HOMESTEADING: Baking COOKIES!

Hi Steemit friends! It's time for another blog!

So earlier today, the whole family went out. It was all sudden when grandma asked me if I wanted to go too. So in a rush, I just changed my shorts and didn't even bother to comb my hair or do my brows. Then jumped to the car.

We went to a fast food restaurant to eat lunch near @asbonclz's apartment and then we went to the mall to buy groceries. Upon arriving, mom asked me to pick the things I wanted to buy. I didn't really have anything in mind but then I was in the baking goods section so I decided to buy baking stuff and to bake COOKIES!

Below are the things I picked at the grocery store and the ingredients for today's Chocolate Chip Cookies!

1. 1 cup of softened butter (dice it if you want)
2. 2 eggs
3. 2 cups chocolate chips (you can add as much as you like)
4. 1/2 tsp. of salt
5. 1 tsp. baking soda
6. 2 tsp. vanilla
7. 1 cup brown sugar
8. 1/2 regular sugar
9. 2 cups all purpose flour

STEP 1

In a mixing bowl (or any big bowl), combine your softened butter, brown sugar and then the regular sugar.

Mix them together using a hand mixer, a stand mixer or a wire whip. Result should be like the picture shown below. Sorry if the picture below is a batter with the eggs. I forgot to take a picture of the batter itself.

After that, add your eggs one at a time in a different bowl. This method will prevent small debris of eggshell from getting in to your batter. After doing so, add them to your batter and then next is your vanilla. Mix them together.

In a different mixing bowl, combine your flour (sift if necessary), salt and baking soda. You can do this ahead even before making your batter. Mix your dry ingredients thoroughly.

Add your combined dry ingredients to your batter in three portions. This helps avoid lumps in the process. Result should be like the picture shown below.

Be careful not to over mix your batter. Add your desired amount of chocolate chips.

You can either mix them using a hand mixer or just fold it using a rubber spatula.

Preheat the oven at around 160 to 180 degrees celsius. Scoop them to a baking sheet using a spoon or an ice cream scooper to have even sizes of cookies. Put them in the oven for about 10 minutes.

I actually made a mistake of putting them too close to each other. So remember to put them around 2 INCHES APART or else you'll have cookies that look like slices of loaf bread.

But anyways, VOILA!

PS. Got broken cookies because of my mistake of putting them too close to each other.

Images taken with a Lenovo A536.

Thank you for reading! I hope you enjoyed it. Till next time!
-Dianne