Welcome to my baking blog

Well, here is my New Year's Resolution! I have always been told I should start a baking blog, and truly, it’s always something I've wanted to do myself. My resolution for 2012 is to keep a baking blog by posting some of my favorite and personal recipes. My plans for this blog are simple - easy baking. I find that a lot of people are intimidated by baking, so I am here to show you, step-by-step, that baking is easy and very fun. We have all burned cookies, forgotten the sugar, and even thrown out an entire batch of something that looked beautiful online. I hope you enjoy!






Sunday, January 22, 2012

GIVE ME S'MORE COOKIES

The snow is finally falling here in my little town. This is our second real snow this summer and I am so happy!  Since I'm a December baby I have always enjoyed the winter, cold, and snow.  I guess its a good thing I've stayed in Ohio right?

Tonight I am posting a cookie that was a first for me.  I knew I wanted to make some sort of S'more cookie so I looked all around for recipes and different ways to 'present' the cookies.  While I can't credit an exact source for the recipe, since its basically what I came up with from reading multiple recipes, but I'll credit the 'presentation' to this little cookie shop ( http://ilovesweetthangs.com/wordpress/ ) I found  thanks to Google Image Search.

INGREDIENTS:


1 cup brown sugar
2 large chocolate bars
2 eggs
1 bag of large marshmallows
1 1/2 cups for flour
1 teaspoon of salt
1 teaspoon of baking soda
1 teaspoon of cinnamon
1 1/2 cups of butter
1 teaspoon of vanilla
3/4 cup of brown sugar
3/4 cup of sugar
3/4 cup of chocolate chips
6 graham crackers



DIRECTIONS:

Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Combine sugar, flour, salt, baking soda, and cinnamon in a bowl and set aside.

In a mixer, combine eggs, vanilla, brown sugar and butter.  For some reason, whenever I have to 'scramble' the eggs, I have to throw in some milk. Its just something my mother always did :)

Mix in graham crackers crumbs


And chocolate chips



Scoop dough onto a greased cookie sheet and bake for about 8-10 minutes


Time to prep the goodies - Cut large marshmallows into two pieces and break apart chocolate bars




Once the cookies look to be almost done, pull the rack out and place the marshmallow in the middle and a chocolate bar on top. Bakes cookies a few more minutes, or until the tops of the marshmallows start to brown



Now - the most important step - as always - is to have one of these shortly after removing them from the oven.  As I may have mentioned before, I am a big fan of 'right out of the oven,' and these are a great example as to why.  The cinnamon in these cookies really bring it all together.  Enjoy!



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