As we welcomed back the NFL this weekend, we also made the journey down to Ann Arbor, Michigan again, to watch Notre Dame battle Michigan in their annual College Football contest. If you haven't heard about this game (consider yourself lucky), we will not be discussing or remembering it here. Needless to say, we needed some cheering up on Sunday. The Chicago Bears (30-12 winners over the Atlanta Falcons) helped our melancholy, but we needed something a bit sweeter than that.
Now, we have this habit of making giant cookies (yes I said giant cookies, don't judge, they are delicious). We decided that was just what we needed, but discovered to our dismay, that we didn't have any chocolate chips to make our patented giant chocolate chip cookie. We did however have a giant bag of candy from Costco (only like 15 bucks, great deal), leftover from our end of summer fiesta which had filled our bull piñata. We thought we'd try making a cookie with the mini candy bars. We know this isn't our traditional blog post, as far as we know no one has made a cookie like this before, but it was SO GOOD that we had to write about it (and also get the blog going again). If your intrigued by the candy cookie idea, see how we made this creation below:
Football Candy Cookie
Ingredients for your favorite chocolate cookie recipe just omit chocolate chips
1 1/4 cups of chopped chocolate candy (we used a mixture of snickers, baby ruth, milky way regular and midnight)
Make your favorite chocolate chip cookie recipe but omit the chocolate chips. Once the batter is made, add 1 cup of your favorite chocolate candy (about 16 mini chocolate candy bars) chopped in small chunks. Stir until chocolate candy pieces are well incorporated into the batter. Then bake as a normal chocolate chip cookie. About half way through cooking, add remaining chopped chocolate candy on top. Finish baking until cookie is lightly golden brown. Let cool for at least 5 min before eating as carmel filling in candies is HOT.
We have a lot of foodie activities coming up in the fall, so we plan to jumpstart the blog again. So stay tuned in the coming weeks for more M&M food adventures and creations.
Now, we have this habit of making giant cookies (yes I said giant cookies, don't judge, they are delicious). We decided that was just what we needed, but discovered to our dismay, that we didn't have any chocolate chips to make our patented giant chocolate chip cookie. We did however have a giant bag of candy from Costco (only like 15 bucks, great deal), leftover from our end of summer fiesta which had filled our bull piñata. We thought we'd try making a cookie with the mini candy bars. We know this isn't our traditional blog post, as far as we know no one has made a cookie like this before, but it was SO GOOD that we had to write about it (and also get the blog going again). If your intrigued by the candy cookie idea, see how we made this creation below:
Football Candy Cookie
Ingredients for your favorite chocolate cookie recipe just omit chocolate chips
1 1/4 cups of chopped chocolate candy (we used a mixture of snickers, baby ruth, milky way regular and midnight)
Make your favorite chocolate chip cookie recipe but omit the chocolate chips. Once the batter is made, add 1 cup of your favorite chocolate candy (about 16 mini chocolate candy bars) chopped in small chunks. Stir until chocolate candy pieces are well incorporated into the batter. Then bake as a normal chocolate chip cookie. About half way through cooking, add remaining chopped chocolate candy on top. Finish baking until cookie is lightly golden brown. Let cool for at least 5 min before eating as carmel filling in candies is HOT.
We have a lot of foodie activities coming up in the fall, so we plan to jumpstart the blog again. So stay tuned in the coming weeks for more M&M food adventures and creations.
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