Minnie's Sweet Creations

Mmmm.... cake. Just found this cake company called Minnie's Sweet Creations. If you want to spend a bit of time being inspired by sugary creation then spend some time on her site. It's filled with beautiful cakes, cookies, cake pops, and sweet tables. Absolutely lovely.

Thank You Cookies

Everyone loves an edible favour; and with these you don't even need to include the tag - the cookie says thank you!



The cookes are made by Eleni's New York and they're currently on sale at Dean & Deluca.

Rolling Pin Productions

It's no secret that I love cookies. I love cookies with tea, I love cookies not with tea. I love big cookies, little cookies. I love all the cookies. But, I especially love cookies as wedding favours. My Mom (I love my Mom!) and I baked over a thousand cookies for our wedding guests and they were very, very well received/gobbled up/munched on/stolen from other guests. I loved giving out home made favours but I'm certainly not against buying them. And certainly not from a wonderful and creative cookie artist like Rolling Pin Productions.

I Love :: Cookies ::

I made cookies today. Big fat, fluffy, chewy, choc-full-a-chocolate cookies. My Guy is enjoying a manly-man weekend as one of his Best Men ("Best Man Bob") is visiting from Montreal for the weekend. I decided that I needed to fill the house full of man-food and, well, the boys love their cookies.

I tried a new recipe, although, I'm not sure why as I have at least two other kick-ass chocolate chip cookie recipes, one of which is my Mom's. Why is it that even though we have the tried and true favourite recipe - we still endeavour to find something better? Why the search for something new when the traditional favourite is pretty much perfection. Hmmmm... anyway...

Here's the recipe I used, it's nice and simple, and I do like that it makes big cookies.

Big, Fat, Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies

Ingredients:
2 cups all-purpose flour
½ teaspoon baking soda
½ teaspoon salt
¾ cup butter, almost melted
1 cup packed brown sugar
½ cup white sugar
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
1 egg
1 egg yolk

2 cups dark chocolate chips

Directions: Preheat the oven to 325°F (165°C). Grease cookie sheets or line with parchment paper. Sift together the flour, baking soda and salt; set aside. In a medium bowl, cream together the butter, brown sugar and white sugar until well blended. Beat in the vanilla, egg, and egg yolk until light and creamy. Mix in the sifted ingredients until just blended. Stir in the chocolate chips by hand using a wooden spoon. Drop cookie dough 1 large, rounded tablespoon at a time onto the prepared cookie sheets. Cookies should be about 3 inches apart. Bake for 15 to 17 minutes in the preheated oven, or until the edges are lightly toasted (definitely don’t overcook them or they won’t be chewy). Cool on baking sheets for a few minutes before transferring to wire racks to cool completely.

Pour yourself a glass of really, really cold milk, put your feet up and enjoy. Mmmmm.....cookies.