If My Friends want to buy my cookies

Le Bois Sucré
 Le Bois Sucré Cookies:

* Usually the cookies run about 24 large cookies depending on the type of recipe. The price reflects what fits inside of a Shoe box like container.

Snickerdoodles

Snickerdoodles: 19th Century Classic cookie with Cinnamon and Sugar $25.00

Chocolate Chip Cookies: The traditional amount of chocolate chips in the cookie $28.00

                                                Upgrade to Hershey Chocolate bars + 2.00= $30.00

                                                Upgrade to Ghirardelli + 4.00= $32.00

                                                Upgrade to with peanut butter chips + 2.00= $30.00

                                                Upgrade to with toffee+ 2.00= $30.00

                                                Upgrade to with butterscotch + 2.00= $30.00

                                                Upgrade to with Ghirardelli White Chocolate+ 2.00= $30.00

                                               

Experimental Cookies: Any Cookie I try out that is non Gourmet $28.00/ Gourmet $30.00

Stuffed Chocolate Chip Cookies: Twice the amount of Chocolate Chips, Double the fun $32.00

                                                Upgrade to Hershey Chocolate bars + 2.00= $34.00

                                                Upgrade to Ghirardelli or White Ghirardelli Chocolate+ 4.00=$36.00

                                                Upgrade to with peanut butter chips + 2.00= $34.00

                                                Upgrade to with toffee+ 2.00= $34.00

                                                Upgrade to with butterscotch + 2.00= $34.00

                                               

Round Sugar Cookies: round shaped decorated with sanding sugars and/ or sprinkles $32.00

"Spelling Bee" Sugar cookies. Bee hives, Small bees, large Bees, Dragon fly, and B-E-E letters.

                                                Cookie pops or Cookie Cutter shapes +$10.00= $42.00

                                                If I do not have desired shape +$10.00 + cost of cutter+ $2.00 fee =                                                                                                                                                            TBA

Le Bois Sucré Gourmet Cookies:

* Usually the cookies run about 24 large cookies depending on the type of recipe. The price reflects what fits inside of a Shoe box like container.

The Bad! Girl Scout: Cinnamon Graham Crackers, Marshmallows, Chocolate chips, White chocolate                                                                                                                                    chips = $36.00

                                                Upgrade to Hershey Chocolate bars + 2.00= $38.00

                                                Upgrade to Ghirardelli + 4.00= $40.00

Maura, The Bad! Girl Scout: Cinnamon Graham Crackers, Marshmallows, Chocolate chips, White                                                                                      chocolate chips and extra cinnamon= $36.00

                                                Upgrade to Hershey Chocolate bars + 2.00= $38.00

                                                Upgrade to Ghirardelli + 4.00= $40.00

Cardwell, The Bad! Girl Scout: Cinnamon Graham Crackers, Marshmallows, Chocolate chips, Peanut butter, Peanut Butter Chips = $36.00

                                                Upgrade to Hershey Chocolate bars + 2.00= $38.00

                                                Upgrade to Ghirardelli + 4.00= $40.00

Penny love Pop-Pop cookies

Penny Love Pop-Pop Cookies : Ghirardelli Dark bittersweet chocolate mix of 60% and 70% cacao and Butterscotch chips= $36

From upper left hand corner and clockwise: Stratford Cookie, Stickey Fingers (will be more Reeses Pieces), Oreo Bark (which will be chopped up and put into a cookie) and Cupid's Regret.

Stratford Cookies: Chocolate chips, Marshmallow and Shredded coconut = $36.00

                                                Upgrade to Hershey Chocolate bars + 2.00= $38.00

                                                Upgrade to Ghirardelli + 4.00= $40.00

Mmm... Stratford Cookies: M&M's chocolate, Marshmallow and Shredded coconut= $36.00

Oreo White Chocolate Bark Cookies: Homemade Oreo cookies & white chocolate bark = $36.00

                                                Upgrade to Ghirardelli + 4.00= $40.00

Sticky Finger Cookies:  Reese Peanut Butter pieces and Butterfinger candy = $36.00

Sundae Cookies: Hot fudge Sauce and Carmel Sauce (A sundae in a cookie)= $36.00

Cupid's Regret: Cinnamon Hearts and White Chocolate Chips = $36.00

                                                Upgrade to Ghirardelli White Chocolate + 4.00= $40.00

It Snowed in Stamford: Peppermint candies, Peppermint Extract and White Chocolate = $36.00

                                                Upgrade to Ghirardelli White Chocolate + 4.00= $40.00

Out of this World Cookies: Hot Fudge sauce, Caramel Sauce, Milky Way Candy bar and Chocolate                                                                                                                                     chunks = $40.00

Grand Marnier Cookies: Grand Marnier, Orange Ganache, Ghirardelli Dark Chocolate,= $40.00

Old Fashion Scout Leader: Honey Graham Crackers, Marshmallows, Ghirardelli Dark Chocolate                                                                                                                            Chocolate , = $40.00

Scout Leader: Honey Graham Crackers, Marshmallows, Ghirardelli Dark Chocolate, White  chocolate chips = $40.00

Peanut "Better" Cookies (Not better for you but a better tasting Peanut Butter cookie): Reese's Peanut Butter cups, Milk Chocolate, Lightly Salted Peanuts,  and Peanut Butter chips = $40.00

French Butter Cookies

French Butter Cookies (aka French Button Cookies): Petite butter cookies with sanding sugar in the                                                                                                                         shape of buttons= $40.00

Cookie Pops:  Most flavors available choice of Star, Flower or Heart = $42.00

Giant Cookie:  HOPE TO BE AVAILABLE FOR DELIVERY SOON! Pick Up Only now!
one 10.5 X 3/4 inch cookie available in most flavors = $42.00

Cookie Cups:  Most flavors available makess 11 cups = $40.00

The Great American Bake Sale: A Seemingly Simple Idea For A Complex Problem

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I love to bake and I have been trying to waste food less but in order to get better I need to practice. But I do not have a commerical kitchen and I live in a small condo with a dog. Because of Penny I cannot sell legally to the public.But I do clean my kitchen and with the exceptions of Penny I could pass the health inspection. Whenever I bake an item I always do a floor to ceiling clean up and I always wear a bakers hat so no hairs fall in. For now I have to only be a home baker with high aspirations. But what do with all of that baked goods without becoming 500 lbs?

The Great American Bake Sale is a charity you can do at any time, with any amount people and at your pace. It seems even childish and what a child would propose but that is part of the fun. This "childish" idea is going to help children be daydreamers and to help them do well in school. It works and it is not too hard to do and Share our Strength is organizing it so $1.00 means 10 meals for a child! What can you get for $1.00 besides items at a fundraising bake sale! I am going to try to work out a long bake sale with my friends so that we can help hard working people get food on the table.

I am still in the stages of figuring out how to actually do the Great American Bake Sale. Like how do I  include people? My great home baking friends unfortunately do not live close! Does one person do a cookie and send it out to the local bake sale? Does one person get one item and they ship it out to online requests so there is no waste?

What I do know is that I want to do some online sales, do some work bake sales, maybe some school bake sales and some other local bake sales. Also it costs a lot to do the bake sales so I am thinking maybe get some local people together and pool our money to get items for the bake sale. Then we deduct the costs for the items and then give the profits to the Great American Bake Sale. There are going to be a lot of trials and I see many errors because how do we collect the online sales plus shipping fees? I want to try to prevent food waste as well so online bake sales really makes sense. But online sales are not enough and I do not really want my friends to be the only clients. So we need to also pound the pavement and sell some baked goods for charity! I am sure if someone is hungry and they see our great baked goods we will not just have to rely on friend donations. I know I cannot resist a good bake sale!

Maybe at work I could organize it and have a baking contest and bake sale. The Baking contest entry fee could go, minus the prize, go to the Charity or maybe even my work could donate a prize. I have to see if people would be interested in it. I do not think I will be able to do the bake sale soon but I hope to at the latest have one for the fall. Also the website suggests getting local organizations to donate items so you can have a bake sale/raffle which gets people in and they also might not ask for change.

An example of "Mr. Ugly Tomatoes" from blogger The Garden Apartment please click here for a recipe for Ugly Tomato Soup.

Why do I want to donate my time, energy and why you should join me?

No child should ever go hungry in a country that farms corn just to feed live stock. It is a shame that children go hungry because we throw away/waste so much food. We throw away the food because it might look "ugly" but actually is still fresh produce. Sometimes when produce looks ugly it can be because the produce is rotten or expired in some sort of sense but we are not talking about that kind of produce.

An example is "Mr.Ugly tomatoes" and produce that might not be uniform so it goes in the trash or it does not get eaten because supermarkets will not buy them.The Garden Apartment talks about how that brand is called "Mr. Ugly Tomato because that farmer could not sell his tomatoes to the supermarkets because they were too ugly!  If supermarkets will not buy these items for some random flaw like they are too big, too small or are ugly then the items cannot be sold. If they cannot be sold then they cannot be eaten so they might be composted or they are just thrown away/left rotting in the fields. Pretty cruel when people are starving to not even have a place to sell these items and to see the piles of food rotting. I learned about this from another Food Network documentary "The Big Waste." But there are also communities (like the one that was featured in another Food Network documentary "Hunger Hits Home") that grow produce and market their items to those that might not have access to these fresh items due to monetary reasons. So there is hope!

 Now some supermarkets are helping to waste less and have items like the Ugly Tomatoes that actual sell less than other uniform tomatoes. If you are making a soup who cares if it is good looking because it is going to be pureed! (Try The Garden Apartment's Ugly Tomato Soup some time!)

We as a nation need to be less picky sometimes about our produce appearance because as long as it is not rotten or spoiled we should eat it! In Italy if you buy an apple and it has worms in it they tell you to cut around it. We need to be somewhere in the middle between high glossy apples with chemicals on it to make it shiny and Italian worm holed apples. Of course pay less for less desirable produce which can help those families that might not be starving or qualifying for assistance but are very much on a budget. Sometimes you need some glossy apples for a centerpiece and sometimes you are not going for looks because it is going to be applesauce anyway. If life gives you an ugly tomato make soup or sauces. Save the pretty tomatoes for those upscale nights of pretty tomato and mozzarella salads drizzled with basil and olive oil.

We need to be mind full of our waste and its impact on our community. We waste food by ordering when we are not hungry and ordering huge portions then not reusing the items. First of all that is a lot of waste that needs to go somewhere and it is probably also associated with some sort of packaging that is not able to be composted. Second we need to think again not of the children starving in Africa or Russia but perhaps some girl or boy who lives maybe a couple miles away or maybe even next door. We need to eat our leftovers and if we do not want to eat leftovers do not buy the food you cannot finish. I do not understand those that never eat leftovers when they have leftovers. Maybe it is the cheap Scott/Irish girl who came from a family of six that makes me always utilize leftovers/try to limit waste.

It is an epidemic in our country. I am trying to lose weight, eat better and trying to waste food less but I am still a contributor to that mess. A big example is that last year we were unable to help Cindy collect all of her produce and a lot of it went to waste. This year I hope to be able to help more now that I hopefully will have more than two Sundays a month off and I am mostly on evening shifts. The Friday midnight shifts on my weekend off and having to return every Monday at 3 pm ruined me. I never enjoyed the weekend and was a zombie! But this is a new year and we hope to can this year, freeze some items and to work our menus around what is popping up in Cindy's and her Father's gardens.

The reason I want to do The Great American Bake Sale at some points is because it something that seems so simple and easy but can really create an impact.Everyday we see pictures of third world countries where children are starving but how often do we see and acknowledge the starving kids that might actually live here and that might actually live next door? It is something small that I can do that can impact a lot of people because Share Our Strength does all the leg work I just get to do the fun stuff. I doubt I could raise all that money and have access to be able to turn $1.00 into ten meals for a child!

A child that does not eat, cannot feed it's brain and cannot do well in school. That child will be sickly and cost more in the long run. It is actually cheaper to funds good breakfasts at school, good healthy lunches. Many children only eat when they are at school and do not have dinner. But when school is out those children that were lucky enough to be in school program unfortunately go hungry all day.We need funding so that these children can excel and can eat also when school is not in session because kids need to eat healthy year round to grow to be good and functioning adults. It is not a hand out, it is an investment! Please see this Food Network "Hunger Hits Home" video.

One of the prerequisites in order to get into the Honors program for French Culinary is that you have to video tape yourself separating three eggs and beat them into stiff peaks. That is going to take a lot of practice to do it correctly. If you do not separate the egg whites perfectly or if you get oils from your fingers in the bowl it will not form peaks. So what am I going to do with those bombs? I am going to probably bake something else that is less finicky. It will be like the using ugly tomatoes for sauces and soups idea I talked about earlier. And when I have made the stiff peaks I will add sugar and I am going to probably make bake meringues or something with them. Otherwise that is a waste of money and resources something this baker feels uneasy about.

Another thing that you have to do is say on video where you see yourself in 5 years. Okay so this dream might take at least 5 years on the back burner in order to even get into the door of the French Culinary Institute. This means I will have some time to think about what I really want to do. But in the mean while I plan to bake a lot so that when I do get into the French Culinary Institute I can go already have the basics techniques down. I want to bake outside of my comfort zone and also try chocolate techniques. I plan that while I am in school I want to be available to internships, possible Food network prepping or assisting, or other great opportunities offered. With the basic techniques down learn while I am in class with some basic knowledge I can then focus more on how to be better and how manage my time better.

I am trekking into New York when I could drive to Norwalk, CT Community college in 20-30 minutes because of the reputation and the business connections. I want to learn from the best, intern with the best and have a great leg up because I do not want to be a failing cupcake shoppe. I want to be a Pastry Chef who has her own business and who is profitable!

So since I do not want to be 500 lbs (or even my current weight) I was thinking about where I could give the food and if maybe I could help others with it. I am thinking maybe donating it to local church bake sales in churches that raise money for the poor or who have a pantry for those who are poor. Also a lot of churches have weekly meals for the poor and perhaps they might take my baked goods. I was also thinking about selling it to people for a little above cost then giving most of the profits to this organization "Share our Strength."

 I was day dreaming about going to French Culinary Institute and after a long day of school meeting up with friends who live in NYC and perhaps selling the items I made for the day (if there are items to be coming home with) and giving the profits to "Share Our Strength" and perhaps having  other in the class do the same. Also I would be getting out on Mondays, Wednesdays and Friday around 11:30 which is like 8 pm for New Yorkers. I have friends who have drooled over my past blogs and the pictures that I have put up on facebook. I know my New York friends especially on Friday nights would love to have inexpensive baked goods in the expensive world of NYC plus the whole charity angle will not hurt!

But 5 years is a long time. I am thinking about doing the Great American Bake sale with a couple of friends. I am not sure how I am going to do it, if it is going to be online, in many different cities/countries/states and how it is going to match up. But I am going to do it. I currently love to bake and I need an audience to practice with and why not practice while helping others!

The program benefits Share our Strength which is an organization that is trying to make sure no kid goes hungry and they hope to do so by 2015. Please visit their website for more information on how they raise money/ provide food to kids in need and consider donating http://www.strength.org/childhood_hunger/.

What to help but do not know where to start here are some helpful hints from  Food Network

Here are four ways to take action against childhood hunger today:

1. Donate to local food pantries
2. Support your school meal programs
3. Call your local member of Congress and make it clear to them how important it is that they support programs to end hunger
4. Be a Part of Share Our Strength’s Food Blogger Bake Sale on April 28

So The Cookie Crumbles

Penny at 6 months in our linen closet

Well as you may or not remember I was going to try to make extra money by baking cookies. I do not have a tax id# so I cannot cut the cost of the items that I make and I live in a 600 square foot condo complex with a sweet dog named Penny. Because of Penny I could not pass health codes because dogs have to be 500 square feet from the kitchen. Since I love Penny more than money I was doomed to make only coins named after her. People love my items but my friends are poor and I was only able to sell to them. So it was kind of like a tupperware party and my friends were all tupperwared out.

I did do a lot of baking and trying out of recipes but away from the cameras and the blog. I have been perfecting my apple-pear galette which is a BIG hit with my friends and family. I also have been dreaming about going back to school to be a Pastry Chef and my big dream is to The French Culinary Insitute. However it is really expensive and I want to do the 9 month advanced/honors Pastry Chef program. Although expensive it is a great place to learn,I would get a lot of internship possibilities and business contacts. But where would I get this money?

At first I thought okay keep the condo and then have a place to do the baking but that is too expensive mortage + baking place+ prices of food+ I still need to move my items and have a place to meet possible clients. So I am thinking of a time line of saving for 5 years getting a place with a basement then go back to school. Then do catering out of the basement kitchen (dog free), do online sales, go to local coffee shops/etc anyone who would sell it and do like cookie/ice cream or tea parties alla event planning. The idea of having a place to live and then running a bakery is too much for me right now! Plus I do not want all that work, to handle employees (pay for employees) and all that potencial food waste. There would be TOO MUCH OVERHEAD! That is why I think the next step would be to have a home basement kitchen that rocks. Plus if I added a room it could be later sold as a potencial basement apartment or a in law suite adding value to the house.

Our next step is to go to a financial advisor to see if my dream can be a reality and so we can budget accordingly. We shall see. Until then I am going to try to bake more, practice new techniques,and save money. I am also learning to can items this year, make jams and learn to infuse vodkas with fruits.

Le Bois Sucré

  I have been away for a while researching ways to make extra money by baking. I have been getting a lot of requests for my cookies but my cookies are expensive to make just for free. So I have come up with a different baking name which makes French sense Le Bois Sucré instead of Sucre Bois. It means the Sugary Forrest or woodland.

  I have had one order from my friend Ipsita and I am going through lots of issues. Well with PayPal it cost money for transactions and it is not eBay where they calculate the shipping for you. Trying to accurately figure out how much it costs to ship to people in other states is hard. I thought I would bill for the cookies then bill later for shipping but for each transaction I have to pay 1.9% to 2.9% of the total plus 0.30. However with PayPal it is safer to use and it connects directly to UPS or USPS. So as soon as I have the money it will go to the address that was requested.

  So I am going through major growing pains! But luckily I am doing so with friends.

PEANUT BETTER COOKIES: A NEW TAKE ON PEANUT BUTTER COOKIES

     I want to upfront make sure to make clear that these peanut butter cookies are not better for you but rather a better tasting peanut butter cookies. Actually one could suggest that these cookies are less better for you than regular peanut butter cookies.

     I was inspired for this idea by Cardwell's birthday and with the fact that "King Sized" Reese Peanut Butter cups were on sale. Due to a heat wave and work I had to instead send the How Grand! Marnier Cookies instead which were in my freezer. And sadly enough these cookies came back to me because she has been traveling and they did not get to her before she left NYC. But I am sure I will be sending more experimental cookies her way soon.

     I have updated the recipe to reflect what I think would be better tasting than what I produced. Don't get me wrong the cookies I made taste fantastic but this is updated to reflect a tweaking of the recipe. First off all it has been a very hot couple of days before I did the cookie mix. So when I went to pulverize the Reese peanut butter cups they sort of created a Reese Peanut butter cup spread. I think it would be better and it would be more homogeneous to roughly chop the Reese peanut butter cups instead. Another way is to use a new Reese Peanut Butter cup product  the mini Reese Peanut butter cups that are now without liners (They would have to however be the same weight as 32 regular sized peanut butter cups). I imagine if you were going to use these mini cups not to be confused with the miniature cups which have liners and are bigger. I also would have added more chocolate and peanut butter chips.

Ingredients:

4.5 cups all-purpose flour

2 teaspoon of baking powder
2 teaspoon of salt

4 sticks of butter softened

1.5 cups of granulated sugar

1.5 cups of packed brown sugar

2 teaspoon of vanilla extract

4 eggs

4 cups Nestle Toll House milk Chocolate/peanut butter Morsels (or 2 cups chocolate and 2 cups of peanut butter chips any brand of choice).

2 cups Nestle Toll House semi-sweet chocolate chunks (or 2 cups of roughly chopped chocolate bar of choice).

3 cups of Lightly salted peanuts (which are then pulverized in the food processor).
8 king size package of Reese peanut butter cups (32 Reese Peanut Butter cups) roughly chopped

Instructions:

1.) Sift together: flour, baking powder, and salt into a medium sized batter bowl. Put aside.

Brown sugar and the granulated sugar

Granulated sugar, Brown Sugar, and 4 sticks of butter

2.) Cut up room temperature butter into small pats of butter and place in the mixing bowl. Using the flat blade attachment in mixer cream the butter, vanilla, brown sugar and granulated sugar together.

3.)  Beat the egg in a small with a fork to break up the egg. Add the Vanilla extract to the eggs.

Eggs that were beaten with a fork with vanilla extract added,
pulverized lightly salted peanuts, shifted: flour/baking powder/salt,
and container of: Chocolate chips, peanut butter chips, chocolate
 chunks and Reese Peanut Butter cups

4.) Add the eggs one at a time to the mixture of creamed butter/vanilla/brown sugar/sugar. Make sure in between eggs to beat the mixture well.

5.) Add the sifted dry ingredient slowly folding it into the wet mixture. Run until the dough is mixed thoroughly.



Lightly Salted peanuts:Planter container, already pulverized

peanuts and a cup of whole lightly salted peanuts

Nestle chocolate chunks, Peanut Butter chips, Milk Chocolate
 chips, Reese's Peanut Butter cups all in one glass bowl.

6.) Stir in the chocolate chips, peanut butter chips, semi-sweet chocolate chunks, the roughly chopped Reese Peanut Butter cups and the peanuts mixture. Make sure that the stand mixer has the chips through out the mixture by taking using a flat spatula to scrap down the sides.

Tips: If the mixture is uneven: fold the mixture by hand if necessary to mix the bottom part of the dough with the top layer. If necessary then run the mixer again.

7.)Cover the chocolate chip cookie dough with plastic wrap and refrigerate the cookie dough in the mixing bowl for about 20 minutes.

8.) After 20 minutes preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Bake 8 to 15 minutes based on size of the cookies if you are baking "normal "to large sized cookies.

9.) See my blog on Giant cookies  on how to using the Wilton Giant Cookie pan except use baking pan spray instead of vegetable spray for the pan. Still however use the vegetable spray for your hands.

Tip: This cookie batch makes about 5 dozen cookies if you slice/bake or 4 dozen pan cookies. You should not use all of the batter and there should be enough for about a dozen large cookies. Make sure that the cookies do not go all the way towards the edge and that it is a thin layer of cookie dough that does not go more than 0.75 of the depth of the cookie pan. Too much dough the cookie will burn slightly at the edges and will not be as enjoyable.

10.)The cookies should bake 15-20 minutes or until golden. Let pan cool 5 minutes on cooling rack.

12.) Wait until cookie is cooled. Then cut the round cookie into at about 12-24 wedge pieces.

PENNY LOVES POP-POP COOKIES

This is the card that went with the cookies I sent to
my father for Father's Day.



           My dad is one of those dad's that when you buy him a gift he is upset that you bought him a gift. It is not that he is not grateful but it is a lot of "you did not have to do thats." My dad also never seems to want to celebrate Father's Day but he is my dad! So despite my Dad's attempts in the past to not celebrate I am sending him some baked cookies.

         There is one thing that my dad would not refuse as gift and that is my dog Penny. Penny is a Golden Retriever with red hair and has stolen my dad's heart. When I come to visit my parents we have to bring Penny. In fact he loves Penny so much that she even got a Valentine's day card while I did not! He sends Penny cards and signs them "Love Mimi and Pop-Pop." Pop-pop is my dad and Mimi being my mom... It is cute. But not cute enough to make me feel the need to gift, Penny.

Penny in the doggy pool

Penny with Bubba and Ruby (her cousin) looking into the pool

Penny in the bathtub

Penny in the bathtub without any water

       However, Penny was my anniversary gift and has a home that adores her. In fact we are on a budget currently and following it so that Penny can get a back yard/ vacation home. I cannot deal with giving my dad, Penny but I wanted to make him a cookie that reminded me of Penny. My mom told me that the last time I left my dad said as soon as we left "I miss her already." Because he misses Penny (and Penny misses Dad as well) I wanted to use bittersweet chocolate and a reddish butterscotch like my dog Penny's coat.

       DAD: HAPPY FATHER'S DAY!

Ingredients:
8 oz Ghirardelli 70% Cacao extra bittersweet chocolate roughly chopped
11 oz Nestle Butterscotch morsels
2.25 cups of flour
2 sticks of butter
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon of Pure Vanilla Extract
0.75 cups of granulated sugar
0.75 cups of brown sugar
2 eggs

Butterscotch chips

1.) Sift together: flour, baking powder, and salt into a medium sized batter bowl. Put aside.

2.) Cut up room temperature butter into small pats of butter and place in the mixing bowl. Using the flat blade attachment in mixer cream the butter, vanilla, brown sugar and granulated sugar together.

3.)  Beat the egg in a small with a fork to break up the egg. Add the Vanilla extract to the eggs.

4.) Add the eggs one at a time to the mixture of creamed butter/vanilla/brown sugar/sugar. Make sure in between eggs to beat the mixture well.

5.) Add the sifted dry ingredient slowly folding it into the wet mixture. Run until the dough is mixed thoroughly.

Chopped Bittersweet Chocolate and Butterscotch
in the mixing bowl

6.) Stir in the roughly chopped chocolate bar and the butterscotch chips. Make sure that the stand mixer has the chips through out the mixture by taking using a flat spatula to scrap down the sides.

Tips: If the mixture is uneven: fold the mixture by hand if necessary to mix the bottom part of the dough with the top layer. If necessary then run the mixer again.

The dough after being mixed.

7.)Cover the chocolate chip cookie dough with plastic wrap and refrigerate the cookie dough in the mixing bowl for about 20 minutes.

8.) After 20 minutes preheat the oven to 350 degrees.

This cookie batch made 18 large cookies

The Penny Love Pop-Pop Cookies came out good!

The Penny Love Pop-Pop Cookies ended up
being a hit with my father!

9.) The cookies should bake at 350 degrees 8-15 minutes or until golden. See my blog on Giant Chocolate chip cookies with a hint of peanut butter chips on how to use the Giant Cookie Wilton Pan.