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Sunday, February 6, 2011

Double Chocolate Chip Cookies




Saturday we celebrated my Dad's birthday. My Mom put me in charge of baking the cake. In addition, I also baked cookies for the kids. My nephews enjoyed eating them after playing all day in the snow!
Hope you are having a wonderful Sunday or Monday to my friends overseas!

Recipe:

  • 1 cup butter, softened
  • 1 1/2 cup white sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • 2 tsp vanilla
  • 2 cups flour
  • 2/3 cup cocoa powder
  • 3/4 tsp baking soda
  • 1/4 tsp salt
  • 2 cup semisweet chocolate chips
  • 1/2 cup walnuts( optional)
  1. preheat oven to 350F (175C)
  2. beat butter, sugar, eggs and vanilla 
  3. combine flour, cocoa, baking soda and salt and stir into butter mixture till well blended.
  4. bake 8-10 minutes
(makes about 2 1/2 dozen)

Monday, June 28, 2010

The squirrel ate the cookies



Would you purchase these cookies if you saw them on the shelf? Well I did, I mean chocolate and chili, just what a Mexican gal eats. Alright, I won't lie, I thought it was a strange combination so of course I had to purchase them and have a tasting event ,and guess who ate them all? The squirrel or Me?
After the first bite, I didn't taste the chili, so I ate the second cookie, the chocolate melted in my mouth so I had to eat a third one, just to make sure. After eating all 12 cookies I will be honest, they were ordinary triple chocolate chip cookies, very similar to Chips Ahoy. So would I buy them again? They were a bit too crunchy for my taste, I prefer eating soft chewy cookies. Plus for the price of 19.99 kunas ($4 dollars) you can buy several pieces of the local baked pastries. Sorry El Tequito but these cookies need a heavier dose of chilies to be called Chili Cookies. What strange foods have you come across when you go grocery shopping?

(Disclosure Note: A few years ago when we lived in Colorado I followed a recipe for double-chocolate chip cookies and I over baked them! So I placed them outside the balcony to rid the house of the burnt smell, well I didn't count on my small neighbor, the squirrel, to enjoy my burnt cookies.)


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