Symphony Bar Cookies

OK, I wasn't ambitious enough to try one of Bakerella's recipes, but I did whip up a batch of our favourite cookies...Symphony Bar Cookies.

Here is the recipe:

1/2 cup butter or margarine

1/2 cup sugar

1/2 cup brown sugar

1 egg

1/2 tsp vanilla

1 cup flour

1 cup rolled oats

1/2 tsp. baking powder

1/4 tsp. baking soda

1 Symphony Bar; crushed into bits (I use the blue bars...the ones with almonds and toffee bits!)

1/4-1/2 bag of chocolate chips

Mix butter and sugars together. Add egg and vanilla. Add in dry ingredients and mix well. Add in chocolate chips and Symphony bar chunks. Drop onto cookie sheet and bake at 350F for about 7-9 minutes. Makes about 2 dozen.

Hints: I use a cookie scoop to make equal-sized cookies. It limits the fighting over who gets the bigger cookie. I also use a Silpat to bake them on. This will increase your bake time to about 10-12 minutes, but they will always turn out PERFECT! I freeze my chocolate bars then smash them against the counter to break them up. And you can easily double the recipe for a BIG Batch...they will disappear quickly.

Now, I know they do not have Symphony Bars in Canada, so a good substitution would be a couple of Skor bars and an Almond Hershey bar or two. I always stock up on Symphony bars when we head south and I just store them in the freezer.