brownie bite cookies and blog day '05
it has come to my attention that today is blog day 2005. a day in which we bloggers share five new blogs with links to encourage our readers to do a little exploring. so here are five blogs (all of which are new to me since i've only been blogging for a short time now) that i really enjoy checking out. here they are in no particular order: tokyotimes i love this blog written by a dry-witted brit observing the latest trends, news, and cultural dissonances of the japanese life. and back to northern california, i enjoy checking out cookiecrumb at i'm mad and i eat. lots of great photos of local produce and seasonal dishes never fails to get my mouth watering. obachan's kitchen and balcony garden back to japan for an eclectic blog by a self-titled obachan (meaning middle aged lady) - lots of interesting recipes and food ideas that blend east and west in her little kitchen in kotchi japan. brownbreadicecream the title bar reads "singapore vancouver des moines tokyo" and that pretty much says it all about this multi-cultural non-native tokyo dweller. i love stopping by to read up on her lastest musing on life in japan, pictures of edward the dog, and her ever patient salaryman husband. finally, if you haven't been to nordljus you really must stop by. keiko creates the most amazing confections i've seen outside of a pastry cookbook and wields her camera with envy inducing skill. just beautiful. now, back to our regularly scheduled feature:
you all must think i'm a cookie-scarfing maniac living in a garbage can somewhere on sesame street west, judging from all the cookie recipes i post. and -gasp- they are not even close to being vegan - unless somewhere along the way butter and eggs got themselves expelled from metallic, mechanical robotic cows and chickens (scary mid-fifties science fiction type thought). in fact, i've been wondering if i should change my blog description from "mostly vegan" to "cookie and pizza freak". well, i blame my man for this. and more. much, much more. you see, he likes cookies. and he will not even taste the ones without the barnyard ingredients, for which i can hardly blame him since i also despise dry and puffy lowfat cookies almost as much as the oily and greazzzy vegan ones. plus, i don't really like cookies all that much anyway. i'll choose a salty greazzzy bag of chips over a cookie any day.
here is the most recent cookie recipe in my arsenal...adapted from something i found on the allrecipes site. they are very chocolatey without being too sweet. depending on how long you cook them they can be slightly crispy on the outside and soft inside, or if you flatten them out a bit and bake a little longer they can be nice and crispy. everyone i've given these to really like them. heck, i even like them.
brownie bite cookies
1 - 1 1/4 cups butter, softened
1 1/2 cups sugar
2 eggs
1 Tablespoon vanilla
2 cups flour
3/4 cups unsweetened cocoa powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 cups semi sweet chocolate
cream together butter and sugar. add eggs one at a time, then vanilla. sift the dry ingredients (flour, cocoa, baking soda and salt) and incorporate into sugar butter mixture. fold in chocolate chips. drop by heaping teapoon fulls onto a cookie sheet and bake at 350 for 8-10 minutes.
to veganize: replace the eggs with 2 egg equivalents of ener-g egg replacer, or the egg replacer of your choice and replace the butter with margarine or non-hydrogenated shortening (or a mix of the two, which i prefer).
you all must think i'm a cookie-scarfing maniac living in a garbage can somewhere on sesame street west, judging from all the cookie recipes i post. and -gasp- they are not even close to being vegan - unless somewhere along the way butter and eggs got themselves expelled from metallic, mechanical robotic cows and chickens (scary mid-fifties science fiction type thought). in fact, i've been wondering if i should change my blog description from "mostly vegan" to "cookie and pizza freak". well, i blame my man for this. and more. much, much more. you see, he likes cookies. and he will not even taste the ones without the barnyard ingredients, for which i can hardly blame him since i also despise dry and puffy lowfat cookies almost as much as the oily and greazzzy vegan ones. plus, i don't really like cookies all that much anyway. i'll choose a salty greazzzy bag of chips over a cookie any day.
here is the most recent cookie recipe in my arsenal...adapted from something i found on the allrecipes site. they are very chocolatey without being too sweet. depending on how long you cook them they can be slightly crispy on the outside and soft inside, or if you flatten them out a bit and bake a little longer they can be nice and crispy. everyone i've given these to really like them. heck, i even like them.
brownie bite cookies
1 - 1 1/4 cups butter, softened
1 1/2 cups sugar
2 eggs
1 Tablespoon vanilla
2 cups flour
3/4 cups unsweetened cocoa powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 cups semi sweet chocolate
cream together butter and sugar. add eggs one at a time, then vanilla. sift the dry ingredients (flour, cocoa, baking soda and salt) and incorporate into sugar butter mixture. fold in chocolate chips. drop by heaping teapoon fulls onto a cookie sheet and bake at 350 for 8-10 minutes.
to veganize: replace the eggs with 2 egg equivalents of ener-g egg replacer, or the egg replacer of your choice and replace the butter with margarine or non-hydrogenated shortening (or a mix of the two, which i prefer).
posted by rae at 8:50 AM
8 Comments:
xxxxx!
Also: You got tagged by
http://www.kqed.org/weblog/food/
Way to go.
Hi,
So glad I found you through Becks & Posh and Cooking With Amy. Sounds like we have a lot in common (if you don't change your blog description to "cookie & pizza freak" I'm going to change mine to it).
Those cookies look and sound absolutely scrumptious. Will definitely be trying them soon. Thanks for sharing the recipe. And I hope it's okay if I swipe the phrase "barnyard ingredients" from you--love it!
cookiecrumb: that tag must've been a totally random process. it remindes me of the time i got a highly coveted studio apartment in a popular neighborhood for cheap rent during the housing crunch here in sf. all because the landlady had so many applicants that she didn't know how to choose, so she piled all the names into a hat and drew one randomly.
farmgirl: thanks for stopping by and yeah, those cookies are good. by the way, i checked out your blog. love your barnyard pals.
Hi Rae,
Well, I whipped up a batch of your brownie bite cookies yesterday, and all I can say is: What a chocolate lover's dream!!!! So amazingly good. I made them in three different sizes just for the heck of it (since I usually make all cookies supersize). I think I may not have baked the smaller ones long enough, though, as they were really soft and pretty much fell apart in my hands while I was inhaling them. Great, I say! What a perfect excuse not to share them with anyone. (Yes, I am that bad.) As I suspected, they taste even better the next day, but I won't tell you how embarrassingly few were left this morning. Thanks so much for sharing the recipe (I think). : )
amy: hey, thanks for stopping by. don't you just love farmgirls pic?
farmgirl: yeah, those cookies are definitly a sort of cursed delight...
Rae, thanks so much for the mention! (And sorry it took me so long to comment on it.)
"Patient salaryman husband"--ha! Okay, you're quite right. He endures a lot, by being married to me.
Those cookies are just what I'm craving, especially because you said they aren't too sweet, which is my biggest problem with most cookie recipes. Thanks for sharing!
He is very good man wish he all the best love me for this guy.
Post a Comment
<< Home