Thursday, January 20, 2011

Hot Chocolate Cookies.....mmmm for a brrrrr kind of day

Hot Chocolate Cookies:

I won't lie, I got this idea for a cookie from somewhere else. However I did my normal thing and changed up the recipe up a little. Here's the recipe for you to enjoy and see.

INGREDIENTS:

-2 sticks room temperature butter
-1 cup
sugar
-2/3 cup brown sugar

-2 eggs
-2 tsp. vanilla extract

-3 1/4 cups flour

-4 pkgs. Hot Chocolate Mix (not sugar free)
-1 tsp salt
-3/4 tsp cinnamon

-1 1/4 tsp baking soda

-1 cup mini chocolate chips

-2 cup mini marshmallows

"the gathering of the ingredients"


Directions:

1). In large bowl cream butter and 2 sugars together.


2). Add vanilla and eggs (one at a time) and mix well.

3). In a separate bowl mix together flour, hot chocolate mix, salt, cinnamon, and baking soda.

"magic happens when wet meets dry"

4). Slowly add in the dry ingredients to the wet.

5). Fold in the Choc Chips.

6). Let cool in fridge for 1 hour.

"not your average tube o dough"

At this point I was a little skeptical about the cookies turning out well since the dough looked really, really dry. At this point though what do I have to lose. So I ventured onward......


"these little guys aren't baked yet"



"this guy is"


6). Place approximately teaspoon sized cookies on cookie sheet i
n preheated 350ΕΎΕΎ degree oven and bake for 8 minutes. After 8 minutes pull the cookies out and place 2-3 marshmallows on each cookie and press down.....

"they look so good, but not quite done yet"

Bake 2-3 minutes longer.


7). Enjoy!!

"fin!"

Saturday, January 1, 2011

Going Live; New year now time to get baking.

First Post; introduction and first cookie picture:

This is a Christmas tree cookie. 8 layers of sugar cookies, green butter cream frosting, glittery yellow decorating gel set as the garland, red and blue decorator's icing as ornaments, and a yellow star from the Swedish Fish Aqua life candy.

The icing could have been done better but also my phone camera....not the best. In future posts I will have step by step photos. To those that got to enjoy this at Christmas time....it was delish as all agreed.

The point of this blog is to get people interested in the work that I do and improve what I do. I hope everyone enjoys this and please leave feedback. :-)

PS
the look of this blog and even the name may change over the next few weeks till i love how it looks, sounds and maybe even smells.