Last week I finally got around to making the chocolate chip cookies for which Kate Swaffer had kindly provided a recipe on her blog. You can find it here and she posts new recipes daily. It is quite a treasure trove of trade secrets and family friendly food.
Kate is a fantastic chef so I followed her recipe closely. The only modifications I made to her recipe were to use chocolate and caramel chips instead of chocolate chips, nuts and dried fruit. They were easily the best cookies I've made and they were all gone within 24 hours of baking.
Ingredients:
125g butter
1/2 teaspoon vanilla essence
1/2 cup castor sugar
1/2 cup firmly packed brown sugar
1 egg
1 3/4 cups self-raising flour
1 cup chocolate chips
1 cup caramel chips
Preheat the oven to 180 degrees and have your baking trays lined and ready.
I did as Kate instructed and beat the butter, sugar and vanilla together, then added the egg.
Then I sifted in the flour and mixed it through with the wooden spoon, resulting in a delicious dough mass that looked like this...
Next I decided to split the giant dough ball in half as I wanted half of the cookies to be plain chocolate chip and the other half to have caramel chips in them too. I scattered some flour on the bench and kneaded the chips through the dough.
Next I rolled the dough into balls and placed them on the tray about 4 cm apart as recommended. I put them in the oven and baked them for 15 minutes, by which time they looked and smelled absolutely delicious.
They came out of the oven looking like this... notice the tiny cookie on the top right hand corner of each tray? I made a tiny "marker cookie" for each tray so that I could tell one had the pure chocolate chip and which had the the chocolate/caramel ones. The "marker cookie" is just a tiny blob of dough with a couple of chocolate chips or caramel chips on top.
And because I'm calling these infrequent cooking escapades "Wanker Chef", I arranged my seriously delicious cookies in an appropriately wankerish fashion. I urge you all to go to Kate's blog and give this recipe a go for yourself, you won't regret it.
OMG! They look ah-mazing! I am definitely going to try this recipe Eliza.
ReplyDeleteP.S. Still loving the blog, it's a bright spot in my days. :)
Thanks for sharing this wonderful photographed 'Eliza version' of the CHocolate Chip cookie recipe; Cheong Liew always taught us to make anyrecipe we tried our own, which I loved about him. He was precious about his food at the Hilton, but becasue he had to be, but not in his teaching at Regency Park.
ReplyDeleteAnd I'm with Anonymous, I love reading your blog, and am so glad you didn't give it up. xox
hi Liza
ReplyDeleteI also am enjoying your blog very much, and these cookies look really good though possibly not very good for a person with slowed down metabolism such as me ! Still, I think they might be tried one weekend. Felt a bit miffed last weekend when out shopping with my daughter, I admit it was an unexpected trip and I was not looking my best; but a stupid young sales assistant asked if I was her grandma !!! the cheek !! I had to go for coffee and cake immediately. Have also joined a new gym, I'll show her !
Great news about your results, well done.
I was a bit surprised to hear you are going to keep on with paramedics but now that I see your reasoning I understand it and think it makes sense.
Keep up the good work.
good luck for the next semester etc.
Ali
That is ridiculous Al, you look great!! If you want real revenge against the rude sales assistant though, just take Patsy with you next time you go there! I'm not thrilled to do another semester of paramedics, but none of the mid year entry options were all that good. I figured I was better off sticking with what I'm doing on a slightly reduced load than transfer into another course that I don't really want to be doing. I'm happy do wait to apply for courses I do want to do next year. Hope you are well xxx
DeleteThat sounds fair enough, sensible in fact.
DeleteI also like the idea about taking Patsy next time.
All good here, nice to here the brother is home safely - food consumption in the household will increase again.