4.30.2009

Pheonix Cookies

A couple weeks ago, I had a cookie failure. Someone gave me a cookie mix, which I used (because I didn't want it to go to waste) but the resultant cookies were too sugary and too hard. I didn't like 'em and didn't give them to anyone except to my two wedding houseguests, with my apologies. They didn't much like them either. One of them, Jen A to be precise, suggested I put them in the food processor and make them into cookie crumbs and reuse them for something else.

Jen, you're brilliant.

I reduced them to cookie crumbs and put them in the freezer to wait for the next opportunity. Yesterday, I used them instead of graham cracker crumbs as the base for "magic bars" (aka Seven Layer Cookies). I used the recipe on the back of the Bordens Sweetened Condensed Milk (substituted in some milk chocolate chips I had hanging around and coconut flakes instead of shredded coconut) and...
Ta Da! Yummy Cookies!


Now these, I'm reluctant to share because I want to eat them all myself, but I think I will anyway. ;)

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

Good lord, I *am* brilliant!

**gleaming smile**

Those look delish, btw... I tell ya -- my next job is a Common Sense Consultant. "Around the workplace and the home, I dispense common sense all around!"

::squee:: My word verification is "heart" -- as in, I *heart* Anne! ;)

Max Cutrell said...

*drool*

Mummy Grabill said...

I will throw a temper tantrum if you don't bring any with you tonight. :-) Hey, I'm your little sister, that's what I *do*. :-)

Charley said...

Oh be still my heart - and here I am at my desk at work hungry as a hippo and you post those?!?!?! CURSE YOU!

;)

Anne C. said...

Get used to it, Charley, it happens pretty often. ;)

Stacey said...

Before this was 'death on a plate' for me, I loved these bar cookies.

neurondoc said...

Wow! Why is it that when I don't follow a recipe exactly the final outcome is inedible? I swear that if I had used the same ingredients as you did, my cookies would've been yucky.