Cooking w/ L+L – Candy Cookie Bars

My close friend, Stacy, made the most delicious dessert while I was in Austin last weekend. 

stac + me

Stacy is a very intelligent woman and I’m confident that she can handle v. complicated recipes, but this one is honestly a no-brainer.  So easy, in fact, I whipped it up for Slick on Tuesday evening in all of 20 minutes.  And, these aren’t Rachael Ray minutes either (30 minutes actually = 1.5 hours)…  Now, I am the most popular person @ Slick’s office.  He brought the leftovers to work on Wednesday, and his colleagues loved the recipe as much as Slick, Stacy and I did.

Here’s the Q+DD on Stacy’s Candy Cookie Bars:

Ingredients

- Largest roll of choco. chip cookie dough you can find…
           (Seriously, it looks like it’s on steroids.)
- 3 regular size Heath bars
- 3 regular size candy bars of your choice

Directions

1- Pull out all the items you need onto your kitchen counter.  This recipe takes no time at all, and you’ll want to have everything within an arm’s reach. 

2- Spray a 9 x 13 Pyrex with Pam.  Evenly spread the choco. chip cookie dough on the bottom of the Pyrex.

3- Cook the dough for the appropriate time (around 13 minutes or so).  While the dough is cooking, begin preparing the Heath bars.

4- Put Heath bars into a Ziploc bag and use a pounder to chop them up into tiny pieces. (Feel free to use a hammer, like me, if you don’t own a pounder…)

5- TADA!

6- Unwrap your candy bars.  I used Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups, a Snicker’s bar and Twix. 

7- Use a sharp knife to cut the candy bars into small 1/4 inch slices.

8- When the dough is finished cooking, randomly place slices of  the candy bars into the dough.  Press down a little to make sure that they are not just sitting on top of the dough.  Then, put the dough back into the oven for 5-6 minutes.

9- Take the dough out of the oven and garnish the top of it with the Heath bar pieces.

10- Let it sit for about 10 minutes.  Cut into bars + enjoy!

Stacy’s Candy Cookie Bars are perfect as a delicious afterthought or a last minute dessert for pretty much any occasion.  Julia Child might roll over in her grave if she ever caught wind of this recipe, but I promise that the bars look and taste like you’ve been in the kitchen for hours!  Fact.

Bon appetit!

xx, L