Take 5 Bar Cookie Recipes (yum!)

I love giving my clients a Hershey's Take 5 candy bar when they come in for a session.  Just one more added bonus that keeps the post-massage bliss going.  I recently discovered online a couple of recipes for Take 5 Bar Cookies!   So, if you've got extra Halloween candy or a stash of snack-sizeTake 5 bars lying around, give these tasty treats a whirl...

Take 5 Cookie 

from http://cookiesandcups.com/take-5-cookie/

2 sticks butter (room temperature)3/4 cup smooth peanut butter

1 cup sugar

1 cup brown sugar

2 eggs

2 tsp. vanilla

1 tsp. baking soda

1 tsp. salt

3 cups All Purpose flour

1 1/2 semi-sweet cups chocolate chips 

1 bag Hershey’s Take 5 bars (Snack Size) 

Cream butter, peanut butter and sugars.

Add eggs one at a time.

Add vanilla.

Mix dry ingredients separately.

Slowly add dry ingredients to mix.

Add chocolate chips.

Chill dough for about 2 hrs.

After dough is chilled preheat oven to 375º.

Unwrap Take 5 bars and cut in half.

Now take a large spoon-full of dough and cover each candy…Don’t worry; these cookies are large. You could always quarter the Take 5 bars if you wanted a larger batch of smaller cookies.

Bake for about 7 - 8 minutes until cookie starts to brown around edges.

Wait for them to cool and garnish with a drizzle of chocolate or caramel…Or, hey— both if you’re feeling crazy!

Take 5 Surprise Cookie Recipe 

Makes about 5 dozen cookies or 2 dozen large cookies. 

• 2 cups of chopped Take5 Candy Bars

• 2-1/2 cups all-purpose flour

• 1 teaspoon baking soda

• 1/2 teaspoon salt

• 1 cup (2 sticks) butter or margarine, softened (or, 1 stick butter and 1/2 cup coconut oil)

• 3/4 cup granulated sugar

• 3/4 cup packed light-brown sugar

• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

• 2 eggs

• 1 cup chopped nuts (optional)

1. Heat oven to 350°F. 
2. Remove wrappers from candies. Cut each candy into 1/2-inch pieces; set aside. 
3. Stir together flour, baking soda, and salt. 
4. Beat butter, granulated sugar, light-brown sugar, and vanilla in large bowl with mixer, until creamy. 
5. Add eggs; beat well. 
6. Gradually add flour mixture, beating well. 
7. Stir in candy pieces and nuts, if desired. 
8. Drop by rounded teaspoons full onto ungreased cookie sheet. 
9. Bake for nine to eleven minutes, or until lightly browned. 
10.   Cool slightly; remove from cookie sheet to wire rack. Cool completely.

Sorry, I can't remember the website I found this one on.  

But this similar recipe can be found at http://www.musicalsoupeaters.com/take-5-candy-bar-cookies/:

Take 5 Candy Bar Cookies

Author: Adapted from Food to Die For by Patricia Cornwall and Marlene Brown

Ingredients

• 1 cup (2 sticks) butter softened
• 1 cup packed light brown sugar
• ½ cup granulated sugar
• 2 large eggs
• 1 T. vanilla
• 2½ cups all-purpose flour
• 1½ cups old-fashioned rolled oats
• 1 t. baking soda
• ½ t. salt
• 15 snack-sized Take 5 bars, coarsely crushed or chopped

Instructions

1. Preheat the oven to 375F. Beat together the butter and sugars. Beat in the eggs and vanilla until well mixed. Set aside.
2. In a medium bowl, stir together the flour, oats, baking soda, and salt. Stir the flour mixture into the butter mixture until well blended.
3. Stir in the candy bar pieces until combined. Drop the dough by rounded tablespoons, 2 inches apart, onto greased baking sheets (or parchment paper).
4. Bake for 9 minutes or until cookies are golden brown and set in the center. Allow the cookies to rest of on the baking sheet for 1 minute, then transfer to a wire rack to cool.