Carpe Epulae

Oatmeal S’mores Cookies

1/2 cup softened butter
1/2 cup shortening
1 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup sugar
2 eggs
1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
2 1/4 cups flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 cup old fashioned oats
1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
1 cup miniature marshmallows

Heat oven to 350°F. Grease baking sheets. Cream together butter, shortening and sugars. Add eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition. Add vanilla. Combine flour, baking soda and salt. Add gradually to creamed mixture. Stir in remaining ingredients. Drop by heaping teaspoonfuls 2 inches apart onto prepared sheets.

Bake 11-13 minutes till golden brown. Cool 1-2 minutes on sheets before removing to racks to cool completely.

Do not use parchment paper. Greased sheets are very important to getting the cookies to come off the sheet. Marshmallows melt on the outsides and stick to the parchment paper. Also important is making the cookies large enough to have enough dough to cover the marshmallows as much as possible. I have had terrible luck getting cookies with marshmallows to turn out well. These were no exception.

Note the marshmallow melted on the outer edge. Sigh.

I layered the broken pieces with chocolate and vanilla pudding and whipped cream and made a very sweet trifle.

Silky Cocoa Cream Pie

1 baked 8 inch pie crust
1 cup sugar
1/2 cup cocoa
3 tablespoons cornstarch
1/4 teaspoon salt
2 cups cold milk
2 beaten egg yolks
1 tablespoon butter
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
sweetened whipped cream

Mix together sugar, cocoa, cornstarch and salt in saucepan. Gradually stir in milk.

Cook and stir constantly over medium heat, till mixture is thickened and bubbly – about 15 minutes. Boil 1 minute and remove from heat. Gradually stir 1/2 of hot filling into yolks. Return all to saucepan and heat to gentle boil. Cook and stir 1 minute. Remove from heat and stir in butter and vanilla. Pour into crust.

Press plastic wrap directly on surface of filling. Cool. Chill 3-6 hours till set. Remove plastic wrap and garnish with sweetened whipped cream.

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