Thursday, June 20, 2013

I haven't had anything yet, so how can I have some more of nothing? (Smore Cookies)

If there is one thing that Dan loves in this world...it's not me, it's cookies! Dan can eat an entire batch of cookies by himself and not think twice (or gain a pound :/ lucky). So when it comes to Christmas time I constantly find myself trying to think out of the box on new cookies to make. I always do my staple of mint chocolate chip (recipe and finished product coming soon) and this year I added smores cookies and caramel filled apple cider cookies. The smores were a hit! The apple cider ones, a little too hard to enjoy. But here is the smores cookies recipe I used.

S’mores Cookies:

1 cup (2 sticks) butter, soft
3/4 cup sugar
3/4 cup brown sugar
2 tsp. vanilla extract
2 eggs
1 and 1/2 cups mini chocolate chips
1 and 3/4 cups AP flour
1 cup graham cracker crumbs (about 6-8 full sheets of crackers in the food processor works, too!)
1 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. salt
1 and 1/2 cups marshmallows
2 Hershey bars (milk chocolate), chopped 

1.  Preheat the oven to 375 degrees.  (or skip until ready to bake them)

2.  Mix on medium with your electric mixer the butter and sugars until light and fluffy.  
3.  Add eggs one at a time.  Scrape the bowl afterwards to make sure everything is incorporated.
4.  Add vanilla and mix until combined.
5.  In a medium bowl, whisk together the dry stuff: flour, graham cracker crumbs, salt and baking soda.
6.  Mix flour into the batter and beat until just incorporated.
7.  Stir in the mini chocolate chips.
8.  Chill bowl or move to step 9.
9.  Scoop the cookie dough with a medium cookie scoop (about 1 and 1/2-2 Tb. of dough) onto a cookie sheet. 
10.  Bake 7-8 minutes.  Pull them out of the oven and immediately put on marshmallows and milk chocolate.

Note: When you pull the cookies out of the oven they should almost look raw. If you leave them to cool on the metal cookie sheet they actually continue to cook, therefore if you pull them out when they are already looking done, they will end up being overcooked.




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