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October 20, 2007 at 3:24 am
· Filed under Recipes: Baking, Family
Chocolate is another love of mine, especially dark bitter chocolate. I like the initial bitterness, ending with a slightly sweet note. Absolutely divine. As mentioned in my earlier posts, chocolates are perfect companions with fruits like strawberries, orange, bananas and even durians. They go well with peppermint and various sorts of nuts like hazelnuts, almonds, peanuts, walnuts, etc. I like to try out different types of desserts, unique flavors, like spiced cakes. But ultimately, when there’s a choice, I still want my comfort food. Chocolate-flavoured desserts.
Two months back, on National Day, I promised the girls to having a baking session at my house. They love chocolate too and so I went in search of a simple chocolate chip cookie recipe. I found this recipe at Kitchen Capers Forum. The reviews from the members are that they tasted quite like Famous Amos cookies. The most important factor is that it’s a fairly easy recipe for the girls to handle.
The 2 girls were fussing over how they want to get involved. In a situation where one niece is older, you tend to let her do more, while the younger one watched. Then the young one complained that why she didn’t get to pour the flour and crack the eggs. But I am glad that she’s an understanding little girl as I assured her that the fun time was in shaping the cookies. Both of them sure had a great time singing while shaping the cookies. This recipe is different from the previous ones we made at AC’s house. It’s consists of a drier batter, thus the need to shape the cookies. They did a fantastic job preparing the cookies for baking.
Their patience did paid off. They were so proud of themselves, exclaiming that the cookies were crunchy and super duper delicious. It was a great bonding session with them. Missed the great times with them before I moved out. I’ve promised them another session in the coming school holidays.
Chocolate Chip Cookies
Recipe by Connie from Kitchen Capers Forum
Yields about 40 small cookies
125g Butter
70g Castor sugar
70g Brown sugar
½ tsp Vanilla essence
1 Egg
260g Self-raising flour
130g Chocolate chips (Add more if you like more choc chips)
- Pre-heat oven to 180C.
- Sift the flour, set aside.
- Beat butter, essence and sugars using mixer until smooth.
- Add egg and beat until well combined.
- Stir in sifted flour and the remaining ingredients.
- Take rounded teaspoons of mixture and roll into balls.
- Place balls about 4cm apart on slightly greased oven trays or line with baking sheet.
- Bake in pre heated oven for 15 minutes or until browned.
- Cool in trays for short while and transfer to wire rack for cooling.
Cooking and baking is something I want to do with my own children in time to come, apart from the other standard children activities. I want them not to only eat, but to enjoy cooking the food they eat. It’s fun and you can train them to be independent at the same time. And they learn about measurement, judgment and patience. Patience will yield good results. I want my children to be able to whip up simple dishes like fried rice or noodles, fried eggs, salads or sandwiches. Really hope that I can achieve that in the future.
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Ooooo … what nice pics!!!
The cookies looks sooo yummy!
I’m sure you’ll be able to let your kids be involved in cooking in future. Kids love it.
wiffygal wrote @ October 20th, 2007 at 11:35 am
looks so yummylicious… where u buy the white dishes from? I’ve been looking for something like that 
Evan wrote @ October 23rd, 2007 at 5:20 pm
these cookies look so delectable! and i love your photos, they’re really well taken. love the last collage pic :p for me im just too lazy to take so many shots haha!
btw i was wondering if you’d like to link up? =)
paw paw wrote @ October 23rd, 2007 at 6:05 pm
Yr photos never fail to amaze me.
Very style is very nice.
The cookies looks crumbly & delish.
The cookies look delicious and the girls are so cute!!
didally wrote @ October 23rd, 2007 at 11:16 pm
wokkingmum: Thanks. Hope my kids will like cooking and baking. lol
wiffygal: Got the ramekins from Daiso. But it seems like they have no stock. Even Bodum’s ramekins are discontinued. 
Evan: Thanks, your food is definitely more delectable. Sure, I can link you up.
paw paw: Your food pics are very nice too. 
Evan wrote @ October 24th, 2007 at 12:42 am
hey, i’ve linked u up as well =)
ovenhaven wrote @ October 24th, 2007 at 12:09 pm
Oh what great timing, I’ve been meaning to bake some plain ol’ chocolate chip cookies for some time now. Yours look lovely
didally wrote @ October 24th, 2007 at 3:22 pm
Patricia: Thanks, they are my darlings. Haha..
Evan: Thanks!
ovenhaven: After all your Hari Raya baking, time to bake properly eh?
Camemberu wrote @ October 27th, 2007 at 10:15 am
OH MY GOD! These look SOOOO GOOOOD!! 
I want to make too! Argh, I don’t have a mixer! Maybe I can just beat the dough to death?
zonkkie wrote @ October 28th, 2007 at 8:54 pm
wow…. very nice pics! Like they came straight out of a Donna Hay or Martha Stewart magazine… i’m sure the cookies taste as good.
didally wrote @ October 30th, 2007 at 2:52 pm
Camemberu: It’s time to get a mixer. Hehe..
zonkkie: Thanks.
xin wrote @ December 1st, 2007 at 4:20 pm
Camemberu: you can try creaming the butter and sugar using a wooden spoon. I do not own a mixer, always using my hands!
didally: I tried making the cookies yesterday without the mixer. My cookies turned out to be flatter and smoother (the surface). Unlike yours, which looks ‘crumbly’. Any idea why? TIA!
didally wrote @ December 1st, 2007 at 10:59 pm
Does your shaped cookie looked like those in my pics? I didn’t roll them into a ball but just use a spoon to scoop the portion I want for each cookie and put them on the baking mat. I’ve seen others whose cookies are smooth so I guess they might have roll them into a smooth ball before baking. Try it again and see if it works.
Xin wrote @ December 20th, 2007 at 11:16 pm
Hey!
SOS! My first attempt is quite crunchy i wondered was it because my cookies were slighty burnt. The cross section (interior) showed a distinct shade of colours (very dark from the crust to golden brown in the centre).
My second and third attempt: I removed the cookies around 3 minutes earlier (baked for around 12-13 min) so that the colour stays a nice golden brown instead of a very tan colour. The cookies turned ’soggy’ after around 3-4 hours after cooling!! I tried to leave it in the oven for 15 minutes in my third attempt. The cookies stayed crunchy but again, when you break the cookie into half, you can see the distinct shade of colours (very dark from the crust to golden brown in the centre). It does not look very presentable though I have received comments that it is really crunchy and fragrant.
Please help! Thanks!
didally wrote @ December 21st, 2007 at 12:27 pm
Hmm Xin, if taste is good and crunchy, I guess probably the interior color doesn’t matter, does it? I wouldn’t really bother about how the interior looks like, exterior looks golden brown is good enough for me. 
Sorry can’t help on the interior shade cos I only made one attempt baking these cookies. Probably I can relate better if I try to make them again.
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