Merry Happy Jolly!

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Marble Cake, Chocolate Buttercream and Chocolate Ganache between layers.

Bye-bye Cake.

Just a Simple Breakfast for Two

Adventures in Cookies

 The first cookies we are making are a version of a more dense, triple chocolate cookie. So first thing is to measure out the chocolate we are going to be melting and adding into the mix.

 Butter that is going to be creamed with both sugars.

 melting...

 melTED.

 adding the sugars to the butter.

 all creamed together.

 adding the melted chocolate to the butter sugar mixture.

 adding my dries to what we have so far.

 aaaand incorporated.

 I like to add white chocolate chips, along with semi-sweets because it adds another flavor, and I think that it makes the end product look better.

 ta-da!

 booo...

 On to the next cookie! this time we are  making a classic chocolate chip, so again we are going to start off with butter thats going to be creamed with both of our sugars.

 I like to soften the butter and whip it up a little bit before I cream it with the sugars, it makes the process easier and it helps make a fluffy product 

(which is what we are going for)

 creamed and fluffed.

 add the vanilla. ps, vanilla is never an area where you want to be thrifty. real, pure vanilla extract is essential. you dont want the fake stuff, nobody likes fake stuff.

 then we add the dries (noticing a pattern?)

 purdy.

 lots and lots o'chips.

 I like to store cookie dough in a ziplock bag, it keeps it airtight and helps save space in your fridge.

 time to bake!

 aww cookies.

 I like to wrap up a few cookies in some nice plastic wrap, then use regular gift paper to cradle the cookies in the box.

all wrapped up in a neat little package! you can give them out to your friends and family, or just random people if you so choose. Happy Holidays

Oh Michael's, you always get the best of me.

Getting ready to make a cake for this weekend. Pretty excited about it. I think I used quite a bit of restraint for having wandered around the cake decorating section for about an hour. Mind you that section is only about 2 isles long, so it's quite an accomplishment to spend that much time there. For some reason I just have to inspect everything very thoroughly.

Also tonight I am planning on making a couple of my favorite cookie recipes, so be prepared for another update from me today. I'm jazzed!