National Chocolate Chip Day
When: Always on May 15th
National Chocolate Chip Day celebrates and enjoys sweet, tasty chocolate chips. Chocolate chips are a great invention, and certainly deserve a little recognition. After all, where would chocolate chip cookies, cakes and muffins be without the chocolate chip!?
Chocolate chips are popular in cooking and baking, for a wide variety of breads, cakes, and cookies. There is an almost endless number of recipes. They are also used in decorating. Have you ever had chocolate chip pancakes? How about chocolate chips in trail mix? If you've never had these, then you're leading a sheltered life.
Rare is the leftover chocolate chip. If you don't use the whole bag, you and/or your kids will likely eat them as a snack before they make it to the storage container.
So often you will find chocolate chips in cookies. This recipe shows that chocolate chips can be used in other great recipes as well They are not just for baking cookies
Marble Squares
Makes 24 squares
Prep time: 20 minutes
Cook time: 25-30 minutes
Ingredients
• 8 ounce package cream cheese
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1 egg
• 1/2 cup margarine
• 3/4 cup water
• 1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips, divided
• 2 cups flour
• 2 cups sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1/2 cup sour cream
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 8 ounce package cream cheese
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1 egg
• 1/2 cup margarine
• 3/4 cup water
• 1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips, divided
• 2 cups flour
• 2 cups sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1/2 cup sour cream
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
Directions
Preheat oven to 375.
Preheat oven to 375.
Butter and flour a 15 1/2 x 10 1/2 baking dish.
Combine cream cheese and sugar until well blended. Add egg and mix well. Set aside.
In a medium saucepan, combine margarine, water, and 1/2 cup of the chocolate pieces. Bring to a boil. Remove from heat and stir in the flour and sugar. Add eggs, sour cream, baking soda, and salt. Mix well.
Pour batter into your prepared pan. Spoon cream cheese mixture over batter. Cut through batter with a knife for marble effect. Sprinkle with remaining 1/2 cup chocolate pieces.
Bake for 25-30 minutes until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Let cool and then cut into squares.
those look so good!
ReplyDeleteThose look yummy! We actually only put 1/2 bag at a time in our chocolate chip cookies, something my husband's mom did so now that's the only way he likes chocolate chip cookies.
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