Cow Pie Cookies

!±8± Cow Pie Cookies

A simple, easy and quick recipe that makes a really good chocolate cookie. They are cake-like in texture, with the crunch of walnuts,the creaminess of chocolate chips and the deep chocolate flavor of cocoa powder.

1/2 cup room temperature butter 1/2 cup brown sugar 1/4 white sugar 1 large egg 1 tsp pure vanilla extract 1 cup all-purpose flour 1/4 cup cocoa powder 1/2 tsp baking powder 1/8 tsp salt 1/2 cup walnut pieces 1/2 cup chocolate chips

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. In a large bowl, beat together butter and sugars until smooth. Add the egg and vanilla and beat well. In a separate bowl combine flour, cocoa powder, baking powder and salt. Slowly add flour mixture to the sugar and egg mixture, mix until well blended. Fold in walnuts and chocolate chips. Drop spoonfuls of batter onto greased cookie sheet, and bake at 350 degrees for 8 to 10 minutes. Let cookies cool on baking sheet for 5 minutes before removing. Substitute unsalted, dry-roasted peanuts instead of the walnuts for a great taste variation. Cocoa powder is cocoa solids minus the cocoa fat or cocoa butter.

Cocoa solids hold all the chocolate flavor, are low in calories and carry all of the beneficial antioxidants that have been found to help prevent many diseases. The solids and fat are separated by pressing, which can lead to an acidic taste tin the chocolate. Solids that have been produced by the Dutch process are less acidic and have the traditional brown color associated with chocolate.

Cow Pie Cookies

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Easy to Make Chocolate Cigars

!±8± Easy to Make Chocolate Cigars

Delicious served with steamy cup of cappuccino or as an elegant accompaniment to creamy desserts after dinner, this cookie-dessert recipe is easy to make in advance and keep for serving at any festive occasion.

How to Make Chocolate Cigars

Rather like brandy snaps, these delicate biscuits are wrapped around spoon to achieve their cigar shape.

Preparation time: 20 minutes plus extra for setting

Cooking time: 4 minutes each batch

Makes 16

Ingredients:

2 tablespoons plain flour

2 oz/ 50 g caster sugar

1 egg white

2 tablespoons double cream

1 tablespoon cocoa powder

1 oz/25 gm unsalted butter, melted

5 oz/ 25 gm chocolate, broken into pieces

Method of Preparation

1- Line 4 baking sheets with non-stick baking parchment

2- Whisk egg white and sugar together till well blended. Sift flour and cocoa powder into the bowl and stir in the cream and butter.

3- Place 4 dessert spoons of the mixture on one of the baking sheets. Space well apart and spread lightly with the back of a spoon.

4- Bake in a preheated oven 220 C for about 4 minutes till the biscuits have spread and the edges are beginning to darken.

5- Remove from the oven and leave for 30 seconds. Using a palette knife, carefully lift each biscuit from the paper and wrap them round the handles of wooden spoons till they set into shape.

6- Carefully twist the biscuits off the spoons and transfer them to a wire rack. Repeat with the remaining mixture on the remaining baking sheets.

7- Melt the chocolate on a double boiler and dip one side of each biscuit into it, letting the excess chocolate drip back into the bowl. Leave the biscuits on a sheet of greaseproof paper until they are set.

8- Store in an airtight container till ready for use.

9- Serve standing in a bowl.

Easy to Make Chocolate Cigars

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Four Facts About Chocolate Chip Cookies

!±8± Four Facts About Chocolate Chip Cookies

Cookies are one of the most popular biscuits in the world - here are some interesting and fun facts about chocolate chip cookies, which include the difference between an American and an English Cookie, and how the cookie was born.

Ruth Wakefield of the Toll House restaurant is credited to be the first person to bake a chocolate chip cookie as we know it today. The chocolate chip cookie arose because she was actually a little bit lazy. Ruth decided to throw in small chunks of chocolate into her cookie mix assuming it would melt (and therefore produce drop cookies she was aiming for).   Ruth assumed the chocolate would melt and nobody would know the difference. For Ruth, it was a shortcut that really paid off. Her customers loved the chocolate chip cookie and the 'Toll House Cookie' was born. Nestle later bought the trademark.

In the UK, the term 'cookies' generally refers to Chocolate Chip cookies, and other forms of cookie are called 'biscuits' - in America, generally every type of biscuit is called a cookie.  

Cookies are very important in Pennsylvania - on February 7, 2001, the Cookie was declared the official cookie of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

Historically 'hardtack' biscuits played a very important role in travel - they stayed fresh for long periods, and therefore were a great food with a very long storage life. For years when setting sail, one of the most important items carried on a ship was cookies. 

If you do love cookies, I recommend you find a place that serves handmade cookies - they'll test much better than anything in a packet.

Four Facts About Chocolate Chip Cookies

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