Showing posts with label chocolate. Show all posts
Showing posts with label chocolate. Show all posts

Saturday, February 5, 2011

Indoor S'Mores a.k.a. Crack

Seriously, no joke. This treat is addicting. I don't make it very often for that reason. If I do, then I eat the whole pan. No lie. It's pathetic.

Here is the recipe:

2 Tbsp. butter (I use generic Smart Balance to make the fat "healthier")
2/3 cup light corn syrup
1 11 oz. bag of milk chocolate chips (not semi-sweet, unless you like that, whatever)
1 tsp. vanilla extract
3 cups mini marshmallows
8 cups graham cracker cereal

Spray a cookie baking sheet with non-stick baking spray. In a large bowl, pour in the cereal and marshmallows. In a medium saucepan, melt the butter, corn syrup, and chocolate chips, just until it's all melted and bubbling. Take off the heat and stir in the vanilla. Pour the chocolate mixture over the cereal and marshmallows. Stir until everything is coated and then immediately pour out onto the baking sheet. Spread around. Cool, then you can tear off chunks or cut into bars.

Per 1 oz. serving:
115 calories, 2.9g fat, 20.7g carbs, 1g protein

Substitutions:
Corn Chex for the graham cracker cereal (pictured here), you can also add peanuts (pictured here). Calories with Corn Chex and 1 cup peanuts - 119 calories, 4.2g fat, 18.6g carbs, 1.9g protein

White Chocolate Chip Cookies

White Chocolate Chip Cookies - a Becky original

1 cup or 2 sticks butter
1-1/2 cups white sugar
3 egg whites or 2 eggs (calories below reflect the egg whites)
2 tsp. vanilla
1 tsp. baking soda
3/4 tsp. salt
3/4 cup cocoa powder
1-3/4 cups white flour
1 bag or about 11 oz. white baking chips

Calories - 116 calories per 1 oz. serving

Cream the butter and sugar together. Add the eggs, vanilla, soda and salt & mix. Add the cocoa and the flour. Mix. Add the white chips and stir. Bake at 350 for 8 minutes for melon-ball size cookie dough, longer for larger balls of dough.

**Note - This is a high altitude recipe (I'm at 6700 feet), so if you are at a low altitude, you should probably reduce the flour to 1-1/2 or even 1-1/3 cups.