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Saturday, 6 May 2017

Part 3: Chocolate drop cookies

I made a third batch of the chocolate drop cookies today.  I used cashew nuts in this experiment.

The other ingredients in the recipe by Anna Olson remained unchanged.  Except, for this time, I used 120g brown sugar and 30g granulated sugar.  The cookies turned out to be perfectly sweet.  Not too sweet or not too bland.  I'll stick with this sugar measurement in the future.

I kept the chocolate chips in the fridge on the day it was purchased (about 3 weeks ago) all this time because I wished to preserve the shape of the chips.  I would recommend this tip to anyone who wishes to bake the cookies and wants to retain the shape of the chips.

Not only that, when the batter was ready, instead of making small balls, I just used an ice cream scoop to scoop a lump of batter and place it in a baking tray.  I did the same with the rest of the batter and place the tray in the fridge for an hour.  The reason is the lumps were too sticky to handle at this stage.  It would be easily handled when the butter in the batter hardened.

After an hour, I began to make balls out of the batter.  Then, I placed the cookie balls back in the fridge to cool them for an hour in order to retain the shape of the balls.  After one hour, I preheated the oven at 180'C for ten minutes.  Then, I divided the balls into two separate trays so that each of the balls had room to melt into a disc.  After that, I placed the trays in the oven and baked the cookies for 15 minutes or until the edge of the cookies turned brown.  The cookies were then removed from the oven and cooled for 30 minutes before I started enjoying them.

Below are the photos of the finished product!!!  Enjoy baking these cookies.

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Photo 1:  Cookie balls are being baked in the oven

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Photo 2:  the cookie dough are melting at this stage 
due to the heat in the oven

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Photo 3:  Cookies are freshly out of the oven

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Photo 4:  Chocolate Drop Cookie.  Yummy!!!



Thursday, 13 April 2017

Classic Chocolate Drop Cookies

This was my first time baking chocolate drop cookies.

I watched Anna Olson's Youtube video recently and decided to have a go.

The first attempt went badly.  The cookies were rather hard because I used butter spread instead of pure butter.

The second attempt went well and the cookies tasted excellent.  This time, I used shortening for cookies and pastry.  I even remembered the recipe by heart this time.

For cup-to-gram measurement, the US-UK conversion comes from the link below:
http://www.goodtoknow.co.uk/recipes/531168/cups-to-grams-converter

Chocolate Drop Cookie recipe by Anna Olson

Wet ingredients
½ cup unsalted butter, at room temperature (115g)
½ cup packed light brown sugar (90g)
½ cup granulated sugar (90g)
1 large egg, at room temperature
1 tsp vanilla extract (10 ml)

Dry ingredients
1 ¼ cup all-purpose flour (185g)
1 tbsp cornstarch (15ml)
½ tsp baking soda (7.5g)
½ tsp salt (7.5g)

To be added last
1 ½ cup chocolate chips (225g)
1 cup lightly toasted, coarsely chopped pecans (optional) (150g) (I used roasted walnuts)

(Note:I am planning to make another batch of cookies using a reduced amount of sugar because I find 180g of sugar is a bit too much for my teeth)

Below are the photos of the cookies:

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Photo 1: 1st attempt- cookie balls before baking

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Photo 2: 1st attempt- freshly made cookies

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Photo 3: 2nd attempt- cooled and ready to eat cookies

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Photo 4: 2nd attempt - cookies ready for storage