Thursday, January 21, 2010

Cookie Monster

After my last post I received many suggestions and offers for cookies, to my great delight. If all the offers to send me chocolate chip deliciousness are true I will be one happy camper. However, I have read stories about mail being lost or stolen, and I mean who wouldn't steal a box of cookies? Luckily Tracie, who spent a semester in Africa, told me making cookies was not as impossible as I thought it might be, that I just needed to find a recipe without eggs (because of salmonella). I though no eggs- no problem.

Here is a recipe I am going to try this weekend, taken from egglesscooking.com. I will make sure to let you know how it goes, since you will be sitting on the edges of your seats in anticipation.

Butter, softened – 2 sticks 
Granulated Sugar – 1/2 cup
Sweetened Condensed Milk – 1/2 cup 
Vanilla Extract – 1/2 teaspoon 
All Purpose Flour – 2.25 cup 
Baking Powder – 1 teaspoon
Semi-sweet Chocolate Chips/chunks  – 1.75 cups
Nuts – Optional 

Preheat the oven to 350F (180C).
2. Grease baking sheets or line it with parchment paper.
3. Beat the butter and sugar together in a large bowl until pale and creamy (for 5 minutes).
4. Pour in the condensed milk, vanilla extract and beat to combine.
5. In a separate bowl, sift the flour, cocoa and baking powder and combine well.
6. Stir into the butter mixture, then add the chocolate chips, nuts (if using).
7. Combine it well using a spatula. Don’t beat it.
8. Take a tablespoonful of dough, roll it and flatten it using your fingers. Grease the tablespoon, so that the dough will fall off easily.
9. Bake it for 15-18 minutes, or until golden brown. (The color check can be done if using all purpose flour only. Mine were done at 17 minutes).
10. Let the cookies cool for 5 minutes in the baking sheet itself. Don’t try to remove it. It may look unbaked but it will become hard on the baking sheet itself.
11. After 5-10 minutes, using a spatula transfer the cookies to a wire rack to cool completely.








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