Recycle Cookies

It is the best of times and the worst of times - Halloween. While I love the costumes (on little kids, not me) and eating some candy I also hate having a ton of left overs. A person can only eat so much (and trust me I have had my fair share over the past week along with my son). And for some reason I can't just throw it away. All that talk about the starving children in Africa (which I am pretty sure probably don't need starburst or M&Ms either). So as I sat with the bright orange pumpkin container staring me in the face I decided to recycle the candy and use them as an ingredient in your basic cookie recipe. That way I can feel good about reusing the candy and I have something to write about this week.

Never doing this before I was a little nervous in how it will turn out. I looked up a basic toll house cookie recipe online and then cut up a Snickers bar, Hershey bar and 2 PB cups. I passed on the Kit Kats. The results....not bad. The cookies baked a little flat ( I think it was the margarine I used) but they tasted pretty good. The only problem I ran into was that if a snicker piece baked on the bottom of the cookie it tended to stick a little to the pan and create some holes, but the melted caramel, chocolate peanut combo made up for this minor flaw. What am I going to do with these now...give them to whoever I can that isn't still in sugar shock. And maybe I will mail some to Africa.