Brownie Cookies! YUM!

I made two new recipes today, not the smartest thing to make them at once, but hey I had laundry to do. ~yay~

I made such a mess making cookies today. The kids were asleep so it had nothing to do with them, although usually it does. Haha When I was mixing the melted butter/chocolate into the rest of the mix my mixer went crazy! It's one of those cheap ones thats only like $6. Ya, I need to invest in a new one, but I just don't use it enough to justify buying one now. I'd rather get my coveted rice cooker and steamer basket. I cannot wait to begin making bentos for A when school starts. And I'd dying to make tamales!!!<- my randomness hahaha
Well, The cookies turned out great. I took a plate to the apartment office and they loved them, or they said they did. LOL These cookies were soooo sweet. I had to put some of the batter in the freezer because no way could we eat all these cookies this week. It made a bunch I made 3 trays I believe. I'll save the rest of the batter for when my bro comes to visit. Yay for not having to make more of a mess when he comes!!! If anyone wants the recipe just leave a comment and I'll post it, I don't feel like getting up right now. Me=lazy. ;)

Ingredients HAHA

This is the stick of Butter, 4 (1 oz. unsweetened chocolate), and 1 cup Organic Chocolate Chips

I made a mess. My mixer is NO GOOD. :/ Good thing I wore a "play shirt"

The Cookie Brownies! I forgot to take a pict of them when they came out of the oven.

Lesson learned: either use a bigger bowl next time or get a proper mixer. Oh and one more thing... The "cookie" dough was way too runny, I had to put the batter in the refrigerator and let it thicken up a bit before doing the second batches and on.
Taste: YUMMY, but very very sweet. I think next time I'll only use half the bag of chocolate chips... I dono how that with work with unsweetened chocolate. We shall see.
Health: HAHA I think these cookies were somewhere close to 300 calories per cookie... NOT good. EEEk
Will I make again? Yes, but will freeze half the dough, I don't need so many cookies.

Gotta love it.

God made cocoa, cocoa is yummy!

Easy Chewy Chocolate Cupcakes

These were more like muffins to me...

I found an easy recipe I could make with my kids yesterday. I had been looking for a recipe for angel food cake but they all took 6 eggs and I had only bought 1 dozen (I didn't want to put all my eggs in one basket lol).

So, we made chocolate muffins. They turned out scrumptious. I don't even like chocolate. I don't like chocolate cookies, cake, ice cream or even most chocolate brownies, but these cupcakes were great.

The only thing I did not like about making them is I had to heat the butter and chocolate in a pan till melted, then combine it into the other mixed ingredients (more things to wash). Clean up was easy though. I soaked the pan in water for a few minutes while the cupcakes were in the oven and voila, my kitchen was clean. (Above is step one to and three. Step One melt butter and chocolate in pan, step two was it melting lol, and step three was combine the other ingredients.)<-thats just me and A being camera happy.

Here we have our finished product. These turned out picture perfect. I wish I had a decorative platter to put things on when I'm taking photos, my chipped plate is not good enough haha

I was trying to take a picture of the sunset yesterday on top of the bridge but my goofy phone was being defiant. This is what I ended up with.

Taste: Scroumptious, didn't you read the part about how I loved these, and I don't even like chocolate? :)

Lesson learned: Go thrift store shopping for a platter to take pictures of my creations and such. (today this wasn't my creation, it was my cookbooks)

Will I make this again: YES, my kids loved them. I took the plate of Cupcakes above to my apartment office and only came back with two. (I still had some at home, I was saving my mom one and this batch made 18!)

Health benefits: haha, um they were only 333 calories because I refused to make frosting. They did have 4g or protein and 1.3g of fiber. hahah Not really heathly, but they were good without icing.

Gotta love it!

God made such a beautiful sunset!