by sweetenuf | Apr 20, 2020 | Cookies and Biscotti
I baked up this simple yet delicious recipe using candy coated chocolate Eggies instead of the chocolate chips. The browned butter, hit of saltiness, sweet candied chocolate and soft consistency made these cookies from The Cookies & Cup Cookbook by Shelly Jaronsky a major hit in my house.
The recipe calls for 2 cups semisweet chocolate chips but you can easily sub in a mix of dark and semisweet chocolate, candied chocolate, butterscotch chips, etc. A great way to use up the bits of chipits you have in your cupboard.
If your new to baking make sure your eggs are at room temperature, you measure your flour using dry measuring cups and your baking soda hasn’t been sitting opened in your cupboard for 8 months (if it has been pitch it and buy a new one asap)!
These cookies coupled with your newest obsession on Netflix or tv channel of choice may just brighten your day! So put on your daytime jammies, refresh your pandemic ponytail and preheat that oven. Stay home and stay positive.
Salty Browned Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies
Preheat oven to 350F. Parchment line 2 baking sheets.
Ingredients:
1 cup salted butter
2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp coarse sea salt
1 cup packed brown sugar
1/2 cup granulated sugar
2 large eggs, whisked
2 tsp vanilla extract
2 cups semisweet chocolate chips
Flaked sea salt, for sprinkling (optional)
Method:
In a medium saucepan, melt the butter over medium heat, then bring it to a boil. Once it starts boiling, gently swirl the pan constantly until the butter passes the foamy stage and becomes a deep amber colour. (Use a medium pan as when the butter foams it can rise fairly rapidly.) Remove pan from heat and let it cool down for about 20 minutes (butter should be cool).
In a large bowl whisk together flour, baking soda and salt.
Add the sugars, whisked eggs and vanilla to the cooled butter in the saucepan and stir to combine. Pour this mixture into flour mixture and stir with a wooden spoon until everything is incorporated and dough comes together. Now stir in your chocolate chips.
Use a medium scoop place the dough about 2 inches apart on prepared sheets. Bake for 10-12 minutes until edges are golden.
Cool for 5 minutes and then cool on wire rack.
Cookies will keep for several days well wrapped and are over the top decadent used for ice cream sandwiches!
by sweetenuf | Apr 5, 2019 | Cookies and Biscotti
Chocolate Mini Egg Cookies
Having purchased an almost 2 pound bag of Cadbury candy coated mini eggs I desperately needed a recipe or two in order to use them up. Otherwise, I would have consumed the bag myself in less than 48 hours! Cookies are for sharing but a giant bag of mini eggs is meant for snacking!
I came across this simple recipe (2017 Cuisine at Home magazine) and subbed in the candied eggs for peanut butter cups. No candied eggs or peanut butter cups in your pantry? Chopped up Kit Kat bars or M&M’s, or any chocolate/candy bar combination you love will work.
This cookie is brownie like and the batter is very soft and must be chilled for about 20 minutes prior to baking. Don’t let the chilling time put you off as these are what chocolate dreams are made of, soft, full of chocolate flavour and hits of Cadbury mini eggs.
Chocolate & Mini Eggs – Cookie Time!
Chocolate Mini Egg Cookies
Preheat oven to 350F. Parchment line 2 cookie sheets. Makes approx. 2 dozen 3-inch cookies.
Ingredients:
1/2 cup butter
8 ounces semi-sweet chocolate
1 cup all-purpose flour
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
2 eggs
1/2 cup packed brown sugar
1/4 cup sugar
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 1/2 cups mini eggs (or chopped chocolate bars)
Method:
Melt butter and chocolate together and stir until smooth. Cool slightly.
In small bowl whisk together flour, baking powder and salt.
Beat eggs, brown sugar, sugar and vanilla on high speed until mixture is thick and lightens in colour, approximately 3 minutes.
Beat in the chocolate mixture on low speed until combined. Scrape down bottom and sides of bowl. Stir in flour mixture until combined and fold in mini eggs.
Chill dough for 20-30 minutes. Important!! This will stop cookies from spreading.
Scoop dough with a 1 1/2 tablespoon scoop and place 2 inches apart on prepared sheets to allow for spreading.
Bake approximately 12-14 minutes until edges are set and tops are shiny and cracked.
Cool completely.
by sweetenuf | Mar 23, 2019 | Cookies and Biscotti
Sweetenuf.ca – Ginger Molasses Cookies
Bobbette and Belle is a wonderful bakery located in Toronto full of delicious scones, cookies and treats. One of their cookie choices is a Ginger Cookie and they share the recipe in one of their fabulously pretty baking books.
Today I’m sharing their Soft & Chewy Ginger Cookies. The addition of cinnamon plus cloves and a tablespoon of ground ginger make your taste buds dance! Brown sugar and molasses pair beautifully with the spices in these cookies and a quick roll in coarse sugar before baking makes them sparkle.
Soft & Chewy Ginger Molasses Cookies
Preheat oven to 350F. Parchment line 2 baking sheets.
Ingredients:
2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
2 1/2 tsp baking soda
3/4 tsp salt
1 tablespoon ground ginger
1 1/2 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp ground cloves
3/4 cup unsalted butter, room temperature
1 cup lightly packed brown sugar
1 egg
1/4 cup molasses
1/2 cup coarse sugar, for coating cookies
Method:
Whisk together flour, baking soda, salt, ginger, cinnamon, and cloves in a medium bowl.
In a large bowl, using an electric mixer, beat butter and sugar until smooth and creamy, scraping down sides and bottom of bowl. Add in egg and mix until combined. Mix in molasses and scrap down bowl.
Add the dry ingredients to the creamed mixture and combine until blended. Wrap bowl with plastic and chill for 30 minutes in fridge.
Using a medium ice cream scoop (or your hands) form rounds of dough and roll them in the sugar before placing 2 inches apart on prepared baking sheets. Bake approximately 15-18 minutes, rotating pans half way through baking time until cookies have flattened and doubled. Let cool. Enjoy!
Ginger Molasses Cookies – Sparkling! sweetenuf.ca
by sweetenuf | Oct 12, 2018 | Cookies and Biscotti
Pumpkin Biscotti
Pumpkin seems to be the flavour of Fall here in Canada. The combination of pumpkin, cinnamon, nutmeg and clove combine beautifully to flavour pies, cupcakes and, of course, the ever popular Pumpkin Spice Latte.
If you love PSL’s and biscotti then you will love this crisp, Fall flavoured treat which can be eaten as is or dipped in your PSL. And if you don’t bake maybe a little subtle hinting to your friends who do will result in you being their taste tester!
A couple of years ago I tested out several pumpkin biscotti recipes and after a little trial and error this has become my go-to recipe. This biscotti has pumpkin pie spice for the flavour and NO pumpkin puree. I found the spice gives the biscotti the flavour required but leaving out puree allows the cookie to crisp up nicely. I save the pumpkin puree for things like muffins and cakes (check out other pumpkin recipes on my blog).
Like all biscotti these will last in an airtight container for a couple of weeks and freeze well. Keep these in mind for holiday and Christmas gifts. They travel well and look pretty in festive cello bags.
No pumpkin pie spice in your cupboard? Just combine 4 tsp ground cinnamon, 2 tsp ground ginger, 1 tsp ground cloves and 1/2 tsp ground nutmeg. Make sure your spices are fresh for the best flavour.
Pumpkin Biscotti
Preheat oven to 325F. Parchment line a large cookie sheet or 2 small cookie sheets.
Ingredients:
2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
3/4 tsp baking powder
1 tsp salt
1 tablespoon pumpkin pie spice
1/2-1 tsp cinnamon
1/3 cup butter, room temperature
1 cup sugar
2 eggs
2 tsp vanilla
1 cup chopped walnuts
Method:
In a medium bowl whisk together the flour, baking powder, salt, pumpkin pie spice and cinnamon.
In a large bowl beat butter with sugar until light and fluffy. Add in eggs one at a time beating after each until incorporated and beat in vanilla.
Stir in flour in 3 additions on low or by hand until mixed in. Add in nuts and mix well. You may find using your hands to combine the nuts into the batter works well.
Divide batter into 2 equal portions and shape each into a 2-inch by 3/4-inch log. Place on baking sheets. If using one sheet space about 3-inches apart to allow for spreading.
Bake for approximately 20-30 minutes until golden brown around edges (top will still look fairly light in colour). Remove from oven and let cool 15-20 minutes until cool and easy to handle.
TURN OVEN DOWN TO 275F WHILE BISCOTTI COOLS.
Use a serrated or bread knife and cut into 1/2-inch slices. Lay slices on cookie sheets and bake for approximately 8 minutes and then turn and lay on other side and bake for another 8 minutes until firm and golden brown. Remove and cool completely.
For an extra hit of sweet, melt a little white chocolate (over low heat, of course, so you don’t burn it!) and drizzle over cooled biscotti.
Whether you dip or not is up to you but I think you’ll have to agree store bought biscotti cannot compare with these!
by sweetenuf | Jul 6, 2018 | Cookies and Biscotti
Cookie Brittle – Sweetenuf.ca
Today’s recipe share is from Shauna Sever’s wonderful book ‘Real Sweet’. This simple recipe uses turbinado sugar to give the brittle some brown sugar flavour but keeps the cookie nice and crisp. If you swapped in granulated sugar you defeat the purpose of the ‘brittle’ as the cookie wouldn’t have the same texture.
The recipe calls for bittersweet chocolate chips but I used a combo of bittersweet and semi-sweet in my batch and I liked the extra hit of sweet…but I’m sure no one is surprised by my sweeter preference.
I definitely should have taken a few more minutes and pressed by dough a little thinner per Shauna’s instructions but patience is sometimes not my virtue! Flattening the dough to cover the pan is probably the most difficult part of this simple but addictive recipe.
I will be baking up more recipes from this book which features all types of sweeteners, such as honey, maple syrup, frozen unsweetened apple juice, etc. so don’t forget to subscribe to sweetenuf.ca or follow on Instagram (sweet_enuf) to see what’s baking up!
Chocolate Chip Cookie Brittle
Preheat oven to 350F. Parchment line a 12 x 17-inch baking sheet.
Ingredients:
14 tablespoons (7 ounces) unsalted butter, cut into tablespoons
1 cup turbinado sugar
2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
1 teaspoon fine salt
2 cups unbleached all-purpose flour
1/2 cup finely chopped pecans or walnuts
3/4 cup bittersweet chocolate
Method:
In a large saucepan over medium heat, melt the butter and sugar together until melted BUT NOT boiling. Remove from stove and whisk together until the butter is completely melted. Cool for 5 minutes. Whisk again continuously for 1 minute, or until mixture is thickened and smooth and no longer appears separated. Whisk in the vanilla and salt. Stir in the flour until well incorporated (no white streaks of flour remain and no flour on bottom or sides of saucepan). Stir in 1/2 of the nuts.
Turn dough out onto prepared pan and pat it very thin. (It helps to break the dough up into mounds and place all over sheet pan and then work to pat it all together.) Just keep working to spread dough over all of cookie sheet. When complete lightly smooth with an offset spatula to even it all out.
Sprinkle with the chocolate chips and the remaining nuts and press then lightly into the dough with your hands.
Bake for about 20-25 minutes, until lightly golden brown and slightly firm to the touch. Rotate pans every 7-8 minutes for even baking. Remove from oven and let cool for about 5 minutes then using another parcment lined sheet FLIP the brittle onto it and remove the parchment. Carefully invert again onto a cooling rack to firm up.
Cool completely and break into pieces. Store in an airtight container. This will keep for about 5 days but I don’t think it will hang around for that long!
Cookie Brittle Sweetenuf.ca
by sweetenuf | Jan 18, 2018 | Cookies and Biscotti
Sweetenufblog – chocolate chip cookies
I was looking for inspiration to fuel a stint of pie making. I figured a quick search on Instagram, maybe viewing a lemon meringue pie or an apple pie would get my creative baking juices flowing. Pie is just pie, right? After all the definition of pie is a baked dish of fruit, or meat and vegetables, typically with a top and base of pastry.
#pie…so simple. But once again I seem to have missed the memo related to searching in today’s tech world. I was expecting images of colourful scrumptious looking fruit pies with perfectly browned lattice tops or maybe, some fancy pastry cutouts adorning said pies. Unfortunately, this was not the case as I quickly learned!
Seems #pie isn’t for pies made with pastry and fruit. It’s for FEET! Oh yes, lots and lots of bare feet. Big feet and little feet. Some with wrinkly soles, long toes and polished nails. But sill feet and interestingly enough it seems to be just women’s feet. I’m pretty sure I’d recognize man feet if I saw them. Who knew there could be so many interesting ways to photograph feet…wet feet, bottoms of feet, jewelled feet and feet encased in strappy footwear and, well, it goes on and on.
After my inital ‘ick’ it was like a train wreck I couldn’t turn away from. It appears the ‘foot fetish’ people like their feet attached to scantily clad bosoms and behinds. Maybe the attractiveness of the bare feet increase with the barer the body attached to those feet. Since I had to stop looking before I saw something I wouldn’t be able to recover from my research into the #pie has come to an end.
This is why today’s recipe is for Chocolate Chip Cookies. I needed a chocolate fix to settle myself down and baking a pie will need to sit on the back burner for a while longer.
These chewy in the centre and crisp on the edges cookies are full of chocolate. This recipe from ‘Bake from Scratch’ has been made twice this week in my kitchen and I’m down to my last cookie. I modified the recipe slightly by using both whole wheat and all-purpose flours, both chocolate chips and chopped chocolate and a little less vanilla.
Using both chips and chopped chocolate makes for the perfect chocolate ratio in every bite. The chopped chocolate melts and spreads while the chips keep their shape.
Just make sure you have a few at the ready if and when you decide to starting look up hashtags on Instagam!
Chocolate Chip Cookies
Preheat oven to 350F. Parchment line 2-3 cookie sheets.
Ingredients:
1 cup unsalted butter, room temperature
1 cup packed brown sugar
2/3 cup granulated sugar
2 large eggs
2 tsp vanilla extract
1 1/3 cups all-purpose flour
1 cup whole wheat flour
1 tsp baking soda
3/4 tsp salt
1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
1 cup chopped dark or semi-sweet chocolate
Method:
In a medium bowl, whisk together the flours, soda and salt.
In the bowl of an electric mixer, beat the butter and sugars together for about 4 minutes, until light and fluffy. Scrap the bowl halfway through. Add in eggs, one at a time, beating well after each. Beat in vanilla.
With mixer on low, gradually add in flour mixture and mix only until combined.
Fold in chocolate. Use large scoop and place cookies on prepared sheets about 2 1/2 inches apart to allow for spreading.
Bake cookies about 12-14 minutes. Cookies will brown around edges but remain soft in the centre.
If using a medium scoop check cookies after about 9-10 minutes.
Chocolate Chip Cookies
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