Saturday, July 5, 2008

A terrible recipe for kids, and how we spent our 4th

Erica's here! We've been having a great time so far! Last night we ended up renting Rendition - a movie about how the US skirts the law to detains terror suspects... um, not the most "Yay America, happy Independence Day" movie... It was very, very good though.



Last night, we made a recipe from my cookbook "Silly Snacks. Classroom Treats and Cookie Dough Fun"... a cookbook intended for teachers and/or mothers since most of the recipes are like cookies shaped into pigs or hamburgers or something cute that kids would just gobble up. Well, Erica and I were looking through the cookie dough fun section and decided to give the Cookie Pizza a go. HOLY crap, it takes a LOT to make me say this, but it is so rich. What mother in her right mind would feed this to her child, it's like pure sugar. It's like a sugar cookie topped with fudge topped with m&m's. The only situation I can think of where I'd feed it to a child is if I was babysitting and handing the kid off shortly and really despised the person I was handing him off to.

Cookie Pizza

1 18-oz package refridgerated sugar cookie dough
2 c semi-sweet chocolate chips
1 14-oz can Eagle Sweetened Condensed milk (we used Fat Free, cause we're health NUTS. Obv, w/ the cookie pizza and all...)
2 c M&Ms
2 c mini marshmallows (we omitted)
1/2 c peanuts (also omitted)

Directions:
1. Preaheat oven to 375. Press cookie dough into 2 ungreased 12 in pizza pans. Bake 10 min or until golden.
2. In medium-sized saucepan, melt chips with sweetened condensed milk. Spread over cookie dough. Sprinkle with M&Ms and other toppings.
3. Bake 4 min or so. Cool. Cut.

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