Big Fat Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies

So the winner of the cookie poll was chocolate chip,

so I made chocolate chip cookies this afternoon :)

I used a new recipe that I got off of Pinterest

and they are VERY good.

Nice and soft and chewy :)

2 cups all-purpose flour

1/2 teaspoon baking soda

1/2 teaspoon salt

3/4 cup unsalted butter, melted and slightly cooled

1 cup packed brown sugar

1/2 cup white sugar

1 tablespoon vanilla extract

1 egg

1 egg yolk

2 cups semisweet chocolate chips

Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F.

Grease cookie sheets or line with parchment paper.

Sift together the flour, baking soda and salt; set aside.

In a medium bowl, cream together the melted butter,

brown sugar and white sugar until well blended.

 Beat in the vanilla, egg, and egg yolk until light and creamy.

 Mix in the sifted ingredients until just blended.

Stir in the chocolate chips by hand using a wooden spoon.

Put a golf ball size ball of cookie dough on a greased baking sheet

 Bake, reversing position of cookie sheets halfway through baking,

until cookies are light golden brown and outer edges start to harden

yet centers are still soft and puffy

(approximately 11-14 minutes). Do not over bake.

Cool cookies on sheets until able to lift without breaking.

Transfer to a wire rack to cool.

(Source: The Girl Who Ate Everything blog)

Delicious and definitely chewy!!

Hope you enjoy the cookies!

Sorry I posted this so late but I had to do the fun part... NOT!!

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Apple Almond Pancakes

I have been making Saturday morning pancakes for over a year now.

I usually make them from the "just add water" bag mix,
but I wanted something new so I went on a program
that I have on my computer called Master Cook.

I made cookies the day before and used all the sugar,
so my biggest problem I had was I had to find a recipe
that I had all the ingredients for.

This was the very first recipe that popped up and I had all the ingredients
and I figured it would either be a hit or a miss.

This recipe I made this past weekend and my mom posted pictures on face book.

Apparently people liked the pics because I have had about 5 requests
for apple almond pancakes to be my next blog.

So to please the people here is the recipe :)

First you will need,

1/2 cup whole-wheat flour

1/2 cup unbleached flour

1 tablespoon brown sugar

1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder

1/4 teaspoon salt

2 eggs, separated

4 tablespoons oil

1/2 cup buttermilk

1/2 cup apple juice

1/4 cup chopped almonds

Combine the flour, sugar, baking powder and salt in a mixing bowl.

Beat egg yolks with oil, buttermilk
(I didn't have buttermilk so I used vanilla yogurt instead)
and apple juice. 


Stir into flour mixture with nuts until all ingredients
are moistened (do not over stir).

Beat egg whites until stiff and fold into batter.
Spoon onto a hot, greased griddle and turn once when bubbles appear.
Makes 8 to 10 pancakes.

Source: Bountiful Breakfasts

Since I come from a family of 7, I tripled the recipe and it was still delicious:)

So there is the magnificent Apple Almond Pancake recipe!!!!!!!!!!!

Enjoy :)

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Chocolate Oatmeal No-Bake Cookies

Hi my name Zoe and I LOVE to be in the kitchen.

When I grow up I want to be a pastry chef
because my favorite thing to do in the kitchen is to bake.

My mom set me up this blog because I wanted to share
some of my favorite recipes with other people.

The first recipe I'm going to show you is how to make
Chocolate Oatmeal No-Bake Cookies.

I have made this recipe about 5 times this month
and the batch was gone with-in a week.

You are going to need,

1/2 a cup of butter

2 cups of white granulated sugar

1/2 a cup of milk

4 tablespoons of cocoa powder

1/2 a cup of creamy peanut butter

3 1/4 of rolled oats

2 teaspoons of vanilla

First you have to stir the butter, sugar, milk, and cocoa powder into a saucepan.

Next bring the mixture to a rolling boil for one minute.

Stir in the peanut butter, oats, and vanilla.

Drop the dough on to a baking sheet lined with wax paper.

Let cool and set

Voila a perfect dessert in less then 45 minutes 

Hope you like the recipe and the cookies:)

This recipe was found on Pinterest ... from One More Moore blog :)

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