My Chocolate Fantasy

We all love a quality cookies recipe and if you have had your fill of the famous chocolate cookies I have a fantastic alternative for you with my Coconut Meringue Cookies. These really will put a lovely smile on your face and the kids will just love them. Not to mention the big kid inside all of us!

This is a quick recipe that will be wonderful if you have a spare half an hour.

Ingredients:

4 Medium Egg Whites

1.25 Cups of Sugar

0.25 Teaspoon of Salt

0.5 Teaspoon of Vanilla

2.5 Cups of Shredded or Flaked Coconut

Method:

Heat the oven to 325 and lightly grease a cookie sheet or cover with baking paper.

Beat the medium egg whites in a large bowl with an electric whisker on a high speed until they resemble a foamy mixture. Beat in the sugar adding one tablespoon at a time and continue beating until stiff and glossy. However please make sure that you do not underbeat the mixture.

Stir the salt into the mixture followed closely by the vanilla and the coconut.

Drop the mixture by heaping teaspoonfuls about two inches apart onto the cookie sheet. Now bake it in the oven for 20 minutes or until it has set and it resembles a lovely light brown.

Cool the cookies for five minutes and then carefully remove them from the cookie sheet and place on a cooling wire. Once they have nicely cooled you will then be able to serve them.

The coconut meringue cookies are a great snack or a perfect finish to a lovely meal.

Who doesn’t love chocolate? When people are surveyed, they always rank chocolate as their overall favorite flavor. And if the creaminess and rich flavor of, say, Belgian chocolate isn’t enough to entice chocolate aficionados, researchers continue to discover the tasty treat’s myriad health benefits. Despite chocolate’s popularity and health benefits, business owners often don’t consider the ways chocolate can leave a lasting impression with clients, potential customers, and employees. Trade ShowsIf your business exhibits at trade shows, you know the challenges of coming up with a memorable giveaway for those who stop by your booth. Trade show attendees collect pens, pads, luggage tags, and the like by the bag full. What they could really use as they traipse up and down the aisles of a trade show is a little pick-me-up – something that brings a smile to their face and gives them a boost to make it through the day. At an education trade show, for example, you could hand out Belgian chocolate bars that say, “Teachers Make Learning Sweet.” At a construction-related exhibit, you could distribute chocolate bars that say, “Think Safety,” while at a political event, you could hand out chocolate coins that say, “Democrat” or “Republican.”Client AppreciationShowing your clients that you appreciate their business goes far in developing goodwill and cementing relationships. A chocolate assortment with a large “Thank You” chocolate bar in the middle is a memorable token of appreciation. If you have a retail store, a chocolate “Thank You” cookie or chocolate “Thank You” coins wrapped in silver will leave customers smiling. Keeping track of and commemorating the birthday of a special client with a “Happy Birthday” chocolate assortment will communicate that you value him or her. A business gift of any kind is appreciated, but chocolate is a special treat that will be remembered.Employee RecognitionStudies have shown that employees are happier at their jobs when they feel that their efforts are appreciated. Interestingly, it turns out that recognition doesn’t have to come in the form of large bonuses or fancy events; small tokens that demonstrate you value their contributions have the same effect. For that reason, keeping a supply of Belgian chocolate bars that say, “Thanks a Million” or “You’ve Gone the Extra Mile” will give you an easy way to recognize employees on a regular basis. Motivating Sales TeamsSalespeople have one of the toughest jobs on the planet. Even great salespeople need to get revved up and motivated to keep going day after day. That’s why team sales meetings are so important. At your meeting, why not hand out a chocolate cookie that says, “Think Outside the Box” or “Way to Go”? If you’re trying to reinforce team spirit, distribute chocolates in the shape of puzzle pieces with the word “Teamwork” emblazoned on one side? Of course, in addition to a corporate gift or for employee recognition, custom chocolate can be used in a variety of other celebrations, holidays, and events. A chocolate party favor or wedding favor will be enjoyed and remembered, as will a Christmas food gift of chocolate. So, next time you need a gift or giveaway, think chocolate!

If you are not familiar with what a gift basket is it is basically a way to give a small collection of gifts to someone and have all of those gifts all bundled in a beautiful useable container of some sort. Most of the time, this container is a lovely wicker basket. The entire gift is then wrapped in tinted cellophane and tied with a bow.
This form of gift giving has been around for decades, but it has been rather recently, in the past 10 to 20 years, that the gift basket industry has grown from small, individual cottage businesses to the huge enterprise that it is today. With more and more people working two jobs or spending what amounts to more than 60 hours per week at work, many service industry businesses have popped up to help working people accomplish many of their personal duties. Today more working people hire outside assistance to help them complete things such as many household and landscaping chores. This phenomena also includes businesses that help people who are very busy by providing a huge variety of gifts that are all attractively arranged and sent directly to the recipient’s home or place of business.
The gift basket industry provides that service and accomplishes it very well. Most of these types of small companies take almost all of their orders either by phone or from their websites. Even though they are small, most of them offer an amazingly large variety of different products that are packaged superbly to look very professional and yet they still give the impression of being a very personal gift.
One of the most popular types of gift basket is the large variety of chocolate gift baskets. Because chocolate is such a universally loved sweet, it can be an appropriate gift for absolutely anyone and for any occasion. Any holiday can be a wonderful excuse to give a chocolate gift basket. It doesn’t matter if the recipient is 1 or 101; they will enjoy having a little chocolate sampling as a special treat.
What is also so amazing about giving chocolate as a gift is that it is appropriate for everyone in your life. Whether the person receiving the gift is the love of your life or at the opposite extreme is only a business acquaintance that you barely know, a selection of chocolate candies, cookies and treats is appropriate. How many other types of gifts can you say that about? Flowers and jewelry will thrill your sweetheart, but your business associate would probably misconstrue it. On the other hand, giving your business associate a department store gift certificate or a pocket calendar is very appropriate, but try those gifts on your significant other and you may find yourself in the doghouse.
Here is the conclusion. Chocolate crosses all barriers and relationships. That is the thinking. So, who then wouldn’t love a chocolate gift basket? Of course, there have to be some people who wouldn’t want one. Which follows that unless the person that you want to get a gift for is allergic or has a medical issue that forbids it, chocolate is by far, the perfect answer to that ageless question of what to get “so-and-so”.
Now that you have been sold on the idea of giving a gift basket of chocolate treats, you may think that one is the same as any other. That is just not the case. Gift basket businesses and entrepreneurs have come up with hundreds of different choices of gift baskets and chocolate gift sets. Different companies excel at different categories of chocolate gift choices. Some concentrate on locally produced items while others import chocolate delights from every corner of the globe. Other companies are pros at finding those hard to find products or nostalgic candies from our youth. And still other enterprises love to put together themed gift baskets. This allows them to create a gift basket geared toward a specific event or category. For instance, one company online offers a chocolate coffee lovers gift basket that is filled with different types of chocolate flavored coffees, mocha chocolate cookies and cakes and even chocolate spoons to stir your coffee with. Another company sells what they call the Galaxy Tower. This gift basket is actually a tower of gradually larger boxes and inside each is a different chocolate snack. This selection is perfect for get-togethers for a movie night or a sporting event.
The prices for these types of chocolate gifts can start at $30 and go all the way up to $200 or even more. Yet, you are getting a huge selection of chocolates and items that you could never find locally. All that being said, there is nothing that says you can’t buy your own treats and put together your own gift baskets. In fact, you may really enjoy doing something like this around Christmastime where you create an assembly line sort of situation in order to build a chocolate gift basket for everyone on your gift list. This could even become a yearly tradition, which in that case you would learn to shop in bulk and always be on the lookout for sales and bargains at craft and home stores for deals on baskets and other containers to put your gifts in.
Creating your own chocolate gift baskets allow you to personalize it even more by adding other items to the basket like fresh apples, oranges or pears that go so well with chocolate. You can even make your own fudge or brownies to include with the gift. These special touches are what will make your gift really stand out. You can be assured that everyone will love the baskets and will appreciate all of your time, effort and thoughtfulness that went into it.
Even though chocolate may not be loved by every individual under the sun, it is pretty darn close to being a universally loved food. It gets accolades for how versatile it is and for how good it makes us feel. It has to be said that there may not be a better choice for edible gift giving than our dear friend, chocolate.

Did you know that that holiday of Father’s Day is when the most collect telephone calls are made than any other day of the year? Dad often ends up paying for a lot, but this year treat him to a special Father’s Day gift that will make him happy. Chocolate is every eater’s dream gift, so be sure to include this delicious sweet in your gift for Dad. Gourmet Father’s Day gift baskets are available that contain great chocolate treats that your father is sure to enjoy.

There are three major types of chocolate: dark, milk, and white. Dark chocolate is made without any milk added to it. It has to have at least 15 percent chocolate liquor in it to qualify as dark chocolate, although European dark chocolate must have 35 percent. Milk chocolate is made with milk added to the chocolate. White chocolate is not really chocolate at all, but a sweet that has cocoa butter as its prime ingredient, with no cocoa solids. Some fathers like all three types of chocolate, while others prefer one over the others. You likely know which one or ones your father enjoys, and so that will be the focus of your Father’s Day gift baskets.

Chocolate-covered pretzels offer a bit of sweet and tangy with every bite. These delicious pretzels are available covered in dark, milk or white chocolates, so there will be something sure to please dear old Dad in this assortment.

Beautiful cookies make a great addition for your father’s wonderful gift basket. Chocolate cookies would be perfect for a chocolate-themed gift for him. Be sure to include several because they won’t last long once he tastes the first one.

Nonpareils make another fantastic addition to your Dad’s gift basket. Nonpareils can refer to a flat round dark chocolate wafer, which are topped with the nonpareils, or tiny sugar balls or sprinkles that are used to decorate cupcakes and other foods with icing. Nonpareils taste wonderful, and their decorative touch will make your father’s gift basket very special.

Other foods become divine when they are covered with chocolate. You can only improve a raisin or a cashew or peanut by covering it with chocolate. Chocolate-covered raisins or nuts make great snacks, and your father won’t be able to stop with just one or two, because they are so tasty.

Once you have a great selection of chocolates in your gift basket, you won’t hardly need anything else. But since this is a gift, why not gild the lily and add other little gifts that your father might enjoy, related to a hobby or a sport in which he participates. These customized gift baskets will show your father that you care.

Cookies are a very popular treat at any party event and as a snack in general. There are now hundreds of different types of cookies that can be served to your guests and at parties. In case you are having difficulty choosing which flavors to serve, here are the five most popular cookie flavors based on our research study:

1. Chocolate Chip – This should be no surprise but chocolate chip tops the list by a landslide. Every cookie maker offers chocolate chip cookies, a delicious combination of batter and chocolate. Chocolate chip cookies were actually invented in the 1900′s by Ruth Wakefield and have remain strong in popularity since then.

2. Fortune Cookies – Fortune cookies have also become popular at many occasions. A simple sweet cookie with a message inside that can be customized for any occasion. The history of the fortune cookie dates back to the 13th and 14th century, when secret messages were placed inside of moon cakes to coordinate an uprising against the Mongols, who were known to have no interest in lotus paste. In the mid 1900′s, Chinese railroad workers exchanged happy messages in biscuits instead of cakes for their moon festivals. The first automated fortune cookie factory was started in 1964.

3. Sugar Cookies – Sugar cookies are also popular and embody the simple sweetness that people often think about when they think about cookies. This cookie is one of the easiest to make and is a great treat at kid’s parties.

4. Peanut butter cookie – Peanut butter has become a favorite flavor among children and adults as well. Although use of peanuts in recipes dates back to the early 1900′s, it was not until the 1930′s when peanuts became a listed cookie ingredient. Since then, peanut butter cookies have enjoyed popularity at bakeries and cookie shops.

5. Oatmeal cookie – In today’s health conscious society, oatmeal cookies continue to remain popular. Although they are not entirely healthy, the typically contain less fat than other cookies and still taste great.

Other popular cookies include Oreo cookies, oatmeal raisin cookies, chocolate cookies, and Girl Scout cookies, which contain a variety of sweet cookie flavors. Whichever cookies you choose to have at your party, your guests are sure to enjoy this sweet delicious treat.

Cookies are a very popular treat at any party event and as a snack in general. There are now hundreds of different types of cookies that can be served to your guests and at parties. In case you are having difficulty choosing which flavors to serve, here are the five most popular cookie flavors based on our research study: 1. Chocolate Chip – This should be no surprise but chocolate chip tops the list by a landslide. Every cookie maker offers chocolate chip cookies, a delicious combination of batter and chocolate. Chocolate chip cookies were actually invented in the 1900′s by Ruth Wakefield and have remain strong in popularity since then. 2. Fortune Cookies – Fortune cookies have also become popular at many occasions. A simple sweet cookie with a message inside that can be customized for any occasion. The history of the fortune cookie dates back to the 13th and 14th century, when secret messages were placed inside of moon cakes to coordinate an uprising against the Mongols, who were known to have no interest in lotus paste. In the mid 1900′s, Chinese railroad workers exchanged happy messages in biscuits instead of cakes for their moon festivals. The first automated fortune cookie factory was started in 1964. 3. Sugar Cookies – Sugar cookies are also popular and embody the simple sweetness that people often think about when they think about cookies. This cookie is one of the easiest to make and is a great treat at kid’s parties. 4. Peanut butter cookie – Peanut butter has become a favorite flavor among chidren and adults as well. Although use of peanuts in recipes dates back to the early 1900′s, it was not until the 1930′s when peanuts became a listed cookie ingredient. Since then, peanut butter cookies have enjoyed popularity at bakeries and cookie shops. 5. Oatmeal cookie – In today’s health conscious society, oatmeal cookies continue to remain popular. Although they are not entirely healthy, the typically contain less fat than other cookies and still taste great. Other popular cookies include Oreo cookies, oatmeal raisin cookies, chocolate cookies, and Girl Scout cookies, which contain a variety of sweet cookie flavors. Whichever cookies you choose to have at your party, your guests are sure to enjoy this sweet delicious treat.

Christmas is a wonderful time of year to bake cookies and it is a great chance to make family memories, too. Have your children help you bake cookies and all of you can enjoy the sweet smells as the cookies bake. You can take turns telling stories while you share a cup of hot chocolate. The wonderful family memories will last a lot longer that your cookies will! My all-time favorite cookies are TOLL HOUSE chocolate chip cookies. I can almost smell warm chocolate chip cookies as I am writing about them; they are so deeply imbedded in my memories of Christmas.TOLL HOUSE chocolate chip cookiesNestles has made different types of morsels to suit everyone’s personal desire and taste. They now have white chocolate morsels, swirled milk chocolate and caramel morsels, semi-sweet chocolate swirled with white chocolate morsels, mini morsels and the regular semi-sweet chocolate morsels. Each bag has its own recipe but each type of morsels uses the same ingredient, with the exception of the White Chocolate Chip Cookies which have one additional ingredient for the “dry” mixture (Nestle’s TOLL HOUSE BAKING cocoa). If you want to double the recipe in order to be part of a cookie exchange group, the main ingredients for each type of cookie can be doubled. Then it would be necessary to double the amount of morsels. The basic ingredients doubled are:  4 & ½ cup all purpose flour, 2 teaspoon baking soda, 2 teaspoon salt, 2 cups butter softened (4 sticks), 1 & ½ cup granulated sugar, 1 & ½ cup of packed brown sugar, 2 teaspoons vanilla extract, and 4 eggs.For:White Chocolate cookies you will need to add 1 additional ingredient to the dry mixture. It is 1 & 1/3 cups Toll House baking cocoa to the dry mixture and 2 packages (12oz.) of Nestle’s TOLL HOUSE Premium White Morsels. Milk chocolate and caramel cookies you will need 2 packages (12oz.) of Nestle’s TOLL HOUSE Milk Chocolate and Caramel Morsels (1 cup chopped pecans, if you want). Swirled semi-sweet white chocolate cookies you will need 2 packages (12oz.) of Nestle’s TOLL HOUSE swirled Real Semi-Sweet & White Chocolate Morsels (2 cups of nuts, if you like). After you have gathered all your ingredients, heat the oven to 350*. You will need 2 bowls:  a medium one for the dry mixture and a large one to mix all the ingredients for the cookies. In the medium bowl, mix the dry ingredients (4 & ½ cup all-purpose flour, 2 teaspoons salt, 2 teaspoons baking soda). In the large bowl, add the 1 & ½ cup of granulated sugar and 1 & ½ cup of packed brown sugar, 4 sticks (2 cups) softened margarine, and 2 teaspoons of vanilla extract and beat until creamy. Add 4 eggs, 1 at a time, beating well after adding each one.Now, gradually add the dry mixture. Stir in 2 bags of your choice of morsels (and nuts if you choose). Drop a rounded tablespoon of dough onto ungreased cookie sheet about 2 inches apart. Place a few morsels on top of each cookie and bake 9-12 minutes or until golden brown. Cool on baking sheet for 2 minutes then remove to wire racks. This will make about 9 dozen of the best tasting cookies you will ever have!It is fun to see if someone in your family or a close friend wants to share their favorite cookies with you by becoming part of a Christmas Cookie Exchange. Because many people have favorites of their own, you will be able to enjoy a variety of cookies. It is simple when you double your recipes. You will be able to share ½ of your baked goods and receive ½ of theirs so you will have a bigger selection. My family loves my Christmas cookies but they also love and enjoy eating different kinds of cookies baked by their aunt. In Favorite Christmas Cookies 1, you saw how I made Peanut Butter Kiss Cookies. In Christmas Cookies Part 3, you will see another kind of cookie called Swirled Turtle Brownies. You can also see other recipes in the article entitled “Cookie Exchange Will Save at Time at Christmas”. Enjoy the time you spend making Christmas cookies and memories and remember, make it fun.

No one in this world came to existence as such. Everyone must have passed various stages. The most important stage in human being is the childhood days. These are the days of fun and frolic.

These are the days of thrills and spills. Everyone as a child love to eat delicious foods. Among the delicious foods are the ice creams, chocolates, cookies and so on. Many of them can be a boring kind of ones once you keep on eating for a longer period of time. But cookies are totally different ones.

Many adults even at this age love to eat cookies. Today’s is a very dangerous environment wherein high fat content foods may result in various kinds of diseases. Hence maintaining the diet has been a major factor for many of them today. People are in search of low fat, low calorie content food to reduce the fat and sugar content.

The word cookie diet implies to a cookie which is composed of very low calorie content. It is a kind of a replacement to hunger controlling meal. There are many cookie diets that are available in the market. The most famous ones among them are Dr. Siegel’s cookie diet, smart for life and Hollywood cookie diet.

The cookie’s Dr. Siegal uses does not have any harmful drugs or chemicals inside of them. The cookies contain amino acids that help to keep hunger away. The proteins used in the cookies to suppress hunger are rice, oats, bran, and whole wheat flour.

All these diets enhance the reduction of fat content dramatically, at the same time giving enormous amount of energy. Thereby these cookies are the perfect foods for the patients who suffer from diabetes mellitus. Hence this dietary food gives them a sigh of relief.

These old fashion cookie recipes are perfect for lunchboxes, after school treats, or just because.  They are also great for shipping to the kids away at school, soldiers in the US or overseas, out-of-state grandparents, etc.  Today’s recipes include Old Timey Oatmeal Cookies that also offers a variation for making Oatmeal-Raisin cookies.  Geraldine’s Fudge Cookies are just a simple old-fashion chocolate cookie that is sure to please chocoholics everywhere.  These cookies are so easy they are perfect for the kids to help with.  This is especially important to children who can help make something to send to parents who are away in the military.OLD TIMEY OATMEAL COOKIESThis recipe is so old, I don’t know where it came from.3/4 cup lard (or shortening)1 cup firmly packed brown sugar1/2 cup granulated sugar1 egg1/4 cup water1 tsp vanilla1 cup sifted all-purpose flour1 tsp salt1/2 tsp baking soda3 cups uncooked oatsBeat the lard (or shortening), brown sugar, granulated sugar, egg, water, and vanilla together until creamy. Sift together the flour, salt, and baking soda. Add the flour mixture to the sugar mixture; blend well. Stir in the oats and drop by teaspoonful onto greased cookie sheets. Bake in a preheated moderate oven (350 degrees) for 12 to 15 minutes.Variation: You could add 3/4 cup raisins for Oatmeal-Raisin Cookies. GERALDINE’S FUDGE COOKIES1 cup flour4 tbsp cocoa1 tsp vanilla1 cup sugar2 eggs1/2 cup butter, meltedIn a mixing bowl, mix the flour, cocoa, and sugar together. Stir in the eggs, vanilla, and butter. Drop by teaspoonfuls onto lightly greased cookie sheets. Bake at 350 degrees for about 10 minutes. Enjoy!

Grab $75 worth of printable grocery coupons here!

No one in this world came to existence as such. Everyone must have passed various stages. The most important stage in human being is the childhood days. These are the days of fun and frolic.

These are the days of thrills and spills. Everyone as a child love to eat delicious foods. Among the delicious foods are the ice creams, chocolates, cookies and so on. Many of them can be a boring kind of ones once you keep on eating for a longer period of time.

But cookies are totally different ones. Many adults even at this age love to eat cookies. Today’s is a very dangerous environment wherein high fat content foods may result in various kinds of diseases. Hence maintaining the diet has been a major factor for many of them today.

Grab $75 worth of printable grocery coupons here!

People are in search of low fat, low calorie content food to reduce the fat and sugar content. The word cookie diet implies to a cookie which is composed of very low calorie content.

It is a kind of a replacement to hunger controlling meal. There are many cookie diets that are available in the market. The most famous ones among them are Dr. Siegel’s cookie diet, smart for life and Hollywood cookie diet.

All these diets enhance the reduction of fat content dramatically, at the same time giving enormous amount of energy. Thereby these cookies are the perfect foods for the patients who suffer from diabetes mellitus. Hence this dietary food gives them a sigh of relief.