last night i was inspired to bake by my new deck of chocolate cards from my boss! i tried hard to give the cookies/brownies a gourmet feel with a makeshift double boiler to melt the chocolate and butter. it really worked because these babies were all infused with chocolate love! what i baked last night: low fat brownies, chocolate chocolate cookies, and chocolate oatmeal chocolate cookies.
the brownies were ok. they were my first attempt at low fat baking so i substituted 2/3 of the butter for applesauce. interesting idea, needs a little bit more tweaking. on a scale of 1-10, id give it a 6.5. i wanted to give it a higher score, but anythign higher would be an injustice to the real chocolate lovers of the world! the texture was fabulous, but the brownies had a little bit of an apple taste to it because of the apple sauce. my mom and aunt loved it though! they likened it to a chinese bread because of the reduced butter usage/apple sauce substitute. im goign to play around with this recipe some more so that it tastes as good as it looks!
chococlate chocolate cookies were not sweet enough. i loved the texture though, inside was almost cakey with a nice chewy outside. had there been more sugar, these cookies would have been a big hit. the neat part of these cookies is that i took chocolate chips and chopped them so that they werent big bites of chocolate, but rather well merged chocolate flakes with the chocolate cookie as the backdrop. texture was fabulous! the secret of soft cookies is pudding mix! it also gives it a nice shelled look! yum!
the chocolate oatmeal babies were awesome. after tasting the chocolate chooclate cookies i added more sugar into the mix and re-balled my cookies. these were fab! the chocolate was so well mixed into the cookie - it was such a delight to my tastebud!
so, when i organized the fruits of my mini baking extravaganza, this is what it looks like! not so shabby coming from a newbie baker/wannabe food blogger with her digital camera! 
on a side note, the next time i will just do low fat or gourmet. its hard to do both at the same time when you are an amateur! also, better quality pictures next time! i promise! my battery was dying as i clicked away! in the lineup, thumbprint cookies and strawberry cupcakes!happy afternooning!
3 comments:
Wow! These look yummy! Save some for me!
"it was such a delight to my tastebud!" WTF? You're such a ham... hahahaha
I love your food blog. We need to get together and bake sometime. I just got a bunch of new cooking toys (ie madeline trays, checkerboard cake kit, etc)
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