Today’s recipe is quick and easy and just hits the spot if you are a chocolate chip cookie fan but want something just a little different.

Chocolate Chip Cookie Rescue Moon Pie
Prep Time: 15 miutes
Bake Time: 55 minutes
Yield: 8 servings

Ingredients
1 (9-inch) deep dish pie pastry unbaked
2 large eggs
1/2 cup all-purpose flour
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1/2 cup brown sugar packed
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/2 cup butter softened
1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
1 cup pecans or walnuts chopped
vanilla ice cream to taste, for serving

Directions
1 – Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F.
2 – lace the pie shell into a pie plate.
3 – In a large bowl, use an electric mixer to beat the eggs on high speed until they are foamy and pale in color.
4 – Beat the flour, the granulated sugar, the brown sugar, and the vanilla into the egg mixture until it is combined.
5 – Beat the butter into the sugar mixture until it is combined.
6 – Stir the chocolate chips and the nuts into the filling mixture.
7 – Spoon the filling into the pie shell.
8 – Bake the pie until a knife inserted halfway between the edge and the center comes out clean, about 55 minutes-1 hour. Tent the pie with foil if the crust begins to brown too quickly.
9 – Cool the pie on a wire rack.
10 – Slice and serve warm with the ice cream.

As Dana Peterson is quick to agree, sometimes a girl just needs chocolate chip cookies but she doesn’t always have time to make, scoop, bake, scoop, bake… She tumbled across this recipe and realized how simple and quick it is and it comes with all the mouth-watering rewards of a soft, warm chocolate chip cookie. As a bonus, her mate Hawkins “Hawk” Greenwood always makes sure that she has plenty of ice cream to go on top. And yes, Hawk has been known to eat one or two slices himself. Hawk rescued the former anthropoligist and prep school teacher from a Mexican drug cartel. Their hair-raising adventures are recounted in RESCUE MOON. For those of you who have read it, maybe it’s time for a reread and if you didn’t leave a review the first time, maybe now? If you’re new to the Moonstruck world, this one stands alone even though familiar characters pop up on cameos. Interested? Just click on either pic or the title and you’ll be whisked away to Books2Read where you can find your preferred on-line bookseller. Now tell me…who doesn’t love chocolate chip coookie anything?