I know it’s Wednesday, but my Work in Progress is a pile of puffs, strikingly similar to the pile of puffs you’ve seen repeatedly this summer (I’ve knitted about 130 or so since we moved to LA). Sockdown starts on Saturday and there will be some furious knitting happening for about a year after that. Don’t ask me where Christmas knitting fits with furious sock knitting (unless everyone gets socks for Christmas). 😉

So instead I will give you this, the easiest, dirtiest (in a ‘this is defo not health food’ kind of way), laziest recipe I’ve ever made. It’s so lazy, I felt guilty making it. No really, I totally did.

Lazy Chocolate Chip Cookie Cake via – I’m a Lazy Mom

1 box yellow or white cake mix (use Trader Joe’s mix or organic mix from Whole Foods to feel slightly less awful)
2 eggs beaten (Omega eggs, at least!)
5 tablespoons melted butter (I used vegan butter, which I know means NOTHING when applied to this recipe)
2 cups M&M’s or mini chocolate chips (I chopped up a big bar of dark chocolate for this).

You literally just mix it all up and pour it into a (greased) 9 x 13 inch pan and bake at 350 for 20 minutes. I feel like an asshole for even sharing this recipe. But it’s one of those awful, awful things that my kids love! There wasn’t any left for my husband when he got home!

They are addicting because they have the texture of a cookie with the moistness of a cake and of course chocolate chip make everything tastier!

I confess, I made these at Christmas for my annual cookie tin. Yes, I know it’s March – that doesn’t make them any less delicious! I’d be more apt to call these little treats Hidden Kisses or Surprise Kisses or something like that, but Forgotten Kiss is the name of the original recipe so we’ll go with Forgotten Kisses, since you know, many kisses are better than just one, yes? Or, I guess, oui?

This is one in a series of cookies I made last year with random things baked into them! First I made Rolo Stuffed Cookies, then came Peanut Butter Stuffed Double Chocolate Chip Cookies and somewhere in there I also whipped up some Brownie Stuffed Chocolate Chip Cookies. Phew. The kids have been happy!

Forgotten Kisses Cookies via Tasty Kitchen
1 cup butter, softened
1/3 cup sugar
1/3 cup packed light brown sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 cups flour
1 cup mini chocolate chips
1 9oz. bag hershey kisses

Preheat your oven to 375F, then cream the butter with the sugars ad add the vanilla. Then add the flour.
Keep mixing till it’s creamy! Now go ahead and add the chocolate chips. The original recipe suggests you can use mini M&Ms instead of chocolate chips.
Unwrap all of your Christmasy kisses! Or whatever kind of kisses you’re using. I made these at Christmas for the first time so I used peppermint kisses.
Roll the dough into a ball and flatten it a little. Put the kiss in the middle and form the ball of dough around the chocolate.
Then do it again and again and again! Bake for about 10 minutes or so and voila!
They look like innocent chocolate chip cookies!
But they’re way tastier than that!!