Fat Friday #52 Hot Cookie Dough Dessert

Note: This recipe is to share, however you will be temped to eat the whole thing. You have been warned.

Happy Friday! I love cookies. There have been multiple recipes on this blog dedicated to cookies.
This is some next level cookie-ness! Quite honestly I was just sick of paying for cookie dough desserts, and not really knowing what ingredients go into them. So this recipe now gets made when "cookie munchies" hit. 

Enjoy. You are welcome. 

Recipe (Adapted from Nadia's Kitchen by Nadia Hussain) Makes 1 large cookie Serves 2 generously or 1 Penny Serving. 

Ingredients:

• 125g plain flour
• 1/4 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
• 85g salted butter, softened
• 150g golden caster sugar
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 egg
• 100g dark chocolate chips
• 100g milk chocolate chips
• Optional: Vanilla ice cream to serve

Equipment:

• Bowl x 2
• Sieve
• 8 inch/20cm tart dish 
• Wooden Spoon

Method:

1) Sieve the flour and bicarbonate of soda into one bowl and set aside.

2) In another bowl, mix the sugar, butter, vanilla and the egg until its completely combined. 

3) Add the dry ingredients into the wet mixture and mix to create a dough. Mix in those yummy chocolate chips

4)Press the dough into the tart dish to cover the bottom. Place in the fridge for 15 minutes. (Note or do what I did and bake it the next day)

5) Preheat oven to 190c/170c/Gas Mark 

6) Bake in the oven for 12 minutes. 

7) Remove the dish from the oven carefully. The dough will be very soft but its a cookie DOUGH dessert... so thats what you would expect.

8) Serve with ice cream or eat as is! 

Have a great weekend!

Fat Friday #47 Cookie Dough Cupcakes

Oh yeah! Cookie dough! One of my guilty pleasures. I never eat cake batter or biscuit doughs as I want to eat the baked product. But cookie dough is another thing, if there isn't enough to make a full cookie, I will eat it. When I saw this recipe for cookie dough inside a cupcake, it was definitely one for a Fat Friday.  Although, you'll need to start the day before to make the cookie dough so they have enough time to freeze. 

Recipe (Adapted from Primrose Bakery Everyday by Martha Swift) 
Cookie Dough Ingredients:

• 50g unsalted butter
• 75g golden caster sugar
• 75g flour
• 30g dark chocolate chopped into pieces
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract

Equipment:

• Electric hand whisk/Wooden spoon
• Freezer friendly plate or tray
• Bowl

Method:
1) Place all the ingredients into a bowl and mix until combined
2) Using a set of scales (hopefully you used some to weigh out the ingredients!) weigh out 20g of cookie dough and roll into balls. (Note: they maybe a pain to roll but its worth it)
3)Put in the freezer to freeze overnight. 

Cupcake Ingredients:

• 170g unsalted butter
• 170g golden caster sugar
• 3 large eggs
• 170g self raising flour
• 45ml milk
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Equipment:

• Electric hand whisk/Wooden spoon
• Cupcake tin lined with 12 cupcake liners
• Bowl
• Wire rack

Method:

1) Preheat the oven to GM 4/180c/350f. Line the cupcake tin with cupcake wrapper.

2) Cream the sugar and butter until light and fluffy. 

3) Add the eggs in one at a time and mix until incorporated. 

4) Throw in the flour, milk and vanilla extract and beat again until no flour lumps are present.

5) Spoon the batter into the cupcake cases until they are 2/3 full.
6) Grab the frozen cookie balls that you made the day before, and place one ball in each of the cupcakes. You won't need to press them in, the batter should bake over them. 
7) Bake for 20-25 minutes or until the cakes are golden brown on the top. 
8) Leave in the tin to cool for 10 minutes and then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely. 

Buttercream Ingredients:

• 150g unsalted butter
• 350g icing sugar, sieved
• 100g golden caster sugar
• pinch of salt
• 60g sour cream
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 35g dark chocolate pieces, chopped

Equipment:

• Electric hand whisk/Wooden spoon
• Sieve
• Bowl
• Piping bag fitted with a large circle nozzle/ palette knife

Method:

1) Place all the ingredients in bowl and beat until combined.

2) Once the cupcakes have cooled down, pipe a swirl on top or use a palette knife to spread onto each cupcake. 

Happy Friday!

Fat Friday #45 Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies

I've finally sorted out my recipe book and finally found an old recipe I've never tried before. A cookie recipe that I found jotted down on a sticky note was hidden in the recipe book page. If its worth writing down, then its worth a try, right? It actually worked out really well. The perfect cookie, just chewy in the middle and crispy around the edge. Great to start a weekend, or ruin a diet. 

Recipe: Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies
Makes 12-15 cookies (Found in my recipe book, not sure where it came from) 

Ingredients:

• 250g plain flour
• 2g baking powder
• 170g unsalted butter
• 220g brown sugar
• 100g caster sugar
• pinch of salt
• 1 egg yolk
• 1 egg
• 1 teaspoon vanilla essence
• 335g chocolate chips (I used a mix of white, dark and milk chips)

Equipment

• Baking sheets lined with baking parchment x 2 
• Sieve
• Bowl x 2
• Microwave
• Wooden Spoon
• Wire Rack 

1. Preheat the oven tp 325f/165c/ Gas Mark 3. Grease and line the cookie sheets. 
2. Sieve the flour, baking powder, and salt into a bowl. Set aside. 
3. In a separate bowl, melt the butter in the microwave until a liquid. 
4. Add both sugars to the melted butter and mix throughly. 
5. Beat in the egg, the egg yolk, vanilla extract until fluffy.
6. Mix into the dry ingredients into the batter until combined. 
7. Stir in the chocolate chips by hand.
8. Flour your hands a little, then roll the batter into 1 inch balls. Space them 3 inches apart on the baking sheet. 
9. Bake for 15-17 minutes in the oven or until the edges are lightly toasted. The middle should be soft but not gooey. 
10. Once you remove the baking sheets from the oven, leave the cookies to cook for a further 10 minutes before transferring to wire racks to cool. 

Happy Baking!

Japan Candy Box Video *Giveaway Closed*

Who doesn't love sweets and candies? The blog was created with a love of sweet treats in mind! So when I was approached by Japan Candy Box to do a review of the latest box, I was delighted too!

They sent me the August 2015 box which arrived beautifully wrapped in some very kawaii purple paper! I have a list of the candies that was sent to me:

1.Kracie Tsunagete DIY Chain Candy-

Orange and bubblegum flavoured chain sweets, which were delightfully chewy. Also, they are fun to put together but I prefer to just to eat them. 

2.Kracie Neru Neru Nerune DIY Candy-

Yikes, I hated this! The texture of the drink of terrible, the flavour wasn't too bad however. It was fun to make but I wouldn't get this one again!

3.Rilakkuma Cookie Sticks-

These are so sweetly packaged. The cookies taste more like rich tea biscuits rather than cookies but they are so more-ish! Definitely one of my favourites in the box.

4.Puccho Watermelon Chewy Candy- 

Chewy, yet gummy and fruity. They truly taste like watermelon.  

5.Shigekix Super Sour Grape Gummies-

Wow! Talk about sour! These were so tasty but very strong. If you love sour sweets, you'll fall in love with these!

6.Yaokin Sour Grape Paper Candy- 

This 'paper candy' was leathery and way too chewy for my palette. However, the sour and grape flavour are spot on. 

7. Meiji Yan Yan Biscuit Sticks- 

I've had a similar product before and I do like this sweet too. The strawberry, for me, need to be stronger in flavour. Its still very enjoyable to moonch on!

8.Bourbon Petit Choco Filled Cookies-

These are so addictive! The vanilla and chocolate really complement each other.

9.Tohato Anpanman Caramel Corn- 

These have the texture of crisps but have a toffee flavoured sweetness. 

10. Moominvalley Biscuits-

I really like these chocolate biscuits and the design is quite detailed on each biscuit. 

Overall the candy box was really enjoyable. I loved most of the sweets, with a few exceptions. I would like to say a big thank you to Japan Candy Box for sponsoring the post. Do you like the look of the Candy Box? Well you can win one yourself by entering the competition link below. 

A Rafflecopter giveaway

Good luck! and Happy Baking!

*This post was sponsored by Japan Candy Box. They sent a candy box to me for free and are giving away a candy box to my readers!* 

Fat Friday #4 Gluten-Free Peanut Butter Cookies

Its the end of the working week and you know what that means right? You don't? Well here on Cupcakes, Cake and Passion its my favourite day of the week its Fat Fridays!! The only place to gorge yourself with 'good for the soul' food. This week its a pretty simple recipe, all the credit goes to Mary Youngkin, who writes Barefeet in the Kitchen Blog, for coming up with this amazing recipe. I've just translated the recipe from cups to grams. These cookies are accidently gluten-free and are full of peanut butter. I mean this is peanut butter on steroids. Its peanut butter overload....What I'm trying to say is its reallllllyyyyy peanut buttery.  

 

Also another bonus for these cookies is that they take 5 minutes to make and about 20 minutes to bake. 25 minutes, so you've got no excuse not to bake!



    

Recipe: Makes 18 cookies (Recipe Adapted from Barefeet In The Kitchen)

• 1 egg 
• 250g Smooth peanut butter
• 200g Golden caster sugar

Equipment:

• Bowl
• Wooden spoon
• Baking sheet lined with silicone paper
• Fork
• Wire rack

1. Preheat the oven to 180c/350f/Gas Mark 4. Line the baking sheet with silicone paper.

 2. Mix all the ingredients together in a big bowl with a wooden spoon, until smooth .

3. Smooth into 18 small balls and place on the baking sheet. 

4.With fork press down gently in one direction. 

 

5.Press the fork in the other direction to create a criss cross pattern.

6.Bake for in the oven for 22 minutes until firm but not crispy. Leave on the tray for about 3 minutes and transfer to a wire rack.

Have a great weekend and Happy Baking!

Chunky Chocolate Cookies

Last week I posted Raspberry and Chocolate Chip Cookies recipe up and not realising I didn't put up the recipe for traditional chocolate chip cookies. Opps my bad. I use two different types of roughly chopped chocolate to add texture and flavour to the cookies. 

Recipe: Makes 14 cookies (Recipe inspired by Cookies Galore Book)

        150g white chocolate, roughly chopped into chunks 
        150g dark chocolate, roughly chopped into chunks

         200g unsalted butter, at room temperature

·       150g golden caster sugar

·       1 egg

·       200g plain flour, sifted

·       1 teaspoon baking power

·       1 teaspoon of vanilla extract

Equipment:

·       Electric hand-mixer/Wooden spoon
        Bowl x 3 

        Sieve

·       Teaspoon

·       Tablespoon

·       Chopping Board
        Knife
        Baking Sheet x 2 lined with baking paper/silicone paper

1.  Pre-heat the oven to 180c/350f/Gas Mark 4 and grease the baking sheets with the light oil spray/butter and line with silicone paper.

2.  Chop up all the chocolate into chunks. Set aside. 
3.Cream the butter and sugar together until pale and fluffy.

4. Beat in the egg and vanilla to the creamed mixture.

5. Sift the flour and baking power together and then beat to the cookie batter. 

6.  Add the chocolate chips and mix well into the cookie batter (try not to eat at this stage). Drop rounded tablespoons onto the baking sheets. Make sure sure you space the cookies well apart or they will cook together and stick.

7. Bake in the oven for 15-20 minutes. Leave the cookies on the baking sheet for about 3 minutes and remove to a wire rack. 

Happy baking and have a great weekend! 

Raspberry and Chocolate Chip Cookies

Its been a little difficult to do some baking at the moment as I'm still getting settled into London again but I really wanted to bake some snacking cookies with a difference. Its a twist on a traditional chocolate chip cookies. With the addition of raspberries into the batter gives the cookies a sweeter Summer taste. 

Recipe: Makes 15 cookies (Recipe inspired by Cookies Galore Book)

        100g white chocolate chips
        100g milk chocolate chips
         150g raspberries 

         200g unsalted butter, at room temperature

·       150g golden caster sugar

·       1 egg

·       200g plain flour, sifted

·       1 teaspoon baking power

·       1 teaspoon of vanilla extract

Equipment:

·       Electric hand-mixer/Wooden spoon
        Bowl x 3 

        Sieve

·       Teaspoon

·       Tablespoon

·       Masher
        Knife
        Baking Sheet x 2 lined with baking paper/silicone paper

1.  Pre-heat the oven to 180c/350f/Gas Mark 4 and grease the baking sheets with the light oil spray/butter and line with silicone paper.

2.  Take 100g of raspberries and mash them in a bowl until a pulp. Set aside. 
3. Roughly chop up the rest of the raspberries (50g) and set aside. 
4.Cream the butter and sugar together until pale and fluffy.

5. Beat in the egg and vanilla to the creamed mixture. Add the raspberry puree at this stage and mix well. 

6. Sift the flour and baking power together and then beat to the cookie batter. 

7.  Add the chocolate chips and roughly chopped raspberries and mix well. Drop rounded tablespoons onto the baking sheets. Make sure sure you space them well apart as they will expand.

8. Bake in the oven for 30 minutes. Leave the cookies on the baking sheet for about 3 minutes and remove to a wire rack. 

Your cookies should have still be a little soft but not raw. If you do find they are a little raw, don't freak out like I did when I first made these cookies. Simply pick them up carefully and place them back on a baking tray and into the oven for 5 mins. Keep an eye on them because cookies are temperamental and them will burn. 

Stained Glass Decoration Cookies

The Christmas season is well and truly upon us and everyone is dashing around the shops for their last minute presents, makes me glad I'm finally finished! Phew!! I have been a busy (student) baker and I have quite a few bits planned, so watch this space. But as I was decorating the tree, which is finally up and decorated, a little inspiration hit me.

At school, I used to do Food Technology (in the U.S the class is called Home Economics) and my teacher showed me a basic biscuit recipe that was not just yummy and not only a great decoration for the tree BUT super duper easy to do. This is a simple recipe and is easy for kids to do with a little adult supervision.  

Jewel centred cookies look amazing but are effortless.

Recipe: Makes about 12 depending on the cookie cutter size

• 175g plain flour, sifted 
• 75g butter
•  3 tablespoons caster sugar 
•  1 egg white 
• 2 tablespoons orange juice 
• 225g hard sweets/candy in various colours

Equipment:

• 2 x baking sheets 
• Baking paper/greaseproof paper 
• Sieve 
• Bowl
• Various Christmas cutters 
• Skewer
• Thread or ribbon

 1.    Preheat the oven to 180c/350f/ Gas Mark. Line baking sheets with baking paper.

2.   Sieve flour into a bowl and blend in butter with your fingers so it looks a little like breadcrumbs. Stir in the sugar, egg white and orange juice to mix into a soft dough. Knead lightly.

3.    Roll out the dough on a lightly floured surface and cut into shapes. Cut out the centre of the cookies using a similar shaped cutter or a plain round cutter.

These cookies really catch the light and can be coloured themed to suit your Christmas decorations.

Bake on and Merry Christmas!!

Penny