Posts Tagged ‘cookies’

Cookie dough oreo brownies: my baking one-upmanship finally goes too far

Yesterday was super cold, but who wants to turn on the heat when it’s just going to be 60 again tomorrow? Make up your mind, weather!

Anyway, I decided baking something would be the tastiest way to keep warm, so I decided to try to make this ridiculous thing. Like clothing and parfaits, it’s all about layering:

First a layer of cookie dough, the best foundation for any project

It’s pretty basic chocolate chip cookie dough, except I also added some butterscotch chips because that is how we Ladds roll. We see chocolate chips, we just add some butterscotch for chip diversity. And deliciousness. I have never once regretted it, and I suggest you open your heart and embrace a similar multi-chipism in your own life.

Layer 2 is made of Oreos, patted down a little for safety

Buying Oreos has gotten kind of complicated–there are all these different kinds now! Frosting flavors, different kinds of cookie, a cake kind… I just used regular.

Layer 3: brownie batter!

Like a sticky hug that just glops over the top! Then it goes in the oven (375 degrees) for 25 minutes and you get this magicness:

Hello!

It may actually prove lethal. Lethally delicious

This recipe was easy. The only annoying part was cleaning out my mixing bowl twice. But totally worth it because these cookie dough oreo brownies will cure whatever ails you! Except maybe diabetes.

13 Adventures: #11 Peanut Butter Blossoms

Peanut butter blossoms are, hands down, my favorite Christmas cookie, and have been for as long as I remember. Since I’m not going home for Christmas, I decided to make my own today! My favorite part, besides eating them, is taking all the Hershey’s Kisses out of their foil wrappings. It’s like unwrapping a bunch of tiny presents!

I put them in this box so I could pour them over Steven later and shout "It's snowing shininess!"

Putting the kisses on top after they’re right out of the oven is also really fun! They turned out great:

Beautiful!!

Servery Steven’s Kitchen Challenge: Self-Portrait Cookie Edition

In accordance with list item #70: Servery Challenge: Signature Drink Edition, THE 434 had its final Servery Challenge EVER this week. These always involve Top Chef-style timed challenges, but in the Servery and with some kind of “celebrity judge” (i.e. Brent or a prospie or Arya). My personal favorite was Servery Challenge: French Fry Structure Edition or possibly Servery Challenge: Soup Out of Not Soup Edition, in which I got Drew the Prospie to eat ice cream mixed with yogurt mixed with green beans in a thinly veiled poisoning attempt masked as “dessert soup”.

Yesterday I was so distraught at the end of our Servery Challenge days that I decided to challenge Steven Wiggins to a Servery Challenge-like contest in his kitchen: cookie self-portrait. The celebrity judge? Anyone reading my blog! For the first time ever, the challenge will be decided democratically instead of at the whim of Dr. Gustin or whoever.
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