Showing posts with label cookies and cream. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cookies and cream. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 12, 2012

Cookies N' Cream Brownies

Do you have just have an intense urge for something chocolate? Well, that was me yesterday...along with every other day. I came across this awesome recipe for brownies using Greek yogurt. I've kind of been on this crazy yogurt kick lately. I guess I never realized how many recipes you could use it in...and everything so far has tasted amazing! Oh and an added bonus: it's healthier! :) 
Since I decided to use a practically fat free recipe, I didn't feel so bad adding an entire bar of Hershey's Cookies N' Cream right smack in the middle of the brownies! The added layer of white chocolate and cookie goodness is ammaaaazing! The batter is a bit thin, which caused the chocolate bar to sink to the bottom...but trust me, the taste is all there. These brownies are super moist, chocolatey, and fudgy!

Ingredients:
3/4 semi-sweet chocolate chips + additional 1/4 cup for batter
1 cup Greek yogurt, fat free
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
3/4 cup flour
1 whole egg plus 1 egg white
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/8 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup water
1 Hershey's Cookies N' Cream chocolate bar (4oz)

Directions:
  • Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
  • In a microwave safe bowl, melt 3/4 cup chocolate chips in the microwave for 1 minute. Stir and melt in 30 second intervals, stirring after each time, until melted.
  • Pour yogurt in a large bowl. Add the melted chocolate, sugar, eggs, and vanilla to the yogurt and stir to combine.
  • In another bowl, combine flour, baking soda, and salt. Add the flour mixture to the chocolate/yogurt mixture and stir until just combined. Add water and stir until incorporated. Fold in the 1/4 chocolate chips. 
  • Line an 8″x8″ oven safe baking dish with parchment paper or aluminum foil. Pour half of the batter evenly into the baking dish and top with pieces of the cookies and cream chocolate bar. Pour the other half of the brownie batter on top and spread to make even. Bake for 40 to 45 minutes until a toothpick inserted comes out clean.

Saturday, December 3, 2011

Cookies and Cream Candy Bark

 This is amazing. Enough said. 
I found this recipe on Pinterest (surprise, surprise!) and couldn't wait to make it! I'm planning on giving these away as Christmas gifts, that is if Evan and I don't eat them all first!
Cookies and Cream Candy Bark
Recipe adapted from Your Homebased Mom
Ingredients:
2 cups vanilla melts
2 cups semi sweet melts
14 Oreos, crushed.  Reserve 1/4 cup for sprinkling on top

Directions:
Place vanilla and semi sweet chocolate into separate containers and melt in microwave.  Reserve 1/4 cup of cookie crumbs and divide the remaining crumbs between the two melted mixtures and mix in.
Drop spoonfuls of the two mixtures onto a wax paper covered cooking sheet.  Alternate the two flavors.  Use a knife to swirl the two chocolates together to create a marbled effect.
Allow to harden at room temperature or in the refrigerator.  Break into pieces and place in a pretty container.