The jump off

Cookies part 1

TRIPLE DECKERS. I wish I could explain how insane these cookies are with just words but you have to bake them to really understand what I'm talking about. I don't even want to give them an intro as to not take away from the experience but let me just say that I've made them multiple times and I have never had any complaints.

Triple-Deckers
(recipe from http://familyfun.go.com/recipes/triple-deckers-683426/ but I tweaked it a bunch)
Printable Recipe

Ingredients:

• 1/2 cup Earth Balance light softened
  Sidebar: I know the packaging says not to use the light for baking but I do everytime and it works well for me!
• 3/4 cup brown sugar
• 1 cup all natural chunky (or creamy) peanut butter
• 1 egg (or egg replacement, I used 1 tbsp Bragg's apple cider vinegar mixed with 1 tbsp water)
• 1 teaspoon Simply Organic brand vanilla extract
• 1/2 teaspoon salt (don't use table salt, it's probably too harsh)
• 1 cup Arrowhead Mills brand organic enriched unbleached white flour
• About 18-24 mini candy bars
• 20-24 marshmallows in half

*In the above picture I used what I had chocolate-wise: mini crunch bars, York peppermint patties, M&M's, and mini milky ways but my favorite is to use mini Twix bars!
1. Heat the oven to 375. Place the softened butter and brown sugar in a large bowl and blend with an electric mixer (or your hand if ya need some exercise.)

2. Add the peanut butter, egg replacement, and vanilla extract, combining thoroughly. In a separate bowl, combine the salt, baking soda, and flour, then mix them into the wet ingredients.

3. Shape the dough into 1 1/4-inch balls and bake for 8 minutes on an ungreased cookie sheet. Meanwhile, break the candy bars into halves if you're using minis or pieces if using whole bars and use kitchen shears (or a knife like I did and it was awful and messy and stupid) to snip the marshmallows in half lengthwise.

4. Remove the cookies from the oven, top each one with a marshmallow half, and return the tray to the oven for an additional 3 to 4 minutes.

5. Finally, remove the cookies from the oven and place a piece of chocolate atop the marshmallows. Allow the cookies to remain on the baking sheet for 5 minutes before transferring them to cooling racks. Makes 3 1/2 to 4 dozen cookies.

These are crazy. Make them now!!!!!