My Friend's Awesome Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe

Polleen's Chocolate Chip Cookies
2 eggs
1 cube butter
1 cup white sugar
1 cup brown sugar (1/2 c. light brown 1/2 c. dark brown)
2/3 cup shortening
1 tsp. salt
1 tsp. vanilla (1 tsp. pure vanilla/ 1 tsp. vanilla extract)
1 tsp. baking soda
3 cups flour
1 pkg. semi sweet chocolate chips

Cream butter eggs and sugar.  Add vanilla.  Add sifted dry ingredients.  Blend in chocolate chips
Bake at 350 degrees for 8-10 miutes.

Cookie Dough Brownies

If the name of this recipe doesn't make your mouth water, then just wait until you taste these!  These are my favorite variation of a brownie.  My sister K gave me this recipe, though I am not sure where she got it... but whoever invented these gets my thumbs up.

COOKIE DOUGH BROWNIES

Layer 1: The Brownie

Brownie Mix

Eggs

Water

Oil

Make brownie mix according to package directions, baking in a 9x13 pan.

Layer 2: The Cookie Dough

1/2 cup brown sugar

1/4 cup sugar

1/2 cup butter, softened

2 tbsp milk

1 tsp vanilla

1 cup flour

Mix together in a mixer and spread over completely cooled brownies.

Layer 3: The Chocolate

1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips

1 tbsp oil

Microwave ingredients together in a microwave safe bowl in 1 minute increments until melted.  Spread over brownie cookie dough bars and refrigerate for at least one hour.

Dracula Dentures

This was my entry for the Nestle Toll House Halloween Cookie Creation Contest. Cross your fingers for me!

DRACULA'S DENTURES

1 package Nestle Toll House cookie dough (24 cookie count)

Miniature marshmallows

Blanched Almond Slivers

Red or Pink prepared frosting

1. Bake Nestle Toll House cookies according to package directions. Let them cool completely.

2. Frost the bottom side of each cookie making sure to spread frosting clear to the edges. Cut each cookie in perfect halves. Place six miniature marshmallows on the perimeter of one half. Carefully, stack the other half of the cookie frosting side down onto the marshmallow half. Add two blanched almond slivers for fangs.

3. Model your dentures for your family and friends, then sink your teeth into them and enjoy!

Molten Chocolate Surprise

I have been dying to bake a lava cake ever since the kids got a free one from Dominos Pizza for their birthdays from school. I saw this recipe on Kraft Foods and had to try it. It was so worth it!

MOLTEN CHOCOLATE SURPRISE

4 oz. Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chips (the Kraft recipe actually called for 4 squares of Baker's semi-sweet chocolate, but since I didn't have any, I made this substitution and it worked great!)

1/2 cup butter or margarine

2 whole eggs

2 egg yolks

1 cup powdered sugar

1/3 cup flour

12 CHIPS AHOY! Cookies

1/2 cup whipped topping, optional

1. HEAT oven to 425 degrees.

2. Microwave chocolate and butter in large microwaveable bowl on HIGH for 2 minutes or until butter is melted. Stir until chocolate is completely melted. Beat whole eggs, yolks, sugar, and flour with whisk until well blended. Gradually beat into chocolate mixture.

3. Line 12 muffin pan cups with paper liners, spray with cooking spray. Place 1 cookie, upside down on bottom of each cup; cover with batter.

4. Bake for 8 minutes or until cakes are firm aroudn edges but still soft in centers. Cool in pan for 1 minute. Carefully remove cakes from pan, invert into dessert dishes; remove paper liners. Serve with whipped topping if desired.

BE SURE TO EAT THEM WHILE THEY ARE HOT OR THE LAVA CONGEALS... IT IS STILL GOOD, BUT I LIKE THE LAVA HOT! This would also be great with ice cream!

Spooky Halloween Cupcakes

These come courtesy of a cute snack craft my sister did with the kids at our annual Halloween party. Way to go Aunt R, the kids were thoroughly entertained and they turned out so cute!

Start with your favorite cupcake recipe and then frost as desired. R piped some green frosting on to look like grass.

Next, she whipped up a batch of fondant (though a great time saver is to buy some pre-made fondant at any craft store or even Wal-Mart). She colored the fondant in white, orange, black, and green. Then with a bucket of donut holes, the kids were set loose. They covered the donut holes with the fondant and used their creativity to come up with some spooky characters.

In addition to the ones pictured above, there were also witches, eyeballs, Frankensteins, ghosts, cats, skeletons, and spiders!