Bacon Chocolate Chip Cookies

Very special thanks to Betty Crocker's bag of cookie mix. We all know that I am no baker, precise ingredient measurements freak me out. But this one is super simple.

-Chocolate chip cookie mix
-1 egg
-4 tbsp butter
-Half a cup of applesauce
-3/4 cup of bacon bits (about 4 or 5 thick cut slices crumbled)

Preheat oven to 375F. Cook up four or five slices of your favorite bacon, extra crispy. Set aside to cool
Mix together egg, BC's chocolate chip cookie mix, butter, and applesauce. Note: the bag calls for one stick of butter, but these are bad enough for you already.
Using your hands, crumble the bacon in to the dough. This helps keep the fatty parts out, so you can eat them.
Drop in rounded teaspoons on an ungreased cookie sheet, 2" apart, and bake 10 minutes. Let cool one minute, then eat your face off.

Published with Blogger-droid v1.6.5

Chocolate Zucchini Cake

The same neighbor who blessed us with the Peanut Butter Crunch Cake arrived at a Christmas party with this Pennsylvania treat. Or Southern favorite. It seems to have started a fued between us, but zucchini grows just about every where and we all seem to find crazier and crazier things to do with it.

----

Chocolate Zucchini Cake

2 cups shredded Zucchini 3 Cups Flour

2 tsp Baking Soda 1 ½ tsp Salt

2/3 Cup Butter Milk 1 Cup Unsweetened Cocoa Powder

2 ½ Cup Sugar 1 Cup Oil

2 tsp Vanilla 4 eggs

¾ Cup Chocolate Chips



Squeeze and discard liquid from Zucchini. If really wet, wrap in paper towels to remove moisture. In separate bowl, combine

2 ¾ Cup of Flour, Soda and Salt. Set aside. Use remaining ¼ Cup of flour to combine with shredded Zucchini. Also set this aside.



Mix sugar, oil, and vanilla. Add eggs. Beat until smooth. Add coca and milk. At low speed, add flour and zucchini/flour mixture to batter.

Stir in chocolate chips. Divide batter between two 9 in round greased and floured pans. Bake at 350 degrees for 50 – 60 minutes.

Cool 15 minutes in pans, then remove from pans to cool completely. Frost with frosting of your choice.



Note: This bakes to fill the found pans. Cake is also very moist and heavy.


----

Cream cheese icing is perfect, or top with chocolate chips and caramel bits. Or chocolate sauce, which looks really pretty if you use this for a bundt.

Team Fun Boundary Village Mooshe Cookies

Team Fun, my college gang, is exactly like the what would happen if you somehow mixed the Roughnekcs from Starship Troopers, the gang from Scooby Doo, and the... wait, it's nothing like that. Whatever. Either way, Mooshe is the badass. Or the pretty one. We never really got our boy band personalities in order.

--

This is a reconstructed recipe for the Team Fun Boundary Village Cookies. It seems like some Fatty Cookbook material. (I'm going to make some later so I wrote this down.)

DRY STUFF
2 cups oats (not the quick-cooking ones, but the thicker ones)*
2-ish cups flour
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt (but I never use salt, I never have salt)

WET STUFF
1 & 1/2 sticks butter
2 eggs
2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract (or none when you can't afford it)
1-ish cup brown (or black or red or yellow or white) sugar
A dump of cinnamon
Sometimes a dash of nutmeg
Squirts of honey
Tons of chocolate chips

The cinnamon and honey were the "secret" ingredients, as were my loose measurements of flour, sugar, honey and chocolate chips. The recipe never turned out the same way.

My memory cannot recreate how hot or long the cookies cook, but my best guess is 325 degrees for 8-28 minutes.

Best enjoyed as a cookie dough, I also don't know how many cookies this recipe yields.

*One time I replaced oats with some crushed up cereal I had that wasn't oats. I only did it because I bothered a neighbor for eggs, and once I had the eggs realize I was missing most of the other ingredients at 2am. This did not work. The butter and sugar melted and hardened into a candy not unlike, but worse, than peanut brittle.

Another variation included broken up Halloween candy instead of chocolate chips, and this is a great idea.

--

Thanks, Mooshe!!