Puking Emojis, New Facebook Felationship Status, Chocolate Chip Pumpkin Bars, and Georgia Toffee
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Since you continued reading even after seeing the title, I appreciate your sense of humor. Last week my sister and I decided we need a puking emoji (we suppose there’s one out there but it didn’t come loaded on our iPhones) and we would also like to see a new Facebook relationship status titled “married but he’s cheating on me.” We are confident it would be a commonly used selection. To be fair, if Facebook would like to make a “married but she’s cheating on me” status, we don’t discriminate.
On the sweeter side of this week, I made Paula Deen’s Georgia toffee (from my all-time favorite Paula Deen’s Chocolate Celebration special 2008 issue.)
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And pumpkin chocolate chip cookies in a pan.
We make the pumpkin chocolate chip bars using my son’s favorite, soft pumpkin chocolate chip cookie, which are also quite fabulous as pumpkin whoopie sandwiches with marshmallow maple cream.
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Sweet wishes,
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Pumpkin Chip Cookie Bars
Equipment
- 1 15×10 pan
Ingredients
- 1½ cups unsalted butter, (3 sticks) softened to room temperature
- 2 cups brown sugar
- 1 cup sugar
- 15 oz pure pumpkin puree, NOT pumpkin pie mix
- 1 large egg
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 4 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 cups quick-cooking oats
- 2 teaspoons baking soda
- 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 2 cups semisweet chocolate chips
Instructions
- Heat oven to 350°F. Grease a 15×10 pan.
- In the large bowl of an electric mixer with paddle attachment, cream butter and sugars.
- Beat in the egg, pumpkin and vanilla.
- In a separate bowl, combine the flour, oats, baking soda, cinnamon and salt; gradually add to creamed mixture. Stir in the chocolate chips.
- Spread batter in greased pan. Bake at 350° for 25-30 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Remove from oven and cool completely before cutting into bars.
Nutrition
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putting that Georgia Toffee on my list!
Hi Stephanie! Keep the ingredients on hand – it’s the simplest, quickest recipe to make and it is super delicious. It’s my favorite “oh crap I still need to make something to bring to work tomorrow and it’s already 10 p.m.” baked good. They take a long time to cool so overnight works perfectly.