Monday June 10 2013 (Revised Almond Joy cookies)

Revised Almond Joy Cookies

The last time I made almond joy cookies I tried using all coconut oil, but unfortunately it basically caused my cookies to melt into flat little wafers. So this time I did part butter part coconut oil and got a MUCH better result.

This is the dough, one of the toughest parts about it is not eating the dough before you bake it. Salmonella be darned I am a sucker for cookie dough raw eggs or not and this is one of the most appealing cookie doughs I've made in a while.

Ingredients

2& 2/3 cup flour

3/4 tsp baking soda

2/3cup granulated sugar

2/3cup brown sugar

1/2tsp salt

3/4cups butter

1/4cup coconut oil

2eggs

1/2tsp almond extract

1/2tsp coconut extract

1 cup shredded sweetened coconut

1.5cups milk chocolate chips

1/2cup sliced almonds

6 fun size almond joy candy bars chopped into little pieces

Directions

Preheat the oven to 375

Chop the almond joy candy bars into little pieces, freezing them and then using a food processor will speed up the process.

Cream together the butter, coconut oil and sugars

Add in the eggs and extracts

Add in the baking soda, salt and flour and mix till you get a nice dough.

add in the coconut, chocolate, almonds and candy bar bits and mix till they are evenly distributed.

Place TALL heaps of the dough onto a parchment paper lined cookie tray and bake for 11-12minutes or until lightly browned. Give each cookie ample space at least 3" diameter as they like to spread.

**I use an ice cream scoop for my cookies because we like BIG cookies and because it's an easy way for me to measure the dough. You can of course use a cookie scoop, but remember to adjust the bake time accordingly. I also like to make my cookies in more of a cylinder shape than a ball because it tends to yield a thicker cookie, which is very important with these cookies as they tend to like to spread ALOT. This recipe will yield about 16-20 giant cookies**

Here are the finished cookies, they taste as much like an almond joy candy bar as I think is possible for a cookie.

To give you an idea of size.

Pumpkin Update

The pumpkin plants are getting fairly large! They have cute little curly vines starting and some of them even have male flowers starting to form. Hopefully they will keep on growing!