Perfecting Gram’s chocolate chip cookies – success!
After years of trying to perfectly recreate my grandmother’s chocolate chip cookie recipe – tweaking ingredient quantities and baking method and everything else under the sun – I FINALLY DID IT.
Posts from the ‘Cookies and bars’ Category
Jul 24
Quest-worthy chewy chocolate brownies
I’ve been on a valiant quest – full of risks and moments of false hope and failures and times of despair.
And success.
Graham crackers, and tragedy
I woke up yesterday morning in a bad mood. On the wrong side of the bed, both figuratively and literally. With a pain in my neck that only got worse when I got out of bed. In the middle of a bad dream, the only clear event of which I can remember was going to a wine tasting and getting locked all alone in the tasting room with no wine.
So it was not exactly the best time to try rolling out a very sticky dough and then conducting on it a somewhat exact and time-consuming process. It was worth it, considering how great these crackers turned out, but at the time I actually didn’t think they were going very well and the whole rolling out process made me very angry. So angry, in fact, that after I filled my two baking sheets I threw away the other 1/3 of the dough.
I threw it away. Read more
Perfecting Gram’s chocolate chip cookies: Part I
If I had to boil my entire existence down to one food item, it would be my grandmother’s chocolate chip cookies (I talked about them once before, here). If I had to eat only one food item for the rest of my life (with no regard to health, of course), I’d likely respond the same way. Over my lifetime I have eaten many dozens, if not hundreds, of these cookies and likely my weight in the cookie dough – whether scooped by sneaky 5-year-old fingers or spooned blatantly by 16-year-old hands. Read more
Apr 26
Awesome vegan chocolate peanut butter cookies
I have something exciting to tell you.
No, it’s not that I have five different open containers of cocoa powder in my pantry. (And I wonder why I never have any room in there.) But it does have to do with the photo. Read more
