Pinterest Pickings: Kit Kat Cookies! And a bit of OCD...

Once again it's close to ninety degrees, and I'm loving baking in my kitchen with no air conditioning or central air.  I have my mocktail by my side, sipping on a Pelligrino and mixer concoction out of an antique glass.  That cools me down just enough to embark upon making these yum-o-licious Kit Kat Cookies.  They are extra yummy.  And the recipe is easy to follow.

I was reading a book on OCD at the same time the cookies were baking (I know, taking multi-tasking to the extreme).  I started to think about my own kitchen obsessive behaviors.  I do have my routines in the kitchen, that's for sure...

-The Starbucks apron is always on

-Pandora is always playing on the Lorde station, full of Lana del Ray and Florence & the Machine

-I have an order to the way I move about the kitchen with the cookie sheets.  I know this sounds crazy, but it's like a dance routine.  And I'm pretty good at it.  (Well, aren't we bragging, MausiGal?)

-I tap things twice to get rid of excess flour or dough

There's other little things I do, but we'll stop here.  They involve dishtowels, water in the sink, and dish detergent.  I told you, my routines are pretty solid.

The other thing I do is I will only eat one cookie from the first batch I make.  Otherwise, with all the baking I do, I would be HUGE!  Like the lovelies I made today?  I won't eat them.  My sons will take over and nom nom nom on these Kit Kat cookies.

So, onto this recipe, because you definitely need to try it.  It's perfect, except for one thing.  It's SO GOOD that you need to double it.  Your circle of people will be crying out for more cookies, more cookies, more cookies, if you only make the amount specified in the recipe listed.  I doubled the batch, and made thirty-two cookies.  This was rolling them into two-inch balls before baking.  I also used chocolate chips, but I've also used white chocolate chips in this recipe before.  Both ways are just great.  Heck, through in half white chocolate and half semi-sweet chocolate chips for variety.  Go crazy!  Kit Kat Cookies are just too good to pass up!

Pinterest Pickings - Marshmallow Stuffed Cookies! NOM NOM

Ah, Vermont.  We had a great time, and made a great little snack that was composed of ice cream cones stuffed with mini-marshmallows and chocolate chips, wrapped in tinfoil, placed on the grill.  Yum!  S'more Ice Cream Cones!  Yes, of course I overbought and now I have bags of mini-mallows every where.  What to do?  I turned to Pinterest, and found this little gem of a recipe.  Nom nom nom.  These cookies are delish!

First things first, here's the link to Marshmallow Stuffed Cookies.  The food porn pics of the cookies alone will make you hungry and running to the kitchen for your mixer.  These cookies involve little mini-mallows, rolling cookie dough - a perfect activity for little kids.  KIDS WILL LOVE THIS!  I'm shouting, because I'd like to get the attention of my SisInLaw, so she mimics the recipe in her kitchen and gives me feedback.  Or she can loan me her own twin kidlets one day so we can make them here.  And make my kitchen a mess.  Love it!  Love those twin kidlets oodles!

First, note, the mini-marshmallows have to be frozen.  Alert!  Alert!  So if right now you're like, "Hey, I'm gonna eat me some cookies pronto!" you're in trouble.  Go grab about sixty mini-marshmallows (I'd say you're safe with half a bag) and throw it in the freezer. They freeze pretty quick.

What should you do while you're waiting?  You could read back entries on my blog, like when I talked about shoes, or road a vintage Harley.  Yeah.  Memories.  Or you could just go crazy and post links in my comments section with fancy shoes for me to look at, because I've only bought one pair in three months (wow - record!).  You could also get out toothpicks and build little forts with the rest of the bag of the mini-mallows.  Gosh, I never did that as a kid.  I should do that myself.  Just don't let them sit around, because then the ants will come.  And we all know how ants ruin our fun.

OK, ok, back to the recipe.  Did you find something to do while the mallows freeze?  Is it hot where you are, so did you stick your head in the freezer for awhile, or get yourself a cold beverage?  Good, good.

This recipe rocked.  I just found I didn't need as many mini-marshmallows as listed.  No biggie.  I also used regular size chocolate chips instead of minis (note last blog entry about being too lazy to go out to Stop n' Shop.  Plus I buy chocolate chips in bulk, and currently have about five pounds).

The dough became sticky, but was definitely workable.  Just make sure to not dump the flour mixture all in at once.  Then you'll have a mess that probably won't resolve itself.  Definitely add the flour mixture slowly to the wet mixture.  Then all will be well.

When molding the cookies I used an ice cream scoop and scooped out dough, placed three mini-marshmallows at the center, and then gently pressed them in.  From there I rolled the dough in a ball to make sure they were completely covered and in the center.  Don't press the cookies down when you add the chocolate chips on top; they'll even out naturally.

Yummy bliss.