Cookies
Chocolate Chip Cookie
I got this reciepe from my '100 Best Cookies by Better Homes and Garden' magazine. When I make Chocolate Chip Cookies, I usually stick to my mom's recipe but I decided to give these a try because the picture in the magazine looked delicious. The flavor of the cookie was good because of the combination of butter and shortening but they didn't flatten out very much which I would have preferred. Overall they were soft and chewy; here is the recipe below for you to try.
Chocolate Chip Cookies
3/4 Cups butter, softened
1/4 Cup Shortening
1 Cup packed brown sugar
1/2 Cup granulated sugar
3/4 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla
2 1/2 Cups flour
2 Cups chocolate chips
1) Preheat oven to 375F and line two cookie sheets with parchment paper
2) In a large bowl, beat well together butter and shortening for 30 secondds on medium to high speed
3) Add both sugars, baking soda, and salt and beat until well combined
4) Beat in eggs and vanilla until well combined
5) Mix in flour on low spead
6) Stir in chocolate chips
7) Place rounded teaspoon sizes on prepared cookie sheets and bake for 8-9min until the edges are slightly browned
8) Cool on pan for 5min then transfer cookies to cooling rack and enjoy!
Grandma's Shortbread
This is not actually my Grandma's Shortbread Cookie recipe but in fact this is what the recipe is called. I got this recipe on the back of the 'Canada Corn Starch' box and they are 'deliciously simple' as the box states. The cookies are light but buttey and soft but flakey. This is a good and quick recipe and who knew it would come off a corn starch box!
1/2 Cup (Canada) corn starch
1/2 Cup icing sugar
1 Cup all-purpose flour
3/4 Cup butter, softened
1) Sift together corn starch, icing sugar and flour
2) With a wooden spoon, blend in butter until soft and smooth dough forms
3) Roll dough out to about 1/4 in thick and cut into desired shapes with cookie cutters (if dough is too soft to handle, cover and chill for about 30-60min)
4) Bake at 300F for about 15-20min or until edges become lightly browned
5) Cool on a wire rack and enjoy!
Chocolate and Toffee Chip Cookies
When it comes to making chocolate chip cookies I don't like to steer too far away from my favorite recipe that I've posted here. I usually just change a few ingredients and hope for the best and this time it turned out well. I substituted the shortening for butter and added toffee baking bits instead of nuts but also kept the chocolate chips for extra goodness.
Chocolate and Toffee Chip Cookies
1 Cup butter, at room temperature
1/2 Cup golden brown sugar
3/4 Cup white sugar
2 Large eggs
2 tsp vanilla
2 Cups of all purpose flour
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1 1/2 Cups semisweet chocolate chips
1/2 Cup chopped toffee baking bits
1) Preheat oven to 350F and line two cookie sheets with parchment paper
2) In a large bowl, beat well together butter and sugars with an electric hand beater
3) Add eggs and vanilla to the sugar mixture and beat well
4) In separate bowl, mix together flour, soda, and salt
5) In two additions add flour mixture to egg mixture using a wooden spoon
6) Fold in chocolate chips and toffee bits
7) Drop cookies by rounded tablespoonfulls onto lined cookie sheets and bake for 10-12min (the less time, the chewier the cookie)
8) Cool on pan for 5min then transfer cookies to cooling rack and enjoy!
Thin and Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies
Sometimes mistakes are a good thing! I was too busy talking to my boyfriend when I started making this recipe that I didn't realize it when I added too much shortening to the recipe. Little did I know that the cookies actually turned out well, a little thinner and chewier than I wanted them to be but they still tasted great and I ate about 5 cookies everyday until they were gone! So this recipe turned out to be a good mistake.
Thin and Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies
1 3/4 Cups shortening
1/2 Cup brown sugar
3/4 Cup white sugar
2 Large eggs
2 tsp vanilla
2 Cups all purpose flour
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1 1/2 Cups chocolate chips
1) Preheat oven to 350F and line a cookie sheet with parchment paper
2) In a large bowl cream together shortening and both sugars until well mixed
3) Add eggs and vanilla and beat until well combined
4) Stir in flour, baking soda, and salt until cookie dough forms
5) Stir in chocolate chips
6) Scoop tsp size balls onto prepared cookie sheet and bake for 10-12min or until cookie edges are nicely browned
7) Because the cookies are so thin, keep them on the pan until almost completely cooled then transfer them to a wire rack to cool completely then enjoy!
Chocolate Chocolate Chip Cookie
I got this recipe from my '100 Best Cookies' magazine by Better Homes and Gardens. If your craving chocolate, these will definately satisfy your needs because they have cocoa powder, chocolate chips, and melted chocolate all in one cookie! Here's the recipe for you to enjoy!
Chocolate Chocolate Chip Cookie
3/4 Cups flour
1/4 Cup unsweetened cocoa powder
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
1 Cup semisweet chocolate pieces
3/8 butter, softened
3/4 Cups white granulated sugar
2 Eggs
1/2 tsp vanuilla
3/4 Cups chocolate chips
1) Preheat oven to 350F and line a cookie sheet with parchment paper
2) Stir together flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, and salt then set aside
3) In a medium saucepan melt 1 Tbsp butter and 1 Cup chocolate pieces until melted then set aside to slightly cool
4) In a seperate large bowl beat remaning butter with sugar on medium to high speed for 30sec.
5) Beat in eggs one at a time then beat in melted chocolate and vanilla
6) Beat in flour mixture until dough forms then stir in chocolate chips
7) Droup Tbsp size scoops onto cookie sheet and bake for 8-10min or until edges are slightly firm and tops are slightly cracked then enjoy!
Jam Thumprint Cookies
I've had this saskatoon berry jam in my cupboard for quite some time now and have been very curious to see what it taste like. I decided to make a classic baked jam treat: jam thumbprint cookies. These types of cookies used to be one my favorites growning up. My mom would buy this big round tin from the grocery store when I was younger and it would be filled with an assortment of cookies but I would always eat the jam filled ones first. This recipe is easy enough to make and the cornmeal gives the cookies a nice texture. Whats great about these cookies is that you can use any type of jam depending on your preference.
Mocha Mint Cookies
I went to this restaurant one night and ordered this drink called Matty's Mint Mudslide and it had to be one of the best beverages I've had. It was like a mocha milkshake with a hint of mint flavor. I was craving one of them today and was too lazy to go back to the restaurant so I decided to recreate the drink into a cookie form. They turned out great, very soft and chewy, and definately satisfied my craving. The were full of chocolate flavor and had just enough hints of mint and coffee flavors that weren't too overpowering.
Cake Crumb Oatmeal Cookies
I decided to try out a new recipe the other day from a cookbook that my mom gave me a long time ago. The recipe didn't exactly turn out as planned (I've decided to blame the recipe in the cookbook rather than blame myself on the mistake) and I ended up with a plate full of cake crumbs. I hate wasting food and I don't have that much money right now to spend on ingredients, so I could either A) eat all the crumbs to myself or B) find some other recipe to use them in. Thanks to my wonderful friend Google, I was able to discover this website and used the recipe called 'Cake Crumb Cookies' from ICES article 1-94 by Carl Nixon-TX.
Christmas Sugar Cut-Out Cookies
It's the season for cookies! What better way to start it off than with loads and loads of Chirstmas decorated sugar cookies. The wonderful company of Ann Clark Cookie Cutters sent me some samples to try out and I decided to put them to the test today! The cookie cutters are adorable (they have a huge variety of different collections), easy to use (they all have big handles to help you) and very big (the bigger the cookie, the better!!)
