Lovin' From the Oven

Reeses Pieces Peanut Butter Cookies

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As usual, I had the need to bake. This time, I was at my boyfriend’s house so I was limited on ingredients. I kinda just winged it with whatever I found in his pantry. Reeses Pieces it was! The only downside? No brown sugar! And I use brown sugar for all my cookies since they keep them soft and chewy. 🙁 So these cookies turned out a bit harder than I like, but it wasn’t so bad…

I made a small batch so it only made a dozen cookies. When you bake these, substitute the white sugar for brown sugar (I adapted it in the recipe already) and these cookies would come out blissfully.

Ingredients:

2 cups all-purpose flour
1/4 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp salt
6 Tbsp (3/4 sticks) softened unsalted butter
3/4 c brown sugar, packed
1 egg
1 tsp vanilla extract
1/2 cups Reeses Pieces
2 tablespoons peanut butter

Mix wet ingredients. Add dry ingredients. Mix well. Bake at 325 degrees for approximately 17 minutes.


Note to self: Never bake cookies without brown sugar again.

Samoas

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Mmm my favorite. So I’m going to another one of my bf’s sister’s baby shower and was trying to figure out what kind of cookie to bake to bring with me. When I went grocery shopping yesterday, there were girl scouts in front of Pavillions. I got really excited in hopes that they were selling girl scout cookies, but thought to myself… girl scout cookie season only happens once a year! One of the girls standing in front of the door from the troop happened to be one of the kids that went to the Boys & Girls Club, so I knew her (Hah, it’s hard to go anywhere in my town without knowing one of the kids now after working at the BGC for 5 years). I asked her what they were selling and she responded with, “Gifts.. for teachers.” Interesting. They should sell girl scout cookies year round, I’m sure they’d make more money that way.

Anyways, since I saw the girl scouts, I decided to make girl scout cookies because they surely weren’t selling any. Homemade Samoas it is!

Everything Cookies

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I came home early today and surprise, surprise.. I was in a baking mood. I decided to make my dad’s favorite cookies for him when he comes home from work. This is an old family recipe handed down to me from my aunt. When I say that they are “everything” cookies, they really are everything cookies! They have coconut, nuts, corn flakes, & oatmeal. I normally don’t like nut or coconut cookies, but these are an exception. I think these are more of a “sophisticated” cookie.. meaning that these are aimed to please the adults rather than kids. All the parents on my cul-da-sac LOVE these! But the kids.. not so much.

P.S. My one year blog anniversary was yesterday! Too bad I didn’t bake then.

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