Showing posts with label cookie recipe. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cookie recipe. Show all posts

Monday, August 22, 2011

Hubber's Favorite Cookie

Hubs is not much for sweets.  His favorite foods consist of hamburgers, hoagies and steak.  But he does have a weakness for the peanut butter-chocolate combination.  These are his favorite cookies, adapted through 8 years of trial and tweaking.  They're a dense chewy cookie that (in my opinion) are best when ooey-gooey warm.




Chewy Double Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookies


2 1/4 cups flour
1/2 butter, softened
1 cup peanut butter
1 cup brown sugar, packed
1/2 cup white sugar
2 eggs
2 tablespoons corn syrup
2 tablespoons water
2 teaspoons vanilla
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
1 cup milk chocolate chips
1 bag mini reese cups, unwrapped and quartered


1 - Preheat oven to 375 F
2 - Cream together butter, peanut butter and sugars until smooth.  Try not to eat straight from the bowl.
3 - Beat in 1 egg at a time
4 - Mix in water, cornstarch & vanilla
5 - Add flour, baking soda & salt and mix until just combined
6 - Fold in semi-sweet and milk chocolate chips
7 - Form dough into balls using approximately 1 1/2 tablespoons dough per ball
8 - Press 3 Reese cup quarters into the top of each dough, flattening out the ball a bit


9 - Bake for 12-14 minutes or until edges are golden
10 - Allow cookies to cool a few minutes before removing to cooling racks


Since today is our anniversary I thought I mix the Mister up a batch ;)



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Friday, August 20, 2010

Mini Cheesecakes

Happy Friday!!  If you ever happen to attend a wedding in western Pennsylvania, you will most likely be introduced to the cookie table.  The exact origin of the cookie table is not known, but according to Wikipedia:
Cookie tables are included in primarily Italian or Catholic wedding receptions. Other groups that also have cookie tables or cookie platters are the Greeks, Slovaks, Serbian Orthodox, Austrian/Hungarian, and Scandinavians. The inclusion of a cookie table is more widely known where those of Italian ancestry settled, and also in some cases, of the other groups mentioned above.
It wasn't until I got married that I found out cookie tables were a regional thing.  My mom baked most of the cookies for my wedding and the same is true for my sister's recent wedding.  My contribution to the cookie table were these delicious little mini cheesecakes.


Mini Cheesecakes

Ingredients
2 (8 ounce) packages cream cheese
3/4 cup white sugar
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 (12 ounce) package vanilla wafers
1 can blueberry (or any flavor) pie filling

Directions

  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F and line miniature muffin tins (tassie pans) with miniature paper liners
  2. Add one vanilla wafer to the bottom of each liner
  3. With an electric mixer, cream together the cream cheese, sugar, eggs and vanilla
  4. Fill each liner with the cream cheese mixture 3/4 full
  5. Bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for 15 minutes
  6. Cool and then top with a teaspoonful of blueberry (or any other flavor) pie filling
One batch made about 50 itty bitty cheesecakes

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