Chocolate Chip Cookies and Brownie Bars – together! But wait – there is more!

The chocolate chip layer is topped with miniature peanut butter cups! You know you are going to love this!

Then you cover the peanut butter cups with a layer of fudgy brownie batter! Can you believe it? It was a party worthy cookie!

When you cut the cookies, you can see the bottom layer with the chocolate chunks, topped with the peanut butter cups, topped with a brownie layer. A celebration of your favorite dessert flavors all in one cookie! So yummy!!!!

For the recipe and complete directions, click on the link below:

https://sallysbakingaddiction.com/chocolate-chip-cookie-brownie-bars/

Sparkle Sweetheart Cookies – how adorable! Another great recipe from Sally’s Baking Addiction blog – her recipes are amazing!

These are simple to make. Whisk your flour, baking powder and salt together and set aside. Cream butter and cream cheese, add sugar, then egg and extracts, beating to combine each with each addition.

Add the dry ingredients and mix on low. The dough will be thick. Cover and refrigerate for at least 30-60 minutes.

Preheat oven for 350 degrees. Roll balls of cookie dough, with about 1 tablespoon of dough in each one. Slightly flatten tops with glass or measuring cup. Bake 12-13 minutes.

Let cool on baking sheet for 5 minutes, then press a chocolate heart into each cookie.

Then quickly set the baking sheet in the freezer or refrigerator for about 15 minutes to keep the chocolate from completely melting. Once the chocolate has set, you can remove.

Such cute sparkly cookies – just what you need for a Valentine Party!

I used red, pale pink (which almost looked white once it was baked) and a red-silver mix sanding sugar. But you could vary the sugar color according to the holiday – or your favorite colors!

For the recipe and compete instructions, click on the link below:

https://sallysbakingaddiction.com/sparkle-sweetheart-cookies/

What sweet Valentine gifts these would be! These adorable cocoa bombs would be a fun project, especially knowing you are going to make someone so happy when you give them these specially made Valentine surprises. Then later they will smile again when they use the cocoa bombs to make a perfect mug of hot cocoa.

You will need melting wafers (I have found that they are much more forgiving and so much easier to work with than chocolate), heart or circular molds, hot cocoa mix, mini marshmallows, and of course – lots of sprinkles! Optional items include a bench scraper to clean off edges of the mold (once the wafers have set) and squeeze bottle or pastry bag with piping tube to fill with melted wafers so you can fill in any little gaps around the edges.

I used the white melting wafers in the circular molds for these, and then melted pink and red wafers to drizzle over the top right before adding the Valentine sprinkles.

The heart shaped molds make adorable cocoa bombs! These are the dark pink wafers -they make such pretty treats! It does take more wafers to fill the heart shape molds, compared to the circular ones.

The red wafers make very pretty traditional Valentine gifts. Look on the Etsy and Pinterest sites for many creative Valentine cocoa bomb decorating ideas.

Create a plate of mixed treats to share! Hot cocoa is always welcome on a chilly day -but watching these little treats “explode” in the warm milk is bound to make everyone happy!

Make take home gifts for everyone ! You can create individual treats by placing the cocoa bombs in snack bags and then tying them with pink or red ribbons. Makes a cute Valentine basket!

The website below has very good directions and lots of photos:

https://www.shugarysweets.com/valentines-hot-cocoa-bombs/

Happy Valentine’s Day!