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(Can’t Eat Just One) Chocolate Chip Cookies

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Hello World,

This Thursday (May 15th) is National Chocolate Chip Day, and cookies are one of my favorite desserts. To celebrate this magnificent ingredient, I whipped up some ooey-gooey chocolate chip cookies! Check out the recipe below:

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Ingredients:

  • 1 cup softened butter
  • 1 cup white sugar
  • 1 cup brown sugar
  • 2 tsp vanilla extract
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 tsp baking soda
  • 3 cups flour
  • 2 cups semi-sweet chocolate chips

Preheat oven to 350°F. In a large mixing bowl, mix together everything except the flour and chocolate chips. Next, mix the flour into your mixture one cup at a time (this makes mixing by hand easier). Mix in the chocolate chips. Spoon dough onto ungreased cookie sheets, in two-tablespoon-ish sized scoops. Bake for 10 minutes, or until tops are golden.

Makes approximately 36 decent-sized cookies.

Bacon wrapped dates (with goat cheese and almonds)

Hello World,

Last week for my birthday, a friend made these and I just had to share them with you. Due to their bacon-ness, they were gobbled up pretty quickly by my guests. They are really easy to make and only require four ingredients:

To make this finger food you will need: raw bacon, dried dates, goat cheese, and sliced almonds.

Start by butterflying your dates. Add goat cheese and a few sliced almonds to your open date. Next, fold the date closed, trapping the cheese and almonds inside it. Wrap the raw bacon around your filled date, and trim the bacon once the meat has overlapped. Place this roll overlap-side down on a baking sheet.

Repeat this process until you have filled an entire baking sheet. Broil them in the oven until the top side is crispy. Flip the rolls over and broil until the other side is crispy as well. Remove rolls from your baking sheet, dispose of the bacon grease properly, and enjoy!

Marshmallow Creamsicle Fudge

Hello World,

If you follow me on Pinterest, you probably notice that my Recipes board is full of sweet, carb-based, or probably not-the-healthiest-of recipes. I can’t help it- desserts and I are pretty much best friends. I probably should pin more salads to balance out all the junk food.

Actually, maybe I will make that one of my New Year’s Resolutions- to pin more healthy recipes. Maybe that will motivate me to make better balanced meals in the future.

But since the new year isn’t here yet, I’m going to go ahead and share a recently tested recipe- Creamsicle Fudge! You can find the original recipe over on Frugal Family Home, or see my version below for my spin on it:

Ingredients

  • 1 container of vanilla frosting
  • 1 package white chocolate baking chips
  • 1/2 cup Tang drink mix
  • Red Food Coloring
  • 1/2 bag mini marshmallows

Instructions

1. Melt (in a heat safe bowl) and stir the chocolate chips in the microwave at 30 second intervals. Do not overheat them- otherwise they will dry out and get crumbly instead of liquified.

2. Stir the frosting into the chocolate once it is completely melted.

3. Once completely mixed, stir in the Tang, a few drops of red food coloring, and mini marshmallows.

4. Spoon the entire mixture into a greased pan or baking dish. (I used a huge pan, so the fudge came out thinner than the original recipe.)

5. Chill until firm and then enjoy!

Marshmallow, tang and white chocolate goodness.

These puppies are very sweet! I think the smaller sizes worked well for them.