Showing posts with label cookies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cookies. Show all posts
Ginger Cookies
Rebecca
Holiday baking has officially arrived, which, of course, includes typical flavours such as ginger. Whether it's in the form of gingerbread cookies or a moist gingerbread loaf, ginger is just one of those things that is associated with the holiday season. It just seems out of place to be eating gingerbread in the summer months, although I am certainly not opposed to it. I am especially not opposed to making these ginger cookies all year round either.

The recipe is yes, another Ina Garten recipe. I made tiny little bite-sized cookies, so they baked in no time. I think I slightly overbaked them, and I should've taken them out earlier. They weren't as nice and soft as I would've liked. Nevertheless, they were tasty little morsels, and were eaten up pretty quickly. I love having friends who'll eat my baking! That just means more recipes to try and more opportunitites to bake!

These cookies are quite sweet (due to the coating of sugar), but they are oh so addicting.
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Chocolate Crinkle Cookies
Rebecca
These are tasty chocolate cookies. And coming from someone who doesn't really like chocolate, that's saying a lot. They're nice and soft and fudgy. But make sure to eat them cold. I don't know if it's just me, but my opinion is that any kind of chocolate tastes best when it's cold.

The dough for these cookies were very very sticky. Even though I stuck them in the fridge for a few hours, as instructed, they were still very sticky. Rolling the cookies in icing sugar relieved the problem somewhat. I love how the white icing sugar stands out against the dark chocolate cookie. It provides a nice "crinkle" effect as well, which is probably where the name comes from.
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Chocolate Chip Cookies
Rebecca

For me, chocolate chip cookies aren't really all that great. I mean, I'd rather eat a peanut butter cookie or an oatmeal-raisin cookie over a chocolate chip cookie any day. However, I'm sure there are some people out there who take their CCCs really seriously.

So i decided to make these cookies because I wanted to use up the random chunks of dark chocolate that was just sitting around our house. And of course, I was getting together with friends, and everybody knows that means another excuse to bake something sweet! (I also made date bars, but I haven't taken a picture of them, so I don't want to blog about it without a visual representation!)

I used a recipe from Caprial's Desserts, one of my favourite baking books. Whenever I have the urge to bake something (which is quite often), I know that I will find something in that book.

These cookies were really easy to make, but for some reason, I had to bake them for 10 extra minutes than the recommeded baking time. Personally, I like my cookies chewy, not crunchy. These ones had a crisp exterior and a chewy, melty interior. I didn't think they would bake up so flat either! Overall, they tasted alright. The only qualm that I had was that it used quite a lot of butter, and it left a slightly greasy taste in your mouth after eating a couple. I think that might be because the recipe called for melted butter. Maybe if I had stuck to the traditional creaming method, it would have tasted differently.
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