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Handle the Heat The Ultimate Guide to Chocolate Chip Cookies

Handle the Heat The Ultimate Guide to Chocolate Chip Cookies
Click here for Part 2! Have you ever wondered why chocolate chip cookies can be chewy, crisp, soft, flat, thick, cakey, greasy, bland, flavorful, moist, or crumbly? In this post I’m going to share with you how various ingredients and techniques can affect the taste, texture, and appearance of your chocolate chip cookies. This will hopefully help you understand how chocolate chip cookies work so you can make the PERFECT batch every time, whatever you consider to be perfect. This information will allow you to alter or create your own chocolate chip recipe that produces cookies just the way YOU like them. You’ll be an expert on the anatomy of the chocolate chip cookie. I used the Nestle Tollhouse Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe as my control and made little changes and variations in techniques and ingredients to show you how they affect the cookie. I halved and adapted the original Tollhouse recipe and that is what you see here. Ingredients: Directions: Preheat oven to 350°F. Baking Powder:

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Cinco de Mayo piñata cookies Video how-to: Pinata Cookies Ingredients: 1 cup sugar1 cup powdered sugar1 cup butter1 cup vegetable oil2 eggs1 teaspoon cream of tartar1 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon almond extract1 teaspoon baking soda5 cups flour1 tablespoon vanillaMini M&M candies1/2 cup powdered sugar (frosting)2 teaspoons milk (frosting) Directions to make piñata sugar cookies: Cream sugars with butter. Split dough into five, even-sized balls and one smaller ball (this will be the black one). Use a container the same approximate width of your donkey/burro piñata cookie cutter, and line it with plastic food wrap. Cover the layered dough and freeze for four hours or overnight. Remove the dough from the container and unwrap from the plastic. Immediately after you take them out of the oven, use your burro piñata cookie cutter to cut the cookie shapes. Create the hidden pocket For the middle cookies in each set, cut off the ears and legs, and cut out the center where the M&Ms will go. Assembling the piñata cookies

Mug Recipes 16 Tips From The Depression Era That Are Actually Life Hacks 1 XXL Death by Chocolate Cookie A giant double chocolate cookie that is easy to make and extra fudgy inside. Tastes like an oversized brownie! Hi my name is Sally and I am in love with giant cookies. Nice to meet you. If you have been reading SBA for awhile, you may already know about my affinity for large cookies. You can make them in less than 20 minutes too! Each cookie recipe is suited to satisfy monster cookie cravings. I’m going to be completely honest with you when I say that giant cookies taste better than regular cookies. The recipe to make this giant chocolate cookie explosion is quite easy. This recipe is like any chocolate cookie recipe, just downsized. You probably have all of the ingredients in your kitchen right now. The ingredients are mixed by hand. When all of your cookie ingredients are all mixed together, shape it into a big ball of dough on top of your cookie sheet. The second time I made this cookie (yes, twice), I added little heart-shaped sprinkles. (Always room for sprinkles.) Print Recipe

Eve Post Apple - Make Your Own Alkaline Vitamin Water Find... Growing Ginger as a Houseplant July 26th, 2010 I just LOVE ginger, gingersnaps, gingerbread, gingered beef, anything with ginger in it. I use fresh ginger, powdered ginger and crystallized ginger. Crystallized ginger finds it’s way into just about everything I bake from scones to cobblers and we love it on our oatmeal! I tried last year without success to start some ginger to grow as a houseplant. Pick a few rhizomes that have some buds on them. Fill a large pot, at least 12″, with good potting soil and place the rhizomes on top of the soil with the buds facing down. Keep the container well watered and be patient. I’ve read that it takes about a year for the plant to grow roots big enough to harvest. Have you ever tried to grow ginger or any other tropical spices?

Sweet Potato-Pecan Cookies Recipe - Sweet Potato Cookies Sweet potato cookies with pecans, butter, and an optional orange glaze. Scroll down to see more sweet potato recipes. Ingredients: 1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour1 1/2 tsp baking soda1 1/2 tsp baking powder1/2 tsp salt1/4 tsp nutmeg4 ounces unsalted butter, softened3/4 cup light brown sugar, packed1 large egg, room temperature1 cup well-mashed or pureed sweet potatoes1/4 tsp vanilla1 tsp finely grated orange rind1/2 cup chopped pecans.Optional Glaze1 cup confectioners' sugar2 tablespoons orange juice Preparation: Sift together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, and nutmeg into a bowl; set aside. Drop batter by teaspoonfuls onto lightly buttered cookie sheets, leaving about 1 1/2 inches between them. If desired glaze with a mixture of 1 cup confectioners' sugar and 2 tablespoons orange juice (or enought to make a thin glaze consistency) while cookies are still warm. Sweet Potato RecipesSide Dish Casseroles

Snack Hacks: Microwave Edition Got a craving for cake, but don’t feel like spending hours baking a full-sized one? Even if you’re not a pastry chef, try making this microwaveable Nutella Mug Cake recipe! With only 4 ingredients, this mini-cake is super quick to whip up in your microwave. It’s just the right size for you to indulge in all by yourself! And who doesn’t love Nutella!? Here’s how to make it: 4 Tbsp flour1/4 tsp baking powder1/4 cup Nutella3 Tbsp milk Whisk everything together in a large mug until smooth. Source: Kirbie’s Cravings Celery--Free Plants to Grow Guest Post from Linda at Practical Parsimony. Thank you, Linda–I’m going to have to try this! No, I do not like to buy celery. It is rather over-priced in my opinion. As long as I can grow even what I have in the last ten days, cheaply, I will not buy the expensive, poisoned vegetable, celery. This is the first of many plants I intend to grow with the bottom, usually discarded, celery head. This will be a cut-and-come-again plant, used for fresh and eventually cut for dehydrating. Someone had a blog post with a tutorial on how to grow celery from the end of the stalk, you know–what you cut off and do not eat. When I did the celery rescue and froze it, I had cut off the end with the intention of growing celery like the blogger did. Today, April 2, I got all my supplies out for this experiment. These are the supplies I took outside. Cut the holes or slits for drainage before you cut the top. Here, I have filled the jug with soil, heaped up. Your turn

Tired Feet Hey guys! I finally made it back! This was a LONG day on my feet, and I’m not used to that anymore! This morning I did another 3-minute cookie, but used the Amazing Grass instead of cocoa powder. Below are the ingredients I’ve been using in mine: 1/4 cup oats1/8 cup egg whites1 packet Truvia1 packet Chocolate Amazing Grass1 Tbsp peanut butter1 Tbsp plain yogurt1/4 tsp vanilla1/4 tsp baking powder1-2 Tbsp chocolate chips (these are 60% cocao) Mix them all together in a bowl: And microwave on high for 1 minute. The cookie should fall right out, and look something like this: I would just recommend everyone at least pour water into the bowl immediately for easy cleanup! On the way to the convention center I stopped at Starbucks for a cup of coffee: And I got a cranberry almond Kind bar (potential snackage) And some dehydrated apples. The snowsports show was a lot of fun…didn’t hurt that my company’s booth was the biggest, coolest one there! This was such a crazy long and busy day!

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