In addition to blogging, I've been working on my baking skills lately. I just realized that a recipe book came with my KitchenAid mixer -- the mixer I got almost two years ago (thanks Doreen!).
Last weekend I made a batch of chocolate chip cookies and (insert gasp noise here) they were edible!!! In fact, we ate them all within a few short days. I even took a risk and used half regular flour and half whole wheat flour. A little extra fiber in the diet is good for the soul...among other things. What better way to get an extra dose of fiber than in a cookie?!
Tanner even requested MORE cookies, so I made some oatmeal raisin and another batch of chocolate chip. The oatmeal raisin cookie recipe came from a book about cookies. They turned out to be quite spongy and kind of weird - a cross between a muffin and a cookie, really. Tanner refers to them as muffkies.
Here's the chocolate chip cookie recipe straight from the KitchenAid book:
I highly recommend trying the whole wheat flour. Don't use too much though, or your cookies will be really dense. Dense cookies are not very yummy. Start with 1.5 cups of regular flour and 1.5 cups of whole wheat flour like I did and see where it gets you.I also used mini-chocolate chips and regular eggs (some people like to use egg beaters...but I'm tellin' ya, they just don't work the same when it comes to baking). I admit the eggs were organic -- i.e. the chickens that provided us with the eggs roam freely on the farm, enjoy delicious grains, and are generally happy about life. This means they lay very nice eggs.
Sorry I was too lazy to type out the recipe. I think the picture turned out pretty well, though.
2 comments:
Is this blog pointed directly at your pregnant sister?
-Yo mama
Clearly it is. I made the cookies, and they're terrific! Flat, of course, like everything I bake, but very tasty. :-0
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