Cookies & Cream Chocolate Chip Cookies

One thing that I'm pretty well known for is my cookies. I've been baking cookies ever since I was a kid, every weekend growing up that's what I did. My uncle Ruben would come over just for some of my chocolate chip cookies, which at the time was just the Toll House recipe on the bag. But, he loved them. Today the guys at my husband's work always ask when more cookies are coming and they even request certain kinds! I'm kind of known as the cookie lady, which I'm perfectly fine with! I was actually talking to my mom the other day about how it would be fun to open up a little shop that just sells treats like cookies, cupcakes, cinnamon rolls... stuff like that, but then when I think about it, that would take the fun out of baking for me. So, I'll just stick to what I'm doing and share my recipes with you instead so that you can make them for yourselves!

This cookie is a new favorite in our house and everyone that has tried them has loved them. With the combination of Oreos and chocolate chips, you can't really go wrong! One thing that I've noticed with these cookies is that if you cut the Oreos up into big chunks, your cookies will turn out to be a higher cookie and if you crush the Oreos your cookies will be flatter. The picture here is of the Oreos being crushed, I'll have to make them again with the cookies cut and take a picture of them that way. They also look a lot more grey when you crush them, since little bits of crumbs are being distributed throughout the dough. I actually prefer them with the Oreos cut up instead of crushed, but they are yummy either way!

Edited to add picture of cookies with cut up Oreos instead of crushed Oreos.

Cookies & Cream Chocolate Chip Cookies

1 cup butter, softened
¾ cup sugar
¾ cup brown sugar
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
2 eggs
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking soda
2 ½ cups flour
2 cups chocolate chips
20 Oreo cookies, cut up or crushed

Preheat oven to 350°F.
With an electric mixer cream butter and sugars until nice and creamy. Add vanilla and egg and mix. Slowly add flour, a little at a time. Add baking soda and salt and mix well, add chocolate chips and oreo cookies and mix well. Scoop cookie dough by the rounded tablespoon onto a cookie sheet; make sure they aren’t too close though! Bake in preheated oven for 8-10 minutes. Cool on a rack and enjoy!

Fry Sauce, My Way

Never heard of fry sauce? Don't worry, I hadn't either until we moved out here to Idaho. Everyone out here knows what fry sauce is and can't seem to eat french fries without it! Even the McDonalds out here has fry sauce! Regular fry sauce is a mixture of mayonnaise and ketchup, which is good, but I like a little bit more flavor, so I came up with this zesty dip! Try it!!!

Fry Sauce, My Way

½ cup mayonnaise
¼ cup or your favorite barbecue sauce (we only ever use Sweet Baby Ray's)
½ teaspoon season salt

Mix all ingredients together in a small bowl and serve with your favorite fries! Makes about ¾ cup.

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My Go To Seasonings

People always ask me what I season my dishes with, so here you go. These are the seasonings that I use most often. I have lots and lots of seasonings in my cupboard, but these ones are the ones that I pull out most often. I don't always use them all together, but in some cases I do. Like tonight I'm making baked chicken breasts and I seasoned them with all of these seasonings together. My mom used these when I was growing up, so thats what I like!

Pictured above is Season Salt, this one happens to be from Red Robin, if you have a Red Robin near you, go and get some of their season salt, it's only $3 for 16 oz. and it's really yummy. Then next to that we have Lawry's Garlic Salt with parsley, this is the only garlic salt worth using, don't waste your money on any other kind. Then we have Whole Peppercorns, which are in a pepper grinder, I only use this kind of pepper. Next to that is Paprika, Costco had the smoked variety (not sure if all paprika is smoked or not) so this is what I got. And then we have Morton's Nature's Seasons, which is probably my most used seasoning of all time. It has all sorts of things in it including salt, pepper, sugar, "spices", onion, garlic, celery seeds and parsley. I use this stuff a lot and for some reason I've only been able to find the small container of it lately, so I bought like four of them to keep on hand. There you have it! My go to seasonings!