Last night I was tired. 
So tired in fact that in the midst of watching Lord of the Rings I passed out on the couch only to be awakened by my husband at a late hour to go to real bed. Crankily I stumbled up the stairs while he cleaned up my mess in the kitchen and let the dogs out, brushed my teeth, and threw my body into our bed. This morning I woke up and realized, “CRAP!!!! I forgot to make treats for the office!!!”
I never really talk about it a lot on here, but every week I make something fun for our office on Thursday. Hey, I like to make people happy and as it turns out it’s a great place to share food that would just be a sin to keep to ourselves. Incidentally the treat-making didn’t start out that way though; I just missed baking a LOT and started doing it again. The problem? We kept it at home which is just bad when something’s good and you have no self-control around good things. So off to the office I went and it’s become a weekly ritual. I would highly recommend doing this yourself too…the cost of making stuff every week is actually not that high, you get to bake amazing things, and then you get to make people’s days. How bad could that be?
The answer is not bad at all! 
So anyway, I turned to one of my absolute favorite blogs for some inspiration and decided to lazy-fy Jessica‘s Salted Mud Slide Cookies. And by lazy-fy I mean make the batter and then smoosh it all into a big pan and bake it off into cookie bars. Because at 5am making individual cookies is just not an option. 
Once again she did NOT disappoint! The recipe is perfect although I made some changes based on accident and on-hand ingredients: I used Bailey’s in lieu of Kahlua, I accidentally added 2 whole eggs because I didn’t pay attention, and I used baking powder instead of baking soda because for some reason (and I have no scientific or chemical information here) baking powder works better at high altitudes with baking.
So since I know you’re inspired to start making stuff for your office every day now make this one your first batch of goodies. Making people’s days is fun…promise!
Nice one! They look so good, all chocolatey and salty.
I don’t know what I would do if I didn’t have my co-workers to share treats with! oh yes, I’d have to buy much bigger pants! I work with all women, so they are easily eaten up. I love turning cookies into bars, so easy!
What an awesome way to turn these into a completely different dessert! Love the salt on top!
Weekly treats?! You’re just the person everyone wants to have in their office, me included! By the way, I just went on chocolate overload after clicking over to Jessica’s blog. I have a feeling that bad things will happen to my waistline if I keep reading. Sigh.
Bookmarking these and off to check out Jessica’s blog. Thankx 🙂
Love the bar version!
I love this lazy version 🙂
Sounds delicious. Lucky office.
I need to take a clue from you and making cookies into bars! So yummy. I always forget.
Out of her recipes this week, I would’ve picked this one too. I was drooling the second I saw them. I like your lazy-fied version 🙂
“Lazy-fy and accident and on-hand” apparently go well together! I’m just wanting some ice cream on top of mine.
wow yum!!
Dying to try these!
I think you should copyright lazy-fy 🙂
Wonderful post Heather; can’t think of how many times I’ve fallen asleep on the couch! Hate that moment when you realize you have to get up to go to bed!
These mudslide bars sound lip smacking delicious. I’m going to make them for Marina to take tomorrow to university.
Thanks!