Recipe: Chocolate Chip Red Velvet Cookies

I made these ages ago but I never got around to posting up the recipe soooo here it is now.  They were utterly delicious and if you like red velvet cupcakes, I think you'll like these! I also think these will be super festive for the 4th of July.

Ingredients:

1 1/2 cups flour
3 tbsp cocoa powder
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp salt
1/2 cup butter, room temperature
1 cup sugar
1 tsp apple cider vinegar
1 or 2 tsp vanilla
1 or 2 tsp red food coloring (maybe blue food coloring for the Fourth of July)
1/2 cup chocolate chips (you can use white chocolate chips for Valentine's Day or Christmas or even Fourth of July)

Preheat the oven to 350°. In a bowl whisk together flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, baking soda and salt and then set aside.

With a hand mixer, whip together the butter, sugar and vinegar until pale and fluffy about 3 to 4 minutes. Mix in egg. Add in the vanilla and red food coloring. Blend well and then slowly add in the dry ingredients. Once well combined, mix in the chocolate chips.

Shape the dough into balls; about a tablespoon each. Place each onto a baking sheet lined with parchment paper or sprayed with Pam.  In my oven it took about 11 minutes, but keep a close eye on them to make sure they don't burn.  Allow to cool on the cookie sheet.

Store in an airtight container in between layers of parchment paper.

I can't wait to make these again!  Who knows, maybe I'll make them for the bbq this weekend! And if I wait to make them for the 4th of July I'll make them with white chocolate chips.  I'll probably make a blue variety then as well!

Recipe: Zucchini Double Chocolate Chip Cookies

I stumbled upon this Martha Stewart's Zucchini Nut Cookie recipe and decided that it would be fun to play around with it and make some cookies for a barbeque that I'm going to this weekend.  I figured this would be a nice and healthy, yet delicious treat. However, I did decide to change up the recipe some, mostly because I wanted chocolate and also because I didn't have brown sugar.  I think the brown sugar helps mask the green color from the zucchini. I didn't want the cookies to be green (since I didn't want people to ask me why they were green) so I decided to add coccoa powder in addition to the chocolate chips. The original recipe also has a cream cheese filling for the cookies but I decided to skip that as well.

Ingredients:
1 cup flour
1 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
1 stick butter, room temperature
2/3 cup granulated sugar
1 large egg
1/2 tsp vanilla extract

They're not super pretty, but they were utterly delicious!

1 cup finely grated zucchini
1 cup old-fashioned rolled oats
1 tbs coccoa powder
1/2 cup chocolate chips

Preheat the oven to 350°. Sift the flour, cinnamon, baking soda, baking powder and salt into a bown. In another bowl beat the butter and sugar until pale and fluffy and then beat in the egg and
vanilla.
Add the flour mix into the butter mixture. Add in the zucchini, oats and chocolate then refrigerate for about an hour or until firm.
Drop dough onto parchment-lined baking sheets, about 2 inches apart. The original recipe says to use a 1 1/2 inch ice cream scoop to help the process which holds about 2 tablespoons of batter, but I wanted my cookies a little smaller, so I just used a tablespoon.
Bake until edges are golden, about 17 minutes.
Let cool and then eat some deliciousness.

Update:  The cookies were a big hit; moist and delicious! And no one believed that they were made with zucchini!  I'm definitely going to be making them again sometime soon.

Recipe: chocolate chip cookies

well, I'm still perfecting the recipe, but they came out pretty good anyway :)  I apologize for the lack of precision, i don't have any measuring utensils and i'm translating everything from Italian...

1 cup flour
1 cup sugar
1/2 cup brown sugar lightly packed (I accidently overpacked mine)
1 egg (although i think 2 would be better)

1 stick of butter (approximate, because here they go by grams, and i used less i think)

1 small package vanilla (in the states 1 tbs vanilla extract) 

1/2 package baking soda equivalent lol  (prolly 2tbs) 
1/2 200 gram br of chocolate chopped up

Preheat oven to 170*c

Take all dry ingredients and mix into a bowl

Add egg and butter and mix together until cookie dough consistrncys achieved.  If the dough gets too sticky add a little bit more flour. 

Place aluminum foil in pan for easy cleanup, roll dough into 1/2 inch to inch balls and space carefully in pan. Bake until slightly golden.  Remove from pan and place on paper towel in sealable tuperware to maintain soft baked quality :) 

I'll still be editing this recipe though.  It's kind of necessary :)

~Raspberry Truffle