Not a big fan of cookies , but somehow it’s necessary to get chocolate incorporated into your diet. Another requirement, a simple recipe.
How about a one bowl, no mixer required. just the use of your hand(s) recipe.
Don’t actually recall how I found this recipe, possibly a twitter link but whatever some conversion from grams to ounces was required and maybe some translation if your not up on your french.
First the method:
Cut up the butter
Add the sugars, mash together with your fingers
The egg….
The flour….
Mix with your fingers again…
Mix till incorporated….
until it forms together…
for ease of division, form into logs….
Divide as to how large you want the cookies
Place on the cookie sheet flatten slightly, and bake..
Voila !
OK ! enough pictures ?
Now the particulars, by the way this is the second recipe, as I cut back on the flour from the first attempt. The first recipe was good also if you like the cookies a bit on the caky side.
The ones pictured in the video (reference to follow) look very thin and crispy. If you are a cookie expert you can adjust the ingredients to your liking and cook till desired crispness is achieved. I note that not using a mixer (electric etc.) they are more towards a sugar cookie finish, being that mine where a bit on the grainy side. My joke, was that you need permission from your dentist to eat them. To me a cookie is a cookie so I didn’t fret. (and they didn’t last long being on the counter and brought for working lunch either!).
So ! here’s the link that sold me on the ease of this recipe…
10 ounces flour , 2 cups
1/2 teaspoon sodium bicarbonate, baking soda
3/4 teaspoon baking powder
6 ounce butter
6 ounce brown sugar
4 1/2 ounces sugar
1 egg
8 oz chocolate (Don’t be a whimp, 60% or better chocolate (chips))
400 degree oven
Try less flour 9.4 oz by weight, about 1 and 1/2 cups.
I would like to press this (cookie dough) into a large round in a spring form pan, bake , and build a ice cream cake on top !
Thanks for stopping by Sweet Tooth !
made before the holidays, more drafts to post, now turkey soup I’m working on.
Bonus photo my “kitchen” at my day job !
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Metro Blog 
shopping
Tags: 2014, groceries, prices, shopping, SUPERSTORE, warehouse club
Advantages: bulk quantities, relatively stable pricing, but the fact that this was not only a food store, also offered several other departments of electronic, clothing, home products etc. , seemed to have the same limited selection, as I mostly shopped probably 90% for basic staple items of food. Getting the latest fad fruit, new exciting ingredient, or your favorite cut of meat (it could probably ordered ahead of time) was dicey, It’s an advantage not to shop through 37 different varieties of potato chip and snack crackers, most of those decisions were made for you and most of the time those choices being jumbo or dual bulk packaging. No problem there.
After leaning back in my chair and sighing viewing the ominous renewal notice, a new frontier was to be explored, this one run by the same company of the club and sometimes ridiculed about the class and attire of the clientele that shops there. THE SUPERSTORE ! (or super center)
The first visit was limited to the food section having it own entrance on one side of the superstore, it just about went front to back of the left side of the store , a definite isle front to back , crossing to the right too far would set you into another zone other than food.
The selection was more diverse than the club, more available produce in the fist few isles, things like ginger root, kale, broccoli rabe ,parsnips and leeks available in good quantities. Some isles in the produce section had numerous bare spots at the time I shopped. Shopping the next few isles up were more of a hunting expedition if you like me mostly avoid prepackaged processed food items. The basics were there it just required a bit of scanning of the multiple sizes and selection of let’s say olive oil and the trade off is that they are in smaller packaged sizes, like cocoa , chocolate bits etc. Although a 25 lb bag of flour is available, cheaper than the Club !
Meat, a much better selection than the club, some ox tail and different cuts of lamb available.
One other advantage of the SUPERSTORE is it working hours, 24 hour coverage so you not limited to early closings and if the mood strikes at an off time shop ! I question though, if the stock and wide selection are maintained during the wee hours of the morning.
A new feature is the ability to scan (photograph) (or enter the transaction number) if your receipt within a certain number of days, It will note if any item can be found at another store at a lower price and credit the amount to a store account , why they don’t have this info available when they shelve the item and price it is beyond me. Maybe a good use of a computer like IBM’s Watson could crunch the numbers and guarantee it’s the lowest price when it passes through the checkout scanner, I fear though, that it could lead to price fixing in a cloud !
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Several recipes and postings are drafted, but being in a lazy blogging slump I’ll get to them ASAP !
That is all.
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