Day: March 7, 2022

Best Ever Chocolate Chip Cookie Stack Recipe

by

Best Ever Chocolate Chip Cookie Stack Recipe – Chocolate Chip Cookies, Cheesecake, and Chocolate Ganache collide into one breathtaking dessert.


While it might look like this could be difficult to pull off, let me tell you that it really isn’t. If you can bake chocolate chip cookies, you can totally do this. It’s made up of two chocolate chip cookie layers, two no-bake cheesecake layers and lots of chocolate ganache.

Basically the dessert of my dreams.

For the cookie layers, I adapted our favorite chocolate chip cookie dough and simply baked it into two giant square cookies and let them cool completely. Once cooled, I moved onto the easiest cheesecake I know. Made up of 3 ingredients and so, so yummy. While chocolate ganache sounds fancy, it really is a cinch to make on your own. Heavy cream and chocolate are the best together.

This is by far the tastiest frozen treat I’ve eaten in quite a while.  I was most definitely inspired by the warm weather and my relentless sweet tooth.


Best Ever Chocolate Chip Cookie Stack Recipe


Total time: 30 mins
Servings: 12

Ingredients


For the Cookie Layers

  • 1 cup granulated sugar
  • 1 cup brown sugar
  • 1 cup (2 sticks) butter, melted
  • 2 large eggs
  • 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 2 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 1/2 cups semisweet chocolate chips

For the Chocolate Ganache

  • 1 1/2 cups dark chocolate
  • 2 cups heavy cream
  • For the Cheesecake Layer
  • 2 (8 oz) packages cream cheese, softened
  • 1 1/2 cups confectioner’s sugar
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Instructions

  1. Preheat your oven to 350 degrees F. Line an 8-x-8 inch baking pan with aluminum foil and spray with nonstick spray.
  2. In the bowl of your stand mixer, combine sugars, butter, eggs and vanilla. Mix until smooth, about 2-3 minutes. Add baking soda and salt. Mix another minute or until incorporated. With your mixer set to its slowest setting, add flour and mix until a smooth dough forms. Add chocolate chips and incorporate with a spatula. Press half of the cookie dough into the prepared pan. Place in the oven and bake for 18-20 minutes. Remove from the oven and let stand for 10 minutes. Lift cookie layer onto a wire rack and line baking pan again with aluminum foil and spray. Bake the second half of the cookie dough as the first.
  3. Once cookie layers have completely cooled, return one layer to the bottom of the baking pan (that’s been sprayed and lined with aluminum foil).
  4. Using a double boiler, combine heavy cream and dark chocolate. Heat and stir frequently until dark chocolate is melted and incorporated with the heavy cream. Remove from the stove and let sit.
  5. In the bowl of your stand mixer, beat together cream cheese, confectioner’s sugar, and vanilla until smooth.
  6. Pour 1/3 of the chocolate ganache over the cookie layer in the pan in an even layer. Place in the fridge for 10-15 minutes. Remove and spread half of the cream cheese mixture over the chocolate. Stack second cookie sheet on top and spread another 1/3 of the chocolate ganache in an even layer over the cookie layer. Return to the fridge for another 15 minutes. Spread remaining cream cheese mixture evenly over the chocolate layer and pour remaining chocolate ganache over the final cream cheese layer. Cover pan and place in the freezer for at least 2 hours or until ready to serve.

Read more

Best Ever Caramel Nougat Chocolate Bars Recipe

by

Best Ever Caramel Nougat Chocolate Bars Recipe – Irresistible Caramel Nougat Chocolate Bars a.k.a. Snickers! These bars a ridiculously amazing.


I have no words for this. Well, maybe one. RIDICULOUS. That’s exactly what these bars are. There is no way I could come even close to describing to you what these taste like. All I can say is that you’ll feel overwhelmingly happy. So much so that you won’t know what to do with yourself. It starts out with a huge smile, which quickly turns into uncontrollable giggles, followed by laughter and the slapping of anything and everyone you can find. You’ll be so enamored you might even start rolling on the kitchen floor… yep, you’ll be a complete loony. But hey, at least you have something to blame. Caramel Nougat Chocolate Bars are prepared to change your taste buds. Are you ready to give it a whirl?


Best Ever Caramel Nougat Chocolate Bars Recipe


Total time: 3 hours
Servings: 24

Ingredients

First Chocolate Layer

  • 1 1/4 cups milk chocolate chips
  • 1/4 cup creamy peanut butter

Nougat Layer

  • 1/4 cup unsalted butter
  • 1 cup granulated sugar
  • 1/4 cup evaporated milk
  • 1 1/2 cups marshmallow fluff
  • 1/4 cup creamy peanut butter
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • 1 1/2 cups salted peanuts

Caramel Layer

  • 1 12-ounce bag of caramels
  • 1/4 cup heavy cream
  • Final Chocolate Layer
  • 1 1/4 cups milk chocolate chips
  • 1/4 cup creamy peanut butter
  • 1 9×13-inch aluminum baking pan, optional

Instructions

  1. Thoroughly grease your aluminum baking pan.
  2. For the first layer, melt 1 1/4 cups milk chocolate chips and 1/4 cup peanut butter and mix until thoroughly combined. Pour into the bottom of the aluminum pan and spread in an even layer. Let cool completely in the fridge for 30 minutes or until firm.
  3. For the nougat layer, melt 1/4 cup unsalted butter and add 1 cup sugar plus 1/4 cup evaporated milk. Bring the mixture to a boil and continue to cook (over medium-high heat) while stirring until sugar is completely dissolved, about 5 minutes. Next, add 1 1/2 cups marshmallow fluff, 1/4 cup peanut butter, and vanilla. Stir until creamy and thoroughly combined. Mix in 1 1/2 cups salted peanuts and spread evenly over chocolate layer. Let cool completely on the counter or in the fridge until firm.
  4. For the caramel layer, combine caramels and 1/4 cup heavy cream in a pot. Melt caramel mixture over medium-high heat, stirring constantly! Spread over nougat layer and let cool once again.
  5. For the fourth and final chocolate layer, melt the remaining 1 1/4 cups milk chocolate chips and 1/4 cup peanut butter and mix until thoroughly combined and creamy. Spread evenly over the caramel layer and let cool completely. Refrigerate for two hours or until ready to serve.

Notes

  • Caramel Nougat Chocolate Bars will keep in the fridge for 1 week.
  • Cut the corners of the aluminum pan with scissors and flatten the sides of the aluminum pan. This makes cutting and removing the bars from the pan much easier.

Best Ever Brown Butter Salted Caramel Espresso Bars Recipe

by

Best Ever Brown Butter Salted Caramel Espresso Bars Recipe – Brown Butter, Salted Caramel, Chocolate Covered Espresso Beans, and more Chocolate. These bars have your name written all over them!


Recently, I found myself digging through my baking pantry and discovered a container of chocolate covered espresso beans. Pretty sure I purchased those on a whim one day in Trader Joe’s and decided to hide them from myself. Burying the container amidst large bags of flour, sugar, and everything else you could possibly need to satisfy your baking addiction. Because I cannot be trusted around them.

You know that awesome feeling when you find something unexpectedly like a $10 bill in a pair of jeans you’ve forgotten about? That’s what I felt like after discovering my hidden chocolate espresso beans. After waiting a couple of weeks due to my forgetfulness, I was all about making a pan of bars featuring those espresso beans that I would remember for years to come.

And will I ever. These are the bars of my dreams. Stuffed to the max with ingredients I couldn’t possibly love more. Gooey caramel, chocolate chunks, espresso beans covered in chocolate and flaky sea salt to put the perfect finishing touch on each square.

When they came out of the oven, I almost had no words… almost.

Best Ever Brown Butter Salted Caramel Espresso Bars Recipe


Total time: 50 mins
Servings: 12

Ingredients

  • 2 sticks (1 cup) unsalted butter
  • 3/4 cup light brown sugar
  • 3/4 cup granulated sugar
  • 2 large eggs
  • 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
  • 2 1/2 tablespoons instant coffee granules
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • 3/4 teaspoon salt
  • 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 cup caramels, cut into pieces
  • 3/4 cup chocolate chunks
  • 3/4 chocolate covered espresso beans
  • coarse sea salt, for sprinkling

Instructions

  1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Line an 8-x-8 inch baking pan with aluminum foil and spray with nonstick spray. Set aside.
  2. Melt the butter in a small saucepan over medium heat. Once the butter has melted and starts to foam, whisk constantly. Once the butter turns brown, begins to smell nutty, and little brown bits form on the bottom of the pan, immediately remove from the stove and pour browned butter into the bowl of your stand mixer. Let cool for a couple of minutes.
  3. Once cooled, add brown sugar as well as granulated sugar to the bowl and mix until combined, about 2 minutes. Add eggs and vanilla.
  4. Next, mix in coffee granules, baking soda, and salt and mix until incorporated. Add flour and mix until combined. Fold in caramels, chocolate chunks, and chocolate covered espresso beans. Press dough into the prepared baking pan. Place in the oven and bake for 35-40 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean. Remove from the oven, sprinkle with sea salt and let cool completely. Cut into squares and enjoy!

Read more