Red Velvet White Chocolate Chip Cookies

Recently, I was lucky enough to be able to attend Coachella! It was an amazing weekend with some of my best friends and I was especially grateful to my friend Katie for letting us stay at her house in Palm Springs! She's the one on the right!

Her parents were so generous to let us stay and so Coco and I wanted to thank her by baking her something! We decided on these red velvet cookies that turned out really good! I was not always a huge fan of red velvet because it tasted like a whole lot of red dye to me, but I have made it a couple of times (which you wouldn't know because I haven't been updating...) and I have gotten used to it! My mom also bought me gel colorings instead of liquid so there definitely isn't as much dye in these than normal!

They originally were for Katie's parents but they headed home to Minnesota before we could send them, so Katie got to enjoy them instead!

Thanks for an amazing weekend Katie!!

Red Velvet White Chocolate Chip Cookies: from thecurvycarrot

1/2 cup butter- room temperature
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1/2 cup packed brown sugar
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 + 1/2 all purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/3 cup cocoa powder (and if more gets in... so be it)
red food coloring (I used the gel, around 4 toothpicks)
1/2 cup white chocolate chips


Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
In a separate bowl, combine flour, baking soda, salt, and cocoa powder.
Cream together butter and sugars until light and fluffy. At this time, add in the food coloring. Then, mix in the egg and vanilla making sure to mix well.
At low speed, gradually add in the flour mixture. If you feel the need, add in more food coloring. But, be careful if you are using liquid coloring to make sure it doesn't get too liquidy.
Fold in chocolate chips.
Roll into balls around two inches apart on lined baking sheets.
Bake for 10-12 minutes until slightly golden.

(Don't eat too many)

Peanut Butter Banana Chocolate Chip Cookies

Recently, it was my friend Sarah's birthday and of course, I made her something sweet :] She is much healthier than I, so when I asked what she liked to eat she responded with bananas and peanut butter! Sounds like something Elvis would eat... but delicious nonetheless!

I found a recipe for these cookies and the only problem was that they sounded a bit too chewy for my taste. I feel like banana flavored things are better cakey (banana bread? banana muffins??) rather than chewy. So I fixed up the recipe a bit and they turned out amazingly soft!

And it always helps when you have a couple of overripe bananas on hand!

 Recipe: Adapted from howsweeteats

2 cups + 2 tablespoons all purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 stick of butter- melted and cooled
6 tablespoons of peanut butter (I used creamy)- melted and cooled
1 cup loosely packed brown sugar
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1 egg yolk + 1 egg- room temperature
2 teapsoons vanilla extract
2 medium bananas, mashed
1 cup chocolate chips

Preheat oven to 325 degrees.

Mix the flour, baking soda, baking powder, and salt together in a separate bowl.
Whisk together peanut butter, butter, brown sugar and granulated sugar until combined. Whisk in eggs and vanilla until smooth. Mix in mashed bananas, it will not be completely smooth. Gradually add in the flour mixture until it makes a dough. Fold in chocolate chips.

Place balls of dough onto nonstick baking sheet or parchment paper, but leave at least two inches apart as they will spread. Bake 12 minutes or until the edges are turning brown. Don't overbake because they are supposed to be soft and cakelike! Let cool completely as they are soft. Enjoy :]

Sooo... I'm back? With Snickerdoodle Cookie Cupcakes

Hey again! After months of computer memory problems and limitless procrastination.. the blog is back in action!

I'll be randomly updating for all of the things that we have made during the past couple of months as well as trying to blog the real time current endeavors!

So back in December, I made these delicious snickerdoodle cupcakes! They had a crunchy cookie in the bottom which made them that much better (and made them take double the time to make).

One of the worst parts about making cupcakes is the waiting time between baking them and being able to frost them...
and because I took so much time on the cookie dough and cupcake dough... I didn't want to wait.

so I popped some in the fridge!


They turned out pretty delicious if I say so myself :]

recipe: howsweeteats

Peanut Butter Cupcakes with White Chocolate Frosting

So this baking venture started as many of them do..

Coco and I were bored.
After browsing one of my new favorite blogs for a while, Coco finally made the decision to make these peanut butter cookie cupcakes with a white chocolate buttercream frosting.


For some reason we failed a little bit at the cupcake portion...

They sunk a little in the middle, but it kind of just made a cup that could fit more frosting?
And that's not a bad thing...

So we did just that and created an entire cave of frosting in the middle of these cupcakes!

And see the bottom? Yea, that's a Reese's peanut putter cup.



Boredom can be so productive!


recipe: cookiesandcups

Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Cupcakes

Since life has gotten crazy and overwhelming lately, I haven't had a lot of time to bake! But, today I decided I was going to set time aside and actually make this recipe I had been wanting to use for a while.

 

 

chocolate chip cookie dough cupcakes! They start with a chocolate chip cake, and ends up getting a cookie dough filling and a cookie dough frosting. Spoiler alert: it is
EXTREMELY sweet. I fortunately had some company in the kitchen! Chelsea and Coco came over for the baking party and it was so fun!

Once we (im)patiently waited for the cupcakes to cool, we kind of shoved cookie dough into the middle..

and then frosted them! We each ate one and felt a bit sugar overloaded (even with the salt mishap..). So beware to anyone that eats one!

But they did turn out pretty!

recipe: bakeat350

Chocolate Oreo Chunk Cookies

Being in a sorority isn't a lot of work until you get to rush. My chapter and I spent long hours preparing the house and getting ready for the most important week all year. One of my best friends, Coco (who will soon be making manyyy more appearances!) decided to make everyone treats during one of our long nights! We made these oreo chunk cookies (which made us a bit late, sorry Pillar night committee) for everyone to enjoy!

 You can see the oreo chunks in the batter!

Unfortunately, they were gone pretty fast so this is the best picture I've got. I have learned through this blog that the faster something is gone, probably the better it tastes? Or that's what I'm going to tell myself.

recipe: howsweeteats

Thank you to KSaff!

For my birthday, one of my good friends Katie gave me some yummy cookie mix and frosting!

 

This is Brianne, me and Katie during Fiesta for my birthday!

When she was finally back in SB for the year, I whipped them up so that we could share them together! Everyone loves funfetti cupcakes, but who knew they came in cookie form tooo??

I brought her a plate of them, and when I came home the rest were gone! Yummyyy??

Thank you to Katie and everyone else who gave me amazing things! I'm the most stylish baker now :]

Homemade pizookie and ice cream!

While I was home, I decided to make my dad the amazing vanilla pudding chocolate chip cookies that I have been in love with! My mom also made homemade vanilla ice cream for my neighbor block party and it just was perfect to make a pizookie with! It was also perfect because when I had been at Trader Joe's the other day, I spotted this AMAZING grinder filled with coffee beans, sugar, and chocolate (can it get any better??) that my favorite food blog had posted about.

So naturally, I started putting it on everything I ate.. and it worked perfectly on the ice cream!

and the cookie was still hot so the ice cream started to melt... not that that is a bad thing..

cookies: onedashdelplaya

Peanut Butter Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies

Peanut butter, oats, AND chocolate chips in one cookie? Sounds good to me!

I haven't made something in a while, so I made these in my break between classes!

I think they are already half gone.. so I guess that's all I have to say!

recipe: browneyedbaker

Vanilla Pudding Chocolate Chip Cookies

I think it's safe to say that everyone likes chocolate chip cookies. But the problem with making these cookies is that everyone has a preference: some like them crispy while others like them chewy or gooey. For me, I like the softer variety but have never quite found the perfect recipe. Today I found a recipe that included instant pudding mix, which intrigued me. So of course I had to give it a try and the results were amazing! The pudding mix made the cookies soo soft and I'm pretty sure I have found my staple chocolate chip recipe!

Stay tuned because I have some vanilla bean and extra white chocolate I plan on trying to use some time this week!

recipe: confessionsofacookbookqueen

Cookie Bottomed Cupcakes

A cookie and a cupcake? Sounds like my dream. When this recipe popped up, I had to try it. It was late at night and I kind of wanted to go to bed, so they should have been left in the oven a bit longer, but oh well! They were delicious anyway and I can always make them again, right?

I mentioned my quest for a great frosting in an earlier post and I think I found it! I literally did a google search for "best vanilla frosting" and found multiple posts for this recipe, so I decided to give it a try. And it was AMAZING! Not too buttery and extra creamy. I will definitely have to keep this one bookmarked!

cupcakes: howsweeteats
frosting: tastykitchen

Sugar Cookies

So before I ate the rest of the strawberry frosting, I decided to make another vehicle for them, so I made a basic sugar cookie so that I could frost them. I realized after I made all the dough that I did not have a rolling pin.

I tried to roll it out with my hands.. but it clearly did not work that well.

So we ended up scraping the dough off of the counter and just rolling it into shapes, most of which were just circles (creative, I know).

The next morning, there were only like five left. Once again, a good sign.

recipe: daintychef-krissy

Snickerdoodles

After a couple weeks at home for summer, I finally got to move into my new apartment in Isla Vista!

I am in lovee with my view (yes, I made it into my banner)! Waking up to the ocean waves and this view is prettyyyy rough. So I had to christen my new kitchen (complete with the kitchen aid taken from my house, sorry Mom!) with something delicious! I had my friend Lauren over for about a week because she was homeless, so we decided to make snickerdoodles!

and because she is a loser (jk) we made a nice fleur de lis cookie to represent some kappa, which sort of turned out? But they honestly were really good and light! A good first baking experience on Del Playa :]

recipe: howsweeteats