In need of some awesome recipes- cookies & squares

Hey girl! This I can do! A dessert reception sounds so awesome. Here's one of my favorite cookie recipes. Hope you like it!

Snickers Cookies:

1 cup each - sugar, brown sugar, butter, peanut butter
2 tsp vanilla
2 eggs, beaten
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda
3 cups flour
1 (16 oz) pkg minature snickers (or milky way) candy bars

Cream together sugar, brown sugar, butter, peanut butter. Add vanilla, beaten eggs. Mix. Add baking soda, powder and flour. Cut snickers bars in half, wrap dough around bar half. Shape into ball. (At this point you could roll in colored sugar) Bake on ungreased cookie sheet at 350 degrees for 12-15 minutes until golden brown. Yummy! (makes about 40 cookies)

These cookies are really easy to make and soooo good. But you should probably make them several times beforehand and watch them closely as ovens vary and they go from done to burnt in seconds (and burnt caramel is icky!). Admittedly, I'm not entirely sure how well these will freeze. I'm sure lots of folks will respond, but if you need more, I'm happy to send more tonight.

These are cute cookie things that I used to make often.

You take peanut butter cookie dough and roll into small balls (about 1 inch). You drop them into small muffin pan. When the cookies are done, you take mini reese cup and push them into each cookie. They make yummy little peanut butter cookie cups.

Then I use to do the peanut butter cookie dough. Bake as directed. Then, when fresh out of the oven, push a Hershey kiss down into each cookie.

i have THE most delicious recipe for squares, close to yours, but has coconut, peanut butter, chocolate, graham cracker crust-no icing-shall i send it?

I made awesome Lemon Lime Bars this weekend - from the Whole Foods Cookbook. They were especially good warm, but I'm sure room temperature will be grand as well. Here's the recipe:

2 c. unbleached all-purpose flour, sifted, plus 1/4 c.
1/2 c. powdered sugar
1/2 pound (2 sticks) butter
4 large eggs, beaten
2 c. granulated sugar
3 tbsp. lemon juice
3 tbsp lime juice
1 tsp. grated lemon zest
1 tsp. grated lime zest
1 tsp. baking powder
Powdered sugar for dusting


Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Sift the 2 cups sifted flow and the powdered sugar together. Cut the butter into the flour and sugar until the mixture looks like coarse meal. Press into a 13 x 9 x 2-inch pan. Bake for about 20 minutes, or until lightly browned. Remove the pan from the oven.

In a medium bowl, beat the eggs, granulated sugar, and lemon and lime juices and zests for 1 to 2 minutes, until frothy. Sift the remaining 1/4 cup flour and baking powder together, and stir it into the egg mixture. Pour over the baked crust. Bake for 20 to 25 minutes, until set. Remove from the oven, and allow it to cool. Sift the additional powdered sugar over the top, and cut the lemon-lime dessert into squares.

here you go! please forget this recipe immediately afterwards as it can be dangerous!!!

TRIPLE LAYER COOKIE BARS
makes 24 to 36 bars (actually makes many more-can be cut into pieces the size of fudge, it's so rich)

1/2 cup butter
1+1/2 cups graham cracker crumbs
1 package (7oz) flaked coconut
1 (14 oz) can sweetened condensed milk (NOT evaporated milk)
1 (12 oz) package semi-sweet chocolate chips
1/2 peanut butter (crunchy or smooth, whatever you prefer)

Preheat oven to 350 (or 325 for glass dish). In 13x9 " baking pan, melt butter in oven.
Sprinkle crumbs evenly over butter. Top evenly with coconut then sweetened condensed
milk.
Bake for 25 minutes or until lightly browned.
In small saucepan over low heat, melt chocolate with peanut butter. Spread evenly over
hot coconut layer.
Cool 30 minutes. Chill thoroughly. Cut into bars. Store loosely covered at room temperature.


there you have it! pretty easy. i keep mine in the fridge. i like the crunch of them being cold...yum!!!

Hey girl! This I can do! A dessert reception sounds so awesome. Here's one of my favorite cookie recipes. Hope you like it!

Snickers Cookies:

1 cup each - sugar, brown sugar, butter, peanut butter
2 tsp vanilla
2 eggs, beaten
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda
3 cups flour
1 (16 oz) pkg minature snickers (or milky way) candy bars

Cream together sugar, brown sugar, butter, peanut butter. Add vanilla, beaten eggs. Mix. Add baking soda, powder and flour. Cut snickers bars in half, wrap dough around bar half. Shape into ball. (At this point you could roll in colored sugar) Bake on ungreased cookie sheet at 350 degrees for 12-15 minutes until golden brown. Yummy! (makes about 40 cookies)

These cookies are really easy to make and soooo good. But you should probably make them several times beforehand and watch them closely as ovens vary and they go from done to burnt in seconds (and burnt caramel is icky!). Admittedly, I'm not entirely sure how well these will freeze. I'm sure lots of folks will respond, but if you need more, I'm happy to send more tonight.

mmmm those sound delish. I caramel!

Thanks for the PB ideas too guys. I love PB desserts but I'm only going to have to limit them or else everything will taste the same :laugh:

I used to have this PB square recipe and the base was a mixture of melted butter, grahm crumbs, PB and icing sugar, pressed into pan, then on top butter melted with choc chips, poured over. I LOVED them but I can't find the recipe? Has anyone heard of that one?

I make these cookies every year at Christmastime and they freeze really well. Another idea for a garnish is to just bake them without rolling them in sugar, and when they are out, you can drizzle them with melted lines of chocolate or sprinkle them with powdered sugar. If you don't want to mess with cutting the snickers in half, just buy the smallest mini snickers and they fit right inside the little ball of dough. These are my favorite all time cookies but I only bake them at Christmas because they are also irresistible!