Internaltional Food Feast - American Toll House Cookies

Disasters are always common when it comes to cooking. But one such disaster that turned to be the most favorite invention - The Chocolate Chip Cookies. :)

The famous chocolate chip cookies was a accidental invention by Ruth Wakefield who owned the popular restaurant called the Toll house inn at Massachusetts, United States.

Wakefield was an expert in making chocolate cookies and on one fine day when she was running out of baker's chocolate she substituted for it broken pieces of semi-sweet chocolate from Nestle, thinking that it would melt and mix into the batter. It clearly did not, and the chocolate chip cookie was born. Wakefield sold the recipe to Nestle in exchange for a lifetime supply of chocolate chips. :)

One other note of history says that the head cook of the Toll house inn, Boucher said that the vibrations from a large Hobart electric mixer dislodged bars of Nestle's chocolate stored on the shelf above the mixer so they fell into the sugar cookie dough it was mixing, then broke them up and mixed the pieces into it. He claimed to have overcome Wakefield's impulse to discard the dough as too badly ruined to waste effort baking them, leading to the discovery of the popular combination.

What so ever, I love chocolate chip cookies too much that I praise the accident :)



Ingredients:

All purpose flour - 1 1/2 cup
Sugar - 1 cup
Soda-bicarbonate - 1/2 tsp
Butter - 1/3 cup
Chocolate chips - why measure?? as much as you like ;)
Peanuts(unsalted but roasted) - 50 gms
Eggs - 2

Method:

Put the eggs and sugar in a bowl and beat till the mixture becomes pale brown.

Sift the flour and soda bicarbonate. Pour over the egg sugar mixture and mix it well.

Add butter, peanuts and chocolate chips to it and stir to mix together.

Scoop out the cookies mixture with a spoon and roll into a ball with your hands and place on greased tray at least 5 cms. apart. Flatten the balls with your hands to make round shape.

Preheat the oven at 200 degree Celsius.

Bake the cookies at 200 degree Celsius for 10-15 min, until lightly browned. (Time subjected to your oven)

Place on wire rack to cool for 5 min.

Chocolate chip cookies is ready to eat. :) Serve it with tea/coffee. :)

Enjoy making and enjoy eating :)

Written by: Nithya
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Peanut Butter Cookies and Awards

Digging into the history of my experiments, If you remember I had planned to make Irish potato candy for which I had got this peanut butter. Since I had the biggest flop show of turning it into disaster halwa, I had the peanut butter waiting to change its form for quite some time. So here is my cookies that amazingly turned out well. ;)

Ingredients:

Peanut butter - 1 cup
Butter - 1/3 cup
Light brown sugar - 1 cup
Egg - 1
Milk - 3 tblsp
Vanilla extract - 2 tbsp
All purpose flour (Maida) - 1 3/4 cup
Baking soda - 1 tsp
Salt - 1/2 tsp




Method:

Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F(190 degrees C). In a medium bowl, cream together butter, brown sugar and peanut butter until smooth. Stir in egg, milk and vanilla. Now sift flour, baking soda and salt together and then stir into the peanut butter mixture until well blended. Now make small balls and press them with your hand and place it on the bake ware. Bake for 8 to 10 min. Once done transfer to wire rack to cool completely.

You can add your favorite topping to the cookies like cashews, almond, Hershey's kisses chocolates or even Cadbury gems. This makes it look more interesting. :) Peanut butter cookies is ready to eat. :) Enjoy making, happy eating :)



And now I should really thank Parita , Vineela Siva and Preethi for passing such cute awards to me along with a tag. Here it goes


Thanks a lot for the awards. :) It makes me fly...

Answers to the tag :

1.what is your current obsession?
Cooking!

2. What are you wearing today?
Cargoes and a Tee

3. What’s for dinner?
Ghee rice with veg kuruma

4. What’s the last thing you bought?
Art papers

5. What are you listening to right now?
Oye telugu movie songs by Yuvan

6. What do you think about the person who tagged you?
Parita - She is one of my best blogger buddy for now. She is absolutely friendly and really really sweet. :) I love her baking creations. She rocks. :)

Preethi - She is absolutely enthusiastic and a regular blogger unlike us. She is too friendly and always encourages me by commenting on my dishes. I guess there is no post without her comments in my blog. Thanks a lot for your support my sweet friend. :)

7. If you could have a house totally paid for, fully furnished anywhere in the world, where would you like it to be?
Chennai - India. (will never want to leave my mother land) :)

8. What are your must-have pieces for summer?
Cotton pants, Tee's, cotton salwars, skirts etc

9. If you could go anywhere in the world for the next hour, where would you go?
London

10. Which language do you want to learn?
Telugu - its my mother tongue. But I really dont know to read or write. :(

11. Who do you want to meet right now?
All my friends.. miss them all so much.

12. What is your favorite colour?
Aqua Blue

13. What is your favourite piece of clothing in your own closet?
A yellow churidar

14. What is your dream job?
Astronaut who can really fly to the space like Kalpana Chawala

15. What’s your favourite magazine?
Aanandha Vikadan

16. If you had $100 now, what would you spend it on?
Clothes

17. What do you consider a fashion faux pas?
Badly matched clothes

18. Who are your style icons?
None.

19. Describe your personal style?
Indo western and simple.

21. What are your favourite movies?
Loads.. Kannathil muthamittal, Anbe sivam, Jab we met, Jaaney tu, Bomarillu, Osthanatey odhantana, Ice age, Finding Nemo etc etc

22. Give us three styling tips that always work for you:
Dress simple and neat. A dignified look attracts more than funky ones.

23. Coffee or tea?
No No. Complan :)

24. What do you do when you are feeling low or terribly depressed?
Listen to music or talk to friends.

25. What is the meaning of your name?
Prosperity everyday :)

26. Which other blogs you love visiting?
All the blogs that I follow.

27. Favorite Dessert/Sweet?
Chocolate truffle with vanilla ice cream

28. Favorite Season?
Winter

29. What gift would please you the most now?
SLR camera.... I badly want one. ;)

30: Which is your favorite international cuisine ?
Italian and Chinese

31. Your favorite kitchen tool?
A spoon.. ;)

I have changed the dream destination question to what gift can please you the most now?

My question: Who loves your cookery the most?

The rules are:
Respond and rework – answer the questions on your own blog, replace one question that you dislike with a question of your own invention, and add one more question of your own. Then tag eight or ten other people.

I am nominating all my blogger friends for this award. :)

Written by: Nithya
post your queries to fourthsensesamayal@gmail.com

Zoozoo Biscuits :)

Anything to do with zoo???? wats this all abt??? I can hear all these questions.. :) Zoozoo is the latest heartthrobbing character which runs across and conveys all the message about Vodafone network. I have totally fallen for its cuteness. So was planning to make biscuits today and thought I could make it in the shape of zoozoo (not so perfect :( first try is always excused na! )

Ingredients:

Wheat flour - 1 cup
Maida - 1/2 cup
Oil - 1/2 cup
Powdered Sugar - 1 cup
Baking powder - 1/2 tsp
Salt -a pinch




Method:

Beat baking powder, oil and salt nicely. Now sift maida, wheat flour and sugar together and add it little by little to the oil mixture and mix well. Once the batter blends well make desired shapes out of it. Finally greese microwave proof plate and keep the biscuits over it and bake it in convection mode 180 degree celsius for 8 min. Finally remove it from the microwave and allow it to cool for and while. Wheat biscuits are ready to eat :)

Fibrous wheat is great for health. So attract your family with your creative shapes and enjoy eating :)


Written by: Nithya
post your queries to fourthsensesamayal@gmail.com