Aug
29
Texas Loves Its Chocolate: An Ancient Treat From The Mayans Just Gets Better
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Pat Carpenter asked:
Very few of us don’t have at least one good memory of chocolate. Remember warm chocolate chip cookies after school, or brownies pulled straight from the oven on a cool, fall day? Hot chocolate is still the beverage of choice for many children, and few of any age can resist a scoop of chocolate ice cream. With a hot Texas summer approaching, and cities like Dallas, Houston, and Austin already getting a hint of the heat to come, a hot fudge sundae just might be the cooling cure for a lot of maladies. Not even health insurance can provide a sweet cookie and fresh glass of milk when it’s really needed, after all.
The first records of chocolate consumption date back to the Mayan Classical Period, or between the years 250 and 900 on our modern calendar. Cacao beans were cooked, ground, and made into a paste. When mixed with water, a bitter beverage important to Mayan, and later Aztec, ceremonies was created. That means chocolate has not only survived thousands of years of conquests, changing political maps, shifting cultures, and natural disasters, but also managed to grow more popular. That’s fairly impressive.
When Spanish conquistadors came to the Mesoamerican areas now called Belize, southern Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, and parts of El Salvador, they, too, discovered chocolate from the indigenous peoples. The Spaniards soon brought the seeds of the cacao back home with them, where the traditional recipes were modified and sweetened. The modern uses of chocolate in Texas and the rest of the Western world are now so varied as to be impossible to name in brief — from a shake or two added to cooking pinto beans, to rich layers worked into decadent flourless cakes.
One of the reasons quality chocolate is so prized is that the preparation process is long and sensitive. The pods must be harvested from the trees at the right moment, dried and fermented for the right amount of time, and then ground, mixed, aerated, tempered, molded and otherwise processed to perfection. The level of quality depends on the beans, as well as the composition of the final mixture, the roasting, and the types and amounts of additives. The most sought-after chocolate is organic, single-bean origin chocolate, which simply means that all of the cacao beans were grown organically and gathered from the same source. Most commercial chocolates, for instance, will mix inorganically grown cacao beans from different regions in different countries, and of varying qualities.
There’s been a boom of higher grade chocolate sold in American markets recently, including in Texas. It’s common now to see a supermarket or health food market devote an entire section to various types of gourmet chocolate — and one need not go to cities like Austin, Dallas, or Houston to find them. They’re all tempting, oh so tempting, but it’s easier not to give into that temptation when it’s unclear how to use them properly.
“What’s the difference between dark chocolate and semi-sweet chocolate?” “Should I pay attention to all the percentages? This one says it’s 65% pure chocolate, and that one says it’s 45%. Which one do I want?”
The best choice depends on for what the chocolate will be used. To make giving into temptation that much easier, here’s a basic run-down of the main categories of chocolate:
White chocolate usually has very little chocolate in it. In other words, the cocoa content in white chocolate is very low, and most of its composition will be of other ingredients: butter, sugar, milk, emulsifier, vanilla, and flavors. Because there are no non-fat ingredients from the bean, its appearance is very pale. Some “white chocolate” marketed in the U.S. may not even have any cocoa content at all.
Genuine white chocolate is usually used for specialty deserts.
Milk chocolate is roughly 10 – 20% cocoa solids, although some gourmet varieties will have more. The rule is that milk chocolate should have no less than 12% milk solids. It’s not usually used for baking — except in cases of cookies, of course.
Dark chocolate is a sweetened chocolate with high cocoa solid content. The more cocoa content, the more bitter the taste. Dark chocolate contains a maximum of 12% milk solids, although many gourmet brands have no milk at all. Varieties of dark chocolate include sweet, semi-sweet, bittersweet, and unsweetened.
Dark chocolate is used in many recipes, including a lot of baking recipes. These directions are usually very specific, however, and, when it calls for semi-sweet dark chocolate, for instance, use it. Each type of dark chocolate has specific baking properties.
Semi-sweet dark chocolate is often used for baking cakes, cookies, brownies, and other sweet treats. Its composition is 40 – 62% cocoa solids.
Bittersweet dark chocolate is a sweetened, dark chocolate that contains at least 35% cocoa solids. Good quality bittersweet bars will have a much higher percentage, though, usually between 60 and 85%. The more cocoa, the less room for sugar. That means the higher the cocoa content, the more bitter the taste.
Unsweetened chocolate is very bitter and is only used for baking. It is almost 100% cocoa solids, half of which may be fat (or cocoa butter).
So now that you’ve had a brief history lesson and run-down of the different types of chocolate, a whole world of cooking has opened up. Try a traditional chocolate beverage recipe, dare to bake that luscious chocolate flourless cake, and try a bar of bittersweet dark chocolate, with at least 65% cocoa content, to really appreciate the true taste of its main ingredient — cacao. Watch out: over time, you, too, will become a chocolate connoisseur, passing up low-grade chocolate for that organic, single-origin, Venezuelan bar.
Moderate chocolate consumption, according to many studies, is not harmful, and may even be good for you. What you put in your body will certainly affect your health as you age, and eventually your wallet.
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Very few of us don’t have at least one good memory of chocolate. Remember warm chocolate chip cookies after school, or brownies pulled straight from the oven on a cool, fall day? Hot chocolate is still the beverage of choice for many children, and few of any age can resist a scoop of chocolate ice cream. With a hot Texas summer approaching, and cities like Dallas, Houston, and Austin already getting a hint of the heat to come, a hot fudge sundae just might be the cooling cure for a lot of maladies. Not even health insurance can provide a sweet cookie and fresh glass of milk when it’s really needed, after all.
The first records of chocolate consumption date back to the Mayan Classical Period, or between the years 250 and 900 on our modern calendar. Cacao beans were cooked, ground, and made into a paste. When mixed with water, a bitter beverage important to Mayan, and later Aztec, ceremonies was created. That means chocolate has not only survived thousands of years of conquests, changing political maps, shifting cultures, and natural disasters, but also managed to grow more popular. That’s fairly impressive.
When Spanish conquistadors came to the Mesoamerican areas now called Belize, southern Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, and parts of El Salvador, they, too, discovered chocolate from the indigenous peoples. The Spaniards soon brought the seeds of the cacao back home with them, where the traditional recipes were modified and sweetened. The modern uses of chocolate in Texas and the rest of the Western world are now so varied as to be impossible to name in brief — from a shake or two added to cooking pinto beans, to rich layers worked into decadent flourless cakes.
One of the reasons quality chocolate is so prized is that the preparation process is long and sensitive. The pods must be harvested from the trees at the right moment, dried and fermented for the right amount of time, and then ground, mixed, aerated, tempered, molded and otherwise processed to perfection. The level of quality depends on the beans, as well as the composition of the final mixture, the roasting, and the types and amounts of additives. The most sought-after chocolate is organic, single-bean origin chocolate, which simply means that all of the cacao beans were grown organically and gathered from the same source. Most commercial chocolates, for instance, will mix inorganically grown cacao beans from different regions in different countries, and of varying qualities.
There’s been a boom of higher grade chocolate sold in American markets recently, including in Texas. It’s common now to see a supermarket or health food market devote an entire section to various types of gourmet chocolate — and one need not go to cities like Austin, Dallas, or Houston to find them. They’re all tempting, oh so tempting, but it’s easier not to give into that temptation when it’s unclear how to use them properly.
“What’s the difference between dark chocolate and semi-sweet chocolate?” “Should I pay attention to all the percentages? This one says it’s 65% pure chocolate, and that one says it’s 45%. Which one do I want?”
The best choice depends on for what the chocolate will be used. To make giving into temptation that much easier, here’s a basic run-down of the main categories of chocolate:
White chocolate usually has very little chocolate in it. In other words, the cocoa content in white chocolate is very low, and most of its composition will be of other ingredients: butter, sugar, milk, emulsifier, vanilla, and flavors. Because there are no non-fat ingredients from the bean, its appearance is very pale. Some “white chocolate” marketed in the U.S. may not even have any cocoa content at all.
Genuine white chocolate is usually used for specialty deserts.
Milk chocolate is roughly 10 – 20% cocoa solids, although some gourmet varieties will have more. The rule is that milk chocolate should have no less than 12% milk solids. It’s not usually used for baking — except in cases of cookies, of course.
Dark chocolate is a sweetened chocolate with high cocoa solid content. The more cocoa content, the more bitter the taste. Dark chocolate contains a maximum of 12% milk solids, although many gourmet brands have no milk at all. Varieties of dark chocolate include sweet, semi-sweet, bittersweet, and unsweetened.
Dark chocolate is used in many recipes, including a lot of baking recipes. These directions are usually very specific, however, and, when it calls for semi-sweet dark chocolate, for instance, use it. Each type of dark chocolate has specific baking properties.
Semi-sweet dark chocolate is often used for baking cakes, cookies, brownies, and other sweet treats. Its composition is 40 – 62% cocoa solids.
Bittersweet dark chocolate is a sweetened, dark chocolate that contains at least 35% cocoa solids. Good quality bittersweet bars will have a much higher percentage, though, usually between 60 and 85%. The more cocoa, the less room for sugar. That means the higher the cocoa content, the more bitter the taste.
Unsweetened chocolate is very bitter and is only used for baking. It is almost 100% cocoa solids, half of which may be fat (or cocoa butter).
So now that you’ve had a brief history lesson and run-down of the different types of chocolate, a whole world of cooking has opened up. Try a traditional chocolate beverage recipe, dare to bake that luscious chocolate flourless cake, and try a bar of bittersweet dark chocolate, with at least 65% cocoa content, to really appreciate the true taste of its main ingredient — cacao. Watch out: over time, you, too, will become a chocolate connoisseur, passing up low-grade chocolate for that organic, single-origin, Venezuelan bar.
Moderate chocolate consumption, according to many studies, is not harmful, and may even be good for you. What you put in your body will certainly affect your health as you age, and eventually your wallet.
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Aug
28
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Aug
24
The Best Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe
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Bindi Watts asked:
You can get the recipe at the end of the paragraph for these cookies. The most cherished memories of my childhood were of the smells of baking delicious cookies. As I would walk in the door on my house from school I could smell the goodness waiting for me. Many times the cookies were not yet iced and I would sneak one away. Popping a piece of the fresh baked cookie into my mouth was warm and inviting. My mother would usually ask me if I want to help her ice the rest. We had good times and it warmed my heart to take a box of these cookies I helped decorate to people in the nursing home that could no longer come visit us at home for the holidays. Many older people for some reason just love sweet things and their eyes would usually light up as we walked in the door with boxes in our hands. Their delight was not from what present did we bring as they no longer had cares of materials tings but a nice chat with a young person and a delicious cookie filling their tummy was cheer enough for them.
My mom and I never shared our recipes. We did this not be greedy but enjoyed baking so much and giving to others that when prompted for the recipe only replied how many did you want and we would go home and happily make enough for them to have.
Of course times have changed. The recipe my Grandmother changed and my mother changed again has landed in my possession. I don’t quite have the time I did when I was a child but still enjoy baking when I have a chance. The cherished moments with my children when we do have a chance to make a batch of cookies is priceless. Of course with now 3 teenagers in the home and their friends stopping by the batch of cookies does not last more than a day but that makes you feel good.
My mom and I still make cookies as we have ladies order 100 dozen or more for themselves to give as gifts to family and friends and they can no longer bake themselves and the cookies remind them of what they use to be able to bake and they still like to give their families home based goodies instead of store bought preservatives.
Enjoy these recipes. We will try to add a new time tested recipe weekly so check back often and give us your feedback and comments.
Grandma’s Secret Recipe Sugar Cookies and World Famous best Chocolate Chip Cookie recipes are sure to be a hit. Check out the web site learn-about-it.com/knowhow to get these great recipes.
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You can get the recipe at the end of the paragraph for these cookies. The most cherished memories of my childhood were of the smells of baking delicious cookies. As I would walk in the door on my house from school I could smell the goodness waiting for me. Many times the cookies were not yet iced and I would sneak one away. Popping a piece of the fresh baked cookie into my mouth was warm and inviting. My mother would usually ask me if I want to help her ice the rest. We had good times and it warmed my heart to take a box of these cookies I helped decorate to people in the nursing home that could no longer come visit us at home for the holidays. Many older people for some reason just love sweet things and their eyes would usually light up as we walked in the door with boxes in our hands. Their delight was not from what present did we bring as they no longer had cares of materials tings but a nice chat with a young person and a delicious cookie filling their tummy was cheer enough for them.
My mom and I never shared our recipes. We did this not be greedy but enjoyed baking so much and giving to others that when prompted for the recipe only replied how many did you want and we would go home and happily make enough for them to have.
Of course times have changed. The recipe my Grandmother changed and my mother changed again has landed in my possession. I don’t quite have the time I did when I was a child but still enjoy baking when I have a chance. The cherished moments with my children when we do have a chance to make a batch of cookies is priceless. Of course with now 3 teenagers in the home and their friends stopping by the batch of cookies does not last more than a day but that makes you feel good.
My mom and I still make cookies as we have ladies order 100 dozen or more for themselves to give as gifts to family and friends and they can no longer bake themselves and the cookies remind them of what they use to be able to bake and they still like to give their families home based goodies instead of store bought preservatives.
Enjoy these recipes. We will try to add a new time tested recipe weekly so check back often and give us your feedback and comments.
Grandma’s Secret Recipe Sugar Cookies and World Famous best Chocolate Chip Cookie recipes are sure to be a hit. Check out the web site learn-about-it.com/knowhow to get these great recipes.
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Aug
24
Flavoring Your 10-inch Cheesecake Recipe
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Abdrew Krause asked:
The 10-inch cheesecake recipe is the most common size found both in cookbooks and on recipe Web sites, and it’s a big canvas on which to write a flavor signature. While the base recipe is a marvel of creamy goodness, it’s natural to want to branch out and add your favorite flavor into the mix.
One of the most popular flavors to add is peanut butter, usually in combination with chocolate chips or a drizzle of chocolate sauce. However, if you are a true peanut butter devotee, you don’t need no stinkin’ chocolate in your peanut butter! In fact, why not go whole-hog with your effort and make it peanutty from top to bottom? Use crushed peanut butter cookies for the crust, peanut butter in the mix (and even some chopped peanuts if you like) and sprinkle chopped dry-roasted peanuts on top right before serving.
Chocolate purists have even more options when it comes to creating the ultimate in chocolate perfection. Not only can they use a variety of chocolate cookies to create the crust, but their options for adding chocolate into the cheesecake are legion. There’s the straightforward mixing in of chocolate syrup, adding a swirl of fudge, sprinkling in chocolate chips, putting a layer of shaved chocolate on top and even making a layered cake, with dark chocolate on the bottom and straight cheesecake on top.
The toppings for a chocolate cheesecake run the gamut, too. I’ve got a friend who lets her daughters use Magic Shell to make “cheesecake in a shell” for sleepover snacks. There are the usual chocolate syrups, of course, and shaved dark chocolate can’t miss.
If you want to go a step beyond, though, make a decadent chocolate ganache and pour it over the cake before serving. You’ll have diners asking if they can stay overnight for the leftovers!
These are just two of the options for flavoring your 10-inch cheesecake recipe. There are as many more as there are flavors in the world … experiment and discover!
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The 10-inch cheesecake recipe is the most common size found both in cookbooks and on recipe Web sites, and it’s a big canvas on which to write a flavor signature. While the base recipe is a marvel of creamy goodness, it’s natural to want to branch out and add your favorite flavor into the mix.
One of the most popular flavors to add is peanut butter, usually in combination with chocolate chips or a drizzle of chocolate sauce. However, if you are a true peanut butter devotee, you don’t need no stinkin’ chocolate in your peanut butter! In fact, why not go whole-hog with your effort and make it peanutty from top to bottom? Use crushed peanut butter cookies for the crust, peanut butter in the mix (and even some chopped peanuts if you like) and sprinkle chopped dry-roasted peanuts on top right before serving.
Chocolate purists have even more options when it comes to creating the ultimate in chocolate perfection. Not only can they use a variety of chocolate cookies to create the crust, but their options for adding chocolate into the cheesecake are legion. There’s the straightforward mixing in of chocolate syrup, adding a swirl of fudge, sprinkling in chocolate chips, putting a layer of shaved chocolate on top and even making a layered cake, with dark chocolate on the bottom and straight cheesecake on top.
The toppings for a chocolate cheesecake run the gamut, too. I’ve got a friend who lets her daughters use Magic Shell to make “cheesecake in a shell” for sleepover snacks. There are the usual chocolate syrups, of course, and shaved dark chocolate can’t miss.
If you want to go a step beyond, though, make a decadent chocolate ganache and pour it over the cake before serving. You’ll have diners asking if they can stay overnight for the leftovers!
These are just two of the options for flavoring your 10-inch cheesecake recipe. There are as many more as there are flavors in the world … experiment and discover!
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Aug
19
Top Cookie Flavors for Baby Showers and Other Parties
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DEV DAAS asked:
Cookies are a very popular treat at any party event and as a snack in general. There are now hundreds of different types of cookies that can be served to your guests and at parties. In case you are having difficulty choosing which flavors to serve, here are the five most popular cookie flavors based on our research study:
1. Chocolate Chip – This should be no surprise but chocolate chip tops the list by a landslide. Every cookie maker offers chocolate chip cookies, a delicious combination of batter and chocolate. Chocolate chip cookies were actually invented in the 1900’s by Ruth Wakefield and have remain strong in popularity since then.
2. Fortune Cookies – Fortune cookies have also become popular at many occasions. A simple sweet cookie with a message inside that can be customized for any occasion. The history of the fortune cookie dates back to the 13th and 14th century, when secret messages were placed inside of moon cakes to coordinate an uprising against the Mongols, who were known to have no interest in lotus paste. In the mid 1900’s, Chinese railroad workers exchanged happy messages in biscuits instead of cakes for their moon festivals. The first automated fortune cookie factory was started in 1964.
3. Sugar Cookies – Sugar cookies are also popular and embody the simple sweetness that people often think about when they think about cookies. This cookie is one of the easiest to make and is a great treat at kid’s parties.
4. Peanut butter cookie – Peanut butter has become a favorite flavor among children and adults as well. Although use of peanuts in recipes dates back to the early 1900’s, it was not until the 1930’s when peanuts became a listed cookie ingredient. Since then, peanut butter cookies have enjoyed popularity at bakeries and cookie shops.
5. Oatmeal cookie – In today’s health conscious society, oatmeal cookies continue to remain popular. Although they are not entirely healthy, the typically contain less fat than other cookies and still taste great.
Other popular cookies include Oreo cookies, oatmeal raisin cookies, chocolate cookies, and Girl Scout cookies, which contain a variety of sweet cookie flavors. Whichever cookies you choose to have at your party, your guests are sure to enjoy this sweet delicious treat.
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Cookies are a very popular treat at any party event and as a snack in general. There are now hundreds of different types of cookies that can be served to your guests and at parties. In case you are having difficulty choosing which flavors to serve, here are the five most popular cookie flavors based on our research study:
1. Chocolate Chip – This should be no surprise but chocolate chip tops the list by a landslide. Every cookie maker offers chocolate chip cookies, a delicious combination of batter and chocolate. Chocolate chip cookies were actually invented in the 1900’s by Ruth Wakefield and have remain strong in popularity since then.
2. Fortune Cookies – Fortune cookies have also become popular at many occasions. A simple sweet cookie with a message inside that can be customized for any occasion. The history of the fortune cookie dates back to the 13th and 14th century, when secret messages were placed inside of moon cakes to coordinate an uprising against the Mongols, who were known to have no interest in lotus paste. In the mid 1900’s, Chinese railroad workers exchanged happy messages in biscuits instead of cakes for their moon festivals. The first automated fortune cookie factory was started in 1964.
3. Sugar Cookies – Sugar cookies are also popular and embody the simple sweetness that people often think about when they think about cookies. This cookie is one of the easiest to make and is a great treat at kid’s parties.
4. Peanut butter cookie – Peanut butter has become a favorite flavor among children and adults as well. Although use of peanuts in recipes dates back to the early 1900’s, it was not until the 1930’s when peanuts became a listed cookie ingredient. Since then, peanut butter cookies have enjoyed popularity at bakeries and cookie shops.
5. Oatmeal cookie – In today’s health conscious society, oatmeal cookies continue to remain popular. Although they are not entirely healthy, the typically contain less fat than other cookies and still taste great.
Other popular cookies include Oreo cookies, oatmeal raisin cookies, chocolate cookies, and Girl Scout cookies, which contain a variety of sweet cookie flavors. Whichever cookies you choose to have at your party, your guests are sure to enjoy this sweet delicious treat.
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Aug
19
Finding Secret Recipes Is Easier Than Ever
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Annie Dubois asked:
When it comes to finding the best idea for a meal, you will find that those hidden, secret recipes are just a click away. There are many choices available today for the person who is looking for a recipe. Whether it is a one-time recipe you heard of from a co-worker, or an older recipe from a family member, you will find that there are great ideas for your next meal. Even great ideas abound of a scrumptious desert or a great, cool drink for the summer time evening on the porch.
Finding those long hidden secret recipes is easy thanks to one enormous tool – the internet. The internet has made it possible to share images with family on the opposite side of the world, to e-mail grandma a favorite song, or to meet your soul mate. Yes, this is a massive tool that is increasing in popularity everyday. Even the demographic age of who is using the internet has changed. Once considered a child’s toy, the internet today is used by more than half of all adults as well.
Whether for gaming or sharing stories, the internet has opened up the world we live in to include instance gratification as well as hidden troves of treasure. Once upon a time, we depended on cookbooks or family and friends to insure we had that favorite recipe for No-Bake Chocolate Cookies. Maybe the favorite dish of Chicken Enchiladas was a favorite of grandma. However, today it is easier than ever to get the secret recipes we once could never get our hands on.
There are a multitude of websites geared at recipe swapping and sharing. Some of the best ones are not the ones you pay for, but are the ones you will find that has a multitude of free recipes of a cuisine you prefer. I love Mexican food, and nothing gets me more excited than a great website filled with Mexican recipes that allow me to make authentic dishes in my own kitchen. Yes, I can make great food without spending a fortune!
What is it you are looking for in a recipe?
When I choose authentic Mexican food for my family, I am giving a gift of health. Once upon a time, I believed healthy food closely resembled the taste of rabbit food. Today, I know that good food does not have to be tasteless. In fact, some of the healthiest food is food that is all natural and authentically delicious without the need for additives. That is the trick! Good food depends on naturally delicious ingredients instead of MSG or other additives.
When it comes time to find those secret recipes of yesteryear, I know that I can open up Google, type in my favorite recipe, and find what I am looking for. Thankfully, there are enough options that I can get a general idea of what will work best for me and my family. Tossing away those tasteless healthy foods makes life a whole lot better, and when food tastes good, you will find that your finickiest eaters will even appreciate the dinner table again.
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When it comes to finding the best idea for a meal, you will find that those hidden, secret recipes are just a click away. There are many choices available today for the person who is looking for a recipe. Whether it is a one-time recipe you heard of from a co-worker, or an older recipe from a family member, you will find that there are great ideas for your next meal. Even great ideas abound of a scrumptious desert or a great, cool drink for the summer time evening on the porch.
Finding those long hidden secret recipes is easy thanks to one enormous tool – the internet. The internet has made it possible to share images with family on the opposite side of the world, to e-mail grandma a favorite song, or to meet your soul mate. Yes, this is a massive tool that is increasing in popularity everyday. Even the demographic age of who is using the internet has changed. Once considered a child’s toy, the internet today is used by more than half of all adults as well.
Whether for gaming or sharing stories, the internet has opened up the world we live in to include instance gratification as well as hidden troves of treasure. Once upon a time, we depended on cookbooks or family and friends to insure we had that favorite recipe for No-Bake Chocolate Cookies. Maybe the favorite dish of Chicken Enchiladas was a favorite of grandma. However, today it is easier than ever to get the secret recipes we once could never get our hands on.
There are a multitude of websites geared at recipe swapping and sharing. Some of the best ones are not the ones you pay for, but are the ones you will find that has a multitude of free recipes of a cuisine you prefer. I love Mexican food, and nothing gets me more excited than a great website filled with Mexican recipes that allow me to make authentic dishes in my own kitchen. Yes, I can make great food without spending a fortune!
What is it you are looking for in a recipe?
When I choose authentic Mexican food for my family, I am giving a gift of health. Once upon a time, I believed healthy food closely resembled the taste of rabbit food. Today, I know that good food does not have to be tasteless. In fact, some of the healthiest food is food that is all natural and authentically delicious without the need for additives. That is the trick! Good food depends on naturally delicious ingredients instead of MSG or other additives.
When it comes time to find those secret recipes of yesteryear, I know that I can open up Google, type in my favorite recipe, and find what I am looking for. Thankfully, there are enough options that I can get a general idea of what will work best for me and my family. Tossing away those tasteless healthy foods makes life a whole lot better, and when food tastes good, you will find that your finickiest eaters will even appreciate the dinner table again.
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Aug
9
Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookie Recipe
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Audrey Okaneko asked:
I have always loved the combination of chocolate and peanut butter. I used to love the commercials of the kids running into each other, one child with the Hershey chocolate bar, and the other child with a jar of peanut butter.
The first time I tried these cookies, I was hooked. The recipe is a very simple peanut butter dough, with a Hershey’s kiss in the middle:
1 cup butter
2/3 cup creamy peanut butter
1 cup white sugar
1 cup brown sugar
2 eggs
2 teaspoons vanilla
2 2/3 cups flour
2 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
Additional sugar in a bowl for rolling
Chocolate Kisses
Combine butter, peanut butter and sugars; blend until creamy. Add eggs and vanilla; blend. Mix flour, salt and soda, add to cream mixture; stir well. Roll dough into quarter size balls. Roll ball in bowl of sugar. Bake dough at 350 degrees for 8 minutes. Immediately place chocolate kiss in center of each cookie. Bake an additional 2 minutes. Transfer to cooling rack.
You can add food coloring to the dough to create any color you’d like. We have made these cookies in red, green and blue. You can also divide the batter and make multiple colors for one batch of cookies.
Experiment with the many flavors of Hershey’s kisses. They make a kiss that has peanut butter right in the middle. These are a wonderful addition to the peanut butter cookie. Hershey’s also makes kisses with nuts in the middle. This is a fun kiss to put in the middle of the cookies. If you make a red dough, try the chocolate kisses that are part white and part brown.
We have also added peanut M&M’s in the middle, instead of Hershey’s Kisses. Follow the same recipe adding the M&M’s at the very end and baking 2 additional minutes.
If you find the cookies a little sweet for your taste, cut out some of the brown sugar. Try cutting the brown sugar down to 3/4 of a cup.
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I have always loved the combination of chocolate and peanut butter. I used to love the commercials of the kids running into each other, one child with the Hershey chocolate bar, and the other child with a jar of peanut butter.
The first time I tried these cookies, I was hooked. The recipe is a very simple peanut butter dough, with a Hershey’s kiss in the middle:
1 cup butter
2/3 cup creamy peanut butter
1 cup white sugar
1 cup brown sugar
2 eggs
2 teaspoons vanilla
2 2/3 cups flour
2 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
Additional sugar in a bowl for rolling
Chocolate Kisses
Combine butter, peanut butter and sugars; blend until creamy. Add eggs and vanilla; blend. Mix flour, salt and soda, add to cream mixture; stir well. Roll dough into quarter size balls. Roll ball in bowl of sugar. Bake dough at 350 degrees for 8 minutes. Immediately place chocolate kiss in center of each cookie. Bake an additional 2 minutes. Transfer to cooling rack.
You can add food coloring to the dough to create any color you’d like. We have made these cookies in red, green and blue. You can also divide the batter and make multiple colors for one batch of cookies.
Experiment with the many flavors of Hershey’s kisses. They make a kiss that has peanut butter right in the middle. These are a wonderful addition to the peanut butter cookie. Hershey’s also makes kisses with nuts in the middle. This is a fun kiss to put in the middle of the cookies. If you make a red dough, try the chocolate kisses that are part white and part brown.
We have also added peanut M&M’s in the middle, instead of Hershey’s Kisses. Follow the same recipe adding the M&M’s at the very end and baking 2 additional minutes.
If you find the cookies a little sweet for your taste, cut out some of the brown sugar. Try cutting the brown sugar down to 3/4 of a cup.
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Aug
9
Fun Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipes
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Jill Borash asked:
The emotional trigger that a smell can stir up is one of the most powerful triggers that there is. If you live anywhere in the United States, chances are that the smell of chocolate chip cookies baking conjures up some kind of emotional memory for you. Smells are part of how we remember, part of how we define our memories, our stories, our lives.
For me, the smells of baking were part of my childhood, part of the fabric of how I define my childhood and part of the fabric of how I define my life to this day. The smell of a favorite baked treat can still bring a smile of remembrance to my face. What kitchen smells define your childhood memories? What smells do you want your children to define as their childhood memories? Here a couple of great variations on that old favorite, chocolate chip cookies. I hope you use these baking recipes to make wonderful memories with your children.
Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies
1 1/4 cups flour
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
3/4 cup butter, softened
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup packed brown sugar
1/2 cup creamy peanut butter
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 cups semi-sweet chocolate chips
1/2 cup peanuts, coarsely chopped
In a small bowl, combine the flour, baking soda, salt and cinnamon. In a large bowl, combine the butter, sugar, brown sugar, and peanut butter. Mix together until creamy. Add in the egg and vanilla extract. Add the flour mixture. Add in the chocolate chips and peanuts. Drop the dough by teaspoons onto baking sheets. Bake in a 375 degree oven for 7 to 10 minutes or until the edges of the cookies are set but the centers are soft. After removing the cookies from the oven, leave them on the baking sheets for 4 minutes before removing them.
Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies
1 3/4 cups flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 1/4 cups light brown sugar, packed
1 cup butter, softened
1/2 cup sugar
2 eggs
2 tablespoons milk
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
2 1/2 cups quick-cooking or old-fashioned oats
2 cups semi-sweet chocolate chips
1 cup chopped nuts (optional)
In a small bowl, combine the flour, baking soda and salt. In a large bowl, mix together the brown sugar, butter and regular sugar. Add in the eggs, milk and vanilla extract. Slowly add the flour mixture. Add the oats, chocolate chips and nuts. Drop by tablespoons onto baking sheets. Bake in a 375 degree oven for 9 to 10 minutes for soft cookies and 12 to 13 for crispy ones.
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The emotional trigger that a smell can stir up is one of the most powerful triggers that there is. If you live anywhere in the United States, chances are that the smell of chocolate chip cookies baking conjures up some kind of emotional memory for you. Smells are part of how we remember, part of how we define our memories, our stories, our lives.
For me, the smells of baking were part of my childhood, part of the fabric of how I define my childhood and part of the fabric of how I define my life to this day. The smell of a favorite baked treat can still bring a smile of remembrance to my face. What kitchen smells define your childhood memories? What smells do you want your children to define as their childhood memories? Here a couple of great variations on that old favorite, chocolate chip cookies. I hope you use these baking recipes to make wonderful memories with your children.
Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies
1 1/4 cups flour
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
3/4 cup butter, softened
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup packed brown sugar
1/2 cup creamy peanut butter
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 cups semi-sweet chocolate chips
1/2 cup peanuts, coarsely chopped
In a small bowl, combine the flour, baking soda, salt and cinnamon. In a large bowl, combine the butter, sugar, brown sugar, and peanut butter. Mix together until creamy. Add in the egg and vanilla extract. Add the flour mixture. Add in the chocolate chips and peanuts. Drop the dough by teaspoons onto baking sheets. Bake in a 375 degree oven for 7 to 10 minutes or until the edges of the cookies are set but the centers are soft. After removing the cookies from the oven, leave them on the baking sheets for 4 minutes before removing them.
Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies
1 3/4 cups flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 1/4 cups light brown sugar, packed
1 cup butter, softened
1/2 cup sugar
2 eggs
2 tablespoons milk
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
2 1/2 cups quick-cooking or old-fashioned oats
2 cups semi-sweet chocolate chips
1 cup chopped nuts (optional)
In a small bowl, combine the flour, baking soda and salt. In a large bowl, mix together the brown sugar, butter and regular sugar. Add in the eggs, milk and vanilla extract. Slowly add the flour mixture. Add the oats, chocolate chips and nuts. Drop by tablespoons onto baking sheets. Bake in a 375 degree oven for 9 to 10 minutes for soft cookies and 12 to 13 for crispy ones.
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Aug
8
Chocolate Goodies at Cooking Games
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Cookie Jeans asked:
Imagine yourself eating a slice of delectable chocolate cake. You make a crisp snapping sound as the gourmet chocolate moist your mouth with its rich chocolate taste. Nothing can be as a delectable experience other than eating a chocolate cake. It indulges you with every bite making sinful calories pile over one another. While you may content yourself having this good dining experience, why not try to cook and bake your own chocolate cake. If you are still unfamiliar of how things go about, try cooking your first smoochy treat with cooking games.
The chocolate cake is one of the desserts to die for. When a cake is rich and tasty with dark chocolate capped off the piece, you will have an unforgettable dining experience. But before you are able to appreciate one cooking from the other, you should, more or less, have knowledge on how chocolate cakes are being cooked so you may know if there are flaws in the baking of the cake. Have a glimpse on how chocolate cake is being baked with cooking games.
Set out to prepare the ingredients for the cooking. You will need three whole pieces of eggs, two cups of sugar, two teaspoons of baking soda, one cup milk, one teaspoon of vanilla essence, two teaspoons of chocolate powder and three cups of flour. You can have these ingredients sourced out from cooking games kitchen.
Though you may think that cooking games are only for the sake of playing, you need to follow the cooking instructions as you do when cooking. First, beat the egg and scramble the three eggs in a cake pan. Add the sugar and stir the mixture with a ladle. Then add the baking soda, stir; the milk, stir; and combine the vanilla essence and the chocolate powder to the mixture. Constant stirring is needed to make sure that you evenly mixed the ingredients. After being able to do so, prepare the pan and place it in the oven at 350 degrees temperature. After the cooking time lapsed, remove the tasty stuff from the oven and you can now decorate your chocolate cake with candies or butter cream frost.
Indulge yourself with the fun tasting chocolate cake that you made through cooking games. Learn how to follow cooking instructions and be an instant chef! You can also add flavours to your chocolate cake like playing with strawberry combinations, nuts, cashew, milk chocolate or anything that can satisfy your taste buds. Browse other chocolate recipes and see what other varieties you can zoom in at your chocolate cake menu.
Cooking games offer you lot of fun. Be a chef and learn how to bake delicious cake at cooking games
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Imagine yourself eating a slice of delectable chocolate cake. You make a crisp snapping sound as the gourmet chocolate moist your mouth with its rich chocolate taste. Nothing can be as a delectable experience other than eating a chocolate cake. It indulges you with every bite making sinful calories pile over one another. While you may content yourself having this good dining experience, why not try to cook and bake your own chocolate cake. If you are still unfamiliar of how things go about, try cooking your first smoochy treat with cooking games.
The chocolate cake is one of the desserts to die for. When a cake is rich and tasty with dark chocolate capped off the piece, you will have an unforgettable dining experience. But before you are able to appreciate one cooking from the other, you should, more or less, have knowledge on how chocolate cakes are being cooked so you may know if there are flaws in the baking of the cake. Have a glimpse on how chocolate cake is being baked with cooking games.
Set out to prepare the ingredients for the cooking. You will need three whole pieces of eggs, two cups of sugar, two teaspoons of baking soda, one cup milk, one teaspoon of vanilla essence, two teaspoons of chocolate powder and three cups of flour. You can have these ingredients sourced out from cooking games kitchen.
Though you may think that cooking games are only for the sake of playing, you need to follow the cooking instructions as you do when cooking. First, beat the egg and scramble the three eggs in a cake pan. Add the sugar and stir the mixture with a ladle. Then add the baking soda, stir; the milk, stir; and combine the vanilla essence and the chocolate powder to the mixture. Constant stirring is needed to make sure that you evenly mixed the ingredients. After being able to do so, prepare the pan and place it in the oven at 350 degrees temperature. After the cooking time lapsed, remove the tasty stuff from the oven and you can now decorate your chocolate cake with candies or butter cream frost.
Indulge yourself with the fun tasting chocolate cake that you made through cooking games. Learn how to follow cooking instructions and be an instant chef! You can also add flavours to your chocolate cake like playing with strawberry combinations, nuts, cashew, milk chocolate or anything that can satisfy your taste buds. Browse other chocolate recipes and see what other varieties you can zoom in at your chocolate cake menu.
Cooking games offer you lot of fun. Be a chef and learn how to bake delicious cake at cooking games
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Aug
6
Chocolate Savoring Recipes Indulge Upon 600
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MacBeth DeyPowers asked:
Chocolates Origin. When devouring chocolate, you are partaking of the cacao tree, which requires definite environmental conditions to effectively grow. Prospering within Central America, records far back as 3000 years, the cacao tree is also known as Theobroma, a scientific name branded by Swedish taxonomist Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778). Throughout history, chocolate uses range from a delicacy in food industries to the application of treating varies ailments.
Chocolates Popularity. Chocolate is so admired experts are concerned there may be a dearth in the future. To keep up with demand, resourceful methods are being used to cultivate the cocoa tree. One arrangement of growth makes use of providing premature shade for the cocoa trees, and then treats them with excess sunlight to augment production. Alas, this method only lasts for about 10 years as the trees lose their might. However, sophisticated methods such as vertical greenhouses can be placed in cityscapes and grant environmental conditions to produce anything plantlike, including the lovable cocoa tree!
Flavors To Indulge By. With chocolate having such an inexhaustible history, supported by today’s mass popularity, confers chocolate the potential for many recipes. Chocolate can be diverse in taste from sourness to sweetness. Chocolate is also formed in varying textures such as smoothness, crispiness, crunchiness, softness, and of course liquid form. Most important of all, chocolate is normally combined with many different flavors, adding a magnitude of variety. This literally allows many recipes to be invented and most certainly consumed with joy.
Apparently there is no way to place several hundred recipes in this article. However, there is info pertaining to a powerhouse chocolate recipe cookbook that should easily provide your desire and decide upon any chocolate recipe, located at: http://www.metaversis.com/info/chocolate.html.
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Chocolates Origin. When devouring chocolate, you are partaking of the cacao tree, which requires definite environmental conditions to effectively grow. Prospering within Central America, records far back as 3000 years, the cacao tree is also known as Theobroma, a scientific name branded by Swedish taxonomist Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778). Throughout history, chocolate uses range from a delicacy in food industries to the application of treating varies ailments.
Chocolates Popularity. Chocolate is so admired experts are concerned there may be a dearth in the future. To keep up with demand, resourceful methods are being used to cultivate the cocoa tree. One arrangement of growth makes use of providing premature shade for the cocoa trees, and then treats them with excess sunlight to augment production. Alas, this method only lasts for about 10 years as the trees lose their might. However, sophisticated methods such as vertical greenhouses can be placed in cityscapes and grant environmental conditions to produce anything plantlike, including the lovable cocoa tree!
Flavors To Indulge By. With chocolate having such an inexhaustible history, supported by today’s mass popularity, confers chocolate the potential for many recipes. Chocolate can be diverse in taste from sourness to sweetness. Chocolate is also formed in varying textures such as smoothness, crispiness, crunchiness, softness, and of course liquid form. Most important of all, chocolate is normally combined with many different flavors, adding a magnitude of variety. This literally allows many recipes to be invented and most certainly consumed with joy.
Apparently there is no way to place several hundred recipes in this article. However, there is info pertaining to a powerhouse chocolate recipe cookbook that should easily provide your desire and decide upon any chocolate recipe, located at: http://www.metaversis.com/info/chocolate.html.
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