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Bake 3 new kinds of cookies (#34)
I know how disappointed you are that you came to the blog and there is not part 4 of the 2-months-late-new-orleans-photo-essay. This is mostly because I have no more photos.
For Valentines Day this year, Dan bought me a new computer (awwwwwww). Then last week in the middle of looking up a recipe online, I got the blue screen of death and it never came back. Awesome! Love it when 5 month old computers crap out. We (and by we I mean Dan) is spending lots of time on the phone with HP to get a replacement hard drive.
In the meantime, I have been baking some cookies. I feel like this went better, on the whole, than the cupcake baking project, as none of these cookies were complete fails. I think this could have something to do with the fact that before we moved, we bought an over thermometer so we could tell just how off the gauge was on our old oven (about 50 degrees) and since we’ve moved, our oven doesn’t suck nearly as much. Anyway.
#1: Coconut Chocolate Chip Cookies
These were SO GOOD. They have three different coconut elements in them (coconut oil, flaked coconut and coconut extract – which I didn’t use) and even Dan liked them and he doesn’t like coconut (and who doesn’t like coconut? Seriously.) The coconut oil kept them nice and moist for several days, and we ate them in place of…all meals until they were gone. Highly recommended.
#2: Rolo stuffed Chocolate Chip Cookies
Straight of the oven, these were great cookies – the caramel was all melty and who doesn’t like warm chocolate chip cookies? The next day, they were still good – but they were really large cookies, as the balls of dough had to be large enough to completely cover a Rolo. If I were to make them again, I would use the new mini Rolos that they conveniently started advertising approximately 34 seconds after I pulled these cookies out of the oven. (Note: if you make these, mine needed a longer baking time than the recipe stated – 5-7 minutes longer in fact).
Chose these because….have you ever had a blueberry cookie before? They were super easy to make and baked exactly like the directions promised. They taste a bit like a homemade blueberry Belgian waffles. I don’t think they will last long around the house, as Dan likes anything with fruit in it.
More updates soon. Summer has been pretty rad. How’s yours going?
I’m with Dan on not liking coconut.
Those blueberry cookies sound amazing. Unique yet delicious.
It’s not actually baked until there is photo evidence of you doing the baking or the eating.
Ro, sadly there wasn’t enough time to think about taking a photo before they were all gone. BOOM. (Yeah, not really.)
Do you not have a heatwave there? I’d love to make cookies (seriously — I have several recipes to try), but it’s too hot to even think about my oven.
@Leah, nope, the Bay Area has held at pretty much 65-75 all summer.