Snickers Cookies

Last night, Steve and I met such wonderful neighbors at the First Annual Eliot Road Street Party. Entertaining in an alley: that's the way to go. No hostess has to invest in postage for invitations; just slip a cute note in everyone's mailboxes. No hostess has to get stressed over cleaning the house. No hostess has to get stressed about over-the-top decorations. No hostess has to assume the burden of making all of the food. Here, the emphasis was all about meeting new friends. Gosh, I love this community!

We had hotdogs, hamburger sliders, chicken, chips, macaroni and cheese bites, and lots of different dips.

For dessert, we had a variety of cookies and pies. Mmmmmm. I brought Snickers cookies.

You basically start with a peanut butter cookie dough. (In fact, if you want to take a short cut, you could simply start with a purchased cookie dough such as Pillsbury. Cheater.) Then, wrap a small amount around a Snickers candy bar.  Now is the time of year when you can buy the Snickers Mini's. These are perfect. If you start with the Snickers Fun Size, just cut each in half.

 

 

I have been making these for a few years; however, this is the first time I refrigerated the dough before wrapping around the candy. Big difference. The dough is much easier to handle and not nearly as messy. Each batch only takes 10 minutes to bake. That's it!

If you're smart and plan ahead, these are great to make with your Halloween leftovers. If you're smarter, you can purposely plan to have these Halloween leftovers. ("Oh Honey, really, I didn't have a choice. Look at all we had left! What else could I have done with them?") Or, if you still have tricker-treaters in your household, steal from their stash. :)

I'm told that we could expect around 1000 tricker-treaters this year. No kidding. I think I'm gonna ask for a raise.

Snickers Cookies

Ingredients:

• 1-1/2 cups flour
• 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1/2 cup firmly packed brown sugar
• 1/2 cup butter, softened
• 1/2 cup peanut butter
• 1 egg
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 bag of Snickers Mini's or approximately 14 Snickers Fun Size candy bars, cut in half

Directions:
Combine first four ingredients. Set aside. Cream together remaining ingredients (except the candy bars, of course). Stir in flour mixture until just mixed. Refrigerate dough.
Shape dough smoothly around each candy bar, making sure bar is completely covered. Place several inches apart onto ungreased baking sheet. (I still use a light coating of Pam, though.) Bake at 375 degrees for 10 minutes. Makes approximately 2 dozen cookies.