My Chocolate Fantasy

In my humble opinion, there is not a better cookie in the world than a well-made chocolate cookie. I am about to tell you how to make the perfect chocolate cookie.

The Perfect Chocolate Cookie

Cocoa drop cookie, the best chocolate cookie. They are not only delicious, but very easy to make as well.

The ingredients required for this recipe are: ¼ cup butter, softened; ¼ cup shortening; 1 cup sugar; 1 egg; ¾ cup buttermilk; 1 tsp vanilla; 1 ¼ cup sifted all-purpose flour; ½ tsp baking soda; ½ tsp salt; ½ cup cocoa powder, unsweetened; and 1 cup of chopped pecans.

1. Cream the shortening and butter with sugar; beat in egg.

2. Stir in the buttermilk and vanilla

3. Sift the dry ingredients together and add to the first mixture.

4. Stir in the pecans, and chill the cookie dough for about an hour.

5. Use a teaspoon to drop the dough onto a greased baking sheet, leaving about 2 inches between the cookies.

6. Bake in a preheated 400°F oven for about 8-10 minutes, or until set.

7. Then cool and frost with a simple chocolate or vanilla icing if desired.

Shortbread Cookie Recipe

Here is the recipe for another great cookie, the chocolate covered shortbread cookie recipe. For this you will need: 8 ounces butter at room temperature; ½ cup powdered sugar; 2 cups all-purpose flour; ½ teaspoon baking powder; 2 ounces unsweetened chocolate, melted; and ½ teaspoon vanilla extract.

1. Combine all ingredients.

2. Knead with your hands to made sure they are well mixed

3. Press into lightly buttered pans.

4. Bake at 325°F for about 20 minutes.

5. Cut into wedges while they are still warm or break them apart.

There are many fabulous recipes out there but here are two of the best. Remember these recipes around the holidays and you can present your friends and family with delightful treats that will be remembered the rest of the year.

I have always loved the combination of chocolate and peanut butter. I used to love the commercials of the kids running into each other, one child with the Hershey chocolate bar, and the other child with a jar of peanut butter.

The first time I tried these cookies, I was hooked. The recipe is a very simple peanut butter dough, with a Hershey’s kiss in the middle:

1 cup butter2/3 cup creamy peanut butter1 cup white sugar1 cup brown sugar2 eggs2 teaspoons vanilla2 2/3 cups flour2 teaspoon baking soda1 teaspoon salt

Additional sugar in a bowl for rollingChocolate Kisses

Combine butter, peanut butter and sugars; blend until creamy. Add eggs and vanilla; blend. Mix flour, salt and soda, add to cream mixture; stir well. Roll dough into quarter size balls. Roll ball in bowl of sugar. Bake dough at 350 degrees for 8 minutes. Immediately place chocolate kiss in center of each cookie. Bake an additional 2 minutes. Transfer to cooling rack.

You can add food coloring to the dough to create any color you’d like. We have made these cookies in red, green and blue. You can also divide the batter and make multiple colors for one batch of cookies.

Experiment with the many flavors of Hershey’s kisses. They make a kiss that has peanut butter right in the middle. These are a wonderful addition to the peanut butter cookie. Hershey’s also makes kisses with nuts in the middle. This is a fun kiss to put in the middle of the cookies. If you make a red dough, try the chocolate kisses that are part white and part brown.

We have also added peanut M&M’s in the middle, instead of Hershey’s Kisses. Follow the same recipe adding the M&M’s at the very end and baking 2 additional minutes.

If you find the cookies a little sweet for your taste, cut out some of the brown sugar. Try cutting the brown sugar down to 3/4 of a cup.

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.

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.

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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.

Cookies are a very popular choice for wedding favors, possibly due to the fact that they are easily customized to suit any wedding, can be produced in large quantities fairly cheaply and edible wedding favors are always a hit with the guests!

Purchasing custom made cookie favors which are iced to your requirements could cost you as much as $8 each, but cookies are so easy to make at home and icing them is really not all that hard!

Here are some ideas for cookie shapes for seasonal weddings which you could use for your favors:

Spring:

Summer:

Fall

Winter

Mostly favor cookies will be plain vanilla flavored cookies, but you could make flavored cookies according to the season of your wedding or to whatever flavor takes your fancy! For instance, chocolate, orange, lemon, cherry biscuits, ginger, cinnamon or treacle are just a few flavors you could experiment with. Winter cookies would be lovely made from gingerbread or flavored with a hint of cinnamon, which would make them smell festive and invoke seasonal cheer in your guests! Whilst chocolate cookies are favorite all year round!

Try baking some at home and adding in different flavors to find which works best. You can then use these to practice your icing skills on, that is if you haven’t eaten them first!

When it comes to icing you can use roll out fondant icing to great effect and only need to use your cookie cutter to cut the fondant to the same shape as your cookies. You can then use pipe icing to highlight any details or to add words, such as your names, your guest’s names (if you use them as place cards as well) or simply ‘thank you’. Cake making supply shops have a range of templates available which can make this very easy.

To wrap your cookies I would use simple plain cellophane bags tied with ribbon at the top. These bags allow your handiwork to be shown off to best effect, whilst protecting the goods inside, they are also very cheap! Be careful not to make your cookies too early either as they may be stale by the time the wedding comes around. Many cake making suppliers sell cookie mixes which can have a long shelf life when baked, but you may want to test them first to see if you like the end result!

And, if you didn’t want to ice cookies then making simple round cookies will do just as nicely! Why not make batches with a range of flavors that accompany the season of your wedding. You could make mini cookies and give your guests a selection of flavors inside a goodie bag. Or alternatively you could create sandwich cookies with a delicious buttercream flavoring inside.

Perfect for a snack or if you fill them with tons of chocolate and eat them still hot out of the oven with a glass of milk then they become a real luxury. If you like tons of chocolate then you will love this if not then just reduce the chocolate a bit. I hope you like it if you do you can find more cookie and muffin recipes on my website the link is at the bottom of the text.

Ingredients

- 2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup (2 sticks) butter, softened
- 3/4 cup granulated sugar
- 3/4 cup packed brown sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 large eggs
- 2 1/2 cups chocolate chips

Method

PREHEAT oven to 375° F/ 190° C.

COMBINE flour, baking soda and salt in small bowl. Beat butter, granulated sugar, brown sugar and vanilla extract in large mixer bowl until creamy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Gradually beat in flour mixture. Stir in chocolate chips. Drop by rounded tablespoon onto lightly greased baking sheets, grease with oil. Another great way is to use an ice cream scoop to drop your cookies then flatten with baking paper.

BAKE for 9 to 11 minutes or until golden brown. Cool on baking sheets for 2 minutes, remove to wire racks to cool completely. Or for those who can’t wait they are best when still hot so once there safe to handle.

Find more fantastic recipes from chocolate cookies to triple chocolate muffins and blueberry muffins that will blow your mind.

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Cookies look like simple clumps of hard, dry breads. It seems that you will never get satisfied with it and you only waste time thinking about eating such. However, when you get to taste one, everything changes and you even want more!  That is how the crunchy chocolate cookie chips indulge you with trying more! Get these sweet chocolate goodies and learn how to cook them with cooking games!Learn how to cook the crunchy chocolate cookie chips that stay all its goodness in your mouth with cooking games. Like the real life cooking, you have to prepare all the needed ingredients so you will not cram in the kitchen getting this and that. More so, good preparations make cooking an easy and a better experience.Prepare one cup butter, one whole egg, and one teaspoon of chocolate powder, one cup sugar, and one cup of flour, one cup baking soda and one cup chocolate chips for the ingredients. You can easily find these through the virtual kitchen.Start  chocolate chip cooking of the cooking games by placing butter in a pan. Add an egg and chocolate powder, sugar, flour and the baking soda. After stirring the mixture altogether, add the chocolate chips and stir the mixture to evenly spread out the chips. After doing so, place the mixture into the moulder at the pan or you may use a ladle to divide the mixture into small proportions. Place it into a cooking pan and cook it into the oven at 350 degree temperature. After cooking, cool it down and keep fresh into a sealed container.Chocolate cookies are one of the best comfort foods that one can have. If you are able to learn how to make the chocolate cookies through the cooking games, you can then move to cooking other cookie varieties like oatmeal cookies, vegan chocolate cookies, and even your own cookie recipes discoveries!Aside from making crunchy chocolate chips, cooking games has still other means to make you a good chef. You can also learn how to bake cake, make salad, fry fish, make an ice cream and assemble you own burger. Moreover, you can also learn to cook international dishes like Indian foods, Italian pasta like the fettuccini, bake strawberry and blue berry muffins, cook Chinese noodles and even Greek salad! Isn’t amazing?Let cooking games pave the way for you to become an expert chef. Learn not only how to cook but also how to properly use the kitchen utensils and equipments used for cooking. This way, you get familiar  of these when you cook in a real kitchen and get to impress you mom and even your dad with the delicious and palatable recipes that you learned how to cook.

Make room in your recipe files for these chocolate cookie recipes. From Hershey’s Double Chocolate Mini Kisses Cookies to the Very Chocolate Cookies, you should be able to satisfy your chocolate longings.  From toddlers to grandparents these chocolate treats are sure to be hits.HERSHEY’S DOUBLE CHOCOLATE MINI KISSES COOKIES2 sticks butter, softened1 1/2 cups sugar2 eggs2 tsp vanilla extract2 cups all-purpose flour2/3 cup Hershey’s cocoa3/4 tsp baking soda1/4 tsp salt1 3/4 cups (10-oz pkg) Hershey’s Mini Kisses Milk Chocolate1/2 cup coarsely chopped nuts, optionalPreheat oven to 350 degrees.In a large bowl, beat butter, sugar, eggs, and vanilla together until light and fluffy. Stir together the flour, cocoa, baking soda and salt. Add the flour mixture to the butter mixture, beating until well blended. Stir in the mini kisses and the nuts, if using. Drop by tablespoonfuls onto ungreased cookie sheet. Bake at 350 degrees for 8 to 10 minutes or just until set. Cool slightly; remove from cookie sheet to a wire rack to complete cooling.Yield: About 3 1/2 dozen cookies. VERY CHOCOLATE COOKIES1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour1 1/2 cups sugar2/3 cup cocoa powder3/4 tsp baking soda1/4 tsp salt3/4 (1 1/2 sticks) cup butter, softened2 eggs2 tbsp plus 1 tsp milk1 tsp vanilla extract2 cups (12-oz pkg) chocolate chips1 cup chopped nutsPreheat oven to 350 degrees. Line cookie sheet with parchment paper.Stir together flour, sugar, cocoa powder, baking soda and salt in a large mixing bowl. Add butter, eggs, milk and vanilla; beat until well blended. Stir in chocolate chips and nuts. Drop dough by heaping teaspoonfuls onto prepared cookie sheet. Bake 9 to 11 minutes or just until set. Do not overbake. Cool slightly then remove to a wire rack to cool completely.Yield: 3 to 4 dozen cookies Enjoy!

In COOKIE DOUGH DELIGHTS, Camilla V. Saulsbury worked magic with refrigerated cookie dough. With BROWNIE MIX BLISS she turns her attention to the familiar box of brownie mix and the many possibilities contained herein.

Incredibly, all 175-plus recipes in BROWNIE MIX BLISS begin with a standard box of brownie mix. What’s more, all the recipes have been streamlined for easy, everyday baking. The problem, if you can call it that, will be deciding which treat to make first. How about Mocha Buttercream Brownies? Or Snickers Supreme Brownies? Or maybe Mint Julep Ganache Brownies? And that’s but the tip of the chocolate iceberg. While brownie mix can be used to create all manner of mouthwatering concoctions, it can also be transformed into countless other very easy, very chocolate desserts ranging from sophisticated biscotti, soufflé cakes, madeleines, and cheesecakes to nostalgic drop cookies ice cream novelties, gooey layered bar cookies, and so much more.

In addition to the recipes, Saulsbury offers “Brownie Points,” or tips for baking success. For the accomplished baker as well as the novice, BROWNIE MIX BLISS takes the chocolate dessert to a new level of, well, bliss!

Camilla Saulsbury opens up a world of confectionary possibilities, giving chocolate lovers almost 200 reasons to indulge. — Baltimore Sun, June 29 2005