Subj : 7/9 Sugar Cookie Day - 1
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From : Dave Drum
Date : Mon Jul 08 2024 04:36 pm

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     Title: Blooper Friday! Sugar Cookie Bar Semi-Fail
Categories: Cookies, Snacks, Desserts
     Yield: 12 Servings

     1 c  Unsalted butter; room temp
     2 c  Sugar
     4 lg Eggs
     1 tb Vanilla
     5 c  Flour
     1 ts Salt
   1/2 ts Baking soda
     1 c  M&M candies

 The thing about sugar cookie bars is that they are
 impossible to fail. We ran out of time, melted a plastic
 container, used the wrong pan, and didn't fully cook
 them and they were STILL delicious. So unlike other
 Blooper Fridays, we are actually going to show you this
 recipe.

 We first saw the cookie bars at Recipe Girl, complete
 with beautiful, colorful pictures and knew we had to
 make them. She adapted the recipe from The Repressed
 Pastry Chef, to make her own version (<-- that's where
 you can find the full recipe and see what these are
 supposed to look like). We adapted it a little from
 hers.

 Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy.

 Add eggs, one at a time, mixing well after each. Add
 vanilla.

 In a separate bowl, combine flour, salt, and baking
 soda. Add to wet ingredients.

 Add M&Ms, and mix until ingredients look like delicious
 cookie dough.

 Put dough on a jelly roll 13" x 18" baking sheet.

 Here is the first step we did incorrectly (FAIL! #1).
 Apparently, you are supposed to put the dough on a jelly
 roll baking pan, NOT a 9" X 13" cake pan. I thought 13"
 X 18" was a typo in the original recipe, but no, you want
 these to be thin.

 Bake at 375ºF/190ºC for 10-15 minutes. The dough will be
 light golden, and a toothpick in the middle will come
 clean.

 If you bake these in a 13" X 9" pan, they take a lot
 longer and still may not be fully baked.

 Allow to cool completely before icing.

 We cut them up because we wanted them to cool faster. As
 we saw they were not fully cooked. (FAIL! #2)

 After it took over 30 minutes to bake these extra thick
 bars, we decided to just go with a jar of icing (no home
 made icing = FAIL! #3).

 We happened to have 1/2 of one left in the fridge. So,
 we thought it would warm up a little quicker if we put
 the jar above the oven. Oh, it definitely warmed up!

 Luckily, the melted plastic did not actually get in the
 icing so we were able to use it. At this point, we were
 already running late for a party, so we are glad it
 worked out.

 However, they weren't exactly the prettiest sugar cookie
 bars.

 They were goopy, melty, and messy - but they were still
 delicious. We will definitely be making them again,
 hopefully without all the drama and mess.

 From: http://castlefarmcookbook.blogspot.com

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