Flour Flew

While dorms may not have ovens or dishwashers or mixers or even counters, it's surprising how many culinary delicacies have been made in the basement/snack room of my dorm. I've seen girls make fudge, rice krispy treats, reese's peanut butter bars, oreo balls, stir-fry with noodles, and a multitude of things I never would have believed. As you know, I myself learned how to make muffins and even chocolate chip cookies in a sandwich maker. But the food that was created in the snack room of my dorm on Thursday night blew all those away. We made cookie dough truffles. Cookie Dough. Truffles.

My friend and co-worker, Darla, posted the recipe on my facebook wall, to which I replied, "I think we could make those in the dorms..."
From there, Dani and Sarah, two grad students who also work with us, jumped on the bandwagon of goodness and wanted to make them too. So we decided to make a party of it. We gathered in the snack room with all our ingredients and here's what happened . . .

Oh yeah, I got pictures. Cool, huh? My friend loaned me his camera. Don't tell him, but it took a while to clean it off afterward. It got kinda messy. It's clean now though. I swear. 

Every good recipe begins with butter and brown sugar. Amen.

Dani's disembodied hand added a lot of ingredients

Look at the adorable mini-bag of flour! Stho adooorable...

I'm not going to mention how many times I sprayed this mix all over my comrades

I have a problem with fast-moving objects and liquidy stuff

There was a lot of flour required. The dough was getting to dry...What to do?

Oh, hello gorgeous. Will you help our dry mixture?

Sweetened condensed milk saves the day!

Look at that action shot! Pioneer Woman would be so proud.

Here's where the mixer begins to make whiny, groaning sounds as it churns

Still mixin...

Yeah, we were excited about dough.

Sarah was reeeeally excited

I wasn't super excited until we added the CHOCOLATE.

An attempt at an action shot.... it didn't work. But I forgive it because it's CHOCOLATE

This is when we all unrestrainedly shoved our hands into the bowl and ate the whole thing

Kidding. We're not that disgusting. Relax, okay? We used forks instead of our hands.

Is there anything more beautiful than a bowl of dough? I contend that there is not

Next we had to roll it into balls. WE WASHED OUR HANDS FIRST. Safety is key. No germs allowed in our food.

Dani and I were excited about rolling it into balls. I don't know about Darla and Sarah . . . they're slackers.

Then we popped em in the fridge! Ignore the weird things in the bottom...it's a community fridge

What's better than cookie dough? Cookie dough dipped in chocolate.

We were excited about dipping them . . . ok, we were basically excited the whole night.

Oh yum.

That spoon drowned in the chocolate. We discussed whether that would be a good way to die. What do you think?

Look how orderly Sarah is

Look at how delicious these look. Hungry?

I got impatient and threw in a bunch at a time. They had a party in the chocolate. Woohoo!

Rollin', rollin'

Finished! Oh yeah.

Seriously though, these were so rich that after two I was finished. We actually had to make a McDonald's run to get some salty to combat the sweet. But they were SO GOOD. And now that you've looked through the other 50,000 pictures, I know you wanna see 1 more.

The cooking crew of BJU

And that, my friends, is the story of us.