Triple C with a brownie

The delinquent(my daughter) and I were having a disagreement on baked goodies for the day. She wanted cookies. I wanted brownies. so as a compromise, we went out and bought a cookie brownie....N.A.S.T.Y!) I get chills just thinking about it) Needless to say, we were an unhappy pair. So later that day, I did some thinkin' and some lookin', and found that I wasn't the only glutton wanting a brownie stuffed in a cookie! Easier than you think, and SO worth the effort! Attempt #1-The Hard Way : ( Ugly cookie. BIG taste. I did everything homemade. It took too long and my cookie went places, while my brownie did not. Attempt #2-Cheater cheater : ) Gorgeous cookie. AWESOME taste! I highly advise that you go with attempt number two. Mainly because the wait time is considerably less(who likes waiting for goodies anyway)! 

Alright, so what you wanna do(if you're cheating), is to go buy some cookie dough and ready made brownies. I purchased my goods from Safeway, and used the Nestle TollHouse break apart cookie dough(2 dozen pack). One of these packs, will give you six very large cookies. Which is a short way of saying that you'll be using four segments for one cookie) Also, preheat your oven according to the package directions!

Take two of the segments and roll into a ball-like so (repeat, so you'll have two balls of dough)




Go ahead and flatten it a little as well

mmmm chocolate

Now go ahead and cut each brownie into fourths. You'll use about a brownie and a half for your six cookies. Take a brownie fourth and flatten it a little as well

Now the fun part! Sandwich your brownie in between your flattened dough balls and pinch your dough together!

Almost THERE!

Go  through the whole process again, for however many cookies you plan to make. They should look like this when ready to go into the oven.








Pop those enticing little treats into a preheated oven for 20 minutes! You read right, 20 is the magic number. They should be a nice golden brown when done. Kind of like these : )

Nom nom nom

And there you have it! You can also pull off a stuffed cookie with various chocolate candies, but remember...it's OK to cheat with this! No one will care that it's semi home-made! They'll be to caught up in the heavenly combo. I could be nice and give you a glimpse of the inside the deliciousness....but I figure I'll leave that for you to discover! Happy eating : )

Taste of Home Cooking Show

Have I ever mentioned how much I love Taste of Home??? I love them THIS MUCH(arms spread wide)!!!!! For those of you who don't know, Taste of Home is a cooking magazine that has rockin' recipes! Great thing about this....company(?), is that all the recipes come from "real" women! Not from folks thrown into a kitchen(though all their recipes ARE kitchen tested). Also, most of the recipes are relatively inexpensive, look tough but are super easy to make! This is the second year I've gone to the cooking show, and I have to tell you, it'll forever be an annual girls night out MUST! No questions asked men! now, since this is a cooking show, it does mean that you sit there and spectate. Doesn't sound entertaining, but totally is! However, the benefit of watching the presentation, is that you get to see how truly easy these recipes are. And she always does the ones that look the toughest. There are three types of tickets: VIP-$55, Reserved-$20, and GA-$12. We got the general admission tickets, which you do get a goodie bag with. The bag will have the two Taste of Home magazines, with recipes from that evening and loads of coupons from various sponsors. Although, this years goodie bag was wimpy compared to last years. Also, during the presentation, there are loads of prizes given away! Who doesn't like winning?! I certainly do!!!! Especially since I won something this year-four mini cookbooks! YAY ME! I'm so proud of me and my luck! The grand prize is a brand new washer/dryer(even more incentive to go)! Which luck and I WILL be owning next year! A new washer and dryer would look so pretty in my basement : ) at any rate, I highly suggest that you go to a cooking show IF possible. Perfect excuse to go out with the lady(or fella) friends, lounge around, and chat it up about food!