Deep Dish Cookies

 

Ingredients:

• 2 tubes of pre-made cookie dough
• 8 small ramekins, about 4" in diameter
• Vanilla ice cream

Preparations:

1. Preheat oven to 375 F.
2. Fill ramekins 3/4″ deep with raw, room temperature cookie dough, roughly 1/4 of a tube. This can be done well in advance and stored in the fridge until time to bake.
3. Set ramekins on baking sheet and bake on the middle rack of the oven for about 15 minutes, or until the top is just slightly golden brown
4. Place ramekins on individual plates because they'll be hot and top with vanilla ice cream. One cookie is more than enough for one serving.

Cheesecake with a Chocolate Chip Crust

Ingredients:

• Enough chocolate chip cookie dough for at least 1 dozen cookies
• 1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese
• 1/2 cup Sweetened Condensed Milk
• 1 large egg
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 (21 ounce) can pie filling (cherry or strawberry were tasty)

Preparation:

1. Preheat oven to 325 degrees F. Grease a 9 by 9 baking pan
2. Place 12 1 tbsp balls of cookie dough evenly throughout the baking pan. Bake for 10 to 12 minutes until the cookie dough spreads to form a crust.
3. Beat cream cheese, sweetened condensed milk, egg and vanilla extract in medium bowl until smooth. Pour the cream cheese mixture over the crust. Bake for additional 15 to 18 minutes or until set.
4. Cool completely in pan on wire rack. Top with pie filling. Refrigerate for 1 hour.

Cook Time: 1.75 hours
Serves: 9