Filed under: Chocolate, Coffee, Cookies, Entertainment, Food, Fuel My Blog, Fuelmyblog, Recipes
I normally don’t post recipes, but this is a cookie I make when I want to make a really special cookie. It’s so rich (high in sugar and fat) that a person really shouldn’t eat them all that often. Add a cup of really good, strong (is there any other kind) coffee, and a person has a non-alcoholic means to alter the state of their being for a short while.
All the better for reading here at fracas!
In my absense, please enjoy the cookies. If you go with the option to add the nuts, please use good, quality nuts that are fresh. You might also consider that if you’re making the effort and expense to make these cookies, use something like macadamia nuts, almonds or pecans instead of cheapie-do walnuts or peanuts. It’ll make more of a gourmet cookie.
The Fracas “Frac Me, These are Awesome” Chocolate Chunk Cookie
1 cup (2 sticks) softened butter
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1 1/2 cups packed brown sugar
2 eggs
3 teaspoons vanilla extract
2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
3/4 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
2 cups dark chocolate chips or chunks
1 cup chopped almonds or pecans (optional)
1/2 teaspoon rum flavouring (optional)
Preheat the oven to 350°. Using a large bowl, cream the butter, both sugars, eggs, rum flavouring and vanilla. Sift the flour, baking soda, baking powder and the salt into another bowl and stir with a fork to evenly distribute the baking soda, powder and salt within the flour. Add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients and mix well. Blend in the chocolate chunks and the (optional) nuts. Portion out lumps, or roll balls that are the size of a large walnut to a golf ball. Place 2 inches apart on an ungreased cookie sheet. Bake for 9 minutes (or more if using golf ball size) or until edges are light brown. Because ovens can vary, the first time you make these cookies, watch the first batch to see exactly how many minutes gives the desired results. Let rest and allow cookies to “settle” for a few minutes after removing from oven, and then carefully remove with a spatula to a wire cooling rack to allow cookies to continue to firm up.
It is important that these cookies not be overbaked, in order to result in a cookie that’s crisp on the outside around the edges and yet soft on the inside. A tip to guarantee proper baking of any truly good cookie, is to double pan them. Baking cookies with an extra pan underneath creates an insulating layer of air that helps prevent overly dark cookie bottoms. This way, you’ll know your cookie is done when it’s properly browned, not think your cookie is done prematurely because the bottoms are cooking too fast (or end up with cajun bottoms). This is the secret behind those expensive “airbake” pans. Fracas thinks those are a waste of money. If you bake a lot and already have several cookie sheets like fracas, just double pan and get the same results!
This recipe yields anywhere from 30 to 40 cookies depending on how you portion them.
Cookies are love, and love should be shared, so you are welcome to please share this recipe (without alteration) on your own blog… so long as you provide a link to http://fracas.wordpress.com/2007/08/26/a-chocolate-chip-cookie-to-die-for/ in the post and instruct anyone else sharing the recipe to do the same!
Filed under: Amusement, Blogging, Family, Holidays, Humor, Kids, Life, Lists, Meme, Monday Melee, Personal, Travel, Who Cares, Wishes
To find out how you too, can participate in The Monday Melee, please read the main Monday Melee page, grab The Monday Melee logo (and view the participant list too).
Previously, thanks to Vic, we Melee’d using lyrics, and according to Vic, she’s happy to keep the idea open for anyone to Melee in lyrics anytime they choose. It would be right if you do, to include a link back to Vic as well as here.
Last week I introduced a new Melee idea. Monday, August 20 was “Melee in Rhyme” day! All you had to do is make your Melee answers rhyme. You can Melee in Rhyme any Monday you like, just grab the button from right here or from the main Melee page, and display it on your post, your sidebar or anywhere you’d like to.
Monday, September 3 will be “Melee at the Movies” day:
All you have to do is use the name of a movie, or a line from a movie to answer your Melee questions, and you’ll be able to grab a button to display on your post, your sidebar or anywhere you’d like to.
As with previous invitations to mess around with the Melee, at the end of this post, I’m posting links to all the people listed on the main Melee list, in hopes that you’ll see a trackfracback and know what’s happening. With more than fifty names on the list, it’s a little hairy trying to do it one at a time.
Fracas’ The Monday Melee for August 27, 2007
As you read this, I’m away on a last minute trip entertaining the young fraccy lad in a far away land. The fraccy daughter and the fraccy sister (otherwise known as Aussiebabe) are partying it up taking care of the fraccy household and I fraccing well hope I don’t come back to find they’ve unalphabetized my canned goods, placed glassware where the (horrors) mugs should be, or placed vegetables in the fruit drawer in the refrigerator. I really didn’t want to have to move again but you know how these things can just ruin a place for a person.
My Melee today, though prepared early like those women who have their Christmas shopping done in October, is about travel.
1. The Misanthtropic: Name something (about humanity) you absolutely hate.
I hate whatever it is in people that makes them think it’s ok to be a slovenly pig just because they’re using a public restroom. A fitting sidenote to that would be to say that I hate people who are supposed to be responsible for those restrooms, who think it’s ok to leave a public restroom in a state of virus-laden crusty hell.
2. The Meretricious: Expose something or someone that’s phony, fraudulent or bogus.
Coffee does not keep you awake when you’re driving long distances. It just makes you need to pee when the nearest restroom (that will probably be a virus-laden, crusty hell… see point #1) is at least forty minutes down the road.
3. The Malcontent: Name something you’re unhappy with.
You’re driving, and you need to pee, and the nearest restroom (that will probably be a virus-laden crusty hell… see point #1) is forty minutes down the road (see point #2).
4. The Meritorious: Give someone credit for something and name it if you can.
I honestly have to give credit to a convenience store (that I can’t recall the name or location of) in Idaho, for having the cleanest restrooms I’ve ever seen in all of my life to this date. It was several summers ago and we were across the Canadian border heading towards Coeur D’Alene, but I don’t recall if it was before or after Sandpoint. The road was under contstruction and since it was slow going, we, drinking coffee of course (see point #2) needed to pee (see point #3). We decided, upon coming across a convenience store, to use their restrooms.
To our surprise, they were clean, fresh, and smelled not unlike you would expect to find a restroom cleaned by that mysterious man in white. We were so impressed, we made sure to stop long enough to seek out the proprietor and thank him for owning the cleanest restroom in all of Canada and the United States!
Who cares if we hadn’t actually seen all of the United States yet? I thought he deserved those kudos and I was fraccing well going to give them to him.
5. The Mirror: See something good about yourself and name it
Knowing about that pesky little problem that happens when travelling (see point #3) and being a smart mother of small children, I was always wise and resourceful enough to travel with
- spare rolls of toilet tissue
- baby wipes
- hand sanitizer
- kleenex
- a blanket for creating a make-shift door for the sometimes all-necessary emergency ditch-loo
6. The Make-Believe: Name something you wish for.
I wish for coffee that doesn’t make you pee, clean restrooms that smell like a flower-shop, pot-hole-free roads, a family that didn’t whine about how my music sucks, and children that don’t ask, “How long till we get there” every six and a half kilometres (that’s 4.03 miles for you non-Canadians).
Now it’s your turn.
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