Mix hunger, photography, and culinary skills. Add procrastination. Mix until incorporated.
I have a vendetta against store-bought cookies. I don’t usually like them. I used to, that is, before I experienced the deliciousness that is making your own cookies. Cookies fresh from the oven, gooey…chewy… there’s nothing quite like it. Especially not compared to their store-bought counterparts, which are usually either crunchy and crumbly, or too sweet and almost soggy. I love me some chewy, oatmeal cookies, and this recipe nails it.
Oh boy I am just on a posting spree this month! However, it’s been a few weeks since I did the Craft (that’s the catering lingo in showbiz) for a friend’s production and I made these cookies. I thought I’d share it now while I let you know about something really important that’s going to change about how you read your favourite blogs.
At every holiday season, I always draw a blank whenever I need ideas for holiday-baking. I had almost nothing for Valentine’s, but immediately after, I though UGH I want to make lava cakes. Those are totally Valentine’s-y. Also I want to make chocolate bonbons. That would have been GREAT for Valentine’s. Finally I have made something that can be sort of St. Patrick’s day related, unlike my somewhat holiday-reference fail from last year. I mean it was delicious. But it didn’t really catch on as St. Patty’s related. [Read more...]
I’m aliiiiiive! Sorry for the outstanding hiatus. A plethora of things kept me preoccupied but I’m back and in full swing! Welcome to my new blog =) Things are still under construction but I plan on adding lots of things in the upcoming months while I procrastinate my life away with this blog. First things first, I really hope I haven’t lost any of my lovely readers, but in case you were subscribed by email on my old blog, please resubscribe by filling out this form! I’m 99% sure that the RSS feed is still the same, so if that’s how you read my blog, you should be safe =)
Um so in the past few days, something has pretty much changed my life a second time around. No, it is not a profession of my love of peanut butter, although let’s be real, I’m pretty sure peanut butter would be my second favourite food over rice. (I just realized that this post is about something that is literally peanut butter over rice). It changed my life when I was around 14, shifting me from the stereotypical asian who liked math (and got the Math Award…and Art Award funnily enough after graduating grade 8) to someone who fell in love with words.
Chris’ mom sends him these amazing care packages with lots of goodies, including these bad boys. I’m 90% sure these are his favourite cookies, and I definitely can see why. They’re a very light, spongey and addictive cookie. The sour cream adds a softness and texture like no other cookie you’ve had before. It’s like you’re eating a cloud. Chris and I would wolf these cookies down as soon as they came in, and then we’d eat the cheese sticks, and then the nuts and bolts. I’m participating in The Great Food Blogger Cookie Swap and these are the cookies I sent out!
Have I ever told you folks why I bake? I bake because it’s how I deal with stress. It’s funny, you’d think that if I had all the time in the world, I would bake more. That’s actually when I bake the least. Now that I’ve graduated, I’ve had a bit of a hard time trying to find a job. With a degree under my belt, I was gung-ho about becoming a real, live, paid translator. But alas, everybody needs 3-5 years experience and frankly, I’m fresh out of university and I’ve only got about a year or two’s worth. So all this running around trying to find work is making me feel a might stressed, so I bring you cookies! These were inspired by Accidentally Domesticated’s post on Dark Chocolate Cookies. Her cookies looked so freaking good I had to try a batch myself. These cookies are almost like brownies, except with lovely surprise pockets of salty goodness.
These macs were a bit of a disaster. I noticed that more and more of my batches were getting cracked, so I decided to lower the temperature to 300 instead of 350, and boy oh boy was that a mistake. Check out the fail: [Read more...]
