Mom's Surprise Cookies

When I was growing up mom made everything from scratch. Not many people do that anymore with all the convenient mixes around. She didn't make a lot of sweets but did do cookies for the holidays. One of my favorite cookies were her hidden mint cookies. I've changed it up a little for my non mint fans:).

First thing you do is grab a bag of mini Milky Ways, (or snickers, rolos, mint wafers ...you get my drift?) and unwrap them and set them aside. Okay go ahead and eat one, you may have an extra anyway:). Then pre-heat your oven to 350 degrees.

Now you need some softened butter, secret ingredient #1, granulated sugar and brown sugar and mix it up til its nice and smooth.


Then add your eggs, a little water, and some vanilla...I like the real vanilla. Mix that up and then take the beaters out of your machine and put in the dough hook. Your dough is going to be stiff after we add the dry ingredients.

Now you're going to add flour, secret ingredient #2, baking soda and salt and mix that until it's all incorporated.

Okay grab a scoop, my favs are the pampered chef ones and for this recipe I use the medium size. Scoop up the dough and press a candy in the center, pop it out and smooth the dough around the candy. Make sure there's no holes or the chocolate will ooze out. What a waste!

.............................This is what they will look like pre-baked

-------------------And baked. Be right back gotta go have a cookie :)

Since I made a double batch I had some dough leftover so I looked in my freezer and found some partial bags of chips, in this case they were chocolate and peanut butter chips. I threw them in and Voila! two kinds of cookies for my card party!

My secret ingredients? You shouldn't give away your secrets but since I don't have a very large following I'll share this time:). I like to substitute cream cheese for SOME of the butter. I go 1/4 cream cheese to 3/4 butter unless I'm feeling rich then I go 1/2 and 1/2. I also like to throw in a small box, per batch, of pudding. any flavor will do. It gives the cookie better flavor and we all want cookies with better flavor, LOL! Okay here's the recipe without the secret ingredients added in::

Mom's Mint Surprise Cookies

Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees.

Mini Milky Ways or
candy of your choice, unwrap and set aside

1 cup softened butter
1 cup granulated sugar
1/2 cup packed brown sugar
2 eggs
1 TBSP water
1 tsp vanilla
3 1/2 cups flour
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt


Mix well the butter and sugars. Then add the water, vanilla and eggs and mix again. Change out your beaters to the dough hook and then add the dry ingredients and mix well. get your scoop and get a scoopful of dough and place a candy in the middle and wrap so there are no holes in the dough. Repeat about 3 dozen times! :0. Bake for about 12 minutes until they start to get golden brown. Do not overbake! This should be a soft cookie. Let cool long enough so you don't burn your tongue and taste test. Mmmm, okay maybe I better go have another cookie :).