Baking with Merry

Chocolate chip blondies, a perfect tea time snack with hot tea/coffee/milk..... The kids had it with their milk and they equally loved it. You could bake it in a square tin and then cut them into bars or baked in muffin cups like I have done! Ingredients: Recipe Source: myrecipes.com All purpose flour - 1 cup Baking powder - 1 tsp Salt - 1/4 tsp Unsalted butter - 8 tbsp Brown sugar - 1 cup, packed Egg, large - 1 Vanilla essence - 1 tsp Milk chocolate chips - 1 cup Chopped walnuts - 3/4 cup (optional) Method: Preheat oven to 375 F/190 C. Grease a 12 cup muffin tin with butter or line with paper muffin cups. In a small bowl, mix flour, baking powder and salt. Stir with a fork to combine. Melt butter in microwave and stir in the brown sugar. Let cool slightly. Then stir in egg and vanilla essence until smooth. Stir in flour mixture, chocolate chips and nuts. Portion out a little less than 1/4 cup batter into each muffin cup and smooth tops with a...

It's been ages since I have baked a cookie!! The last I had baked were the  Chocolate cookies . So, decided to bake one. The original recipe adds chopped walnuts in the cookie..... Since we are not walnut lovers, I decided to skip that part.... Ingredients: Recipe Adapted from: Chocolate by Parragon Books Unsalted Butter - 1/2 cup Light brown sugar - 1/2 cup, generous Castor sugar/Granulated sugar - 1/2 cup, scant Vanilla essence - 1 tsp Instant coffee granules - 1 tbsp, dissolved in 1 tbsp hot water Egg - 1 All- purpose flour - 1 1/2 cups Baking powder - 1/2 tsp Baking soda - 1/4 tsp White chocolate chips - 1/2 cup, scant Method: Preheat oven to 180 C. Grease the cookie sheets. Put the butter, light brown sugar and castor sugar in a bowl and beat until light and fluffy. Then add the vanilla extract, coffee and egg one by one and beat until fluffy. Sift the flour, baking powder and baking soda into the mixture and fold in carefully. Fo...