Happy 8th Birthday Lexi!

Cookie Monster Cuppies!

These were Lexi's cupcakes for her 8th birthday celebration at school. These were super fun to make and were delicious too.

Per request for the Tyler Goddesses!

My favorite Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe

Ok girls; here it is! I am not sure if it is the triple threat of 

Milk Chocolate

Semi-Sweet Chocolate

or White Chocolate

(The Triple Threat)

That makes me love these babies or the size. They are 1/4 cup just like Tyler's but I think they have more of a brown sugar flavor. 

Or it could be that when I have deprived myself of sugar for a long period of time these are the chocolate chip cookies I go to. I wished I had two of each recipe right here to compare (damn the luck!) but imagination and drool will have to do. Sorry I don't have any pics to go with these.. think I might make a batch tomorrow. The hubby is coming home and has eaten all of Tyler's cookies so maybe he needs mine to come home to. Ha Ha. Thanks for all the requests Girls!!

Jumbo 3 Chip Cookies

4 cups AP flour

1 tsp baking powder

1 tsp baking soda

1 1/2 cups (3 sticks) butter, softened

1 1/4 cups sugar

1 1/4 cups packed brown sugar

2 eggs, room temp

1 tsp vanilla extract

1 cup milk chocolate chips

1 cup semi sweet chocolate chips

1/2 cup white chocolate chips ( I usually increase to 1 cup... yes thats 3 total cups of chips!)

1/2 cup chopped nuts ( I usually omit as I don't want anything semi healthy in my cookies!)

Preheat oven to 375 degrees. 

Combine flour, baking powder, and baking soda. Cream together butter, white sugar, and brown sugar. Beat in eggs (one at a time) and vanilla. Gradually beat in flour mixture. Stir in chocolate chips and nuts ( ha ha please!) 

Drop dough by level 1/4 cup measuring cup 2 inches apart on ungreased baking sheet. 

Bake 12 to 14 min or until nice golden brown. Cool on baking sheet 2 min and then to rack to cool completely. Mine don't usually get to the "cooled completely" phase. Enjoy!

Chips Ahoy Mattey!!!

Tyler's Big Fat ..... Chocolate Chip Cookies! 

My choice for Tyler this week was his Chocolate Chip Cookies. I know many of the girls have done this one with rave reviews. Chris had to take a class across country this past week and what better way to avoid getting tired than an old fashioned sugar high from these ginormous cookies. They were amazing... and YES I had SOME (not one, oh no.... SOME!!!) These cookies are my second favorite. I am sorry to disappoint... They are delicious. You truly should try these. I am a chewy cookie fan so I only baked them the minimum time but, if you go to the food network site they have a very good video on making these; with no other eye candy than Tyler himself. There was another person in the video but who paid attention to her! If you use a 1/4 cup to measure out the cookies you won't get many out of this recipe but they are big enough where you won't need many. Check out the thickness of the batter too; it was unbelievably thick. 

Happy Baking and don't miss out on these ones... They hit the spot. You can get the recipe here and you can watch the video here.

World Peace Cookies

World Peace? If it has Chocolate; Hell Ya!

The choice of the week was for World Peace Cookies picked by Jessica at a cookbookhabit. Reading the intro for these cookies I was excited because my husband loves salt and loves chocolate so what a better cookie! And describing them as "Not just a little salty, but remarkably and sensationally salty" I couldn't go wrong. Well, he said they were "OK" and didn't get as excited as I wanted but then again I can't compete with the Tube Cookies from Toll House according to him. We have discussed 'gourmet' at length and how tubes don't fall into this category (I don't think he cares) Needless to say; I think they are pretty good cookies but my world peace would consist of Diet Dr. Pepper, coffee, chocolate cupcakes with not too sweet icing, twix, kit kat, ice cream, oh man I think my blood sugar is rising now just thinking of these wonderful, horrible for you treats... 

Sorry... the recipe can be found in it's entirety here thanks Jessica. Next week is Floating Islands... don't even know what that is but I need a vacation so I'm there.