After receiving my copy of The Cookie Dough Lover's Cookbook, and trying five of the recipes within a three-day period, I can highly, highly recommend this book. It was the 50th addition to my shelf of baking books and this is the one I was most excited about. It's awesome. The cookie dough is insanely good - the best ever - and here it is dipped in chocolate. Now go buy the book, you won't regret it!
My sister and I used to eat bourbon biscuits all the time; I will forever associate them with the film 'Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets' because that's when we would eat insane amounts of them. I recently bought Kate Shirazi's book 'Cookie Magic', which is filled with recipes for all the classics: custard creams, digestives, rich teas...and bourbons. They were so much more chocolaty than the ones I remember from my Harry-Potter-watching-days. Magic!
It's no secret that I love cookie dough...and cookies. But together? A whole new level of yummyness. Want to eat cookie dough but want baked cookies at the same time? Try a cookie cup, filled with cookie dough - it's immense. Chewy, gooey, chocolaty, and the best of both worlds. Shelly from Cookies & Cups is a genius.
When you run out of butter, you feel pretty limited in what you can bake. Therefore I decided to try a brownie recipe that used mayonnaise and was in turn, low fat. I don't know what I was expecting, but it is now my absolute favourite simple brownie recipe. It tastes far too good to be low fat, yet it is! By the way, you can't taste the mayonnaise, it's just chocolate all the way!
Until the awesome Hummingbird Bakery book, Cake Days, I had never contemplated the idea of making a cupcake with the fragrant hint of...flowers. But knowing how reliable the recipes from this book are, it would have been silly not to try such an intriguing recipe. Very silly indeed, because they were delicious! Be warned: the frosting is the kind you want to make just to eat with a spoon.
Remember when I made Oatmeal Caramel Crumble Bars to get over failing the English prelim? Well, the exam was today. Let's just say I'll need at least three batches to recover. In the meantime let me tell you about this insane chocolate cookie recipe from Cookie Madness. Chocoholics, I guarantee you will LOVE these cookies. Plus, the texture is so fudgy and mmmmm-y! As you can tell my brain is far too overworked to think of any decent adjectives. Anyway, I would even go as far as to say that the Triple Chocolate Oreo Chunk Cookies have some competition!
BTW: The recipe uses cake flour - make your own here but if you only want to make enough for this recipe, measure out the 1/4 cup flour and replace slightly less than 3/4 tbsp with cornflour.
I'd been wanting to make these cupcakes from The Hummingbird Bakery for a while; the only thing I needed was Cola syrup. I looked far and wide at many supermarkets, and didn't want to pay postage rates for buying it online. I had accepted I would never experience a Cola cupcake. But then - in the pet shop, of all places - I had finally found not only Cola syrup, but a whole variety of syrups from Cream Soda to Lemonade! To sum up how good these cupcakes are, I'll leave you with one final thought: a family member, who shall remain unnamed, ate three in one day.
