I Find Comfort in Baking

I was bored the other night so I decided to make cookies. Just kidding, I needed to take myself away from all the negative energy I attracted the whole day. I was going to make banana cookies but when I touched my over-riped bananas, they were over-over-riped hence, useless. Anyway, here's the recipe I chose to make.

1 c. butter
3/4 c. white sugar
3/4 c. brown sugar
2 eggs
1 tbsp. hot water
1 1/2 c. sifted flour
1 tsp. soda
1 tsp. salt
2 c. oatmeal
12 oz. chocolate chips
1 tsp. vanilla
1/2 - 1 c. chopped nuts (optional)

Cream butter, add sugar, cream together. Add eggs, hot water, mix together. Add flour, soda, salt. Add oatmeal, chocolate chips, vanilla and nuts slowly. Mix well. Drop by spoonful on greased cookie sheet. Bake 350 degrees, 10-12 minutes. Transfer immediately to cooling rack after baking.
Source: Cooks.com 

Enjoy! :)

Cookies Make the World a Happier Place

I had a serious itching to bake the other day and because I was too lazy to drive to the store to get eggs, I Googled recipes for no egg cookies and found this! I only used five ingredients for the dough then added chocolate chips to create some variety.

I tried to take pictures of every step but I underestimated how much multi tasking I would be in some I was cooking pasta for our lunch the next day whole mixing the dough. Oops. I'll try to explain every step though!

Preheat the oven to 375F.
Cream butter and sugar. If you just got your stick of butter right out of the fridge, you can grate it so it creams easily. I used a mixer for this.

Next, heat up the water in the microwave for 15 seconds and then mix the baking soda until it's dissolved in the cup. After this, mix it with the cream and butter mixture. Add the flour and mix the dough until it's smooth. Fold in the oatmeal.

I scooped 1/3 of the dough an mixed it with White chocolate chips and scooped the other third into another bowl and mixed it with semi sweet chocolate chips. It turns out these cookies taste best with white chocolate chips!

Using a cookie scoop, scoop them and place them onto the baking sheet and flatten the top with a fork, making the diameter of the cookie 1.5-2 inches. Put it in the preheated oven and bake for 10 minutes.

After baking, put them on a wire rack to cool.

Then you can take pictures of the cookies ;)

I highly suggest you enjoy them while they're warm! A few minutes after taking three cookies to Ron who was in our bedroom that time, he yelled out, "Love, I want more! I'm coming down there!"

No Egg Oatmeal Cookies
1 stick butter
1/2 c. brown sugar
1 c. flour
1 c. old fashioned rolled oats
1/2 tsp. soda dissolved in 1/8 c. hot water
white chocolate chips (optional)

Cream butter and sugar. Add water with baking soda dissolved. Add flour and oats. Mix until blended. Fold in chocolate chips. Roll dough into balls. Flatten with a fork dipped in flour. Bake at 375 degrees.

Very Fall-ish

Hair: Bun, Alfalfa style! Hahaha!
Dress: Target
Boots: Studio Pollini (the picture lied, the boots are actually dark brown)
Scarf: D&Y

Would you believe that I have NOT worn this dress in real life yet? Yep, I've tried it on so many times but when I get ready in the morning, it never feels right to wear it. On another note, this week has been insanely busy. There's just so much stuff to do and think about. I have NOT even read any of my emails. I was not prepared but I'm pretty sure I can handle this ish. Oh and I will be announcing the winner of the Facebook this week!

Anyway, I finally got to bake the Brown Sugar Oatmeal cookies I was talking about in this post! It's super easy, I think the only tough part is washing everything you used ;)

You Need:
1 3/4 cups packed brown sugar
1 cup butter or margarine, softened - if you don't have time to soften the butter, you can grate it like I did!
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 eggs
2 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
3 cups old-fashioned oats

What you need to do:
Heat the oven to 350°F.
In a large bowl, beat brown sugar and butter with electric mixer on medium speed, scraping bowl occasionally, until light and fluffy. Beat in vanilla and eggs until well blended.
On low speed, beat in flour and baking powder, scraping bowl occasionally, until well combined. Stir in oats.
On ungreased cookie sheets, drop dough by heaping tablespoonfuls 2 inches apart. Flatten cookies to about 1/2-inch thickness.
Bake 12 to 14 minutes or until light golden brown. Cool 1 minute; remove from cookie sheets to cooling racks.
Source/Original Recipe

Cookielicious!

What's up peoples? ;) I hope everyone's having a great weekend! We're going to a concert to watch the Beatles of the Philippines in Los Angeles tonight and I'm excited! Anyway, here's something that might make your 2-day break from reality even better!

I made these Chocolate Chip Morsel Cookies last Tuesday and it was a hit with Ron and my mom, sister and sister-in-law. These cookies are very cakey so if you prefer the crunchy kind, you might not like this recipe. I reeeally love, soft, chewy, dough-ey (more dough than chocolate chips) cookies so I fell in love with these! It also uses bittersweet chocolate chips so that's a plus!

What You Need:
3/4 c. unsalted butter, softened
3/4 c. brown sugar
1/4 c. granulated sugar
1 egg
2 tsp. vanilla extract
2 c. all purpose flour
2 tsp. cornstarch
1 tsp. baking soda
1/2 tsp. salt
1 c. bittersweet chocolate chips (I used morsels because they didn't have bittersweet choc chips at the store, you can add more of this to your liking - I loooove cookie dough so I stuck with the recipe's 1cup)


What You Need to Do:
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
2. In the bowl mix together butter and sugars until fluffy and light in color. Add egg and vanilla and blend in.
3. Mix in flour, cornstarch, baking soda and salt. Stir in chocolate chunks with a spatula or wooden spoon.
4. Using a standard-sized cookie scoop or tablespoon, drop dough onto a baking sheet lined with parchment paper. Bake for 8-10 minutes, until barely golden brown around the edges. (The tops will not brown, I only did mine for 8 minutes and they were very cakey and soft.)
5. Let cool, on the sheet, on a wire rack (or on top of the stove if you make several batches and you only have one wire rack like me) for five minutes. Remove from baking sheet and let cool completely on wire rack. Makes approximately 3 dozens. Enjoy but try not to eat all of them. Make more in the future.
Found the recipe HERE (of course I found it on Pinterest! LOL).
Original recipe HERE.

PS
To all my lovely followers and readers, thank you so much for being here. You peoples are super awesome. I know I haven't been replying to emails (from comments) yet (don't blame me, blame our couch that makes me not want to move) but I promise, I will try to catch up on them soon. :)

Easy Outfit and Yummy Cookies

This is probably one of my most favorite outfits. It's so easy and I'd like to think it's flattering ;)

Top: Joppa
Skirt: Ross

If you have not noticed yet, those flats have made its way as one of my favorite and must have pairs :)

Last night was pretty great, I think I'm out of my funk...now I just need to workout. LOL I made some Chicken Hainanese that did not taste as good as I expected and some fudgy Chocolate Crinkles-they're Ron's favorite so he was a happy camper!

Linking up with What I'm Loving Wednesday and the Weekly Wednesday Blog Hop today.

Light and Bright

It just started to get chilly in the morning and at night here in LA! I'm so excited! As my last hurray for summer, here's a light and bright outfit... I've been really loving orange as of late!

Despite my hair sliding off of them, I'm in love with ponytails and buns! 

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Has anyone else been using Pinterest to put their own cookbook together? I can't wait to shake my cough off so I can bake cookies!

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Good Eats

Last weekend, I asked Ron if we can go eat at Hungry Fox, a breakfast restaurant my best friend told me about. He actually said yes and I got ecstatic so I ran to the shower to get ready. The food was great and it actually tasted homemade. I'd give it 4 stars.

Ron ordered the Chicken and Waffles plate while I tried the Pancake Plate with Bacon.

We also stopped by the infamous Porto's bakery to get cheese rolls for our friends in the Inland Empire. As we were looking at the glass case of baked goods, I was so amused with the Halloween themed desserts so I grabbed Ron's phone and took photos. :)

Cat Sugar Cookies, Haunted House Red Velvet Cake, Red Velvet Cupcake Eyes, and Candy Topped Chocolate Cupcakes with Chocolate frosting.

Did you have any good eats last weekend? :)

Holiday Baking 2

Chocolate Crinkles
I love how this treat is everyone's favorite!


Sugar Cookies
Some of them I baked longer than the others and they tasted like Eggnog! Yum!