Picky Palete, one of my new favorite blogs, has this amazing recipe for
Candy Bar Cookies. Now, the recipe as followed makes a huge cookie. A cookie so huge that even I, home baker that I am, feel guilty about eating one of these cookies in it's entirety. So, in preparation for an upcoming party, I decided to "trim" down the recipe. And by that I only mean, I used a smaller candy bar.
The gooey center of this particular cookie comes courtesy of a mini Milky Way. Simply using the smaller candy bar, as opposed to a full size Reese's Peanut Butter Cup, made for a cookie of half the size and one that I wouldn't feel so bad about eating or serving for that matter. With so much food at family gatherings it's nice to keep the dessert smaller. That way, when you behold a buffet of desserts in smaller portions, you can easily try one of everything!
Can I help it if I think I made it better? Traditionally, the recipe calls for two rolls of Pillsbury chocolate chip cookie dough. Which, in turn, sandwich the delectable cream cheese filling. I decided that I wanted to put brownie batter first, then the cream cheese filling, and finally top it off with the chocolate chip cookie layer. As you can see in the picture above, 2 layers down, 1 to go.
Just out of the oven the top layer is nicely sun-tanned, while the cream cheese layer in the middle plays peek-a-boo.
A closer look, just because....
And, finally a piece of comfort cut from the pan. If three is charm, chocolate chip, cream cheese, BROWNIE bars had me at first slice.
