always like to add M&Ms to my cookies so I did that and placed the dough in the cups. I cooked them per the package directions and they turned out pretty well. My only complaint is that the bottoms of the cookies are really greasy. Maybe they will dry out once I take them out of the cups and put them in containers for storage. I still have some leftover dough so maybe if I don't use the muffin cups next time they won't be so greasy.




Cookie dough in the muffin cups...






Fresh from the oven...






Enjoy!...

Peanut Butter Blossoms

For as long as I can remember, my mom has always made these cookies for Christmas. Either to hand out to her daycare parents or just for us to snack on. Needless to say, these are my favorite so every year, we still continue to make them. And since she no longer does daycare, my mom sends home lots of cookies with me!

Ingredients:

3/4 cup sugar
3/4 cup brown sugar
1 1/2 sticks unsalted butter
3/4 cup peanut butter
2 eggs
1 3/4 cup flour
2 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp salt
Hershey Kisses

Preheat oven to 350. Mix dry ingredients and set aside.

Mix sugars, butter and eggs, beating until fluffy. Gradually add dry ingredients with wet dough. The dough should be stiff (you may need to add more flour to make it stiff if the dough is not stiff enough to handle). Make into 1-in balls, roll in sugar and place on a greased pan.

Bake for 10 minutes or until cracks appear. Remove from oven. Press Hershey Kisses into center of each cookie. Return to oven and bake 3-5 minutes longer.




Unwrapping all the Hershey Kisses...




All rolled up and ready to be baked!




Right before they went back into the oven for the last time...




The recipe made lots and lots of cookies! Mine are in the freezer since I can't possibly eat them all before they go bad! Enjoy!