Jocelyns Chocolate Fudge Bars (fudge Mint Cookies) Recipe
Yield: 1 servingsRecipe by luhu.jp
Ingredients:
1: Butter,
2 ounce: Unsweetened baking c hocolate squares,
1 cup: Sugar,
2: Eggs,
1 cup: Flour,
1/2 tsp: Salt,
1/2 tsp: Baking soda,
1/2 tsp: Vanilla or peppermint extract,
1 cup: Chocolate chips -----glaze------,
1 cup: Powdered sugar,
1 tbsp: Milk, or more
1/2 tsp: Peppermint extract,
Directions:
Recipe by: "C. Baden" Melt the butter and the
unsweetened chocolate. (You can put them in a stainless steel bowl and
stick it in the oven while its preheating.)
When the bowl is cool, add the sugar, beat in the eggs, mix in the flour,
the salt, and the baking soda. Add the vanilla. Spread into a greased
jellyroll pan (that is, 11x17). It wont be trivial; youll have to use a
knife or something to spread it smoothly into all four corners.
Sprinkle with the chocolate chips, and bake at 350 F for 8 minutes or so.
("Bake until done." When theyre done, they pull away from the pan just a
little bit and have a dull glossy look to them.)
Glaze: Mix up the ingredients. It should be like a glaze that will pour,
thickly. Add a couple of drops of food coloring if desired. When the
cookies come out of the oven, spread the glaze. Cool slightly, and cut
while still warm. (If you wait too long, the glaze will crack when you try
to cut the cookies.)
Notes: You can skip the glaze, if you like. (For example, you might not
want peppermint cookies, or you might want to use those miniature baking
M&Ms.) If you dont glaze them but still want peppermint chocolate
cookies, use the peppermint instead of the vanilla. (Or in addition to it,
for a slightly different flavor but still good.)
This is Moms recipe. It was quick and easy enough that she could make up a
batch of cookies while getting breakfast on the table, when one of us four
kids piped up and said "By the way, its my turn to bring cookies today."
She also has an anecdote about one of our schoolkids being allergic to
oranges, so she made a batch with orange food coloring so he could have
something orange anyway. You could try the same trick for Halloween
cookies...
If you dont want them to be thin bar cookies, then use a smaller pan (9x13
or 9x9) and bake them longer.
Okay, heres the "horror story" part. I got the recipe from my mom the
other day, and decided to make them up (sans mint & glaze) that night. Id
been reorganizing the kitchen lately, and had a bunch of plastic canisters
for all of my staples, but hadnt labeled everything yet. I thought I had
the flour. Well, it certainly wasnt sugar, and I knew it wasnt the
Krusteaz Deluxe Basic Cookie Mix, so it had to be the flour, so I used it.
There was something a little odd about it - but Ive got unbleached flour,
whole wheat flour, graham flour, and cake flour, so I figured it had to be
one of the odd ones.
It wasnt. There was something grainy and a bit of an odd flavor to the
cookies. Can you say "Masa Harina"? Id used corn instead of wheat flour!
My next door neighbor Selene, and my SOs daughter Maria, and her little
friend Devin like them, but nobody else will eat them.
I tried the recipe again tonight. I made the plain batch, no mint or mint
glaze, and used mini-M&Ms instead of the chocolate chips. Ive tried them
~ theyre perfect in every way - and if I just imagine them with
peppermint, theyre exactly as I remember them.
A final footnote: I am quite serious about working to spread them all the
way to the corners. Itll be a thick batter, so just keep at it; itll
make a thin layer. Thats a good thing, because it means they cook fast,
so dont give up.
[P.S. At least thats how they turn out (thick and hard to spread into the
corners) when I make them, using the mixer. Your mileage may vary,
especially if youre using margarine.
Source from luhu.jp
unsweetened chocolate. (You can put them in a stainless steel bowl and
stick it in the oven while its preheating.)
When the bowl is cool, add the sugar, beat in the eggs, mix in the flour,
the salt, and the baking soda. Add the vanilla. Spread into a greased
jellyroll pan (that is, 11x17). It wont be trivial; youll have to use a
knife or something to spread it smoothly into all four corners.
Sprinkle with the chocolate chips, and bake at 350 F for 8 minutes or so.
("Bake until done." When theyre done, they pull away from the pan just a
little bit and have a dull glossy look to them.)
Glaze: Mix up the ingredients. It should be like a glaze that will pour,
thickly. Add a couple of drops of food coloring if desired. When the
cookies come out of the oven, spread the glaze. Cool slightly, and cut
while still warm. (If you wait too long, the glaze will crack when you try
to cut the cookies.)
Notes: You can skip the glaze, if you like. (For example, you might not
want peppermint cookies, or you might want to use those miniature baking
M&Ms.) If you dont glaze them but still want peppermint chocolate
cookies, use the peppermint instead of the vanilla. (Or in addition to it,
for a slightly different flavor but still good.)
This is Moms recipe. It was quick and easy enough that she could make up a
batch of cookies while getting breakfast on the table, when one of us four
kids piped up and said "By the way, its my turn to bring cookies today."
She also has an anecdote about one of our schoolkids being allergic to
oranges, so she made a batch with orange food coloring so he could have
something orange anyway. You could try the same trick for Halloween
cookies...
If you dont want them to be thin bar cookies, then use a smaller pan (9x13
or 9x9) and bake them longer.
Okay, heres the "horror story" part. I got the recipe from my mom the
other day, and decided to make them up (sans mint & glaze) that night. Id
been reorganizing the kitchen lately, and had a bunch of plastic canisters
for all of my staples, but hadnt labeled everything yet. I thought I had
the flour. Well, it certainly wasnt sugar, and I knew it wasnt the
Krusteaz Deluxe Basic Cookie Mix, so it had to be the flour, so I used it.
There was something a little odd about it - but Ive got unbleached flour,
whole wheat flour, graham flour, and cake flour, so I figured it had to be
one of the odd ones.
It wasnt. There was something grainy and a bit of an odd flavor to the
cookies. Can you say "Masa Harina"? Id used corn instead of wheat flour!
My next door neighbor Selene, and my SOs daughter Maria, and her little
friend Devin like them, but nobody else will eat them.
I tried the recipe again tonight. I made the plain batch, no mint or mint
glaze, and used mini-M&Ms instead of the chocolate chips. Ive tried them
~ theyre perfect in every way - and if I just imagine them with
peppermint, theyre exactly as I remember them.
A final footnote: I am quite serious about working to spread them all the
way to the corners. Itll be a thick batter, so just keep at it; itll
make a thin layer. Thats a good thing, because it means they cook fast,
so dont give up.
[P.S. At least thats how they turn out (thick and hard to spread into the
corners) when I make them, using the mixer. Your mileage may vary,
especially if youre using margarine.
Source from luhu.jp