Chunky Chocolate Cookies

Chunky Chocolate Cookies  

Hi everybody :)
Graduation Day came and went and I'm back HOME! It's great being back. I've been so busy lately organizing after coming back home; trying to jam an apartment into an already packed house is hard work.

My daughter's ankle is still on the mend, but she's walking a little now, so her walking boot is useful after all. :) She will be taking the Bar Exam soon. I'm going to be the proud mother of a lawyer, y'all!! 
 
Enough talk about me and my family; now, on to the recipe, Chunky Chocolate Cookies. These cookies are made with a cake mix, so they are so easy to make for busy moms on the go. The nuts can be omitted and the chips exchanged to suit your taste. Let's get it started...


Chunky Chocolate Cookies
1 pkg. Duncan Hines Classic Dark Chocolate Fudge Cake Mix
2 large eggs
1/2 cup butter or margarine (1 stick); melted
1/4 cup firmly packed brown sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 cup semisweet chocolate chips
1/2 cup chopped pecans or walnuts

Preheat oven to 350.

Mix cake mix, eggs, butter, brown sugar, and vanilla extract in a large bowl; stirring with a spoon until well blended.

Stir in chips and nuts. Drop by leveled measuring tablespoonfuls onto greased baking sheets. (I used my medium cookie scoop and baked the cookies on parchment paper.)

Bake at 350 for 12 minutes for chewy cookies or 14 minutes for crispy cookies.  (I baked my cookies 8 minutes for chewy and 10 minutes for crispy.)

Cool 2 minutes on baking sheets and move to wire rack to finish cooling. Store in airtight container. 
Source: Duncan Hines 
What I Did and/or Think: 
The changes I made are in Bold, Italic, and Purple.

The Taste: These cookies were GREAT! Love the taste.  Definitely worthy of REPEATING!

ENJOY! Come again...       
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Easy Peanut Butter Cookies: Only 3 Ingredients

Easy Peanut Butter Cookies: Only 3 Ingredients

Hi everybody :)
Sorry about not posting sooner, I been really busy packing up my daughter stuff in her apartment.  She is taking her finals this week,  the semester is almost over!  Next stop....  GRADUATION! Yipee!!! Then, I'll be back home :) These cookies below are ones she loves to bake because they are soooo easy, but since she still can't walk yet; she ask me to bake them for her. They are peanut butter cookies with just three ingredients and contains no flour!  Super easy right? I know. So, let get it started.

Easy Peanut Butter Cookies
1 cup peanut butter (I used Jif Creamy)
1 cup sugar (I used 1 part granulated and 1 part brown sugar)
1 egg, slightly beaten
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract, optional 

Preheat oven to 350 degree. Line cookie sheet with parchment paper. 
Combine all the ingredients in a medium mixing bowl until well blended.  
Drop cookie dough by tablespoonful onto prepared sheet. Use tines of a fork dipped in sugar to make a crisscross pattern on top of each cookies if desired.

Bake until golden brown, about 12 - 15 minutes. Yield: 2 dozen.
Source: Taste of Home
What I Did and/or Think:
Well, I did make a few changes to the three ingredients formula by adding brown sugar for a more chewier texture  and and vanilla. The changes I made are in Bold, Italic, and Purple. 
For Easy Peanut Butter Blossom version: Shape the dough into 3/4" ball before baking. Bake for about 8 - 10 minutes on ungreased cookie sheet. Press chocolate kiss into the center of each cookies, like in the instructions found here. Yield about 3 dozen.
The Taste: These cookies were GREAT! Love the flavor and the chewiness, definitely worthy of REPEATING! 

ENJOY! Come again...

*********Update*********  

Easy Chunky Peanut Butter Cookies

I been making these cookies for the past few weeks about every 3 to 4 days. My family really love them. I changed the recipe up a little more by adding 1/4 cup granulated sugar and 3/4 cup brown sugar, using extra chunky peanut butter and adding 3/4 cup mini Reese's Pieces peanut butter chips. Scoop out onto parchment lined cookie cookies sheet flatten slightly; cookie don't spread much. Baking them at 350 for 8 - 10 minutes 

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Chocolate Chips Cookies: Chewy or Crispy

Chocolate Chips Cookies: Chewy or Crispy

Hi everybody :)
I promised a recipe was coming soon so here it is, Chocolate Chip Cookies. I know, I know there are thousand of chocolate chip cookie recipe out there, but this one caught my attention because with few changes; you can make your cookies chewy or crispy. You decide. Anna Olson, Pastry Chef at Canada Food Network, noted for crispy cookies omit the cornstarch and replace the baking soda with baking powder. Now, let's get it started... 

Chocolate Chip Cookies

3/4 cup unsalted butter, softened

1 cup brown sugar

1/4 cup granulated sugar

1 egg

2 teaspoons vanilla extract

2 cups all purpose flour

2 teaspoons cornstarch

1 teaspoon baking soda

1/2 teaspoon salt

8 ounces bittersweet chocolate, cut into chunks (I used 1 cup milk chocolate chips)

In an electric mixer cream together butter and sugars until smooth and light in color, about 2 minutes with stand mixer. 

Add egg and vanilla and blend in.
In a bowl; mix together flour, cornstarch, baking soda and salt. Stir in chocolate chunks. 

(Dough can be refrigerated at this point and baked about an hour later, or shaped and frozen following the direction here  for an easy make-ahead recipe. If baking from a frozen dough add about two more minutes to baking time.)
 

Drop by tablespoons onto a greased baking sheet in an oven preheated at 350 degree. (I used parchment paper.) Bake for 8-10 minutes, until golden brown around the edge.

Source: Food Network
 

What I Did and/or Think: 
The changes I made are in Bold, Italic, and Purple.   Brown sugar also helps when making a chewier cookies especially dark brown sugar. Sometime when making cookies that call for brown sugar I like to use 1 part dark brown and 1 part light brown to get the amount of chewiness I love.

The Taste: I love the chewy chocolatey taste of these cookies and so does my daughter. She requested more after class. 

How do you like your chocolate chip cookies? Either way you choose, I think you will find this recipe a winner, so they're definitely worthy of REPEATS.

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