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--Following the biddings of an angel--or perhaps just the voices in my head--
Learning HTML--hoping to keep developing this site! At the moment it will just be some small blogs of my ventures in cooking, baking, video games, and books, and whatever other hobbies I might pick up along the way. :)
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Baking Blog
10.16.22
This Sunday I (finally) decided to bake some cookies. Inspired by our new stand mixer, I used my tried and true recipe from Joyfoodsunshine.com, only this time I swapped out half of the chocolate chips with peanut butter chips. The new stand mixer performed admirably! It mixed everything together like a dream, even down to the chips, and did so like a champ. I also used it a bit earlier to mix up my pizza dough, which it also handled with no issue. Definitely looking forward to using this bad jackson for more stuff going forward! It beats the hell out of mixing that cookie dough by hand. By the end of that process my arms were fit to shrivel up and fall off.
Anyway, here's the ingredients for the cookies:
- 1 cup salted butter
- 1 cup white sugar
- 1 cup light brown sugar, packed
- 2 tsp pure vanilla extract
- 2 large eggs
- 3 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp sea salt
- 2 cups chocolate chips
Like I mentioned earlier, I subbed 1 cup of the chips for a peanut butter variant. My oven is as always inconsistent with its heat output, so some of the cookies turned out a bit crispier than others, but most turned out well. I still can't quite get the consistency correct--that is, a soft and chewy center with a crispy dark outer edge. I'm gonna delve into how to get that sort of consistency in the future. Basically like an Insomnia cookie. I've seen before that it just needs more butter, but I'm still not all too familiar with how more/less of each ingredient will affect the product.
The peanut butter chips were good, but in my opinion they just can't beat plain old chocolate chip. The sweetness of the cookie is perfectly offset by the acidity of a good chocolate chunk, and that's just not something you can get with a peanut butter chunk. Maybe I can try making the cookie less sweet so that the peanut butter chips can shine through? I'll have to try some other recipes out to see what I like--but that's hard to want to do when this current recipe turns out so good every time. :')
What should I try baking next? I've been averse to pies ever since the incident (there's not much to tell about that--I just royally f***ed up shaping the crust and swore off the things for good), but maybe I'll give it another shot. It's already been almost an entire year since I've last tried it. Regardless, this is the time of year for apple pies, so maybe I'll give it a go.
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