Showing posts with label Chocolate. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Chocolate. Show all posts

Friday, June 5, 2009

Crazed Cocoa Consumer, I Am, I Am!



You know what Friday means... We get to put food on our dishes! We have Gollum to thank for that each week! Hope you come visit her and all of the participants so we can indulge in all kinds of goodies without gaining a pound! (Unless of course you go and have the crazy idea of trying several of them on your own on the same day!)

The reason for the title is because... I made another batch of chocolate cookies! I wanted to make another batch of my own "Slim Cocoas" cookies because Mike, my neighbor Annette's husband requested some. But for the life of me, I could not find the paper I wrote the recipe on! So, in an effort to recreate it, I made these instead! And I'd like to share it with all of you!


(Plate is "Shadow Iris" by Corelle)

Chandy's Chocolate Cookies


Preheat oven to 375 degrees

2 3/4 cups AP flour

1/4 cup cocoa powder

1 1/2 tsp baking soda

1 tsp baking powder

2 eggs

2 sticks of butter or margarine, softened and cut small

1 1/2 cups white sugar

1 tsp pure vanilla extract

a pinch of salt


- In a small bowl, SIFT together the flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, baking powder and salt. Sifting helps with the lightness of the cookies. Set aside.

- Cream together the butter and sugar in a big bowl until smooth.

- Beat in one egg at a time then add in the vanilla extract.

- Slowly pour in the dry ingredients until well blended in the same consistency as a chocolate ice cream.

- Using a small scoop, put in 12-13 alternating rows of 2 and 3 balls of dough on ungreased cookie sheets.

- Bake 8-10 minutes or until top is no longer domed and slight cracking at the top has occured.

- Cool it slowly on cookie sheets, about 2 minutes, before moving onto cooling racks.


(I lightened this phot so you can see the creamy inside with a light crispy outside)


Have milk ready and limit serving to two cookies! Hope you try them. Our next door neighbor's entire family loved them and my children kept begging for more!

Thanks Gollum for hosting again this week! I am becoming more courageous in baking now since I've joined Foodie Friday! (Ladies, actually it's all of your fault, making all these wonderful dishes!) ;o)

TABLESCAPING IDEA: ("Brain" is buzzed on sugar...) Are you as much a chocoholic and a dishaholic as I am? Well combine the two! Create a brown table! No flowers or leaves just brown or cream.

Friday, May 8, 2009

Bad Cupcakes, Baaaad Cupcakes!

Hosted by Designs by Gollum

Why? Because they are so good! Each one is so moist, soft, fluffy and full of cheesecake frosting with cinnamon sugar sprinkles goodness!

Mmmm... I. AM. SO. GLAD. TO. HAVE. EATEN. ONLY. ONE!!! Yay for will power!

I just used a regular Devil's Food Chocolate Cake mix but instead of the time that said in the box, I pulled the pans out two-three minutes earlier and let them cool for about 10 minutes. Then, instead of making my own chocolate frosting, I found some whipped cheesecake frosting, topped each one, spiked it up with the spreader then carefully sprinkled cinnamon sugar that we made ourselves! It. is. to. die. for.... Please, please only take one- for your own sake! ;-)


An aerial view to show off my milkware cake stand I got thru Freecycle! It is perfect for all things worth showing off! ;-) Here is my attempt at sneaking up to one, hee, hee!


I couldn't help myself, I've been in the tablescape mode all week, so of course, I'd do a simple one again to showcase my delish cupcake, Mikasa Annette "dessert plates" (really saucers), and Asian 3-pc coffee and creamer set (in my case, hot cocoa!)

Here's the cupcake upclose, want one? Go ahead! Take one!

Ok, make sure you don't eat it all at once... Isn't it pretty and smells wonderful? It is!

Gollum, thanks for a great theme this week! My children and dh love you right now! ;-)

Make sure you check out all the delish fares today, if not all the cakes!

Niceties first

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