Baking time!! Chocolate, white chocolate chip cookies addition.

Okay, that was a necessary long title because I wanted to use those particular words in that particular order to describe what this post was about.

So, almost like it was a title. 😅

Also, I just found out I can but emojis into my blog posts now. MUAHAHAHA. I'm just kidding, you'll probably just find the same 3 emojis over and over and over again because I'm redundant in my emoji-ing.

I made these cookies because I decided to, but I didn't have a recipe. I looked online, got a base idea and then adapted it to make it work for me (and my married student housing pantry).

ENJOY!
Pro Tip: Do not eat all the batter, for you need it to produce cookies. And always drink with milk.

Step 1: Ingredients

• 2-1/2 sticks of butter/margarine (soft or slightly melted)          
• 2 cups sugar
• 2 whole eggs (not half eggs)
• 3 teaspoons of vanilla (or best guess)
• 3/4 cup cocoa powder
• 1-1/2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1-1/2 cups chocolate chips
• 1-1/2 cups white chocolate chips

Preheat oven to 350F (177 Celsius).

Step 2: Mixing

Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Then, add eggs one at a time, mixing after each addition (it should look like a white cake batter at this point). Stir in vanilla.

Mix in flour, salt, and baking powder well. Then, add cocoa powder and mix until smooth. 

Add chocolate chips and white chocolate chips, stir with a spatula or spoon (works better than a hand mixer for this step).

Taste the batter.

Make balls (approx. 1TBS- 2TBS of batter per ball), and add to lined or greased cookie sheet.

Pro Tip: Make sure they are far enough apart that they won't melt together. 

Step 3: Baking

Bake for about 10 minutes in the oven. When you take them out, let them cool a few minutes before you transfer them to the cooling rack. If you don't, they might gooey up and be hard to move.

You can keep them in the oven longer, but they will crisp up fast, so be aware of your narrow, gooey-inside window.

Step 4: Eat and Enjoy!

Pro Tip: Make sure you have a hiding place so yourself or a certain GM won't eat them all/ for breakfast. 

Also, the above picture is what happens when they are too close together. Oops. They taste the same, but they aren't as pretty. That became our pan.

The pretty cookies are reserved for neighbors, friends, and social functions. The family already knows that sometimes I'm a hot mess so they can eat the other ones. 😅

Day 3 recap and Day 4- "Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself."

Yesterday was Day 3 of the #LightTheWorld and I didn't feel as if it needed it's own post, so that's my reasoning for combining the two today.

On Day 3 it talked about keeping the Sabbath Day holy and doing things that would help draw families together. GM and I went over to my parent's house for a family dinner because we were celebrating the birthday of my sister (the 5th). I also wrote a letter to a good friend of mine who I haven't talked to in a while (so, I guess my good estranged friend).

Family is the MOST important thing to GM and myself. I always grew up hearing that "friends come and go, but families are forever". Which was really annoying when my siblings and I were fighting, but now that I'm older, I see the wisdom in putting family first.

But that doesn't mean we shouldn't make room for friends and neighbors.

"Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself", that's what Matthew 22:39 states and what is the theme of Day 4.

Now for those of you who don't know, I am a baking fiend. I love everything about it, the chemistry between ingredients, the way the house smells after good things have been in the oven, and the way food makes people feel loved. There is almost no bad side to baking, well, besides doing the dishes if my enthusiasm has washed by the time it comes around to do them.

And that's why you always clean as you go, that way there is no discouraging mound of dishes GM has to do after my goodie project is done.
I put my baking addiction in here because it's relevant, I promise.  I know what I want to do to spread love to my neighbors: chocolate brownies.

Nothing says "I care about you" quite like homemade chocolate, fudgy brownies. At least in my humble opinion. So look out neighbors, here they come.