Showing posts with label chocolate. Show all posts
Showing posts with label chocolate. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 8, 2012

Sour Cream-Chocolate Drop Cookies

Um...these cookies turned out like little brownie bites, so I thought I would share.

Ingredients:
  • 1/2 cup butter, softened
  • 1 cup brown sugar
  • 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt
  • 1 egg
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • 6 tablespoons dark chocolate cocoa
  • 2 tablespoons shortening
  • 1 packet instant chocolate pudding
  • 1 8oz carton sour cream
  • 2 cups all-purpose flour
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
  2. Beat butter with electric mixer.
  3. Add brown sugar, baking soda, and salt.
  4. Beat in egg, vanilla, cocoa, shortening, and chocolate pudding.
  5. Beat in sour cream.
  6. Beat in flour.
  7. Drop rounded teaspoons onto cookie sheet and flatten a little.
  8. Bake ten minutes.
  9. Transfer cookies to a wire rack to cook.
  10. Eat and be happy.
I am going to go eat some right now.

Saturday, September 10, 2011

Baking Day Bravery

Last weekend, I didn't do any of the crazy baking that I planned to do. I just crocheted like mad.

Today, I just did all the dishes so that I can make another mess baking some stuff with the giant bowl of grated zucchini I have (and handful of frozen overripe bananas). It took me like a half hour to grate the zucchini I had. It was 2 feet long and probably had a 4 inch diameter.

I know I want to make zucchini bread with some chocolate chips in them. It's one of my childhood favorites. I did like the zucchini cornbread I made last time, but it won't go well with chocholate, and I'm trying to make some healthier snacks to satisfy my sweet tooth.

Then, while I was Googling zucchini bread recipes (because internet reviews always reveal the best-of-the-best) I saw an add for a blueberry muffin recipe, and I thought "those look amazing, too bad I don't have blueberries." My secondary thought was I will go buy blueberries and make those scrumptious looking muffins and then let Chris know because he likes blueberry stuff. I'm cruel like that (he lives too far away to share).

Thinking further, I realized if I text Chris an intentionally tormenting message about amazing blueberry muffins, he will just tell me they should have been scones.  That got me thinking that 1) I should try to make a chocolate zucchini scone, and 2) I wanted to make chocolate banana scones anyway.

So when I head out shopping later, I will stop by the grocery store to pick up cream for making scones. I think I need more sugar for all this baking anyway.

Like all my strange shopping ventures, I will also be looking for a brown cardigan, returning an air filter that wasn't right and getting the right one, and getting more color-changing yarn to make a scarf to go with the sock monkey hat because I forgot that part. I actually have to go to 5 different stores to accomplish this. :(  Best get started.

I will post on the success of the zucchini scones and perhaps provide a recipe or two later.