Hi my friends.Hope you are all fine.
Thank you SO much for all your kind, encouraging and wonderful comments on my last blogpost.
You all made my heart smile
:)
It is tuesday today.... This week is the most busy so far in 2010.
I'm working all day and all night with new designs
so please stay tuned ;)
And - yes, please forgive me yesterday ran by too quickly.
I'll leave you with some cookies and one of my favorite giftboxes, made using some of my favorite patterned paper ;) ;)
A delectable treat that can be rustled up quickly and eaten almost straight from the oven.
Ingredients
100g/3½oz good dark chocolate
125g/4½oz unsalted butter
100g/3½oz granulated sugar
75g/2½oz soft brown sugar
1 egg
2 tsp vanilla sugar
150g/5¼oz plain flour
(I use at least 75g/ 2 1/2 oz rolled oats instead of half of the the flour)
½ tsp baking powder
a pinch of salt
Method
1. Heat the oven to 190C/375F/Gas 5. Line two baking sheets with baking parchment. Chop the chocolate into little chunks and set aside.
2. Heat the butter in a small saucepan very gently until it has just melted. Meanwhile, put the two types of sugar into a mixing bowl. Pour the melted butter on top of the sugars and beat well with a wooden spoon.
3. Add the egg and the vanilla and beat until well blended.
4. Sift the flour, baking powder and salt into the mixing bowl and stir them in, then add the chopped chocolate.
5. Dot heaped pudding spoonfuls of the mixture over the lined baking sheets, leaving plenty of space in between them--they really spread out while baking.
6. Wearing oven gloves, put the baking sheets in the oven and bake for 8-10 minutes, until the cookies are just turning golden brown. (If you have a glass door on your oven, watch the extraordinary transformation as these cookies bake--one moment you've got lumpy brown dough, the next, you have pale golden cookies, their shiny surface a network of cracks.)
7. Leave the cookies on the baking sheets to harden for a couple of minutes, then carefully lift up the baking parchment and transfer them to a wire cooling rack.
8. You can eat these cookies warm, but they are also good cold, and they store well in an airtight tin.
:)
Make a giftbox like the one above. Add cookies or some other good stuff - and VOILA, you probably made the day for the person you decided to give the box filled with some heavenly good cookies.
:)
Happy creating!!And thanks for popping by!
:)
9 kommentarer:
The cookies look delicious. How lucky the people to receive your beautiful gift boxes!
those cookies look YUMMY!!!! And those little boxes are ADORABLE! *love* :):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):)
Oisan, da fikk jeg lyst til å bake cookies i dag :) :)
å ta med en lekker cookies-pose til veninna mi som vi skal på besøk til i morgen! Tusen takk, du frister og inspirerer stadig med de kreative tipsene dine altså! De går rett hjem hos meg! ;)
Gleder meg til å se hva du er så travelt opptatt med denne uka.... :)
Mmmmmm, de blir till att baka ikväll. Vilken underbar presentask du ger oss beskrivningen till, tack så mycket!
Kram Malin
Yummy!! Beautiful treats Gundrun, I'll be right there ;-)
De kakene saa gode ut, Gudrun! Stilig oppbevaring! Ser jeg har lagt ut oppskrift paa en lignende! :) Vil definitivt gjore et forsok med dine oppskrifter! Klem!
Hi Gudrun!
I haven't been around for a while, too crazy busy with running/teaching my online workshops, but now I have some spare time to come visit you. How sad that Lene quit your little company... I wish you good luck keeping it up and running!!! Hope the sun will shine at your place soon (it's snowing today again in the Netherlands... NOOOO!!!) But it WILL BE SPRING eventually!!
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