Cookie experiment = YUMMY!!!

After the addiction to the Chocolate Chip/Oreo cookies, I decided I wanted to try something else inside of a cookie. While I was at Target standing in the candy area wondering, "what would taste good in a cookie??!!" My choices are limited since Miss H has a severe peanut allergy and most candy is off limits. However, the wonderful Hershey company is one that almost never has peanuts or traces of it in their candy. I spotted a pretty pink bag and was so excited they were Raspberry HUGS!!! Now that would taste so good inside of a chocolate cookie!! I also picked up a chocolate cake mix. I love the 3 ingredient cookies made with Betty Crocker Cake mixes, my mom made them all the time when I was growing up and now I love to make them for my kids. They are really easy as well as so soft and yummy. I love soft cookies, if they are crunchy- BLECH!!!!
Here is what I did:

* Make cookie dough- 1 box of Betty Crocker (I like it best because of the pudding in the mix) Chocolate Cake mix. 1 stick of butter (I use real butter), and 2 eggs. Soften the butter and add the eggs to the mix and stir together.

* Unwrap the Hugs and cut the tips off. (I put the tips in a bowl and the kids LOVED to be able to eat them!)

*get a small spoonful of dough and put the Hug into it, then wrap the dough all around it and put it on the cookie sheet.

Hug inside the dough.

Wrap dough around the Hug. (Miss H is helping)

* Bake at 350* for 7 minutes.

* After 7 min. take the pan out (they will not look done) and let them sit on the cookie sheet for 1 more min. They will finish cooking without getting hard and crispy. Then use a spatula and put them on wax paper. I used my cooling rack and I wish I had used wax paper because the middles of a couple oozed a bit from the Hug and I know it would have been avoided if I used wax paper.

* You shouldn't be able to see the Hug by just looking at the cookie; but when you bite into it....YUMMINESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Seriously....you will love them. So go to the store..right now.  You need to make these!!!!

 Sara