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Lazy Girl’s Chocolate Chip Blondies

September 21, 2011 by kim 48 Comments

The past few days have been HOT. Apparently, the hottest weather for Northern California happens from the end of September-November-ish. How weird is that? I’m used to pulling out cardigans and sweaters when these months roll around. Up here, I’m taking off clothes. Literally. Maybe I should have brought my tower fan from back home.

With the raising temperature, it’s always a hassle to do anything in the kitchen. Thankfully with this recipe, there’s no scooping out dough, forming into uniform balls, or baking multiple batches. You just mix everything in one bowl, pour it all in one place, and walk away. Well, you gotta come back to take it out of the oven, but you get my point.

As you can tell from the first picture, I seriously under baked mine. To me, they were perfect. If the first picture scares you, then leave the bars in the oven for a little longer. I took these pictures straight out of the oven, while they were still warm and gooey. If you let them sit overnight, they’ll toughen up a bit so they’re not falling apart in your hands. Whatever you do, just make sure not to over bake them. This recipe is ever so slightly adapted from Eat Live Run.

Lazy Girl’s Chocolate Chip Cookies
Click here for a printable recipe

Ingredients

1 cup AP flour
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup chocolate chips
1 stick butter (melted)
1 egg
1 2/3 cup packed brown sugar
1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract

Directions

Preheat oven to 350. Grease an 8″x8″ pan.
Cream together the melted butter and sugar. Add the egg, vanilla and salt and stir again.
Gradually mix in the flour until just combined. Fold in the chocolate chips.
Pour the batter into greased pan.
Bake for about 30 minutes, or until the edges begin to brown.

Nutella Puppy Chow

September 19, 2011 by kim 21 Comments

Here are the only ingredients that you need. The cereal I used can be found at Trader Joe’s.

You know what… I spend a lot more money on groceries than I thought I would. I don’t know if it’s because boys eat a lot more than I expected or if it’s because I get a little too excited when I’m at the grocery store and start throwing unnecessary things in my cart. It probably doesn’t help that I like to have a fully stocked kitchen at all times.

How do you budget? I don’t have a Sunday newspaper anymore like I used to back home, so there goes a majority of my coupon cutting. Sure, you can print out coupons online, but that’s such a pain in the butt!

Until I figure that out, I’ll keep chomping away on my puppy chow. Have you ever heard of puppy chow? I was surprised by the amount of people that didn’t know what it was! I lived off this stuff in middle school, yet my DB had never heard of it in his life.

Traditionally, puppy chow is made with peanut butter instead of Nutella, but this version is just as great (if not better!). I saw this idea from Healthy Tasty Chow and adapted it to my liking/what was on hand in my kitchen. Just keep it stored in an airtight container and you can munch on it for days.

Nutella Puppy Chow
Click Here for a Printable Recipe

Ingredients

1/2 cup butter
1 cup Nutella
1 1/2 cup semisweet chocolate chips
13 cups (more or less) or one 12oz box of hearty wheat/corn/rice cereal like Chex – try to find a hearty version so it doesn’t break down when stirring
2-3 cups powdered sugar

Directions:

In a pan over medium-low heat, melt the butter and chocolate chips, stirring constantly.
When all is melted and smooth, remove from heat and stir in the Nutella.
Slowly pour the chocolate Nutella mixture over cereal in a large mixing bowl. Wash your hands and use them to stir everything together until fairly evenly coated.
Wash those hands again and add the cereal to a gallon sized ziploc bag.
Pour in the powdered sugar and shake, starting with 1/2 cup at a time. You want to make sure everything’s coated, but not too sweet!

Chocolate Fudge Peanut Butter Stuffed Cookies

September 12, 2011 by kim 8 Comments

Question. How many of you gals (or guys) reading this know how to tie a tie? I’m talking about the windsor or half windsor knot. The majority of the guys I ask have no idea how to tie their own tie, including my DB. Yes, that means I tie his tie for him anytime there’s a formal event.

What’s up with that? Even my dad doesn’t know how to tie a tie. He keeps all of his ties knotted, hanging in his closet so that he can just re-adjust it and slip it over his head. Maybe it’s because our generation is so laid back; Boys hardly wear ties on a daily basis anymore so there’s no need to learn how to make a knot. Such a shame– ties are so cute on boys! I’d wear them all the time if I was a guy. Maybe.

Now onto the cookies.. they were not too shabby. If you like peanut butter and chocolate, then yes, you’ll enjoy them. If you don’t really care for that combination, then you won’t really care for these cookies (like me). I did like the look of the hidden peanut butter center, though.

from Picky Palate

For the peanut butter center:

1 cup creamy peanut butter
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1 egg

For the chocolate cookie:

2 sticks softened butter
1 cup granulated sugar
3/4 cup packed light brown sugar
2 large eggs
1 tablespoon pure vanilla extract
1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 cups chocolate chips
1 cup cocoa powder (I used Hershey’s special dark)

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
First make the peanut butter centers. Mix the three ingredients together until smooth. Set aside.
Beat butter and both sugars until creamy. Add in the eggs and vanilla.
Mix the flour, baking soda, salt, and cocoa powder into the wet mixture. Stir in chocolate chips.
First roll peanut butter cookie dough into about 1 tablespoon balls with your hands. With a medium cookie scoop, scoop chocolate dough on top and on bottom of peanut butter dough. Pinch together on the sides, until the peanut butter dough is covered.
Place onto baking sheet and bake for 14 to 16 minutes.

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