{"id":8808,"date":"2019-08-10T07:18:52","date_gmt":"2019-08-10T13:18:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooking.pfeist.net\/?p=8808"},"modified":"2020-12-20T06:56:33","modified_gmt":"2020-12-20T13:56:33","slug":"dynamic-duo-delights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cooking.pfeist.net\/?p=8808","title":{"rendered":"Dynamic Duo Delights"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"438\" src=\"http:\/\/cooking.pfeist.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/cookies.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8809\" srcset=\"http:\/\/cooking.pfeist.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/cookies.jpg 550w, http:\/\/cooking.pfeist.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/cookies-300x239.jpg 300w, http:\/\/cooking.pfeist.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/cookies-377x300.jpg 377w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>How can you go wrong? These cookies are made with M&amp;M&#8217;s\u00ae, peanut butter, cocoa, cream cheese, butter, brown sugar . . . these are so good they are sinful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How did I come to make these on a warm summer day? Well, we were going up to the mountains to spend a few days with our kids and their young families. I get to be &#8220;Grandma&#8221;, and that means I get to make some cookies to bring. Yay! I perused my old cookie recipes and came upon these &#8220;Dynamic Duo Delights&#8221;. Hadn&#8217;t made them in decades. Now&#8217;s the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong>Dynamic Duo Delights<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>3\/4 cup butter plus 2 tablespoons butter<\/li><li>1 cup brown sugar plus 1\/4 cup brown sugar<\/li><li>1 cup white sugar<\/li><li>8 ounces cream cheese, softened<\/li><li>1\/2 cup peanut butter (I used the crunchy style)<\/li><li>1 1\/2 teaspoons vanilla<\/li><li>2 eggs<\/li><li>2 1\/2 cups flour<\/li><li>1 teaspoon baking powder<\/li><li>1\/2 teaspoon salt<\/li><li>3 tablespoons cocoa<\/li><li>2 cups plain M&amp;M&#8217;s<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Beat together the 3\/4 cup butter, 1 cup each brown and white sugars, cream cheese, and peanut butter, then add the vanilla and eggs. Stir in flour, baking powder, and salt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Divide the dough in half and place each half in a bowl. Add  2 tablespoons butter, 1\/4 cup brown sugar, and the cocoa to one bowl of dough. Add 1 cup of M&amp;M&#8217;s to each bowl of dough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For each Dynamic Duo cookie, take a bit of the dough with cocoa and a bit of the dough without cocoa. Push together to form one rounded teaspoonful of cookie dough, then drop onto an ungreased cookie sheet. Continue with all of the cookies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bake the cookies at 350\u02da for about 12 minutes, just until they are nicely browned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Makes about 5 dozen cookies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Enjoy!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr>\n\n\n\n<p>*The photo above is my first food-blog photo taken with my new camera, a Sony alpha 7II. Sadly, my old Sony alpha died suddenly on our trip to the Alps this summer. Good bye old-friend Sony camera. Welcome to the fold, my new full-frame Sony.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How can you go wrong? These cookies are made with M&amp;M&#8217;s\u00ae, peanut butter, cocoa, cream cheese, butter, brown sugar . . . these are so good they are sinful. 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