Favorite things Friday….I love to bake!!

One of my most favorite things to do…

  is to bake!!

I love to bake!!  I love cookbooks!  I love trying out new recipes. I love spending time in the kitchen creating delicious treats.  I love sharing treats and recipes with others.  I just love it.  I realized the other day that I haven’t spent too much time in the kitchen doing what I love to do.  It was time to start creating delicious treats again.  I needed a new recipe and after searching the internet…I found one that I want to share.  My many taste testers  said that they were simply delicious.  Aw…I love my taste tester friends.  They make me smile!   

So…today for “favorite things Friday”, I am sharing with you a treat that I made…S’mores Cookies.  They taste like a little bit of heaven…so delicious!! 

Would you like the recipe?

Good, I am glad that you asked. 

Here it is….

S’mores Cookies

1 package graham crackers (9 full sized graham crackers)
6 T butter, melted
1 T sugar
dash salt

1 C butter, softened
2 C brown sugar
2 eggs
2 T milk
2 t vanilla
1 t baking soda
2 t baking powder
1/2 t salt
3 1/2 C flour
2 1/2 C milk chocolate chips
24 large marshmallows
4 small 1.55 oz Hershey bars

• Break the graham cracker crumbs up into pieces. Place them in a small food processor and grind them into crumbs.

• To your crumbs add 6 T melted butter,1 T sugar and a dash of salt. Let the food processor grind all of the ingredients together nicely. Set the crumbly mixture aside.

• Place your softened butter and brown sugar into a large mixing bowl. Beat on medium speed until the ingredients are nicely creamed together, about 2 minutes.

• Add your eggs, milk and vanilla and mix for another 2 minutes.

• In a separate bowl combine your baking soda, baking powder, salt and flour. Add it to your creamed mixture and mix until combined. Toss in your chocolate chips and mix yet again, just until the chips are evenly distributed.

• Grab your graham cracker crumbs and pour them into the cookie dough. Using a wooden spoon, or your hands :) smash them into the cookie dough. You don't want the graham cracker crumb mixture to be totally lost in the dough.

• Roll the dough into 2 inch balls, place them on a lightly sprayed cookie sheet and bake at 350 for about 6 minutes, or just until the cookies begin to crack.

• While your cookies are in the oven, cut the large marshmallows in half.

• Press a marshmallow piece into the center of each hot cookie. Return the sheet to the oven and bake for about 1 1/2 more minutes allowing the marshmallows to puff up and get all wonderful and delicious.

• Remove the sheet from the oven. Let the cookies sit for about 2 minutes, then press one Hershey bar piece into the center of the marshmallow.

• Remove the cookies from the sheet and allow them to finish cooling on a wire rack.

Yield: 48 cookies
Recipe from Jamie Cooks It Up!

Have a great day baking!!!!

~Michelle