cookie cake!

Check out the "I love you" (in Hebrew) cookie cake I made for Adam for Valentine's day!

Get Your Bake On

A week off from school clearly called for some baking: I made my mom's crispy chocolate chip cookie recipe. Featured here are all the ingredients needed: 3.5 cups white whole wheat flour, a cup of sugar, a cup of light brown sugar, a tbsp baking soda, a tsp salt, a tbsp milk, 2 tsp vanilla, an egg, a stick of butter, a stick of margarine, 3/4 cup canola oil and chocolate chips, oats, and corn flakes (1 cup each). This recipe makes A LOT of cookie dough and it freezes really well, so today I only made a few cookies and then froze the rest of the dough for when the girls come to visit next week. First I sifted the flour with the baking soda and salt. Then I used the mixer (I am a lucky duck to have a kitchen aid; an amazing gift from ADG's mom--I believe it first belonged to adam's grandma-- the gift that keeps on giving!) to cream the butter/marg/sugar/brown sugar/vanilla/milk/egg etc. Then I slowly added the oil and flour to mix together and voila: crispy chocolate cookie dough! Pictured here are the cookies on my new plate, an awesome bday surprise from LKK.

crispy choc chip cookies!

So my mom has this awesome recipe for crispy chocolate cookies. Everything is in these babies: choc chips, corn flakes, oats, light brown sugar, regular sugar, etc etc. Adam's mom is amazing and gave me a kitchen aid mixer and I really wanted to test it out so I figured whats better than cookies?? My first real baking experience on my own, and they taste awesome. The batter is so huge that I froze most of it, so now I have three batches of dough to make more cookies later on. Come visit me and I'll save some for you!