It has been more than a month since I last baked something! I'm most grateful I have the luxury of time to read through recipes and picking out some for trial during this leave period. Shopping for ingredients is both fun and tiring..having to lug the stuff home.
I've decided to make some sinfully chocolatey chocolate cookies, tweaking the
original recipe to accomodate some macadamia nuts upon Jul's request. :)
Dark Chocolate Chunk Cookies
250g butter, softened
1 1/2 cups sugar
2 large eggs
1tsp vanilla extract
2 cups all purpose flour
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
2/3 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
100g dark chocolate chunks (I used Lindth)
120g macadamia nuts, crushed
1. Preheat oven to 180C.
2. Cream the butter and sugar till light and fluffy.
3. Add the eggs one after another and whisk well, followed by the vanilla extract.
4. In a separate bowl, sift flour, baking soda, salt and cocoa powder.
5. Add the sifted flour into the butter mixture and mix well till no traces of flour can be seen.
6. Stir in the chocolate chunks and macadamia nuts.
7. Drop heaped tablespoonfuls of batter onto lined baking sheet.
8. Bake for 11 mins or till edges are firm.
9. Leave to rest on baking sheet for about 5mins before transferring to cooling rack. Makes about 20 cookies.
Update: The cookies were not as crispy as I thought they would had been. Using chocolate chunks were definately a good choice over ready made chocolate chips and it can definately do with more nuts! :)
I was keen to try baking a bread this week, having ingredients ready on hand to make a walnut bread. Baking bread seems pretty intimidating to me, so I picked a simple recipe for trial run. :)
