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Thursday, March 15, 2012

Chocolate Drizzled Heath Bar Cookies


Can you tell I have a sweet tooth? 
Can you say
YUM!

I first tried Heath Bar Cookies from a local Cookie Bakery.

They were AMAZING!
Chocolate, Toffee, Delightfulness!

I found a recipe and have been making small tweaks here and there.
Try making these, you will not be sorry.

Heath Bar Cookies

Yields: 3 Dozen Cookies

Ingredients:
  • 2½ cups all purpose flour
  • ½ teaspoon salt
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1 cup unsalted butter, softened
  • ¾ cup granulated sugar
  • ¾ cup brown sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • 1 package of Heath Milk Chocolate Toffee Bits


Baking Instructions:
  • Preheat oven to 350.
  • Sift together flour, salt, and baking soda.
  • Cream softened butter, sugar and brown sugar until fluffy. Beat in eggs and vanilla.
  • Add in flour mixture until well combined. 
  • Lastly, Stir or Fold in Heath bars bits.
  • Chill cookie dough for at least 30 minutes, up to overnight.  The longer you chill the better the results.
  • Drop heaping spoonfuls of cookie dough onto  an ungreased cookie sheet.
  • Bake 10-12 minutes, checking after about 8 minutes for browned edges. I needed a full 12 minutes.


Here are some pics:


Mixing up the dough with my handy dandy mixing paddle.


All scooped and ready for baking.


After 12 minutes in the oven.


Now you can stop here or you can add to the amazingness 
by adding more chocolate.
I know, that is such a silly question,
OF COURSE 
I want to add in more chocolate, duh.

I had some milk chocolate cookie melts on hand.
You can use a chocolate bar as well.


I added about 1/2 cup into a mug and microwaved for 1 minute.
I stopped the microwave every 10 - 15 seconds to stir.


Again, yum.


Take a forkful of chocolate and drizzle it onto the cooled cookies.


These came out so great!

I made them for my grandfather's 85th birthday party and they were a hit.
The family gobbled them up.

Here is a pic of the cookie tray from my phone. 


And here is a picture of the birthday boy and all his great grandchildren.


Go out and make these soon! 



XOXO,
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Sunday, December 11, 2011

First Annual Cookie Swap & Ugly Christmas Sweater Party

I've wanted to host one of these parties for a long time.

I love to bake!
I love making cookies, especially.

I try to make themed sugar cookies every year for Michael's Birthday.  I also make a ton during the holidays and have my set few "go to" winners. 

Knowing I need to expand my repertoire, I invited friends and family over to share their special treats. 
All I asked that they wear a "festive" Christmas sweater or shirt.

We served appetizers and light food and drinks.  Then it was on to the cookie!
Everyone made 4 dozen cookies to taste and share. 

Here are the pre-party pics of the cookies I made.
The table centerpiece surrounded by snowman sugar cookies.


Aren't they sweet?


More sugar cookie, these with glitter gel and edible pearls. Yum!


M and M, Rollo and Pretzel bites.



Lastly, I made Oatmeal Scotchies.


Here is the table decked out with all of the cookies.


Starting at the middle left we have my friend Jeannine's amazing pizzelle's with a touch of Jack.
Next up is Sarah and her scrumptious Red Velvet Truffles covered in White Chocolate. 
She also made very tasty peppermint cookies, which I really liked.
Monica made delicious Peanut Butter and Jelly cookies.



On the other side of the table;
Annette made a beautiful mix of tastiness; chocolate gingerbread men, jam cut outs, and white chocolate cherry cookies.


Carmen made jam thumbprint cookie that were adorable and yummy!
Even 5 year old Gabrielle made a batch of Christmas tree cookies for everyone.  She did great!





Evelyn made these colorful and wonderfully cute and delicious pinwheels.  I love the colors. 


And we finish at the other end of the table with Jeannine again and her  decadent tiramisu balls (they were in the fridge) and her coconut blackberry and apricot thumbprints.


As you can imagine, the kids were sufficiently sugared up on cookie.  I figured M&Ms (minus the red and green I used) 
 would be just the icing on the cake for them.
:::::insert evil laugh::::
My cousin advised she would be calling me at 3 am, when her 5 year old is wide still awake, to thank me.


And here we all are, decked out in our finery. 
Neil won the best shirt award for his sweater and tie tee shirt!

Also you can just see my banner on the wall, you can find the tutorial here


It was a great party and we will definitely be doing it again! 
In the words of Michael, "YAY!!!  COOOOOKIES!!!!!!!"

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