Cookie Dough + Peanut Butter Cup Fudge

Since I had all those milks left over from yesterday's cupcakes, I decided to use them and make some fudge! First the cookie dough fudge:

12 tablespoons salted butter, softened
1/2 cup sweetened condensed milk
1/4 cup heavy cream
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1/3 cup packed brown sugar
1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
3 cups powdered sugar
1 cup chocolate chips

Line a 9-by-9-inch pan with parchment paper. In mixer, cream together butter, condensed milk, and heavy cream on medium speed. Add vanilla and mix again. Add brown sugar and mix on medium speed until all ingredients are combined, occasionally pausing to scrape down the sides. Gradually add flour and powdered sugar, continuing to pause to scrape down the sides as needed until all ingredients are combined. Stir in chocolate chips and pour fudge into prepared pan. Refrigerate for at least 2 hours before cutting and serving.

I can't even explain how good this is. It tastes like a dang chocolate chip cookie, in fudge form. Oh man. I can't.
Next, I made a peanut butter cup fudge
24 Reese's Regular Size Peanut Butter Cups ( I didn't have these, so I used the football shaped Reese's and it worked just fine)
14 oz can Sweetened Condensed Milk
3 Cups Chocolate Chips

Line an 8x8 inch pan with aluminum foil and lightly spray with cooking spray. Space 16 Reese's Cups along the bottom of the pan. In the microwave melt the chocolate chips and sweetened condensed milk stirring every 30 seconds so that the chocolate doesn't burn. Spread evenly over the peanut butter cups. Chop remaining 6 peanut butter cups and gently press onto the top of the chocolate. Refrigerate until set and cut into squares.

As you can see, I used a bread pan because I didn't have quite enough milk left over. But also: delicious! And both are super easy, so make it!

Brownie Cupcakes with Cookie Dough Frosting

You guys. These that I’m about to tell you about are a revelation. Let’s kick things off. So, to start off, I just did a boxed recipe of brownies, because I am phenomenally lazy. But – to change it up, I added an extra egg, to make the brownies more cake-like. So, make your brownie recipe according to the box, and scoop it into cupcake tins. I did two boxes of mix, and ended up with 24 cupcakes. I baked at 325 (I have a dark cupcake pan, I probably could have done it at 350, but I was experimenting) for probably like, 20 minutes, but I kept adding minutes. I started with 15, added 5 more, and then I think maybe I did two more minutes, and then took them out. After they were cooled, I made this frosting:

1.5 sticks of unsalted butter
1 cup brown sugar
3 cups powdered sugar
2 Tsp vanilla
2 Tb milk
1 cup flour
Mini chocolate chips

In a bowl, using an electric mixer, whip together butter and light-brown sugar until pale and fluffy. Mix in flour then add powdered sugar, vanilla, and milk and blend together until smooth, adding more powdered sugar or milk, depending on desired consistency. Pipe onto cupcakes,and then top with chocolate chips.

These are amazing and delicious and I love them.

Cookie Dough Oreo Brownies

You guys, I have had a delicious treat today. Let me tell you the steps, it’s mostly in pictures.

Step one:

Make a favorite cookie dough (or use a pre-made one, I legit don’t care. I made my standby favorite)

Step two:

Yep, just plop some Oreos on top of that.

Step three:

Make a favorite brownie mix (mine was definitely a box mix) and then throw it in the oven at 350 degrees for about 48-55 minutes. Take it out, let it cool, and you have this:

Oh yeah. Lots of rich deliciousness in one bite.

Cookie Dough Brownies

Ok, today I needed to make a treat for a family dinner tonight, so I went to one that I hadn’t made before, but I had had before, so I already knew it was delicious. I copied the recipe from Chelle’s blog, so if you want to make this, head over there for the recipe, because I am too lazy to type it all. That’s right, too lazy. But here’s the pic I took, I did a little work here for this.

I’m realizing you can’t see the brownie part, but that’s ok. These are so tasty I wanted to eat the whole pan.

Cookie Dough Cupcakes

I made a treat to bring to a family dinner, we were eating after we watched General Conference. I had found this recipe a while ago, on yourcupofcake.com, and made them myself. The ingredients are:

1 box White Cake mix
3 eggs
1/3 cup oil
1 cup milk
1/2 cup sour cream or plain yogurt
2 tsp. vanilla extract
1 cup mini chocolate chips

Cookie Dough Frosting
1 1/2 cup butter, softened
2 tsp. vanilla extract
1/3 cup flour
1/4 cup brown sugar
1 pinch salt
2 TB milk
2-3 cup powdered sugar
Mini Chocolate Chips (for decoration)

Preheat oven to 350 degrees and line pan with cupcake liners. In a large bowl, combine eggs, oil milk, sour cream and vanilla extract until smooth. Stir in cake mix and chocolate chips. Fill cupcake liners 3/4 full and bake for 15-20 minutes or until an inserted toothpick comes out clean. Cookie Dough Frosting: Beat butter. Add vanilla extract, flour, brown sugar and salt and beat again. Add in about a tablespoon of milk, and 2 cups of powdered sugar. Add more milk and powdered sugar, until you reach your desired consistency. Pipe onto cooled cupcakes and top with mini chocolate chips.

This isn’t too hard – thank goodness, and they really taste like cookie dough, yum.

I picked the wrong frosting tip, because they ended up looking pretty gross, but they taste good, and that’s all that matters!