Heavenly Chocolate Crunch

 

 

 

 

 

Heavenly Chocolate Crunch Cookies

We all know that I love cookies.  Actually, I love anything sweet, except for jelly or custard fillings in cake.  But that's just me.

Do you remember back in the days when the soft chip ahoy chocolate cookies were a big craze?  Well I differently remember.  But over the years I believe the recipe has changed, and not for the better.  They all of a sudden began to taste salty and the texture felt dense inside.

So, I said enough is enough.  I decided to make my own soft and chewy cookies with a couples of differences:   my cookies had a fluffy almost cake like texture   filled with chocolate chip, coconut bits, walnuts, and almond slivers. The coconut gives it a chewy texture to compliment the chocolate chips, the crunchy walnut and cake like fluffiness.  This, my friends, is the king of cookies!

Here is the recipe:

• 2 cups of flour
• 2 eggs
• 1/2 cup of brown sugar
• 1/2 cup of white sugar
• 1/2 cup of soften butter
• 1/4 cup of margine
• 1 tbsp of water
• 1 tsp of salt
• 1 tsp of baking powder
• 1 tsp of vanilla extract
• 1/2 cup of choloclate chips
• 1/4 cup of walnut pieces
• 1/4 cup of shredded coconut
• 1/4 cup of almond slivers

This recipe should only take ten minutes to mix and ten minutes to bake ( 350 degrees Fahrenheit). You get 24 to 30 cookies in a batch.

You can thank me later!!!

Oreo Cake

Oreo Cake

I have a major sweet tooth.  Oreo cookies and a light sponge cake are my favourite treats.  With that said, sometimes a feel for a cake on a weekend but the supermarket never has the kind I like.  Either the cake in the supermarkets are dry because they've exceeded their shelf life or the cakes are over priced or they are much to sweet.

I'm also extremely fussy when it comes to the layers in between the cake:  I seem to see a lot of custard or jelly fillings as layers between the cake, which I dislike.  I love just icing (whether it's butter cream, chocolate, or french vanilla icing).

So I thought, why not make the cake I want with little cost, and I'd know when it was made. I created a basic french vanilla cake mix and crumbled 4 Oreo cookies into the mix.  I placed the cake mix in the desired pan of my choice.  When it finished baking,  I waited until it cooled and iced the cake with a french vanilla icing.  Then I placed half Oreos on top and sprinkled crumbled pieces in between.  Now that's a Cake that i can eat allllllllll weekend, LOL.