Archive for January 2011
Recipe: Chewy Jumbo Chocolate Chip Cookies
Ingredients: flour, cake flour, baking powder, baking soda, butter, sugar, brown sugar, eggs, vanilla, chocolate chips
Taste: These cookies tasted like the standard chocolate chip recipe. You can definitely taste the vanilla and brown sugar- so they are a little sweet. I used dark chocolate morsels (larger than chips) so they were also very dark chocolatey. There are 1.5 cups of butter in here (3 sticks!) so they are definitely tasty.
Texture: Like the name, they were soft and chewy. Seems like they will stay that way instead of getting hard. They are huge, partly because of the size that I made them, but they are also make with cake flour so they’re a little puffier than regular homemade cookies.
All in all, this seemed like a simple recipe, but it took a lot of work. From creaming the butter by hand, to trying to soften the hard brown sugar, to mixing all the flour in (and there was way too much), I ended up going through like every item in my kitchen (bowls, utensils, etc) and I’m pretty sure my right hand and arm will be sore tomorrow. I wouldn’t necessarily say they were worth the effort, as there are much simpler recipes out there, but at least I used up some of the ingredients I was hoping to get rid of.
Overall Rating: 8/10
Coconut M&M
Posted on: January 29, 2011
Coconut M&M
I saw these at the store and decided to try them because I’ve never heard of them. They come in a white bag and the M&M’s are colored brown, green, and white. It wasn’t until the last 2 M&M’s that I realized that they had a special little imprint on them!
Taste: They actually tasted kind of like Mounds. They still had chocolate in the middle, and I didn’t see any coconut, I think the flavor was just added.
Texture: About the same size as regular M&M’s but a little fatter, and they seemed a little harder to bite into, only because I tried to bite one in half to see the insides and it was a challenge.
Overall Rating: 6/10
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