Driftwood #18: Cooking at Home

April 30, 2021

Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Dip

cookie dough dipIf you’re the type of person who loves raw cookie dough and would eat it every day if it wasn’t so bad for you (insert sad face emoji), then this is a recipe you need to try! Not only is this chocolate chip cookie dough dip a super quick, easy, and cheap dish to bring to a party or potluck post-COVID, it’s also a delicious sweet treat you can make for yourself, just because.

Ingredients: 

  • 1 eight-ounce package of cream cheese, softened
  • ½ cup of unsalted butter, softened
  • 1 cup of powdered sugar
  • 2 tablespoons of brown sugar
  • 1½ teaspoons of vanilla
  • 1 cup of mini chocolate chips
  • 1 cup of toffee bits

Directions:

  1. Using an electric mixer, whip together the cream cheese and butter in a large bowl.
  2. Add all remaining ingredients and mix with a wooden spoon until well-combined.
  3. Chill the mixture in the refrigerator for one hour.
  4. Serve with graham cracker sticks, apple wedges, pretzels, Oreo cookies, or whatever else you’d like.
—Mallory Allen, Cooking Editor

Peanut Butter Kiss Cookies

Peanut Butter Kiss CookiesIngredients:

  • 1 cup peanut butter
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 1 large egg, room temperature
  • 1 tsp. vanilla extract
  • 30 milk chocolate kisses

Instructions:

  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
  2. Cream peanut butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
  3. Beat in egg and vanilla.
  4. Roll into 1-inch balls. Place 2 inches apart on ungreased baking sheets.
  5. Bake until tops are slightly cracked, 10-12 minutes.
  6. Immediately press 1 chocolate kiss into center of each cookie.
  7. Cool for 5 minutes before removing from pans to wire racks.

—Bruce Kong

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