Halloween was almost a week ago and I have the perfect solution for all that leftover candy. If you truly indulged in all the Halloween goodness and don’t have any leftover candy, (not judging, not judging…), I just got word that Target has their candy at least 70 percent off right now. And you will need them for these cookies, because they are amazing.
Farrah’s Treat or Treat Cookies
Recipe makes 2 dozen
Ingredients:
- 1/2 cup (one stick) of butter, softened
- 1/2 cup white sugar
- 1/2 packed brown sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon hot water
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 2/3 cup of Halloween candy, chopped
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C)
Cream the softened butter (I like to just mush the stick a bit with a rolling pin), white sugar and brown sugar until smooth.
Beat in the egg, then stir in the vanilla.
Dissolve the baking soda in hot water and add to the batter with the salt.
Grab your favorite Halloween candy. I chose chocolate bars, but you could really use just about anything, as long as the flavors mix well.
Unwrap and chop the candy. Whatever chopper you use, the candy is probably going to gunk it up. So I recommend just breaking out the cutting board and knife and chopping it up that way. 
Stir in the flour and chopped candy into the batter.
Drop large spoonfuls onto parchment or silmat covered baking sheets. As you can see, I used both. [Friendly warning: Wax paper is not the same as parchment. Don’t do that.]
Bake for about 10-12 minutes until the edges are nicely browned.
Perfection! They’re absolutely delicious. And of course you can mix with whatever candy you’d like. You can keep it simple and only add Reese’s or Hershey bars. You can get crazy and add every different kind of candy you have. You can do candy corn. You can do anything!
Can’t wait to hear what you guys think! I’m thinking this is worthy of an annual after-Halloween tradition.
Farrah Alexander 
