Candy Shop Pizza

1 1/2 cups flour
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
10 Tbsp butter, softened
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup brown sugar
1 egg
1/2 tsp vanilla
1 pkg chocolate chips, divided
1/2 cup peanut butter
2-3 cups chopped candy bars (Heath, Butterfingers, Kit Kats, Reese's, and/or Twix)

In bowl combine flour, soda, salt. Set aside. Cream butter, sugar, and brown sugar until creamy. Add eggs and vanilla. Gradually add dry ingredients. Stir in 1 cup chocolate chips. Spread onto pizza pan. Bake at 350 degrees Fahrenheit for 20-24 minutes or until golden brown. Remove from oven, sprinkle remaining chocolate chips over hot baked cookie. Drop peanut butter by spoonfuls over chips. Let melt, then spread. Sprinkle chopped candy bars on top. Let harden. Cut up into "slices" or squares and serve warm.

Home-baked cookies. The smell of a chocolate chip cookie is enough to make anyone's mouth water. When this is combined with peanut-butter and chocolate spread and candy bars, it certainly is a triple threat. This was the smell that filled my home a few weeks ago when I decided to make candy shop pizza for my family.

For this project, I used the creaming method to make an enormous cookie. It was similar to what we learned in class, but I did this lab before that. The recipe was very easy for me to follow, and went off without a hitch. I started by collecting all of the ingredients. The recipe was similar to the muffin method, in that the ingredients had to be separated. The recipe is fairly self-explanatory, and it was interesting to see it all come together. The most shocking part was watching the chocolate chips melt and combine with the peanut butter on top of the pizza. The types of candy bars I used were Butterfingers, Twix, Crunch and Milky Ways.

This recipe had a very rich and sweet final product. My family and I enjoyed it warm, and the savory tastes of chocolate, caramel and peanut butter were very nice together. The intensely flavored cookie-type dessert was one of the best I had ever had. It smelled very sweet and satisfying. The texture was crisp on the sides and tender in the center, just the way a cookie should be. The cookie had a caramelized and glowing appearance and all the colors were tones of brown and tan that were appetizing-looking when all put together. This dessert was absolutely amazing, and I would make it many times over if I could. Not only was this recipe very good-tasting, but it was also fun for me to make, using many different methods I hadn't ever had to use before.