Baking Triple Chocolate Cookies
I have taught myself to make TRIPLE CHOCOLATE COOKIES today!
I am always a massive fan of big fat chewy chocolate cookies and I would say the sainsburys ones are the best among UK supermarket. But now I am so happy that I can learn to make them at home myself! : )
Ingredients for 14 cookies:
1.25 cup flour
3/8 cup coca powder
1/8 teaspoon salt
1/4 baking soda
1 cup white or caster sugar
1 cup light brown sugar
1/2 cup butter
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 1/2 cup chopped cooking white, milk & dark chocolate
Direction:
1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. Line a baking sheet with a Silpat baking mat or parchment paper. Set aside.
2. In a medium bowl, sift flour, baking soda, salt, and cocoa. Set aside.
3. With a mixer, cream butter and sugars together until smooth. Add in eggs, one at a time. Next, add in vanilla extract. Mix until blended.
4. Slowly add flour mixture to sugar mixture and mix until flour disappears. Stir in chocolate chunks and Oreos. Drop cookie dough by rounded tablespoons onto prepared baking sheet, about 2 inches apart.
(my trays are not big enough so they turned into weird shapes haha)
5. Bake cookies for 8-10 minutes. Don’t over bake. Remove from oven and let sit on baking sheet for 3-5 minutes. Move to a cooling rack and cool completely.
:: QUICK :: inspirations
Just wanna quickly share a few cute things I saw today!
1.
Pixar’s Little Blue Umbrella,
doesn’t it make your heart melt x
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2.
Pramface Season 2,
can’t wait for it to be on BBC iplayer tomorrow, haven’t seen something makes me laugh so much for a while.
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3.
ADVENTURE!
This video is made by one of the inspiring fb friends from Hong Kong,
can’t say anything more inspiring than such a wild and courageous spirit.
Good photography comes from good stories,
Good stories come from kind and beautiful hearts. : )
SERIOUSLY,CHECK THIS OUT!!
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4.
FOOD FOOD FOOD
I am so determined to be a better cook this year so anything tasty and experimental excites me. I have been trying to make my own dumpling wrap today. Never thought it could be so hard! (oh forgot to say it is my first time to handle a dough in my life) When I get better I am going to draw a recipe guide. HAHAHA, meanwhile, I am having fun reading Bon Appetite.
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Food illustration could be my next project!
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enjoying 2013 so far x
:: Sleepy ::
The winter blue is still killing me. Living in the outskirt of London, I wake up earlier than the sun, see neither sunrise nor sunshine, then the dark falls again at 4pm. : (
I wish I could be a big bear that I just sleep through the winter and wake up at spring time.
Source: That Kind of Woman
As soon as I got up, I missed the bed again.
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No, it is the sunshine I’m truely missing.
:: Brand New :: working area
New Year Pancake!
Happy new year everyone! Carl made me my favourite pancake for the new year.
Maple Syrup & Lemon Juice & The Times to go with breaky
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I have got a new bookshelf!
My books used to be just in 2 big cart on the floor and now they finally have a nice home to be settled in. More than that, I can finally remove the junk on my desk to a new work surface, so much more space now to use now.
Arty books organized according to colours. sweet.
(and note that 2013 diary! excited to fill it up!)
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How it used to be:
Pantone postcards from Shipshape studio.
So many exclamation marks in this post, ‘coz I am really excited for the days ahead!
END OF 2012!!!
Oh I don’t even know what this means but I promise I will keep up with blogging in the new year!
I haven’t done a lot in 2012 I must say, indulged myself with too many excuses and idleness. I have met a lot of interesting people this year, read quite a few good books, started a website, but haven’t maintained it as well as I should. So often I just envy others’ success without even trying my own way, but keep blaming everything around me. Things are often said but not done.
I want to use this blog as my inspiration blog in the new year. Rather than simply reposting interesting things on Pinterest or Facebook, I am going to make my own voice heard as well, about books I have read, movies I have seen and more importantly, my own progress of painting and photography. Start where I am; use what I have; do what I can.
New Year card on Thevy’s etsy shop from Paris
Thevy Guex does amazing font art with flowers and leaves.
In the new year the next big thing on my list to practise is illustration;
and to start is an etsy shop.
Saw these vintage American photos from Benjiman Starr @ Visualnews.com,
AMERICA, my next dream!
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Saw this interesting blog challenge on justb and I decide to take part of it. It will be a year of fun fun fun!
justb’s monthly blog challenge looks good for a lost blogger like me.
I have seen so much, learnt so much but done so little in the year 2012. Such a lazy ass. I promise this year I will quit just browsing aimlessly on others’ blog and facebook but keep a keen record of inspiration and portfolio.
Time to start a brand new year! : ) x
Call her lover x
the day has still been horrible and miserable, rainy, wet, and dark. Welcome to winter!
But I just received my friend’s little sunshine in a package from Australia today! Oh how lovely, saved my day xx
LOVE CUSHIONS!!
These cushions are from her little online shop: Cotton Tail Rabbit
This girl is the Amazing Charmaine that I knew back in 3 years ago through facebook! (hence, you can find true love on internet HAHAHA) we went to paris for a week and briefly met a few times in Hong Kong. But she is so inspiring and lovely that even talking to her on facebook chat now still makes my day for sure! :D
And don’t forget daily inspiration from her Blog, yum!
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More than that, my new friend, Thyme, £0.29 from Waitrose.
Pretty leaves.
The only apple on the apple tree this year.
I just cleared my garden for half a day and it is filled with fallen leaves again.
Practising with paint & ink
Finally managed to give my blog a makeover with some personal touch, hurray!! This is not the best best best version of it but at least, in my humble opinion, it feels more cosy and arty. What do you think of it？It didn’t take me very very long to redo the logos but it did take me very very long time to move my lazy ass. Anyway, let me show you some of my recent work and working process.
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終於終於給這裡換上新的設計，好野！這暫時好看過之新求其在 Photoshop 打幾隻字啦，至少有點人情和暖意。其實也不是用了很久，但我真的懶的要命。這陣子除了忙讀書和功課和吃喝玩樂，我也畫了一點點，主要是為練習而畫的。
This face is me imitating Caravaggio’s Judith Beheading Holofernes. The hair is still too rough to be called finish but the process of such work is very educating and inspiring. This month I have been trying to learn from the Old Masters instead of painiting my own work.
這個面孔是用 Caravaggio 的一張名畫作練習，還有頭髮未畫好，這個月也是練習的畫比其他新畫作多。
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I have also started this, Extreme Unction by Nicolas Poussin on an A4 cardboard. Far from finish.
The 16th Century is my favourite part of art history. The Art Fund has recently purchased this for the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge.
The painting is currently exhibited in the National Gallery in London.
這張是新開始的，是學習 Nicolas Poussin 的 Extreme Unction，被劍橋的藝術館買了，正在借給倫敦國家美術館展覽。我要快快看。
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These are the drafts of the logo for the recent site and also the other inspiration bits.
I know the foggiest of graphic design and calligraphy. I am also trying to sharpen my computer skills.
I am just so lazy. Shame on me.
以下的是給這個網誌畫的草槁，其實我對平面設計一無所知，這陣子也很想抄抄畫畫和學多點電腦軟件的東西。我也不是忙，也只是懶吧。唉，懶得像我，真要命。
