Cokelatia

What's with all this green tea craze? People seems hysterical about anything with green tea in it. I'm intrigued, and my curiosity is enough to bring me to buy some green tea powder on the baking-supply store. Quite expensive for such minuscule package, I must say. Anyway, let's turn that famous powder into cookies! Of course!  Pick your favorite cookies recipe. Add generous amount of green tea powder to the flour mix. Substitute brown sugar with white sugar, and chocolate-chips with white chocolate-chips. Because I think green tea would go well with white chocolate. And I'm right. The cookies are sooo good I wanna cry.  But I think it's because, you know, cookies are like my most favorite snack in the world. Not because the green tea. I still don't get what this green tea madness is all about.  Anyway, this is how I bring them to the next level: Let's start chocolate-chip-cookie-ice-cream-sandwiches craze!

When the kid insists on baking a cake on a lazy Saturday, let's just do it as simple as possible. Easy chocolate cake, with basic buttercream frosting and ready-to-use blueberry jelly in between. No need to trim the edge. Just top with more buttercream and let the kid sprinkle as much chocolate chips as he wants. Done! Now let me go back to my book, will ya?

Strawberry cheesecake is good enough, how about strawberry cheesecake ICE CREAM? Total NOM! P.s. no machine required. Start by preparing strawberry pie filling. There's a step-by-step to make it here . Then make crumbs. I used crushed digestive biscuit + melted butter. For the ice cream, mix together butter, cream cheese, whipped cream, sweet condensed milk, and lemon juice.  Throw in the crumbs, stir.  Then throw in the strawberry filling. Fold gently, do not overmix! Yum! At this point, sneak a spoonful or two wouldn't kill. Just remember to pour the rest into a container. Cover and freeze overnight.  Enjoy! You can view the complete recipe here .

Remember this cupcakes ? Well, I made too much frosting. What to do with leftover frosting? Make cookies! I got the idea by googling it. It's very simple, just add 1 cup flour and 1 egg to 1/2 cup frosting. I had 1 cup frosting but didn't double the recipe, so the cookies are more chewy and moist. To make them more special, put oreos under every cookie dough balls, so during the baking the dough will spread and hide them. Cookies with a surprise inside!

Nothing very special about this post, just ordinary chocolate cupcakes with ordinary frosting. I just want to keep notes about the chocolate cake recipe. It is adapted from Smitten Kitchen's Everyday Chocolate Cake . That recipe is a keeper, the cake is tender, moist, but not too soggy. Definitely will frequently use it for any need of chocolate cake.  

Warm-gooey-giant-chocolate-chip-cookie under baked in ceramic plate that keeps the cookie warm longer. Served with its soulmate: ice-cold milk.

They're baked in a pan on the stove. So easy and simple. Sweet potatoes could also be used instead of potatoes. Baked Potato Donut Recipe