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Mounds Bar Chocolate Coconut Cake Mix Cookies

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You have to bear with me. I have a couple posts in my queue that are quite old– I’m talking nearly a year old. I always debate whether I should post them because they’re not up to par as my more recent posts. The pictures are poorly lit, the background is boring, things are blurry, the colors are off… I can make a whole list of excuses why I shouldn’t post them.

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But here I am, posting these cookies anyway. I think I baked these in the evening and was doing my best trying to get the most light out of my window without using my flash.

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The living room light was on, creating a more orangey hue than normal. Bottom line: I apologize for these pictures. I do have a couple more posts like this that I’ll have to purge on you sporadically in the future, though. You’ve been warned.

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My dad loves Almond Joys, but he doesn’t like the almond inside. He loved Mounds bars, but he prefers milk chocolate over dark chocolate. It’s a lose-lose situation for him.

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I prefer Twix and Kit Kat bars over Mounds, but I figured I’d try a recipe for my pops. The cookie itself tasted just like Mounds bars in a cookie form– go figure. They’re extremely moist and gooey. The type of cake mix that you use really stands out in the cookie, so make sure it’s a good one that you like! Dark chocolate cake mixes work great as well. 🙂 Recipe from Love Veggies and Yoga.

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Mounds Bar Chocolate Coconut Cake Mix Cookies

Yield: 1 dozen cookies

Ingredients

  • 1 cup devil’s food cake chocolate cake mix
  • 1/4 cup butter (half of one stick), softened
  • 1 large egg
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1/3 cup sweetened shredded coconut flakes
  • 1/3 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
  • 1/3 cup diced Mounds Bars (I used 3 1/2 mini-mounds bars, diced into 6 pieces each)

Directions

  1. Preheat oven to 350F.
  2. Mix together the cake mix, softened butter, egg, and vanilla.
  3. Fold in the coconut flakes and chocolate chips. Freeze the dough for at least 15 minutes.
  4. On a parchment lined baking sheet, drop the cookie dough by tablespoons with plenty of space in between for spreading.
  5. Before baking, insert a couple of the diced Mounds pieces into the top of each cookie, pressing in just past the surface.
  6. Bake for 8 to 10 minutes or until cookies have set up.
https://lovintheoven.com/mounds-bar-chocolate-coconut-cake-mix-cookies/

Peeps Brownies

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Have you ever wondered what happens when you bake marshmallows for a long period of time? Well, they disappear. They melt into little extra pockets of sugar and do absolutely nothing for the dessert. Total bummer because these Peeps would have been beautiful to cut into!

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I loooveeee Peeps. Marshmallows covered in sanding sugar? What’s not to like? I’m partial to the bunny ones over the chicks because of the marshmallow to sugar ratio. The more sugar the better! You can even pick which colors you like better to match, well… your mood? I did Laker colors for their recent win against the Hornets. Talk about a comeback.

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Peeps should probably be saved for topping brownies at the end. You could even throw them on for the last couple of minutes of baking and let them melt a little bit. That way, they don’t disappear into the batter and you’ll get to keep those beautiful colors on your brownies.

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Call me lazy, but I used a boxed mix for this. I can’t help my love for boxed brownies! Minimal work with maximum results.

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The tops of the marshmallows kind of stayed. Sort of. You can see the color peeping (like my pun, there?) through.

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Oh, how I could go for a bite right about now. Just look at that crackly top and fudgy center!

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This view above has got to be one of my favorite things in life. Leftover brownie batter and getting to lick the wooden spoon? Pure happiness, I tell ya.

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Peeps Brownies

Ingredients

  • 1 box of brownies plus ingredients needed to make the brownies on the back of the box
  • 6 bunny peeps, cut in half

Directions

  1. Prepare you brownie batter as directed on the back of the box.
  2. Pour half of the batter into your desired pan. Layer the peeps on top. Add on the remaining half of the batter on top of the peeps.
  3. Bake as directed.
https://lovintheoven.com/peeps-brownies/

Giant (or not so giant) M&M Cookies

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Can we take a moment and discuss how it is that grown adults act like six year olds, sometimes?

At work the other day, I was doing drink service and came across a row of two men sleeping and one lady awake by the window. I asked her what she wanted to drink and reached over the two sleeping men to hand her the beverage. I moved on to the next row. When it was time to move the drink cart and I was already three rows past the sleeping row, I noticed the man in the middle throwing a fit.

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I kid you not, he threw his hands up in the hair, slammed his tray table up, and then starting shoving things into the back pocket of the chair in front of him. He kept muttering, “I can’t believe this!” and sighing heavily. What in the world was going on? Can you guess it?

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This man was throwing a fit for not getting a drink. Seriously. He was pissed off because I didn’t wake him up to ask him what his beverage of choice was. I never have and never intend to wake up a sleeping person to ask them what they want to drink. My coworker asked me what was going on, and I just told her to ask him what he wanted to drink since I already passed him and he was sleeping when I did.

It’s not the end of the world when you don’t get a drink during a flight, ya know. You can get one at anytime (besides take off, landing, and taxiing, obviously). All you have to do is ask (nicely, helps!).

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What I don’t understand is how a mid fifty year old man can throw a fit like a six year old for something so little. There are bigger problems in life than missing a coca cola because you were catching up on your beauty sleep.

//end rant.

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Festive M&M’s get me every single time. How can you resist red and green for Christmas, pink and red for Valentine’s, red, white, and blue for the 4th of July, and vibrant pastel colors for Easter?  Beats me. I get them every month. This recipe from How Sweet Eats makes a wonderfully chewy cookie. It’s a great base for mix ins, especially for all those holiday M&M’s.

They’re called giant cookies because you can scoop them out as 1/4 cup portions and bake them into large cookies, but I chose to make them normal sized cookies. Your choice.

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Giant (or not so giant) M&M Cookies

Yield: 3 dozen

Ingredients

  • 2 cups + 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
  • 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
  • 1 1/2 sticks (12 tablespoons) of salted butter, melted and cooled
  • 1 cup brown sugar
  • 1/2 cup sugar
  • 1 egg + 1 egg yolk, at room temperature
  • 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
  • 1 cup m&m’s (or something else that you love)

Directions

  1. Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Mix the flour and baking soda in a bowl and set aside.
  2. Cream the butter and sugars. Stir in the egg, egg yolk, and vanilla.
  3. Gradually add flour and baking soda until dough comes together. Fold in the m&m’s.
  4. Roll into 2 tablespoon sized balls and place on baking sheet.
  5. Bake for 8-12 minutes or until the edges are slightly brown.
https://lovintheoven.com/giant-or-not-so-giant-mm-cookies/

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