Sunday, February 19, 2012

Healthified Chocolate Chip Cookies

Assalamaualaikum! Hye y'all!


How are you guys doing? I'm doing just fine. Ada exams last week and this week. Got to study. So tak de la sempat sangat nak masak2 sangat. Lagi pun this is the end of month. So tak de apa sangat pun dalam dapur tu untuk di masak2. Eh ayat mcm sedih je kan. Haha. Tak sedih la sebab as long as ada beras, tepung and telur, still can cook quite a few fancy, simple food. 


Kat rumah ni memang tak selalu ada snack sebab kita ni kalau makan, memang macam lembu makan taw. Serious serious. Non stop okay. So better got a few or nothing at all. So semalam tiba2 rasa nak makan cookies taw. Nak makan cookies so bad. So carik la resepi cookies yang senang and tak guna banyak butter sebab nak save the butter for my next recipe, coming soon. Hehe.


Then jumpa la resepi Healthified Chocolate Chip Cookies ni from Betty Crocker web site. Cookies adalah snack yang agak senang untuk di buat dan mengambil masa yang singkat. Kalau di Malaysia, cookies kita semuanya cute2 aje. Size maximum macam Chips More and size minimum macam kuih suji (kuih suji tu pun cookies taw, tapi Malaysian/Asian style). Tapi kat sini, cookies diorang agak besar jugak. My last room mate pernah try my oatmeal cookies and dia cakap your cookies are so little. Haha. Rasa macam kedekut pulak buat kecik kecik ni.


Straight out from the oven

Tengah nak sejukkan

Oh look! I found a heart shape one!

Okay, from the reviews that I have read and from my experience baking this cookies, here are some recommendations:

1. Kurangkan butter jadi 1/4 cup
2. Kurangkan 3 tbs minyak
3. Kurangkan 1/4 cup granulated sugar
4. Kurangkan 1/4 cup brown sugar

Even dengan pengurangan gula ni pun, cookies korang akan jadi manis jugak. Kalau tak suka manis, kurangkan 1-2 tbsp lagi okay. Chocolate chips tu pun boleh membantu untuk memaniskan cookies bila makan nanti. 

Ada 2 jenis cookies kat sini, chewy and crunchy. Chewy tu yang macam cakey sikit texture dia. Crunchie tu yang macam kat malaysia punya cookies. So go for 9-10 minutes in the oven for the crunchy one and 7 mins for the chewy one (kita tak try untuk chewy punya masa, so this is just my opinion. Hope it works well). Bila korang keluarkan cookies, cookies tu memang lembik. Just leave it for a few mins on the baking sheets, then let it rest on a plate or cooking rack until the cookies are completely cool down. Kita tak nak dia lemau nanti dengan moisture yang ada dari wap air tu bila kita store dia dalam container. 

Untuk dapatkan size yang sama, boleh la gunakan ice cream scoop untuk scoop the dough onto the baking sheets. You don't need to flattened the dough completely sebab masa dalam oven nanti dia akan flattened sendiri. Just tekan sikit so that it won't be too thick later on.

Fuh, banyaknye cakap. Okay sekarang ni cuaca sangat nice. Hari isnin hari tu kan snow kat sini. 2 hari lepas tu, semua snow cair dah. Memang global warming. Sekarang ni I'm waiting for the flowers to bloom! Spring is my favorite season indeed! Tapi kita bukan minah bunga okay. But you are welcome to give flowers to me. =) Even though chocolate is better, or ice cream, or cupcake. Mmmm... 

Okay lah, selamat mencuba ye! 

AmeeraFatin=)

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