Oreo Brownies

As I searched for a recipe online that used Oreos, I stumbled upon these Oreo Brownies – and they looked quite delicious. Since the recipe is just a basic brownie recipe (homemade in this case), I thought about just making brownies from a box and adding Oreo pieces. I’m sure that box brownies would work but I decided I’d go all out and I made the brownies from the recipe. The recipe includes frosting, which was a little sweet, but if you have a different frosting you’d prefer that would work too.

The brownies were really yummy and had a nice texture but homemade brownies are always a bit different than box brownies (different texture and chocolatey-ness) so you can try whatever you’d like!

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line an 8×8 inch baking pan with foil and spray with nonstick cooking spray. Microwave chocolate and butter in large bowl at medium (50% power) for 3-4 minutes or until butter is melted. Whisk until chocolate is melted. Whisk in sugar, eggs, vanilla and salt. Gradually add flour and stir until just combined.

Fold in 12 chopped Oreo cookies.

Spread batter into prepared pan. Bake for 30 minutes; do not over bake. (Don't mind the piece in the corner I was about to eat before I realized I should take a picture first..)

Remove to cooling rack. Allow to cool completely before cutting or frosting.

Oreo Brownies

Yield: 12 bars

Ingredients:

For the Brownies

4 ounces unsweetened chocolate; coarsely chopped
3/4 cup butter
1 cup sugar
3 eggs
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
¼ teaspoon kosher salt
1 cup all-purpose flour
12 Oreos, chopped

For the Frosting

1/2 cup unsalted butter, room temperature
2 cups confectioners’ sugar
¼ teaspoon fine grain sea salt
1 teaspoon clear vanilla extract
2 tablespoons milk
8 Oreos, chopped

Directions:

For the Brownies

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line an 8×8 inch baking pan with foil and spray with nonstick cooking spray.

2. Microwave chocolate and butter in large bowl at medium (50% power) for 3-4 minutes or until butter is melted.

3. Whisk until chocolate is melted. Whisk in sugar, eggs, vanilla and salt. Gradually add flour and stir until just combined. Fold in 12 chopped Oreo cookies.

4. Spread batter into prepared pan. Bake for 30 minutes; do not over bake.

5. Remove to cooling rack. Allow to cool completely before cutting or frosting.

For the Frosting

1. In the bowl of a stand mixer or in a large bowl with a hand mixer, cream butter until fluffy. Slowly add in confectioner’s sugar, and continue mixing until well blended.

2. Add salt, vanilla, and milk. Blend on low speed until moistened. If frosting is too stiff, slowly add in more milk until you reach the desired consistency. Beat at high speed until frosting is smooth and fluffy.

3. Spread or pipe frosting onto the brownies and top with chopped Oreo cookies.

Snicker Apple Salad

With just three ingredients, this easy recipe is sure to be a hit! This Snicker Apple Salad is great for backyard barbeques, family gatherings, and other parties. It combines crisp apples and chewy snickers with fluffy cool whip for a refreshing treat. It’s so easy to make and it only took me about 15 minutes. Just chop up the apples and snickers and stir them into the cool whip. Let’s get started!

First, chop the apples and snickers into bite size pieces. You can decide how big or small you want them. For the snickers, I used minis and cut them into fourths (the picture is only halves, but I realized they were bigger than I preferred).

 Put the apple chunks in a large bowl and mix in the cool whip. Then add the snickers pieces and mix again. Viola! Snicker Apple Salad. (Keep refrigerated until ready to serve)

So far, I’m the only one who has eaten it (I just made it today) and I sure wouldn’t mind if it stayed that way… =)

Recipe:

Snicker Apple Salad

1 (8 oz.) container Cool Whip

2 apples

3 regular size Snickers candy bars

Chop up the apples and mix them with the Cool Whip. Next, chop up the Snickers and stir them in to the salad. Refrigerate until serving.

Cookies and Cream Cookies

I know I’ve made a lot of cookies lately, but there are so many different cookie recipes out there. My friend actually recently made Cookies and Cream cookies so I decided to try it too. I just found this recipe online, like I do with most of my recipes. It has bits of Oreos within a cookie. How great is that? Oreos are “America’s Favorite Cookie” and I’d say these Cookies and Cream cookies are now on my favorites list. And we happened to have a fresh pack of Oreos so I didn’t have to run to the store, which is always a plus. I made two batches so I could share them with my English class, yum yum yum.

In the bowl of an electric mixer, cream together the butter and sugars until light and fluffy, about 2-3 minutes (I don’t have a mixer so I just used a spoon which works just as well. I wish I had a mixer, but then how would I keep my arms strong? ;) )

Add egg and vanilla and beat until well mixed (I tend to add a little extra vanilla, you can’t go wrong with that)

In a medium bowl, whisk together flour, baking soda, and salt. With the mixer on low (or stir), slowly add the dry ingredients into the wet until just combined. Gently fold in Oreo pieces (I reccomend you chop them into pieces with a knife, rather than trying to break them, its easier to control their size then)

Scoop dough onto an ungreased cookie sheet about 1-2" apart.

Bake for 8-10 minutes at 350 degrees, until the edges JUST start to brown (you want the cookies to maintain the ‘cream’ white look). Let cool on baking sheet for a few minutes, then transfer to a cooling rack to cool completely.

 

Here’s my dog, Chevy, watching me as I bake and waiting for me to drop something! (which I usually do)

anddd they went very well with my Frappuccino =)

Ingredients

1/2 cup butter, at room temperature

6 tbsp sugar

6 tbsp brown sugar

1 egg

1 tsp vanilla

1-1/4 cup flour

1/2 tsp baking soda

1/2 tsp salt

12 Oreo's, broken up into small pieces

- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.

- In the bowl of an electric mixer, cream together the butter and sugars until light and fluffy (about 2-3 minutes).

- Add egg and vanilla and beat until well mixed.

- In a medium bowl, whisk together flour, baking soda, and salt.

- With the mixer on low, slowly add the dry ingredients into the wet until just combined.

- Gently fold in Oreo pieces.

- Scoop dough onto an ungreased cookie sheet about 1-2" apart.

- Bake for 8-10 minutes*, until the edges JUST start to brown. Let cool on baking sheet for a few minutes, then transfer to a cooling rack to cool completely.

Recipe yields about 30 cookies. (mine made exactly 2 dozen)