CHOCOLATE CHIPS

Chocolate Chips

Everybody loves chocolate chips, regardless of age, toddler, kids, teenagers, adults and old folks. Chocolate chips are small chunks of chocolate, usually in the shape of teardrop with round flat bottom. Chocolate chips were originally found in United States. They are commonly used in cookies, muffins, breads, doughnuts, pancakes, waffles and even ice-creams !

Chocolate chips cookies taste great with a combination of butter, white and brown sugar. I have tried a couple of recipes with both sugars which were too sweet for my kids and me. There are many chocolate chips cookies recipes found in the internet. Some people likes big, fat cookies, thin crispy cookies or brownish chewy cookies. However, most of them contain both white and brown sugars. Fortunately, I found this recipe from NESTLE website that reduces the butter and uses brown sugar only. Brown sugar makes the whole batter looks brownish. In addition, this recipe included oats for healthier choice. After baking these wonderful cookies, I was amazed of its' crunchiness, chewy and full of chocolaty taste. My little toddler grabbed three pieces immediately after the chocolate chips oat cookies cool off !! For healthier and less sweet cookie, try this Chocolate Chips Oat Cookie for a change.

Tips for baking Chocolate Chips Oat Cookie

First and foremost, sift the plain flour and baking powder in a big bowl. Then, lightly grease the baking sheet. Otherwise, the cookies will stuck to the sheet itself. I ran into this trouble during the first batch. I couldn't peel off the bits of paper from the bottom of the cookies. Anyway, they are still edible.

In another bowl, beat the butter and sugar until soft and creamy. The batter should look light yellow and fluffy. Then, pour in the dry ingredients and the rest of the items.

Remember to leave some space in between each cookie because they will spread out during baking time.

Baking time takes around 15-20min per tray of 8 pieces of chunky cookies. Turn the cookies upside down to ensure the upper part of the cookies are bake too. Otherwise, the top part is still soft while the bottom part starts to burn.

Here is the recipe for Chocolate Chips Oat Cookie.

ORANGE COOKIE

Last week, I bought a packet of fresh oranges from a nearby hypermarket. It was a best value sale for the day. However, my family couldn't finish all 10 of them because some were sour. Already squeeze 3 orange juice and had to add honey to disperse the sourness. My kid's face cringe at the first taste. There were 4 oranges left in the fridge. I am not good in baking cakes so decided to go ahead with cookies instead. I saw a simple orange recipe at umami.typepad.com which looks rather different from mine. I find that this is the best crunchy cookie I have ever baked! Really taste similar to orange cake. When I had the first bite, they taste extremely crispy, crunchy and the texture was perfectly well-done. My daughter and I finished all 40 pieces of them the next day. The next time, I will add in some chocolate chips and change the flavor to lemon instead.

By the way, I did not have the orange oil, still, they taste delicious !! If you have almond nibs, sprinkle on them before baking.

Note:

Once you have grated the orange rind, use on the same day. Do not refridge overnight because the color changes to brownish and taste sour. Same goes with the squeezed orange juice.

Orange rind and grate them with a grater

Grated orange rind and remember to use FRESH ORANGES !!

Here's the recipe:-

Ingredients

115g butter

150g castor sugar / icing sugar

2 egg yolk

1 tbsp orange juice

2 orange rind-grated

200g flour

1 tsp baking powder

1/2 tsp orange oil ( optional )

For Glazing:

1 egg- beaten

Method:

1. In a big bowl, sift sugar. Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy.

2. Add in egg yolks, orange juice and rind. Stir until all well combined.

3. In another bowl, sift flour and baking powder together.

Add the flour into butter mixture.

4. Add in chopped raisins and mix well until it form a soft dough.

Chill in fridge for 2 hours.

5. Roll spoonful of it into lime balls and place on greased baking sheet.

Flatten with back of a fork.

6. Glaze with beaten egg.

Bake at 180C for 20 min or until golden brown.

Bottom of the cookies should be brownish which indicates crispy.