Did everyone enjoy the holidays?
Did you party on New Year’s Eve?
Did you make New Year’s Resolutions?
This is what I did yesterday … cleaned out the kitchen cupboard … I found a little of this and a little of that … made a basic bar cookie and put it in the oven …
The hubby was cooking a ham on the barbeque and called me to the backyard and this is what we saw …
We live about 15 miles from the Rose Bowl … the B2 Bomber was killing time before the football game. This usually happens every New Year’s Day and we never get tired of seeing it!
We live in an old house, in an old neighborhood with old overhead wiring …
I had to get back in the kitchen so that I didn’t burn the new cookie creation. This is what a little of this and that looks like after its baked!
I guess it’s a winner … it got 6 thumbs up 🙂
CLEAN OUT THE CUPBOARD COOKIES
- 1-1/4 cups unbleached flour (or all-purpose)
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 cup (1 stick) butter, softened
- 1/4 cup granulated sugar
- 1/2 cup packed brown sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 egg
- 1 heaping cup Mini Oreo Cookies
- 1 cup Heath English Toffee Bits
- 1/3 cup Kraft Caramel Bits
- 1/4 cup sliced almonds
- Preheat oven to 375°F. Grease a 9″x9″ square pan.
- Put butter,vanilla and sugars in a medium mixing bowl and beat well by hand or use an electric mixer.
- Add egg and beat well.
- Add flour, baking soda, salt and beat well.
- Spread 2/3 of cookie dough in prepared pan.
- Open up (separate) Oreo cookies and distribute evenly over cookie dough.
- Sprinkle Heath Bits evenly.
- Sprinkle Caramel Bits evenly.
- Drop remaining cookie dough on top, as evenly as possible.
- Sprinkle almonds on top (I did 1/2 with nuts and left 1/2 plain).
- Bake for 18-22 minutes or until golden brown. Cool and cut into squares.
Today …
I was driving down the street and hit a traffic jam …
The peacocks wander the neighborhood … never get tired of seeing them either!
HOW WAS YOUR NEW YEAR’S DAY? I ♥ your comments 🙂
SWEET SIMPLE STUFF 
Beautiful scenery in the sky! I love the idea of cleaning out the cupboard cookies. They look divine. Oreos, toffee bits, caramel and almonds sound so great together!!
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It did turn out to be a nice combo 😉
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Good to see the peacocks are still there. I always enjoyed seeing them when I lived out there. Your cookies sound great. I made oatmeal raisin cookies recently and had part of a bag of Heath chips and part of a bag of butterscotch chips that I threw in. They were the best oatmeal cookies.
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It sound like you had the same idea 😉
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Hi Brenda, Cleaning out the cupboards is always a great idea, but you have so many yummy things in your cupboard. If I had Heath English toffee bits and caramel bits in my cupboard they would have evaporated in nanoseconds in my house. Putting all of these lovely ingredients in bar would be delicious! Love the photo of the peacocks. I hope you had fun on your family cook out! Take care, BAM
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Well … the toffee bits were actually hidden in the freezer and the other things were in the “untouchable” area a.k.a. “if you touch it, you are in deep trouble area” 🙂
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Brilliant! You have a locked down area. I am still working on that here in Bam’s Kitchen but those little snoopy teenagers find everything.
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The secret is … hide everything behind vegetables … they never are looking at vegetables 😉
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Ahhh! I will hide my secret stash of chocolate under the broccoli. Shhhh…this will be our little secret. Take care, BAM
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I agree with BAM, Brenda, and I don’t have teenaged boys in the house! How do you keep toffee and caramel bits and Oreos in your cupboard?! Beautiful weather in your part of the U.S. Wish it was nice enough to cook out here… instead, we have lots of snow as you can see on my other blog: http://corningnystepbystep.blogspot.com/2013/01/last-pictures-of-2012.html
Beautiful pics, as usual.
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I don’t have teenage boys anymore … I have two adult boys at home … three if you count the hubby! The weather has been nice … I checked out your photos on your blog … I’m glad that I don’t have to shovel all that snow! 🙂
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We are practually neighbors. I live about 10 miles from the El Toro airfield and when they closed it I missed hearing the helecopters everyday. I love these cookies as they are like stew, you clean out everything in the freezer and when my husband makes a sandwich, the fridge gets cleaned out too. Thank you for this recipe as I always have ingredients left over and now I can use them. There is no end to the possibilties of these cookies.
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Howdy neighbor! We don’t have a ton of air traffic, but always enjoy the “special” ones 😉
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