Cooking Halloween Candy For Cookies
Published by Carolin on Tagged cookies
Well Halloween is over, and your kids have a lot of candy. Now if your family is anything like ours, you are going to have candy leftover for a long time. See with Kev and I we have never really monitored our sons candy intake. What we have always done is if it is there they can help themselves. What we found out by doing this is that our boys will take a bit and then leave the rest. It has always been a non-issue in our house. But what happens is that we have all this Halloween candy left over. Now I could be cruel and send it to school and have the teachers hand it out so the kids will have a sugar high for the way home. Or I could do what an article I was reading this morning suggested. This article, which was quite funny, was suggesting cooking with the Halloween candy. It got my attention right away. First of all cooking candy got me. Then I thought right away I could probably get my kids cooking as well. Well what it suggested was different recipes for cookies using Halloween candy.
So I started thinking. I have an awesome recipe for chocolate chip cookies. So why not just replace those chocolate chips with some candy. You could use M&M’s, Smarties or chocolate bars that are mostly chocolate. I would use like a Hershey solid or a Cookies and Cream, not a Mars or Snickers bar.
So get that candy out and lets do some cooking or baking.
Halloween Candy Cookies
¾c-unsalted butter softened
1 1/4c brown sugar
1 egg
2tsp vanilla extract
2 c flour
2tsp cornstarch
1tsp baking soda
1/2tsp salt
1 ½ c candy (if using bars chop up)
Preheat oven to 350°
Cream together the butter and brown sugar until smooth. Add the egg and vanilla blend in. Stir in the rest of the ingredients except the candy, blend well the add candy.
Using tablespoons drop onto a greased cookie sheet or what I do is line a cookie sheet with parchment paper.
Bake for about 8-10 minutes until they start to turn golden brown on the edges.
There you go we managed to cook away some candy. Now you can take some to the office and be the star of the office.
TIP OF THE DAY
You can make just the dough and freeze it for later use. Just measure it out then roll it up in plastic wrap. Throw into the freezer for later use. When you take it out of the freezer while it is still slightly frozen slice it into cookies and lay out on your pan until thawed and then bake.
article source
http://www.suburbanchicagonews.com:80/beaconnews/lifestyles/632786,2_5_AU03_CANDY_S1.article
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