Easter Feaster

Happy Easter!

If you haven't figured this out yet, I will make any excuse to bake. Today it's Easter, so why not make the mother load layered cookie bars from Picky Palate. They have been sitting on my Pinterest Recipe Board for quite some time. These Truly Ooly bars have 4 of the best cookie dough recipes jammed into one scrumptious bar, and then how about drizzling them with chocolate to top it off.

Bunny Bait

Easter is early this year, and it will be here before you know it. I have been seeing this recipe for "Bunny Bait" all over pinterest, and well, I have a weakness for sweet and salty combos.

I used Life in the Green House and Bloom Designs for my recipes. Warning before you make this: it is very addicting. I would recommend either having a place to take it or plan on eating the whole batch.

Spread popcorn, pretzels, and chex over foil covered baking sheet. Drizzle melted white chocolate over the mixture. (The other recipes said toss to coat, but I just drizzled the white chocolate and left it). Add sprinkles on top of mixture, but don't stir or you will cover the sprinkles with white chocolate and they won't be colorful anymore. Let harden on cookie sheet, and then break apart. Add M & M's or whatever festive Easter candy you want. I used mini cadbury eggs and mini whoppers because the grocery store I went to didn't have Easter M & M's. 

Cookie Sliders

Cookies are good, but cookies with frosting are even better. The only problem is if you frost a cookie on top, there is no good way to stack and store them or they get ruined. This weekend I came up with the solution for that: Cookie Sliders. If the frosting is in the middle you can stack them all you want and they will stay in mint condition. You can pack them to stay fresh and they will come out looking just as pretty as they went in. 

For the sugar sliders I used my favorite sugar cookie recipe, and for the chocolate chip sliders I used the perfect chocolate chip cookie recipe. Then I added a dollop of white frosting in the middle and stacked 2 together. For the sugar set I added sprinkles to the sides. Enjoy!

Sandy

 

Since I arrived late Friday night back to New Jersey it has been devastating witnessing what has happened to the cities affected by sandy. Even when we were still an hour and half away we started to see the affects it had when we had to stop and get gas. We thought we were thinking ahead and stopping far enough out, but boy were we wrong. The lines to get gas were insane, and even sadder people couldn’t get along in peace so they have called back up at all stations with about three police officers.

Anyways, yesterday we ventured over to Hoboken because its was close enough to walk to since around us all public transportation is still suspended. We had heard it was in much worse condition than our area. Most of the city was still without power, homes, food, blankets, heat, etc. Walking around I had an idea, since some of the restaurants that had enough resources were cooking outside and giving away free meals I thought well I am sure people would like something sweet to get with it. A quick trip to the grocery store and a couple hours in the kitchen later we had candy cookies and cookie brownie oreo bars to hand out.