Chocolate Chip Cookies!

Originally posted: 29 April 2008:

I have a confession to make. I'm addicted to chocolate chip cookies. I have several recipes for them floating around. I've made them so often, I used to have one of the recipes stuck to the inside of my head. As it is, I've now formulated my own recipe, which could probably be found in a lot of cookbooks. A friend's husband loves my chocolate chip cookies, and managed to teach their 2 year old to ask me "Cookies 'izzy?"

They've got to be my foremost default cookie. I try and have the ingredients on hand at all times, and it's not that hard to do. Of course, looking in my cupboard and fridge right at the moment, before I've done shopping for the week, I've hardly got any of the ingredients! Chocolate chips? Nope. Butter? Zilch. Flour?? Get outta here. But I know it can be easily remedied.

Now that the weather has turned towards winter, and the days are colder, the nights longer, my cookie jar calls out to be filled! At the moment? It's got sultana & oat biscuits in it. These cookies are made from the same basic recipe that my chocolate chip ones come from. So, in regards to the recipe that I'm going to write up today, there are many variations, all depending on your own likes and dislikes.

But seriously - who couldn't love these cookies?



Beautiful, golden brown, crispy cookies. YUM. Eaten whilst still warm out of the oven, is sheer decadence.

Chocolate & Raspberry Cupcake-Muffins

Originally posted: 23 February 2007:

There was a post of Chocolate Chip Muffins (available here) that I saw on a baking community I'm a part of, that I really wanted to try. But when I had the mixture sitting in the bowl, I thought it was missing something. So I trialled out a new recipe, on Valentines Day. It worked really well, so I made them again, and these are the photos from the second time around.

The recipe was adapted by the original poster from a recipe on allrecipes.com, and I further adapted it. For the purposes of this recipe, please note that the pictures and results that I post here are from a HALF batch of the mixture.

I find these are almost a cupcake in taste & texture, hence the name of Cupcake-Muffins.

Chocolate Self-Saucing Pudding

Originally posted: 11 February, 2008:

I was going through old magazines early last year, when I was sorting out stuff and packing up, and I found a magazine with 50 Chocolate Recipes. Just amazing. It was a collection from many different magazines, all collated. This recipe is from that magazine - sadly I can't remember the one it was. I give you:

Chocolate Self-Saucing Pudding!