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Feb. 23rd, 2006 05:46 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
spokeThe Plan: Distract myself from Lovecraft creepiness by cooking! A nice grilled cheese sandwich (easy) and chocolate cookies (never attempted before).
Erm, success? Sort of? They are tasty and chocolate, darnit! Even if they did turn out more like little bites of brownie than cookies. >.>
The Original Recipe:
INGREDIENTS:
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
2 cups semisweet chocolate chips
6 tablespoons butter, softened
1 cup white sugar
1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
2 eggs
1/2 cup confectioners' sugar
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DIRECTIONS: Combine flour, baking powder and salt. Set aside.
Melt 1 cup of chocolate chips over low heat. Cream butter and sugar. Add melted chocolate chips and vanilla; beat in eggs; add flour mixture and remaining chocolate chips.
Wrap in plastic and freeze until firm (about 20 minutes).
Make small balls (1 inch); roll in confectioners' sugar. Place on ungreased cookie sheet and bake for 10-12 minutes at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Cool on wire rack.
originally from here
What Happened To It Courtesy of Me:
1 1/2 cupsall-purpose self-rising! flour
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder (see self-rising flour)
1/4 teaspoon salt - ermm not sure I used enough
2 cups semisweet chocolate chips chocolate powder!
6 tablespoons butter, softened - see salt
1 cup white sugar
1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract So, vanilla flavoured coffee syrup is sort of vanilla, right?
2 eggs
1/2 cup confectioners' sugar
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DIRECTIONS: Combine flour, baking powder and salt. Set aside. ( Measure out flour. Grate some salt from the salt grinder (wtf?) left by Dad, it being the only salt in the house. Hope that this proves to be enough salt. Decide that powdered chocolate should be stirred into flour, rather than in step 2. Set aside)
Melt 1 cup of chocolate chips over low heat. Cream butter and sugar. Add melted chocolate chips and vanilla; beat in eggs; add flour mixture and remaining chocolate chips.
Wrap in plastic and freeze until firm (about 20 minutes). (Cream butter and sugar. Reflect that perhaps there is not enough butter. Shrug and try to melt the butter so it absorbs more of the sugar. Reflect that perhaps next time baking should be put off until all ingredients are present in the house in the necessary amounts. Add eggs and a splash of vanilla - then attempt to mix with flour/chocolate powder mix.
Erm.
Add more vanilla syrup in the attempt to even things out. Continue in small splashes until it looks right, instead of a badly-mixed mess. Freeze until too impatient to wait any longer.)
Make small balls (1 inch); roll in confectioners' sugar. Place on ungreased cookie sheet and bake for 10-12 minutes at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Cool on wire rack. (Wonder why they have remained in small ball shapes rather than melting into actual cookie shapes. Eat them anyway.)
Things I Have Learned From This:
1. That baking powder makes things rise, because it is a leavening agent. ( Thanks![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
lacey!)
2. Cats love butter. The feelings of butter towards cats remains unknown.
3. There's a reason kitchens are supposed to have doors, and it is not to let my cat have butter. >:P
4. One needs more than one mixing bowl. Cereal bowls? Not a good substitute.
5. Confectioner's sugar : Just when you thought you'd never need it again!
Meanwhile, not only have I managed to slightly creep myself out with Lovecraft again, I stumbled upon an unexpected connection via Lacey: (I would have pasted directly from the IM, except that when I went to do so I closed it. *grits teeth* I will ignore the universe and its kicking. I will, I will, I will! )
Me: *talking about Egypt in Lovecraft*
Her: *says that that sounds like Hellraiser*
Me: *admitting I've never seen that*
Her: *descriptions*
Me: *with the pointing and the saying 'Lovecraft! Lovecraft!!'*
*pausing for a moment*
*noting that the creator of YGO has said that it was partly inspired by Hellraiser, among other things*
So, yeah. o.o Now I have to wonder if said creator has also read Lovecraft himself... which considering the freaking Evil Book of Ancient Spells *coughNecronomicron!!Burn it!!cough* omg. XD XD XD
I will ignore the muses' field day. I will not write anyone any kind of Lovecraft story. I won't I won't I won't!! ...although, the Pharaoh’s offense at what he insists is Lovecraft's defamation of Egypt? That's funny.
Erm, success? Sort of? They are tasty and chocolate, darnit! Even if they did turn out more like little bites of brownie than cookies. >.>
The Original Recipe:
INGREDIENTS:
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
2 cups semisweet chocolate chips
6 tablespoons butter, softened
1 cup white sugar
1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
2 eggs
1/2 cup confectioners' sugar
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DIRECTIONS: Combine flour, baking powder and salt. Set aside.
Melt 1 cup of chocolate chips over low heat. Cream butter and sugar. Add melted chocolate chips and vanilla; beat in eggs; add flour mixture and remaining chocolate chips.
Wrap in plastic and freeze until firm (about 20 minutes).
Make small balls (1 inch); roll in confectioners' sugar. Place on ungreased cookie sheet and bake for 10-12 minutes at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Cool on wire rack.
originally from here
What Happened To It Courtesy of Me:
1 1/2 cups
1/4 teaspoon salt - ermm not sure I used enough
6 tablespoons butter, softened - see salt
1 cup white sugar
2 eggs
1/2 cup confectioners' sugar
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DIRECTIONS: Combine flour, baking powder and salt. Set aside. ( Measure out flour. Grate some salt from the salt grinder (wtf?) left by Dad, it being the only salt in the house. Hope that this proves to be enough salt. Decide that powdered chocolate should be stirred into flour, rather than in step 2. Set aside)
Melt 1 cup of chocolate chips over low heat. Cream butter and sugar. Add melted chocolate chips and vanilla; beat in eggs; add flour mixture and remaining chocolate chips.
Wrap in plastic and freeze until firm (about 20 minutes). (Cream butter and sugar. Reflect that perhaps there is not enough butter. Shrug and try to melt the butter so it absorbs more of the sugar. Reflect that perhaps next time baking should be put off until all ingredients are present in the house in the necessary amounts. Add eggs and a splash of vanilla - then attempt to mix with flour/chocolate powder mix.
Erm.
Add more vanilla syrup in the attempt to even things out. Continue in small splashes until it looks right, instead of a badly-mixed mess. Freeze until too impatient to wait any longer.)
Make small balls (1 inch); roll in confectioners' sugar. Place on ungreased cookie sheet and bake for 10-12 minutes at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Cool on wire rack. (Wonder why they have remained in small ball shapes rather than melting into actual cookie shapes. Eat them anyway.)
Things I Have Learned From This:
1. That baking powder makes things rise, because it is a leavening agent. ( Thanks
lacey!) 2. Cats love butter. The feelings of butter towards cats remains unknown.
3. There's a reason kitchens are supposed to have doors, and it is not to let my cat have butter. >:P
4. One needs more than one mixing bowl. Cereal bowls? Not a good substitute.
5. Confectioner's sugar : Just when you thought you'd never need it again!
Meanwhile, not only have I managed to slightly creep myself out with Lovecraft again, I stumbled upon an unexpected connection via Lacey: (I would have pasted directly from the IM, except that when I went to do so I closed it. *grits teeth* I will ignore the universe and its kicking. I will, I will, I will! )
Me: *talking about Egypt in Lovecraft*
Her: *says that that sounds like Hellraiser*
Me: *admitting I've never seen that*
Her: *descriptions*
Me: *with the pointing and the saying 'Lovecraft! Lovecraft!!'*
*pausing for a moment*
*noting that the creator of YGO has said that it was partly inspired by Hellraiser, among other things*
So, yeah. o.o Now I have to wonder if said creator has also read Lovecraft himself... which considering the freaking Evil Book of Ancient Spells *coughNecronomicron!!Burn it!!cough* omg. XD XD XD
I will ignore the muses' field day. I will not write anyone any kind of Lovecraft story. I won't I won't I won't!! ...although, the Pharaoh’s offense at what he insists is Lovecraft's defamation of Egypt? That's funny.