The first recipe is one of my all-time favorite cookie recipes. These are DELICIOUS! And it makes a huge batch, about 5 1/2 dozen!!
Special Oatmeal Cookies
1 cup butter, softened
1 cup peanut butter
1 cup sugar
1 cup packed brown sugar
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla
3 cups oats
2 tsp ground cinnamon
1 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp ground nutmeg
1 1/2 cups semisweet chocolate chips
Drizzle: 1 cup white chocolate candy coating melted and 1 cup dark chocolate candy coating melted (I just used white chocolate and milk chocolate chips...)
1. In a mixing bowl, cream butter, peanut butter, and sugars. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in vanilla. Combine oats, flour, cinnamon, baking soda and nutmeg; gradually add to the creamed mixture. Stir in chocolate chips.
2. Roll into 1 inch balls. Place 2 inches apart on a greased baking sheet; flatten to 1/2 inch thickness. Bake at 350 for 10-12 minutes or until golden brown. Remove to wire racks to cool*.
3. Drizzle with white coating in one direction, then with dark coating in the opposite direction.
*I just want to take this moment to say, with every kind of cookie I have ever baked, I leave them on the cookie sheet for a couple minutes before putting them on a paper towel/foil/cooling rack/etc. If you do it immediately it's just going to fall apart and make a delicious mess.
Also I would like to say that my favorite part of this cookie is the 1/4 tsp nutmeg. It adds that perfect bit of flavor that makes these cookies awesome!
The 2nd recipe I'd like to share is for Cookies and Cream Brownies! YUM!!! I want to post a picture but the picture posting thing is being ridiculous so I challenge each of you to make these for yourself and figure out what they look like :)
Cream cheese layer:
1 package (8 oz) cream cheese, softened
1/4 cup sugar
1 egg
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
Brownie layer:
1/2 cup butter, melted
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup packed brown sugar
1/2 cup baking cocoa
2 eggs
1/2 cup all purpose flour
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp vanilla extract
12 cream-filled chocolate sandwich cookies, crushed
1. In a small mixing bowl, beat the cream cheese, sugar, egg and vanilla until smooth; set aside.
2. For brownie layer, combine butter, sugars and cocoa in a large mixing bowl; blend well. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Combine flour and baking powder, stir into the cocoa mixture. Stir in vanilla and cookie crumbs.
3. Pour into a greased 11x7 pan. Spoon cream cheese mixture over batter; cut through batter with a knife to swirl. Bake at 350 for 25-30 minutes or until a toothpick inserted near center comes out with moist crumb. Cool in pan on wire rack.
Ok can someone please tell me where the heck I can find an 11x7 inch baking pan?!?! I have never heard of such a thing! For this recipe I used an 8x8 and baked it for 32 minutes since it was thicker. If anyone has any thoughts on this matter, let me know :)