#3 Chocolate & Butterscotch chip peanut butter cookies

Recipe & Instructions

1 1/2 cups all purpose flour
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 cup (1 stick) butter
1/2 cup white sugar
1/2 cup light brown sugar
1 egg
1 cup peanut butter
1/2 cup chocolate chips
1/2 cup butterscotch chips

1. Preheat oven to 325 degrees
2. Combine flour & baking soda
3. Beat together butter and sugars
4. Add egg
5. Add peanut butter
6. Add dry ingredients
7. Stir in chips
8. Make half inch wide size balls and place on ungreased cookie sheet
9. For chewier cookies, bake for 10 minutes. For crispy cookies, 12-14 minutes



BEWARE, this recipe is a very thick, and could break your blender, or arm! I really don't have one complaint about this recipe, I loved everything about it, except that it was so thick and hard to mix. They came out very good and fluffy.

Enjoy! xoxo

#2 Mint Chocolate Brownie Cookies

Recipe & Instructions

2/3 cup vegetable shortening
1 1/2 cup light brown sugar
1 Tbl water
1 Tbl vanilla
2 eggs
1 1/2 cup all purpose flour
1/3 cup cocoa powder
1/2 tsp salt
1/4 tsp baking soda
1/2-3/4 cup mint/chocolate chips

1. Preheat oven to 375
2. Combine Shortening, brown sugar, water & vanilla
3. Add eggs
4. Mix flour, cocoa, salt, baking soda in a bowl
5. Combine wet and dry ingredients
6. Place by tablespoons on ungreased cookie sheet
7. Bake 7-9 minutes

I personally blended all the ingredients by hand, which was not easy. I made sure the shortening was room temp, and then stirred it all together.
I put the cookies on a silicone mat, and on the top rack of the oven for 9 minutes.
They came out perfectly, but are a softer cookie, melt in your mouth cookie, not crunchy.

The reviews have been positive, my husband was eating them faster than I could get them off the cookie sheet.

#1 Tollhouse Cookie Bars

Recipe & instructions
2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
1 tsp. baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1 cup (2 sticks) butter
3/4 cup granulated sugar
3/4 cup light brown sugar
2 tsp. vanilla extract
2 eggs
2 cups chopped nuts
1 cup chocolate chips

1. Preheat oven to 375, spray and line a 13x9 pan
2. Stir together flour, baking soda and salt in separate bowl
3. Cream butter, sugars, and vanilla
4. Beat in eggs
5. Combined wet ingredients with the dry ingredients
6. Stir in nuts and chips
7. Bake for 25 minutes

My thoughts
I added roughly a half a cup of butterscotch chips and half a cup of chocolate chips, with no nuts. Due to the fact that my husband doesn't like nuts in his baked goods.
I baked it for 20 minutes, and most of it was fluffy and gorgeous, but there were spots that were a little gooey. Most likely because I didn't spread it evening, and really, it is not easy with parchment paper!
My recommendation, don't use the paper and spray the sides and bottom of pan really well with pam, spread really evenly & cook for 22 minutes. Check it at 20-22 minutes, and see if you need 25 minutes.
I adore the tollhouse cookie recipe, it is one of the most creamiest batters I have ever made.
This is the same recipe as the regular chocolate chip cookies, you can just spoon out tablespoons onto a sheet.
Same ingredients and temp, but cook for 9-11 minutes

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Reviews from family?
Husband, Phillip says "Oh my god, amazing!"

52 week baking project

As one of my 2010 goals, I would like to do a project based on my passion for baking.
Once a week I will bake something, write a review - post pictures - recipe, ect. Cookies are my favorite to bake, only because they are easy and can be transformed into anything you want.

I will be starting #1 between the 1-8th of January.

yours truly,
the inky baker