I almost died when I found this recipe. Two of my favorite things mixed together. DUH Why didn't I think of this earlier?! Best part, is that the recipe is SUPER easy. Thank you Pinterest!
Peanut Butter and Nutella Cookies
You'll Need:
1 cup or 2 sticks butter, room temperature
2/3 cup peanut butter (you can use creamy or crunchy)
2 eggs
2 tsp vanilla
2 2/3 cup flour
2 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
1/3-2/3 cup Nutella (depending on how much you like it)
Directions:
Cream butter, peanut butter, sugar, brown sugar, eggs, and vanilla together until smooth.
Combine flour, baking soda, and salt to the butter mixture.
Add Nutella in dollops over the top of the dough. Use a butter knife to swirl the Nutella through the dough, but be careful not to over mix.
Chill the dough in the fridge for 15 minutes before spooning onto a cookie sheet, in order to firm the Nutella.
Bake at 350 degrees for 8-10 minutes.
Bake until slightly brown at the edges and then let cool a few minutes on cookie sheet before transferring to a plate.
Have you see the Pinata Cookies that are all over Pinterest yet? (PS you can follow me on Pinterest HERE) Well Veronica and I thought it would be fun to attempt this baking project (why is it that we always try to bake the most difficult things?!). Little did we know, what a bitch these mini cookies would be!
First, it started with having to find mini M&Ms. Do you have any idea how hard it is to find mini M&Ms when it's not around a holiday? I'll tell you... very hard! I went to multiple stores trying to find these and even spoke with an M&M representative. She was of no help to us! Luckily Veronica was in line at Target, when she spotted tubes of mini M&Ms at by the food area. She literally whispered to me over the phone that she could not run over to the counter fast enough because she was afraid someone else was going to swoop in and buy them all. She calls me asking how many she should buy, I said maybe 3. What does she buy? THE ENTIRE SUPPLY! LOL
Because we were tight on time Vero prepped the dough the night before. These were just good old fashioned sugar cookies. She said it took forever, because she had to split the dough into multiple piles, dye them, and then smash them into mini loaf pans. Then she had to refrigerate them. I guess this process takes quite a while. The only casualty that day was that her hands were dyed a multitude of colors.
Don't worry we have tons of pics and videos!
The next night when I came over, Veronica and I removed the dough from the pans and cut it into thin slices, as seen above. Then we put about 10 slices on a cookie sheet and popped them in the oven. This is when we had to start moving fast and we implemented what I like to call a Hott Mess Assembly Line. As the cookie slices were coming out of the oven, we had to cookie cut them with our "burro" cookie cutter - yes, you must attempt to roll the "r." We also had to remember to switch the cookie cutter over because a dumb pinata cookie consists of not just 1 or 2, but 3 pieces of cookie. After the cookie was cut, we had to remove the center of one of the horses so we could make a pinata. I know this make no sense and that is why I provided a video.
See what a mess we are! HA! Now that everything's cut into pieces, we have to assemble. We did this by attaching a full piece and cut out piece with frosting. Then after the frosting was dried, we add in the M&Ms and seal the cookie with frosting and a top layer of "burro". Are you confused yet? Check out the next video...
Did I mention that we are never going to bake pinata cookies ever again. We only made 12 cookies, but used 3 pans of dough. So much cookie was wasted making these pinata cookies. The amount of left over cookie was crazy, we had cookie coming out of our ears. Everyone was eating left over cookie (IT WAS SO GOOD!).
Have you ever thought, "I'm going to do something nice today," and then finished it off with, "like bake a wedding cake?" Well one of my best friends Veronica did. A girlfriend of ours was getting married on a budget and to help out I agreed to do her hair/makeup and Veronica said, "I bake a lot, I can bake you a cake!" Seeing as how we're best buddies... I got dragged into this process. Did I mention that the cake had to be gluten free and that we were making it from scratch? Yeah... super fun!
We decided to split the madness into 2 days. The first day we baked the cake pieces and made the frosting. Day two was all about assembly and dropping it off at the wedding location.
Veronica and all our supplies. You see that right 3 boxes of eggs!
Veronica was getting messy, I was getting anxiety!
Cake's good!
I'm supposed to flip this thing over!
This is sketchy!
Veronica I need some help! Stop taking pictures!!
OMG I did it!
Can't pass up the cake!
This is what happens when you're drinking and waiting.
Cake Cooling
Cake batter was EVERYWHERE!
Next Morning... every thing's cool!
Eating Cake
It's soooo good!
Adding the middle layer
YEAH! Part 1, Done!
We had to add doll rods because of the weight of the tiers.
Oh yeah and we had to saw the doll rods.
FROSTING!
Trimming the cake down... Love the left overs
Two down, one to go!
I'm supposed to drop this down on the bottom layer.
Why do I always get the sketchy jobs?!
Time to add the trimming!
So beautiful! I'm soooo proud of us!
Time to transport!
The Final Product!
CAN YOU BELIEVE WE DID IT?!
We got a total high from it!
Cheers to us!
OH and anyone interested in one of our specialty made wedding cakes will need to pay us at least $1,000. 'Cause that was a bitch!
