White Chocolate Macadamia Cookies
White chocolate macadamia cookies are one of my ALL-TIME favorite cookies! I’ve never made it before because I always thought baking was always a hassle, and in many ways it still is. Yes laziness and lack of motivation gives birth to utter nothingness, but this time I found my calling. What is this you may ask? Well, I’ve always wanted to create something with my hands, and since I have no skills for anything else like for crafts, I thought I might as well give it a shot.
The same day, I have already made a pound cake for my father (straight from the box) which took 40 minutes, and the cheesecake brownies which took another 35 minutes. My parents thought that there was something wrong with me to be constantly baking in the kitchen! I was on on roll that day and just had the inspiration to bake! See, once you start baking, you can’t stop unless you run out of ingredients! Luckily for me, the things that I made had ingredients that every household should already have like sugar, baking powder, flour, eggs, and butter. If I can make it, let me tell you, anyone can make it! That is how easy it is.
So, I consulted with my number one cookie recipe website, Cookie Madness, in hopes to find a good recipe for macadamia cookies. Even though I’m not a fan of macadamia, I love it with white chocolate in cookies! The harmonious union between the two is just a heavenly match! It will be an injustice not to have it and hold it! Now there were a few recipes on the site and I decided to go with the following one:
White Chocolate Macadamia Cookies
Sweet Delicious Cheesecake Brownie – 2nd Attempt
Yes I’m back! I apologize for the lack of posts. I’m rarely at home these days and I can’t even remember spending time with the computer as gym, happy hours, and lots of schmoozing occupy my days.
Now many of you should know how much I love this Cookie Madness website. I have never brownies before and I thought I would make the attempt to actually do it. I am not much of a baker, but somehow baking helps me cope with stress in my current life. You can ask any of my friends in the past and they will tell you that I was never much of a baker because of my lazy ways. This time, I was highly motivated to make it for two particular young attractive people in my life whom I absolutely adore! Yes I have to have the curiosity first and then the motivation in order to bake. Sounds crazy right? But that’s just how I am.
Ok, you must be wondering from reading the title of my post, where is the first attempt? Well, the first attempt ended in such utter shame and embarrassment that I cannot even begin to post about it because it makes me mad. Make a long story short, I will never make dark chocolate brownies and I will never take the timing of the baking process on the instructions in a literal manner. Never, ever, in my personal experience bake brownies in a 9 inch baking pan for more than 35 minutes. Never!!
This is the recipe that I used. Yes I used a 9 incher instead of an 8 incher, but that shouldn’t even matter all that much. I admit that I did overbake it, but overall I did not skew the results of the recipe! Maybe I personally do not like dark chocolate all too much, but baking over 35 minutes is too much! When you take the brownies out of the oven, the heat from the pan continues to “bake” the brownies so I think 30-35 minutes is the best time. Let me show you the pictures of my failed attempt, which I hate to show!
Dark chocolate brownies
Tiffany: Choco Tom Biscuit Cookies!
As I was walking through a Desi Supermarket with a friend, I happen to come across to a lot of Tiffany products! The only one that caught my eyes were the Choco Tom Biscuit cookies. I think it’s all in the packaging; that and it has my name. Now I wanted to resist purchasing this item, but my friend insists that I get it which is why I only have pictures of one product, not a zillion of them. Now my only regret is not purchasing the different snacks!
Tiffany: Choco Tom Biscuit Cookies (Front)
Chinese Pineapple Bun – Fully Bakery
Fully Bakery
82-24 45th Avenue
Elmhurst, NY
(718) 446-9058
My dear co-worker Tina Y. has been teasing me for days about the best pineapple buns ever, and all located in Elmhurst. She continues to tease me by giving me two teaser buns instead of the best one that she’s been praising about. She bought me this packaged bun from Fully Bakery and tells me that she has been going there for years and have never been disappointed. Plus, that this pineapple bun is sweeter than any that she has tried. I will be the judge of that!
Anyways, I figure that I would do a photo post on it and share my experience with you!
Packaged Pineapple Bun from Fully Bakery
Blondies, via Cookie Madness!
Update:
This Karo corn syrup is amazing! I decided to add it to my recipe since I picked it up at my local supermarket. Corn syrup apparently slows down the crystallization of white sugar, which means soft and moist brownies! Sugar usually acts as a binding agent to the mixture, which is why it gets hard. I did not know this until I looked it up online. My blondie looks thicker and it was oh so moist. Everyone that tasted it wanted more.
2nd Attempt Blondies
Blondies
