Treats: Tuesday Night

I am very lucky because I get to enjoy all the delicious food that my mother smuggles away for me from luncheons and meetings and whatnot. Sometimes it's a bag of chips or a sandwich, but sometimes it's HOMEMADE BAKED GOODS! I’ll say right now that I LOVE squares. They are the perfect cookie and cake hybrid.

One of the squares is topped with butterscotch chips, chocolate chips, and bits of pecans on a cookie crust. It's very chewy and the butterscotch and pecans really come through. The other is made of oats and chocolate chips, held together by a sugar bind. I didn't like this one because the chocolate was too bitter and the rest of it was too sweet was too sweet (not in a good way). The white square is a short bread bottom with a moist cake with golden raisins in the middle, and cream cheese frosting with lemon zest on top. The frosting was good - not too sweet with a bright lemon flavour from the zest. Last but not least, two delectable chocolate chip cookies. The cookies were thin, but very chewy, with big pieces of chocolate chip. I like that it's not too doughy, like a lot of chocolate chip cookies tend to be. 

One of my goals these days is to bake chewy chocolate chip cookies. The only times my attempts are soft are when they come out of the oven. Once they are cooled, I have to have force the rock cookies on my family and friends. If you have a tried and true recipe, please do share!