I’m not referring to MY hubby, because he says pretzels don’t belong in sweet things. But any other hubby who eats these will surely become chubby. These are your basic chocolate chip cookie except with less chocolate chips and additional peanut butter chips and pretzel pieces. They’re not very photogenic and I don’t have a ton of pictures, so I will start with a picture of my adorable kitten, Maya, sniffing the flowers that our friend Liz gave us.
Chubby Maya
For the recipe, I started with one from Recipezaar and made a couple changes:
cookie dough
-1 cup butter
-1/2 cup sugar
-1/2 cup brown sugar
-1 egg
-1 Tbsp. vanilla
-2 cups flour
-1/2 tsp. baking soda
-1 pinch salt
-1 1/4 cup semisweet chocolate chips
-1 cup peanut butter chips
-1 cup pretzel pieces (about the same size as the chocolate chips)
Stalking half-baked cookies
Do exactly what you would do if you were making chocolate chip cookies: Mash butter and sugar, add egg and vanilla, mix dry ingredients in a separate bowl and then stir them into the butter and sugar, add the chips & pretzels, stir, bake at 350 F for 11 minutes until edges barely start to brown and middle is still soft and pale colored.
Well, I really like these cookies, but they make me crave the real Ben & Jerry’s Chubby Hubby. I may have to invest in some vanilla ice cream to eat with these!
I can has cheezburger?
I really owe this recipe to my soccer teammate Corby. He made little cheeseburger cookies like this for one of our soccer bbq’s a couple of years ago, and I have never forgotten them. Don’t they just look amazing? Anyways, in tribute to the usual culinary treats associated with the 4th o’ July, this week’s treat is fresh off of the grill.
These cookies are great for a few reasons. First, did I mention that they look amazing? Second, they require no cooking. Third, they taste surprisingly good for a cookie mash-up. So go make some already!
INGREDIENTS (makes 20 burgerz)
- 40 Nilla Wafers
- 20 Grasshoppers (or thin mints)
- 1 egg
- 1/2 cup coconut flakes
- 1 tblspn sesame seeds
- 1/4 cup vanilla frosting
- Red, Yellow, Green food coloring
DIRECTIONS
Start off by setting up your buns (aka the nilla wafers). Put half of them face up and half of them face down in two separate areas. The face up ones will be the tops. Bust open the egg and keep just the whites in a bowl. Using a small brush (or a papertowel all folded up if you don’t have one), coat the tops of the top buns with the egg whites. This will make them temporarily sticky. Before they have a chance to dry, sprinkle the sesame seeds on top, and press them down to set them. Set these buns aside to dry.
Now take your coconut flakes and shake them around in a baggie with a couple drops of green food coloring. The goal is for them to look like little shredded lettuce. Set these aside for now also.
In another bowl mix your vanilla frosting with a few drops of red food coloring and about 4X as many drops of yellow. Feel free to tweak the color to your desired cheese coloring. This frosting will act as both cheese on the burger, as well as the glue that holds the various pieces together. Once this is mixed up, grab your first grasshopper and put a dab of frosting on the bottom. The goal is to put enough to hold the bottom bun on, but not enough that the frosting visibly squirts out the sides. Press the grasshopper onto the bottom bun. Now add a much thicker layer of frosting on top of the grasshopper. This will be the cheese and it should be enough to be visible once the top bun is put on. Sprinkle some of the green coconut onto the cheese. Lastly, before you put the top bun on, add another small glue dollop onto the bottom of the top bun and press it into place. Repeat this assembly line for all of your cheezburgers.
Where is the cow this week? Who eats cheeseburgers with a glass of milk?