Monday, 23 May 2016

Portuguese style chocolat chip cookies

There are chewy, crispy and soft chocolate chip cookies.
There are chocolate chocolate chip cookies and oat meal chocolate chip cookies.
There are cookies that crumble and cookies that crack on your mouth.
We all have a version we love, there is always one with its way to our heart.
For a portuguese, cookies are thick and tough and smooth and dry and sweet but not too much.
This cookies recepie is an adaptation of Martha Stewart's chocolate chip cookies recepie and will give you about 20 cookies (http://www.marthastewart.com/344840/soft-and-chewy-chocolate-chip-cookies).

  • 100gr white sugar
  • 200gr brown sugar
  • 500gr all purpose flour
  • 1 tea spoon of east
  • 1 tea spoon of vanilla extract
  • 2 eggs
  • 125gr butter (without salt)
  • 1 pinch of salt
  • add in chocolate chip, dry fruits or raisens
Just whisk the sugar with the eggs until bubbly, then add the vanilla (if liquid extract).
Then add half of the flour and dissolve it in the mix.
Then add the rest of the flour, the east and the vanilla (if powder extract).
Make sure the east is spread on the flour to avoid that it is concentrated in one cookie or so.
Mix them and then add the butter, make sure it is soft but not hot, you want to avoid boiling the mix and you want it to aggregate the dough.

Be ready for a different type of tasty cookies you can't get sick of but don't get you that addicted. These are good for children, because they are not that unhealthy (not so much sugar and butter) and the butter is not in excess avoiding that it fries in the oven. The smell of cookies will fill your kitchen and hopefully your house with the sense of homy mommy love.

I was pregnant last year and was really anxious about not knowing what to do with the baby once he would come to be. I read books and talked to people, but as a working mother doing my best I still didn't fell prepared or read nearly enough. Don't know if you ever get to. I realized once that I didn't know how to make chocolate chip cookies. I was always a fan of cookies, but at home we would bake mostly ginger cookies and that smelled like Christmas to me, not childhood. I know it makes no sense, but I started trying recipes and baking and testing and proofing, and alongside this huge belly I got the feeling that I would learn what needs to be learned and I would make my house smell like  mommy homy made chocolate chip childhood and with that I felt like I could make a home. It is not supposed to make sense, because fears don't either. Sometimes you just have to find the simple thing that gives you comfort and for me it was the smell of chocolate chip cookies baking in the oven and growing water on your mouth. I hope these give you the same feeling or that you find it somewhere else as long as you find your smell of home you will find home.


My diet is officially done. Almost reached my goal of 60kg by eating anything that I want as long as it doesn't have sugar. The last pesky kg didn't want to go, and I was becoming restless and bitchy so I decided to start gorging myself with chocolates early, before I had a chance of losing more than weight. Friendship is made of patience and my husband is a damn saint but I wouldn't want to put him through torture for god only knows how long. So I'm back on sweets, with moderation hoping to stay more or less fit. Who knows, writing about it might dampen my apatite... ya, right.

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