Fast & Easy Valentine’s Day Desserts

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Peanut Butter Cup & Dark Chocolate Carmel Chocolate Chip Cookies

Cookie Dough and Candies on Countertop

Take the Refrigerated Cookie Dough of your choosing (I chose what was on sale) and either make a round golf-ball looking mound or smoosh 1.5 to 2 pieces together
Chunks of cookie dough

spray a muffin tin with cooking spray

press it down firmly

Muffin tin
Cookie dough pieces in muffin tin

Bake for about 6-7 minutes at 350F or until the tops are barely brown

Baked Cookie Dough in muffin tin
Close up of baked cookie dough

While you’re waiting, be productive:  Unwrap your PB Cups.

And I thought the dark chocolate Dove candies with caramel centerswould be lovely, too.

Unwrapped dark chocolate and peanut butter cups

Make sure little helpers don’t eat the whole candy pile.

Young girl holding doll looking at candy on countertop

Skylar actually is very trustworthy.  She knows to sit tight because this food is going to be on mommy’s blog.  And after all the pictures have been taken, she gets her tastes and sample bites.  The offspring of food bloggers learn young: pictures first, eating second.  Don’t touch til we get the shot.

Young girl holding doll in kitchen smiling

The 6-7 Minute Wait Is Over.  Remove the lightly browned cookies from the oven, which puffed up nicely.

Baked Cookie Dough in muffin tin
Close up of Baked Cookie Dough

And drop in the candies.  The sound that the barely-there cookie crust made as I punctured the barely browned surface with the chocolate candies was the sweetest little music to your ears that you could ever imagine.

Candies pressed into baked cookie dough

Peanut Butter Cups make me happy!

Close up of cookie with peanut butter cup

And Dark Chocolate Caramels.

I bet Mounds Bar or Almond Joy or Snickers Bombs would be tasty too.

Close up of cookie with dark chocolate

Back into the oven for another 4-6 minutes or until done.
**Note the chocolate will not really melt, so watch the cookie part, not the chocolate candy part, for doneness.

Remove from Oven and Let Cool Completely…

Peanut Butter Cup & Dark Chocolate Carmel Chocolate Chip Cookies

…before you Store them or give them to your Sweetheart.

Stacked Cookies in Clear Container
Cookies stacked in container

 And Yes. They were met with Rave Reviews.
He couldn’t decide if he liked the Peanut Butter Cup ones…

Hand holding one cookie with peanut butter cup
Close up of cookie with peanut butter cup

…Or the Dark Chocolate Caramel Ones Better.  Hmmm….

Hand holding cookie with dark chocolate
Close up of cookie with dark chocolate
….What a problem to have, right!  Which would you pick: PB Cup or Dark Chocolate Caramel?
 
Vegan ideas…

Whip up some high Raw Vegan Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough

Raw Vegan Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough

Spoon the dough into your Muffin Tray

Raw Vegan Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough on plate
Muffin Tin

Add & Melt a Few Squares of Vegan, i.e. dark baker’s, Chocolate or Chocolate Chips.

Vegan Chocolate in bowl with spoon

Or, Make Your Own Raw Chocolate:
3 Tbsp Cocoa Powder
2 Tbsp Agave
1 T Tbsp Coconut Oil
Dash of Vanilla Extract
Stir

Or make your own Vegan White Chocolate Like I Told You About Here

Vegan White Chocolate in bowl with spoon

Put the Chocolate into the Raw Vegan Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough that’s now in the muffin trays and Bake if you Wish, or don’t bake and just enjoy the Dough.

Raw Vegan Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Balls on white plate
Close up of Raw Vegan Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Balls
Clearly if you bake it you’re un-raw’ifying this.  But tasty for sure!
 

There’s always a choice in my recipes; to each her own! I would never judge someone on how they choose to get their chocolate groove on!!! haha!!!  Even if it involves store-bought ingredients!

Dark Chocolate Carmel Chocolate Chip Cookie close up
Peanut Butter Cup & Dark Chocolate Carmel Chocolate Chip Cookies in container

Dinner was a Green Medley:  Mixed Greens, Asparagus, Brussle’s, Cukes, Tomatoes, Sugar Snap Peas

Mixed Green Salad with vegetables

And dressed it with homemade Vegan Slaw Dressing

Homemade Vegan Slaw Dressing
Mixed Salad with Vegan Slaw Dressing

Dessert for Scott was obvious.

Container of Peanut Butter Cup & Dark Chocolate Carmel Chocolate Chip Cookies

Dessert for me was a couple Chocolate Dipped Strawberries that I made yesterday with my version of Raw Vegan Chocolate.

Raw Vegan Chocolate in bowl with spoon
 

What are you doing for Valentine’s Day?

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