Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars

I do believe that I'm on a bit of a cookie bar thing. No. Scratch that. I am on a bit of a cookie bar thing. But who can resist cookie bars? They're portable, cute, come in a billion different flavors, and most of all, they're DELICIOUS! Just take a look.

Okay, so maybe I'm a bit of a copycat, but these bars looked amazing when I viewed them on Pittsburgh Needs Eated. But who could resist their chocolatey-ness? Their cinnamon hints? Their crunch on the outside and chew on the inside? Wow. I'm really starting to repeat myself now. Maybe I should make pudding or something so I don't use that phrase again.

I made these for a camping trip to Nehalem Bay. My friend also made carrot cupcakes and chocolate cupcakes. I know what you're thinking, but remember, calories don't count when you're camping. ;) 

These guys really did have a unique flavor. They obviously had the chocolatey taste, but the teaspoon of cinnamon that caused people to have a thoughtful expression on their face after they took a bite.

"It's the cinnamon," I'd say. 

"Ahhh, I thought there was something different. It's good!"

The tower topples :(

Molasses Crinkles

I made these molasses crinkles for a street-wide garage sale on my street! We sold these for 75 cents a piece, and one dollar with lemonade! Haha. I honestly think that these cookies made more money than any of the other things we tried to sell.

These cookies came from Betty Crocker's Cooky Book. I've made these quite a few times, and they're tried and true favorites in my family. They've got a real crunch on the outside from the sugary shell, but are very soft and chewy on the inside. Hmm...I feel like I've said this before in a previous post. These cookies filled the kitchen with a wonderfully homey aroma, and went quickly down at the sale. I'm glad this recipe makes bunches, so we had some leftover. I know I'll make these cookies again and again, since they're real winners.

Mmm. Crunchy and Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies

This is what happens when you are home in the kitchen and have a sudden craving for chocolate chip cookies. Search for a recipe ensues. First, it's to Taste Spotting. As much as I love that website, I mostly look at it for the beautiful pictures. I didn't find a recipe that was to my satisfaction, so it was to the cookbook collection. Betty Crocker, Joy of Cooking, and Ina Garten. Finally, I looked at the Magnolia Bakery Cookbook. There was a nice recipe that I decided to try out. I don't make chocolate chip cookies that often, so it was nice to try a new recipe.

I don't know what it was, but these cookies were really delicious. Maybe it was the extra amount of chocolate chips that I put in there to finish off the bag of chocolate chips. I think one of the reasons why they were so delicious is that they were crispy on the outside, but they still they were still chewy on the inside, the chocolate chips gooey and sweet.

These were really fun to make, and I think I'll try out some more chocolate chip cookie recipes.

Chocolate Drizzled Butter Wafers..mmm

I have StumbleUpon to thank for this recipe, after it brought me to Ming Makes Cupcakes, which is a fantastic and beautifully made site. There are gorgeous photos of artfully arranged gourmet cupcakes (and cookies and other savory baked goods) and their fantastic recipes. They range from the strange (flourless beet chocolate cupcakes ) to the gourmet (port wine and cherry cupcakes with mascarpone frosting) to the deliciously mainstream (red velvet cupcakes with buttercream frosting.) 

Anyways, these cookies caught my fancy for more reasons than one. 

1) They looked heavenly and delicious.

2) We had only one egg.

3) I was feeling lazy and wanted something easy and quick.

They turned out fantastic, and as the name may tell you, they were..buttery...wafers. They edges were nice and crispy golden brown, while the inside was soft and crumby. I was going to fill them with some homemade raspberry jam, but I didn't make the holes in the cookies soon enough, I waited too long into the cooling process, and as I was making the holes, the cookie would snap, so I decided to go with the drizzly chocolate. The recipe said to use dark chocolate, but I had semisweet on hand so I used that, which I liked better than I think I would've dark chocolate.

If I had to do it again, I think that I might put the dough balls farther apart, because quite a few of the cookies melded together, and I had to perform an emergency separation surgery just out of the oven. Overall, these were wonderful cookies that were devoured by my little sister and her friend after coming home from camp. I look forward to doing more recipes off of Ming Makes Cupcakes.