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Three for the price of one!

2010-01-10T17:50:00.013+01:00

I´m back!
and I´m starting this new year as I ended last year...copying!

I´ve been thinking about something... why copy a recipe made by one person when I can copy a recipe made by three baking bloggers??
That´s why I´ve cooked Amazing Hard Boiled Egg Chocolate Chip Cookies(eikooC ysbmulC Style!)
The original recipe is an extra special collaboration between three baking bloggers. Anna (Cookie Madness), Katrina (Baking and Boys), and Rita (Clumbsy Cookie).
You can find the original recipe from the three of them here: Cookie Madness, Baking and Boys and Clumbsy Cookie.

I know Rita doesn´t have any problem with me copying her recipes and I hope neither do Anna and Katrina...

"RECIPE:

Amazing Hard Boiled Egg Chocolate Chip Cookies

12. 4 oz all purpose bleached flour (2 ¾ cups spooned and swept)
8 ounces cold unsalted butter, cut into small chunks (16 tablespoons)
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
3/4 cup granulated sugar
1/2 cup brown sugar
1 large egg, lightly beaten
1 hard boiled egg*, cut into big chunks
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 cup chocolate chips

Combine flour and butter in food processor. Pulse until mixture is mealy and coarse. Add the salt and baking soda and pulse to mix. Add both sugars and hard boiled egg. Pulse again until mixture is mealy looking. Add in the raw egg and vanilla and pulse until mixture just begins to come together. Dump mixture into a bowl, add chocolate chips and shape into balls. You will see egg whites in dough – they’ll disappear as the cookies bake. Bake on a parchment lined cookie sheet at 350 degrees F. for 20 minutes or until cookies appear lightly browned around edges. Let cool on cookie sheet for 5 minutes then transfer to rack to finish cooling.

Important: Let cool completely before serving. The texture gets better as the cookies cool. It’s even better if you cool the cookies, freeze them, then thaw them.

Note: If you have a convection oven, try convection baking for 18-20 minutes. Anna tested in both types of oven and liked the convection oven texture a lot.

* About the hard boiled egg: I don't know where this idea came from first, but it's used in some ancient European recipes. It's not uncomun to use this technic in some bakeries to achieve a certain cookie texture, it's more usual to use just the hard boiled egg yolk, but the whole egg is also used.

You can do it like this and just mix the egg in the food processor or if you want you can also pass it thru a sieve or grind it before adding it to the dough. Other alternative is instead of hard boiling it, you can microwave beated egg for a few seconds (about 20-30 for a whole egg) until it gets the consistency of a omelette. You can then grate it, or cut it in small chunks and proceed as we say in the recipe."

If you read their recipe carefully, you will notice that they talk about using a food processor...if you don´t have one of these, please don´t get nervous, relax, because I have the solution for that problem , you can always use the natural food processors that are our hands. I know you are thinking that is the worst piece of advice that you have ever read, because It´s obvious, but I can promise you that It isn´t as obvious as it seems...

...eikooC ysbmulC´s food processor...

I´ve cooked 16 cookies for two reasons:
Reason One: I love chocolate cookies.
Reason Two: The first time, I didn´t read the part "shape into balls"...

Here are some photos of these amazing cookies...(you will notice that they don´t look like theirs, but I can assure you their flavour is great!)

...mixing all the ingredients...

...shape into balls-NO...funny face-YES...

...8 round cookies or 1 strange cookie?...
(I already know the colour of the photo is awful)

...one flat cookie...

...inside one flat cookie...

...shape into "balls"-YES...funny face-NO...

...8 round cookies!...yeah!!...
...and that beautifull colour again...

...a bit less flat cookie...

...inside a bit less flat cookie...

I think I need to try again, especially because I´ve already eaten all of them...
and please, don´t forget trying this at home!!

Ice Cream for Dummies! (step by step)

2009-11-22T22:19:00.013+01:00

Are you a dummie cook? Do you like Ice Cream?
If the answer for both questions is "YES!", you are reading the right blog!
First of all I want to apologize to those readers who are trying to be on a diet...

Last spring I asked Clumbsy Cookie for an Ice Cream recipe, and as she knows I´m very lazy, she told me the easiest recipe she knew...the problem is that the recipe is very easy and the ice creams are yummy!..I think that´s the reason because I´m putting on...

You can select the flavour but I strongly recomend you to try the chocolate one!

ICE CREAM FOR DUMMIES

375 gr (13.5 oz) condensed milk
400 ml cream
250 gr (9 oz) chocolate (or 400 gr (14.4 oz) crushed fruits)

And now you only have to mix all the ingredients.

Suggestion 1: melt the chocolate before you mix it with cream and condesed milk...(just a suggestion)
Suggestion 2: grate some chocolate for the appearance...

step 1: put the cream in a bowl
(...you can whip the cream but It´s not neccesary...)

step 2: melt chocolate

step 3: add condensed milk

step 4: mix

step 5: stop mixing

step 6: add grated chocolate and freeze
(you can clean the table in order not to be a dirty man like me)

Try this at home!

...life can be wonderful...

2009-10-24T20:39:00.026+02:00

Hi everybody again!

I´m back! and I hope I´m going to be able to post more often than before!
I have a million of reasons to excuse myself for not having updated my blog before, but the main one is that I´m a bit lazy and I haven´t cooked any recipes from Clumbsycookie....yes I know I have had a lot of time but that´s the way I am...

Right at this moment, you (who are an intelligent person and have read my excuses) are thinking that I have updated the blog because I have cooked something new.....but you are wrong!
I´ve said I´m a bit lazy but I haven´t said before that I´m a bit cheeky!

It´s my blog and I can write about whatever I want and I have decided to write about why the life can be wonderful...(I know it´s sounds a bit ambitious but it´s just an excuse to show you some photos!)

I think one of our main source of happiness are our friends.

Let´s talk about friends!

If you have friends, you can discover new places, and that means that you can see different markets...

...you can find different spices...

...you can find different nuts and dried fruits...

...and you can also find olives and lemons...

...and of course that means that you can enjoy new meals...

For breakfast...

...I can´t remember the name of these...but I can remeber they were delicious...

For lunchtime...

...couscous with vegetables...

..."pastela" with chicken and vegetables...

...meat "tajin" with plums&sesame and more couscous...

For dinner...

...haven´t you realized yet that me and my friend love couscous?...

...spicy kefta...

...fresh tomatoes with goat cheese and fish "tajin"...

I think one of the best things of travelling is that you can discover new flavours and new ideas for cooking! The main rule is "You don´t know if you don´t like something until you taste it!"

Another great thing about friends is that you can visit them and they can visit you, and that moments are always great!

On september I´ve visited "Clumbsycookie girl" with who I always have fun and of course I always eat a lot and very well. Her recipes look great but you can´t imagine their flavours...I´m really sorry if you (dear reader) haven´t taste any of her wonderful recipes...

It´s a great experience cook with her and even better chat with her while you are eating!
Amazing cook and amazing girl...
(Only for "Clumbsycookie girl": I hope you have read the previous sentences, and I hope you´ll send me some lasagna as reward :) )

And now some photos of my visit:

...weird place, isn´t it?...

...cookies, cookies, cookies...

...what do you expect of visiting a girl whose name contains the word cookie...

...mmmmm...you can´t imagine what we eat those coffees with...

That´s all folks!

And remember...life can be wonderful!

Oreomisu (eikooC ysbmulC Style!)

2009-07-22T20:18:00.010+02:00

Do you remember this?

I can´t forget that day...since then I have dreamt every night with Oreomisu...

If you haven´t read that post in http://clumbsycookie.blogspot.com/, you should visit it now!
I think Oreomisu It´s a good option for being my first clumbsycookie recipe, because It´s sweet, good-looking and very easy to cook!

OREOMISU (without vanilla extract)

6 oreo cookies
2 tbsp mascarpone cheese
¼ cup milk
1+1/2 tsp icing sugar (vanilla flavour)

"Break apart the oreo cookies and scrape the filling to a bowl and set aside the wafers. To the oreo fillings add the mascarpone and 1 tsp of icing sugar (vanilla flavour) and mix well with a small wisk. Mix the milk and 1/2 tsp of icing sugar (vanilla flavour) and make crumbs out of 2 wafers (you can do this with your fingers or press them with the bottom of a glass or roling pin).

In small serving plates arrange alternatively the chocolate wafers dipped in the milk and the mascarpone cream. Start with a wafer and use 5 for each oreomisu, finish with mascarpone cream. Top with the wafer crumbs and refrigerate"

Before refrigerating Oremisu, It looks like this:

....mmmm...I can´t wait to cool it...

And after refrigerating it, I obtanined this:

...two better than one...

...I think I´m going to start gaining weight...

I know clumbsy´s looks better and I´m sure that hers was yummy but mine was yummy too!!

Please, try this at home!

and now for something completely different...

2009-07-20T23:37:00.000+02:00

Hi everybody!
Let me introduce myself:
I´m a clumbsycookie fan, who can´t speak English properly and have no knowledge of computers.
Despite the fact I haven´t cook too much in my life (I´m a bit lazy) I´ve decided to write a blog (in English) trying to cook the awesome recipes from http://clumbsycookie.blogspot.com/ (and others!).
Yes, I know It sounds a bit weird, but that´s the way I am. In fact the aim of the blog is just have a good time learning to cook! I hope you have a good time too! and remember...If I can cook something, anybody can!

And now some photos:

Spanish omelette (great), chocalate ice-cream(awesome recipe from clumbsycookie) and mozzarella&olive-oil pizza(incredible!) and my new book for recipes!!Isn´t it great??

Enjoy your meals!

2009-07-12T20:30:00.000+02:00