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eets the way you like it parchment or silicon mat then in a bowl whisk together 163 grams of white flour and two 1 8 teaspoons plus one half of a 1 8 teaspoon of aluminum free baking powder and two 1 8 teaspoons plus one half of a 1 8 teaspoon baking soda add 1 4 teaspoon of fine sea salt probably should ve washed her hands first beat 73 grams of unsalted butter until soft and then add 133 grams of natural cane sugar when making the mesquite cookies i didn t have the right sugar and used white that works too scrape the sides of the bowl down as necessary and beat until creamy a note on baking with children you d be surprised by what they can screw up asked to help spoon out flour they will spill it asked to empty a bowl of oats into the wet ingredients they may for example accidentally drop the entire bowl into the batter instead asked to help measure chocolate chips they will eat them then become obsessed with some old bubble wrap they find in the garbage just try to enjoy it add two small eggs one at a time or one large one to the mix and then toss in crazy math alert five 1 8 teaspoons of vanilla extract i say toss but you can just pour it gently if that s your way once i told colin to toss some veggies in indicating a bubbly pot of soup and he threw them in the garbage instead ah marriage add your flour mixture in three batches to the wet ingredients and then hand mix in 77 grams of rolled oats some for the bowl some for the floor try to explain to your daughter that oats are the same thing that s in oatmeal get quizzical look move along quickly now you need to add 120 grams total of chopped dried apricots bitter or semi sweet chocolate chips and blanched almond slivers you can decide the proportion based on taste but i tried for roughly equal parts drop mounds of dough about two tablespoons per cookie onto the prepared baking sheets i used a 40 ice cream scoop only because my 20 standard cookie size was in the dishwasher bake for 10 12 minutes don t overbake i did and it will be one of the things i regret my entire life or until i forget let them cool on the sheet and then a rack until you can t stand waiting any longer so was it as good as a jezebel you ll have to wait for colin s review to find out ice cream scoopers can get you fat in two ways a watched cookie does in fact bake posted by amanda at 4 01 pm 3 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest monday november 1 2010 review mesquite chocolate chip cookies these were very good hearty and satisfying the chocolate chips were very dark and somewhat bitter which appeals to me of course the texture was dense and filling chewy but firm the only problem was these had to follow the perfect chocolate chip cookie that came just before those were sweet these were more savory see i am a simple man a true american who likes classic chocolate chip cookies warming on a windowsill in a 1950s that never really occurred simple these were a little hifalutin like something out of magazine with a french name i m talking to you saveur they were very good though not bad at all here s the final score daughter told showed me how to whisk ingredients together plus 2 highly edible plus 1 pretty plus 2 smug minus 2 hot and gooey chocolate chip plus 1 forced to eat them while watching sex and the city 2 minus 2 counterbalanced the bad taste left in my mouth by sex and the city 2 plus 2 after eating them had to endure remaining 139 minutes and 24 seconds of sex and the city 2 minus 1 total 3 points for mesquite chocolate chip cookies posted by that edgy dad tm at 11 40 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest adventures in math mesquite chocolate chip cookies how to make mesquite chocolate chip cookies time factor 40 mins wow factor 1 10 8 music to bake by lyle lovett s she makes me feel good one night while i was simultaneously texting surfing iming and watching top chef just desserts i stumbled upon a blog called 101 cookbooks heidi swanson has healthy recipes along with stunning thoughtful photos of the kind that could not possibly be taken by a woman with young children these are the illusions we moms cling to if she does have children i don t want to know about it anyway she had a recipe for mesquite chocolate chip cookies that she deleted from her site to put into her cookbook it sounded like exactly the right amount of weird that i like and thankfully our trusty friend google found the recipe posted on several other blogs thanks googs mesquite flour sounded like it would have a bbq flavor but i was happy to discover it did not also happy to discover it wasn t that hard to find spotted it in two local supermarkets near me what is hard to find is the right word to describe it earthy is the best i can do what was also hard was dividing this recipe into a small batch i wanted to bake a third of the original version which resulted in many many calculations and overthinking and absurd sounding portions weirdly it worked don t ask how just benefit from my insanity oh right and turn your kitchen scale to grams because there is no way to divide so many cups and ounces into thirds properly by the way these were the first cookies i ve ever made that i can honestly say came out looking somewhat professional was it the mesquite the math try it yourself and decide without further ado i bring you a small batch of mesquite chocolate chip cookies the star of the show mesquite preheat your oven to 375 degrees and line your baking sheet with parchment paper or a silpat mat in a bowl whisk together 53 grams of mesquite flour and 110 grams of white flour so far easy but then it starts getting weird how to divide a teaspoon the best i could come up with is two 1 8 teaspoons a half 1 8 teaspoon of baking powder and add the same two 1 8 teaspoons a half 1 8 teaspoon baking soda and then add 1 4 teaspoon of sea salt whisk it all together and don t stress it will be fine time to bring out the big guns your kitchenaid if you have one i got mine for free with thank you points from mastercard i m having a bit of a love affair with mine right now let s not tell colin shall we so either with the kitchenaid or a hand mixer or if you re a member of the russian women s olympic team then by hand beat 73 grams of butter until soft this seems like as good of a time as any to tell you i messed up with the sugar the recipe calls for natural cane sugar have you seen sexier butter i think not and i accidentally bought something that was not that so i used white sugar and all was well do not stress i will tell you when to stress this is not that time add 133 grams of natural cane sugar or white and beat until creamy add either 2 small eggs or 1 large egg one at a time until incorporated why not throw in the five 1 8 teaspoons of vanilla extract at this point too go ahead and get crazy important tip lower the mixing speed on your mixer so you do not get a face full of flour before adding the dry ingredients to the wet in three batches minor disaster the small egg had a harder shell than anticipated and didn t crack properly luckily part of the egg slid into the crack between the oven and the counter so that was nice let s not tell colin that either shall we you might want to turn off the electronics at this time and start hand mixing in the 77 grams of rolled oats as well as the 110 grams of chocolate chips then take an ice cream scoop i used a number 20 for this one and scoop even rounds about 2 tablespoons onto the cookie sheet in the home stretch bake for 10 12 minutes if anything you re supposed to underbake them which is very hard for a child who comes from a home where everything is burnt burnt cooked underbaked salmonella but i followed the recipe as told and i m telling you they looked and tasted pretty darn good of course you ll have to wait for colin s rating to find out the real scoop ice cream scoops make evenly sized cookies would you pay 2 for these how about 75 posted by amanda at 10 25 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest thursday october 28 2010 review can t fail chocolate chip cookies rating 4 5 man guts c reviews the name of these cookies puts a lot of pressure on the baker what if the baker botches the batch fortunately these were epic successes the flat wide chips were melted and packed a flavor punch that made my mouth water the cookie was moist and just the right consistency soft but with a tangible mouth feel again i don t really describe things in a food critic sort of manner that is not my purview i give you a real world snapshot of how you might enjoy these cookies in your own kitchen it was sad not to have z help make them i missed that but the best part was seeing z taste them her face became wide with joy as the flavors washed over her tongue then she jumped on the couch for awhile i guess she hasn t ever really had a chocolate chip cookie before it is always fun to see her try something new and delicious it is a good thing these are small batches because i ate them all within a day they would get 5 man guts but it seems like i need to save the man gut award not just bandy it about willy nilly posted by that edgy dad tm at 10 41 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest wednesday october 27 2010 can t fail chocolate chip cookies how to make chocolate chip cookies time factor 30 mins wow factor 1 10 3 music to bake by hot chocolate you sexy thing true story i spent an entire summer ruining batch after batch of chocolate chip cookies my cookies were alternately too dry or too buttery or too flat you d think you can t mess up chocolate chip cookies but you did not spend that summer with me in d c those people will tell you i didn t learn until years later and my mother in law instructed me that i was measuring the flour wrong shake spoonfuls into the measuring cup don t scoop anyway this recipe is adapted from the the new basics cookbook a cookbook i could not live without it s my go to for everything fitting that i used it for my first real small batch and it seemed like the old standby of chocolate chip cookies was an appropriate test it was insanely easy my husband left for target and by the time he was back the cookies were almost done small batch of chocolate chip cookies preheat the oven to 375 degrees now every good cookie recipe starts with creaming butter and sugar i could just eat this with a spoon and call it a day combine 1 2 stick 4 tablespoons of unsalted butter at room temperature with 3 tablespoons packed of brown sugar and 3 tablespoons of white sugar add 1 4 teaspoon vanilla extract and beat for at least three minutes to get it really fluffy don t be impatient and cheat use a timer to force yourself to really do it that long trust me it makes a difference if you re really bored multi task and do some kegels i was at the farmers market in davis california this weekend don t ask and was delighted to find small eggs i have never seen regular small chicken eggs in the supermarket i asked her how many small eggs would equal a large one for baking and her answer was two but her thick accent made me concerned about whether she really understood the question feeling adventurous i decided to trust her and that s also when i decided to halve the old fashioned chocolate chip cookie recipe since the original called for one large egg easy math let s try out this little egg and trust walk with the estonian organic farmer shall we and put off the inevitable where i have to divide an egg into fourths just a little longer so add one small egg to the butter sugar mixture and beat it look mini me egg so tiny you just want to hug it 3 next mix your dry ingredients i was surprised that i could put the half cup plus 1 tablespoon flour 1 4 teaspoon baking soda and get ready for it half pinch of salt into a soup bowl maybe letting your kid s small fingers do a pinch is the way to go with that half pinch another benefit of baking small batches is that clean up is easier or it seems that way 4 slowly add your dry ingredients to your wet ones and beat until smooth then add a half cup of chocolate chips this time i used ghirardelli chocolate semi sweet chocolate baking chips if you ve been using a mixer at this point you probably want to just hand mix the chips in with a spatula think happy thoughts 5 use a dessert spoon and scoop out roughly even mounds of dough onto a cookie sheet that is either lined with parchment paper or a silpat baking sheet i have to say i m not enthralled with the silpat myself it seems greasy but i m probably not cleaning it correctly i used parchment pop these 12 babies into the oven and bake for 4 minutes then rotate and the silver palate gals say to rap it on the counter once bake for another for another 4 5 minutes until they look like something you wouldn t be ashamed to bring to a bake sale the final product c s already gotten into them 6 given that z was asleep when i made these it was extremely fast and simple although probably less fun she would love to see that mini egg so i ll definitely let her help me for the next one it s about time to teach that girl to crack an egg isn t it might wait for the flour lesson until she has better manual dexterity posted by amanda at 10 01 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest monday october 25 2010 inaugural review dulce de leche brownies rating 4 5 manguts c reviews these brownies were fantastic the dulce de leche was delicious on its own but coupled with the brownie it was a flavor overload you know i m realizing it s hard to write food reviews that s why i have avoided doing it on yelp it always sounds like a blatherous fool sounding off with a limited grammar toolbox but since i am that i may as well be it so anyway these were super yum they were chewy with crispy chunks on the exterior the center was moist made more so by the melted dulce de leche since i was also eating ice cream and drinking wine at the same time i was delighted to no end until i made a crack about how parents have so little to discuss with each other and a pall settled over the whole table i would give these 5 5 manguts a mangut is my trademarked system of rating food but the first one out of the gate can t be 5 manguts manguts are easily pleased but they re discerning i am not going to be soft on these brownies just because my two gals made them rest assured these were so good that z wanted more and when she didn t get more she wept sorrowfully and then because i am an adult i secretly went in and had more mangut scores posted by that edgy dad tm at 11 12 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest sunday october 24 2010 inaugural bake dulce de leche brownies how to make dulce de leche brownies time factor 3ish hour wow factor 1 10 8 5 music to bake by gwen stefani the sweet escape 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