I saw these Cookie and Cream Cookies on Cookies and Cups a while back and was dying to make them. By the way, this Samoa Popcorn looks amazing. So over all, Meh (to borrow a term from Estelle). I think the ones on Cookies and Cups look better than mine. I still recommend this recipe…I just think I maybe didn’t execute well. I think I used too much flour and overcooked (she even recommends under baking and I just didn’t listen). They were cakey and I think these would be way better chewier. Anyway…

2 sticks butter (1 cup)
1 1/4 cup white sugar
2 eggs
1 1/2 t. pure vanilla
1/2 cup cocoa powder (she used Hershey’s Special Dark, I used regular)
2 1/4 cups flour
1/4 tsp Kosher salt
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 cup mini semi-sweet chocolate chips
12 oz. Hershey’s Cookies and Creme drops (if you can’t find these because they are a new item use coarsely chopped Cookies and Cream Kisses OR Hershey’s Cookies and Creme Bars)

Preheat to 350
Cream together butter and sugar until fluffy and light.
Beat in eggs and vanilla.
On low, slowly beat in cocoa powder until well incorporated.
On low mix in your remaining dry ingredients (flour, baking powder and salt).
Fold in you Cookies and Creme drops and chocolate chips until evenly incorporated.
Drop by large tablespoonful on a parchment lined baking sheet.
I recommend under baking these. So bake for approx 12 minutes or until edges are set.
When done baking let cool on baking sheet for 2-3 minutes before transferring to wire rack to finish cooling.

I sometimes feel the need to bake. But RBB doesn’t always like what I bake…he has a very minor sweet tooth. Same for Bonham…unless I learn to bake smarties or laffy taffy, he’s out. I on the other hand, could eat sweets all day long. So anyway, I bake, and then I pawn it off on the people at RBB’s work.

The other day one of them said that they had heard Bakerella’s pie pops mentioned on a radio show. He “requested” that if I felt so inclined…maybe I would try making them. So of course, I did.

The biggest comment in the reviews was that the pie to crust ratio was off. I rolled my crust (store bought) pretty thin to try and save the ratio. This made the “on a stick” part kind of hard. The stick didn’t bake into the crust as much as it should have. So they were kind of flimsy…but still yummy.

I used store bought crust and store bought apple pie filling. And I had some extra dough and wanted to make some chocolate…so I filled some with a few chocolate chips and made these little half moons.

Overall…Yum.  I think these would be a lot of fun at Thanksgiving. Even the ones I made without the stick (sorry, they aren’t pictured) are cute. Just little round pie bites. I think an assortment at Thanksgiving would be great – apple, pumpkin, pecan. All on a platter together. You wouldn’t have to chose a flavor, just have one of each!

By the way, if you think I am off my rocker with the title of this post, you clearly have never seen the movie American Pie. And I may or may not have chosen my filling flavor based on the fact that it gave me an easy and great post title…