Snickerdoodle Cookie Dough Balls

My, my mudpie.

If you take my obsession with cinnamon, cookes and raw raw batter, we get these:

No to mention the fact that they are stuffed with those teensy tiny marshmallows that we love to throw into or hot chocolate with reckless abandon.

Of course, giving that i only bought ONE packet of mini marshmallows and was eating about 37 per marshmallow I actually put in the dough balls, I ended up with 7 marshmallow-core-less balls.

Never fear! Cut up Reese's peanut butter cups are here!

Snickerdoodle Cookie Dough Bites
Source: Cooking Classy
Makes: 14 balls

3/4 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 tsp cinnamon
A pinch of nutmeg
1/8 tsp salt
57g salted butter, softened
1/3 cup packed light brown sugar
1/8 cup granulated sugar
1/8 tsp cream of tartar
1 1/2 Tbsp heavy cream
3/4 tsp vanilla extract

14 Mini marshmallows (Or chopped up reeses cups, or peanut butter chips. Whatever takes your fancy)
3 Tbsp granulated sugar
3/4 tsp cinnamon

In the bowl of an electric mixer, whip together butter, brown sugar, 1/8 cup granulated sugar and cream of tartar until pale and fluffy, about 4 minutes. Stir in heavy cream and vanilla extract. Sieve in flour, 1/2 tsp cinnamon, nutmeg and salt and mix until combined.

In a separate small mixing bowl, whisk together 3 Tbsp granulated sugar and 3/4 tsp cinnamon.

Scoop dough out 1 (even) TBSP at a time, then press one marshmallow into the center of scooped dough and roll into a ball. Roll each dough ball into cinnamon sugar mixture. Chill or serve immediately. Store Cookie Dough Bites in refrigerator.

Chocolate Peanut Butter Pie

 Who likes oreos?

Who likes chocolate?

Who likes peanut butter?

(If you have not had you hand raised for the duration of this short questionaire... shame on you!)

I thought to myself, what's the best kind of cookie to put in a pie crust. I love my fair share of Grahams, but let's be honest, if an oreo and a graham were in a boxing ring, the oroe would win, hands down. Besides, grahams have none of that creamy white filling.

The creamy white filling seals the deal.

Then what to fill that dreamy pie crust with?

I was caught between chocolate and peanut butter, then i thought: "Heck, let's try both."

If peanut butter and chocolate had a baby, it would be this pie crust. And if you gat a little bit of each in every heavenly mouthful, you will never ever desire another pie ever again.

possibly.

Oreo Cookie Pie Crust
makes: one 9 inch pie, prep 10 min
Source: Chaos in the Kitchen

24 Oreo cookies
1/4 cup butter, melted

Preheat oven to 350°F. Place Oreos in a food processor until finely groud, like coarse sand. The filling should resemble moist crumbs. Empty crumbs into a mixing bowl and stir in melted butter until well combined. Pat wet crumbs all over and up sides of pie dish, making an even surface. Bake crust for 8-10 minutes or until hardened. Cool before filling.

Chocolate Peanut Butter Pie Filling

1 pie shell prepared and baked
Crunchy Peanut Butter, to taste
2 cups milk, any (I used 1%)
3 egg yolks, beaten
3/4 cup sugar
1/4 tsp salt
5 tbsp flour
3 tbsp cocoa
2 tbsp butter, chopped
1 tsp vanilla

Add a thick layer of peanut butter to the base of the pie crust. Combine milk, egg yolks, sugar, salt, flour, and cocoa in a cold saucepan. Stir thoroughly to combine. Turn heat to medium, stir constantly until thick but do not boil. Once thick, remove from heat, stir in butter and vanilla. Let mixture cool slightly and pour into baked pie shell. Chill before serving.

Peanut Butter 'Cookie Dough' Balls

There are two things you must know about me. Well, amongst others.
1. I have a strong suspicion that the peanut butter i eat has started running through my veins
2. I like dried fruit even more than real fruit

So what other way than to start off my first post with these. If i were a cookie in my former life, I would have been these. No doubt.

I know that the trend recently is to use dates in everything, from cookies to granola bars. I have never ever set my eyes upon a real-like larabar, but i could imagine. I have seen recipe after recipe using blitzed up dates.

You see, I don't have dates here. Not unless you are willing to spend $20 on a 50g bag (I may love dried fruit, but not that much).

It is possible to use raisins instead, but I was afraid of failure, of dissapointment, and that my rusty old food processor will give it's final choke if i stuffed it with raisins and nuts to creamy-fy.

Until.
Until:

Third random-fact-about-Me: I spend possibly 4/5th of my awake-time on Pinterest. And now it has paid off.

The original recipe is from Chocolate Covered Katie, and I was sold. Peanut butter? Raisins? Roasted peanuts? No ingredient-I-would-have-to-ride-my-bicycle-under-the-hot-equatorial-sun-to-the-market-to-obtain?

Alright. I was willing to put my food processor's life on the line here.

Katie has an endless list of date-based bars and cookies. And this was the one I saw that used raisins in the initial recipe. My chance of failure was 50% less.

I didn't change much of her recipe. Not at all, in fact. I did not want to go horribly wrong and end up with raisin-peanut mush.

I did not. I ended up with this:

Peanut Butter Cookie Dough Balls:
Makes: 12 'cookies'
From: Chocolate Covered Katie

1/4 cup peanut butter
1/4 cup plus 3 tbsp raisins
Dash of salt
2 tbsp roasted, unsalted peanuts
1/8 tsp pure vanilla extract

Place all ingredients into a food processor and combine until smooth. You can make little cookie like I did, or even granola-bar-esque shapes.

Katie says it is sugar-free and gluten-free.

It's also leftover free, that's for sure.

Now I have something to pack in teensy little lunch-boxes just to give me a reason to go to school.