52 Weeks of Cooking- Week Eleven Part One

With chocolate chips, for the party.

Without, the practice batch.

So this weekend (tomorrow actually!) is my best friends birthday. She is having a party Saturday. We were talking and she was asking me how my cooking challenge is going {great, thanks for asking =) } and she asked if I wouldn't mind making a few things for her party.

EEP! Talk about my first real challenge. I mean, it's one thing to make food for my co-workers or just myself. They don't have to eat it and I'm not really cooking to please them. I just happen to share it with them.

But this is a party... for a bunch of my friends. Who if they don't like this, then they won't have any desserts to eat (she might buy a cake though, I'm not sure).

Did I mention the eep!

So I'm trying out a new recipe I have been really wanting to make, but haven't gotten around to it. I figured I should try this out before the party.

And let me tell you, it's a good thing I tried this out before hand because I just put in my last pan and I only got...12 cookies. And they're not huge cookies either. Normal size cookies.

I'll have to at least double, if not triple the recipe for the party...

Impossible Peanut Butter Cookies

Ingredients

* 1 cup peanut butter (your choice, smooth or chunky- I used smooth)

* 1 cup granulated sugar

* 1 large egg

* sugar, for rolling (optional)

Directions

1. Mix together until smooth.

2. Drop by teaspoon onto cookie sheet two inches apart. If desired, roll in extra sugar before placing on cookie sheet.

3.Press with fork and press again in opposite direction.

4.Bake 10-12 minutes at 350°.

5.Do not brown, do not over bake.

52 Weeks of Cooking- Week Ten

Like last week, this week's recipe was decided by one of my co-workers.

Multiple Choice Bar Cookies

Ingredients:

1/2 cup butter

1 can sweetened condensed milk

Column A (1 1/2 cups of...)

Grahmn Cracker Crumbs

Chocolate Wafer Crumbs

Animal Cracker Crumbs

Sugar Cookie Crumbs

Column B (2 cups of...)

Chocolate Chips

Butterscotch Chips

Peanut Butter Chips

Raisins (regular or golden)

M & Ms (without peanuts)

Column C (2 cups of...)

Flaked coconut (equal to 5oz)

Rice Krispies
Mini Marshmallows

Frosted cornflake crumbs

Column D (1 cup of...)

Chopped walnuts

Chopped pecans

Chopped peanuts

Chopped cashews

DIRECTIONS:

1.) Melt butter and pour into a 9 by 13 inch pan. Tilt to coat bottom.

2.) Evenly sprinkle one item from column A along bottom.

3.) Drizzle milk.

4.) Sprinkle one item from Column B.

5.) Sprinkle one item from Column C.

6.) Sprinkle one item from Column D.

7.) Press everything down with hands.

8.) Bake for 30 minutes in a 350 degree oven, with the rack in the middle position.

*There are over 400 possible choices*

*Zack choose the following: Chocolate graham cracker crumbs, M&Ms, chocolate chips, and chopped peanuts. Yes, that means 2 things from Column B and nothing from Column C. We didn't think anything from Column C would taste very good in this recipe.*