Yesterday I posted the recipe for my first attempt at dream bars. It was extremely tasty, but not the dream bars that I was looking for. Today is my second shot. I wanted to make the crust chewier and more moist. I wanted the top to be chewy but not cookie like. So I changed things up a bit today.
Dream Bars II
The crust is perfect. The top is almost there, but not quite.
I love Potbelly’s Sandwich Works. They toast the subs, they are extremely cheap and they have Sheila’s Dream Bars. I purchase one of these puppies each and every time I enter Potbelly’s. So the other day I had a thought, why purchase a sub to get a Dream Bar when I could make them at home. Only problem. I have no recipe and I need to purchase a couple dream bars to get it right. The second part was no problem. This is my first attempt at the dream bar.
Dream Bar Try #1
Not quite the same, but still a damn good cookie bar.
Well I have made many chocolate chip cookies but never intentionally made thin and crispy chocolate chip cookies. I usually make thick and chewy cookies (my personal preference), but I wanted to see what all the fuss is with crispy cookies. So I did a search looking for thin and crispy chocolate chip cookies. To my surprise there were a lot of recipes. I decided to try one by Goddess of all things home, Martha Stewart.
Thin and crispy
The cookies never browned right. Although they are quite tasty and I see why people like thin and crispy cookies.
The other week I was stumbling around the internet and I came across a blog that featured a recipe for homemade Vanilla Wafers. I haven’t had vanilla wafers in years, and they looked amazing. So I decided to give the recipe a try to see if the vanilla wafers tasted as good as they looked.
Perfect with a nice cup of coffee
These are some extremely tasty cookies.
The other night I was looking for something sweet to eat, but I didn’t have much in the pantry. Most cookies needed brown sugar and I was out. I also was lacking in chocolate and other sweet ingredients. Then I found some peanut butter, but peanut butter cookies require brown sugar. So I looked into making some homemade brown sugar. Yes, it is easier to make than you would think. The key, 1/2 tbs molasses for every cup of sugar.
Peanut Butter Cookies
Since it has been raining here in DC it has cooled off a bit. Yesterday morning it was 65 degrees. Perfect to read the paper and drink my coffee before work. The only thing missing was the perfect accompaniment to coffee. Shortbread cookies. So today, I made some light and fluffy shortbread cookies.
Light and flakey shortbread the perfect accompaniment to coffee
This recipe creates one of the easiests cookies I have ever made.
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I have been on a quest for the best chocolate chip cookies for a while. After a while I have figured out the ingredients needed to make a really good cookie. You need to use both butter and shortening. If you use all butter your cookies come out flat and crunchy. If you use all shortening your cookies come out fluffly but don’t spread out. A perfect balance of the two gives you a light and fluffy cookie that is not too thick and not too thin.
