Baking and me dont mix, I am especially scared of baking anything that has yeast involved. I am in awe of my mother who can whip up German tea cake in a jiffy, I didnt inherit the baking genes from her.And then I found out the outcome of baking something has a lot to do with altitude or was it latitude. So I decide to tackle and perfect the easiest or so I think baking recipes, cookies..I would really never thought about baking cookies but with kids, its almost like a “must do” and I find baking to be if not, one of the most kid friendly stuff a kid can do in the kitchen.
So if any of my readers hv any great cookie recipe, by all means feel free to share but I think I might hv gone to cookie heaven with this recipe and a healthier alternative that need some getting used too.
The Sinful one (taken from Anna Olson, Foodnetwork.ca, choc chip cookies)
3/4 cup butter – room temperature (i use margarine)
1 cup brown sugar
1/4 cup white sugar
1 large egg
vanilla (i use 2 tsp)
2 cups all purpose flour
2 tsp cornstarch
1 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp salt (recipe calls for 1/2 tsp, but i dont like salty cookies)
chocolate chips (i use semi sweet, almost 3 cups but then again I am a chocoholic, 1 cup should do it though)
Bake at 350F/175C for 9 minutes, let cool and enjoy
they come out really chewy and super super good, one of those when you eat one, you want another one kind and the kids approve!
A word of caution, the cookie dough taste so good that I had to literally pry it away from Ava. I blame myself that I introduce her to cookie dough that she now goes for it when she sees me bake cookies..bad mommy
now the healthier version, it taste a little nutty, again i think it needs some getting used too but otherwise equally good.
1 1/4 cup whole wheat flour
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp salt
1/2 cup margarine
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/2 tsp vanilla (i use 1 tsp)
1 large egg
1/2 cup chocolate chip (of course i use more..lol)
bake in oven at 375F for 9 minutes…though depends if you like it crispy or chewy..i baked it at 11 minutes, they came out fine but then it hardened when its cool, so not my thing. so 9 minutes should be fine.
well, off to hide all the cookies before its gone in one afternoon. with daddy home, I am glad I am able to bake in peace, though the picture of the day was of the kids with their faces to the oven little window looking at the cookies, that is priceless.
Gosh, now I really wanna try the sinful cookies. Shucks..that means I gotta get me some brown sugar.
By: Vien on December 21, 2008
at 2:51 am
Vien, i dont hv brown sugar in the house, what i do is i put white sugar with 1 tbsp and a tiny bit more (1/4 tsp) of fancy molasses and grind them in the food processor, works the same. also i had to add more flour to it, maybe its because of my house temp, but you know how cookie dough should look like.
By: aida on December 21, 2008
at 10:42 am
Aida, I commend you on the baking pursuits especially with young children and remember that half of it is the shared process not just the end results.
Molasses works as well as brown sugar and used that substitution in recent short breads.
My last post has some good short bread and pastry recipes plus a few grade (aka 1987 ) on perceptions of what mothers and grandmothers cook.
Enjoy both your baking disasters and succeses!
By: Bonnie on December 22, 2008
at 12:14 am
bonnie is so right. baking and cooking are my passions, and i find the learning process to be even more important than the end results. of course, getting awesome results is always a great thing, but you dont learn if you make no mistakes!
i’m more into cakes than cookies, but i do have an awesome cornflake cookie recipe which i inherited frm my mom. u want? we’ve got tons of traditional cookie recipes, actually. not so much of modern ones. hehehe
By: babybooned on December 22, 2008
at 6:24 am
wah! aida – u very teh dahsyat. i would say that u are somewhat like my mom is many ways….sewing so clever, baking also so dahsyat. def a good role model for mums with tiny tots!!
like u, i didnt inherit any baking talents from my mum but perhaps the sewing interest is there la – thank god! lol
By: yvy on December 22, 2008
at 8:21 am