A CUTE COOKIE INSIDE A CUT'R COOKIE @ SECRET RECIPE CLUB

Yeah , this is the very same recipe that's backed the world over and has been baked in and out since 1856 , the Toll house CCC recipe.

This cookie that has little children want to drink milk or hot chocolate or what have u....
And the cookie that makes us say
"" chocolate ,chocolate , chocolate , oh how i love thee in a cookie....""

But with a little difference , these cookies are stuffed with some other cookies and chocolate too.

Having read reviews and raves and loves and different combis of this recipe , it's the secret  recipe club and Foodies@work that finally got me down to baking this very best CCC for the very first time.

The SRC was started and is organized by Amanda  and every member is assigned a blog to discover ,  explore cook/bake and enjoy.
Now we all would realize the fun and fiesta in this and i wouldnt need to get into the details , instead if u arent already a member , hop by and sign in and sooonn.

Foodies @ work is a blog by 2 foodies from 2 different cities but with one big appetite.
The reviews are fresh and very interesting , if i have to travel to Boston , NYC or beyond , this is one blog i would want to read about some more.

LAVENDER VANILLA APRICOT BARS with A PECAN CRUMBLE @BAKED

 Its Fathers Day today and somebody asked me the question , what is the best thing ur Dad taught u , without battling an eyelid or thinking , i replied "" Love , to love . And he taught me that by loving me immensely , unconditionally , always .....till i was brimming ...and im till date..."".

Love sure makes the world go round and fills me with a positive energy like nothing else can , its lends a bounce to my step and makes me give my best ...always...

When i think of him today , my heart swells and my eyes fill ...i love when someone see's a lot of him in me .....

I havent seen him in a long time , a very v longgg time and it feels like a longer time.....but i have the hope of seeing him someday soon, in heaven, when we meet again.

I wonder how he would be today , i would have so loved to bake and cook and go for long drives with him today , with me behind the wheel...

Miss u dad, lods n love ya forever...with all my being...

Not jus today , but 365 days , coz dats the real meaning of love the thought behind these special days.

Moving on to these bars , these have nothing to do with dad , infact i never baked these for him , i dont know if u would have loved them ,for besides the fact that i baked them.

I wish i had .....

Never  miss to spread the love by wishing ur pals and family who are dads , a fantastic Fathers day * 365...

They are the most special people for the children for whom they make rocking dads!!

 I want to go thru building these bars step by step ,not to make it seem lengthy or difficult which they are surely not but coz each layer is pure joy to make as much as fast and easy to put together.

I used Lavender instead of Rosemary coz its not everyday that we find rosemary here and i LOVE lavender with VANILLA...
Add a little zest and u have all my fav flavours in one bar....

IN INA'S GARDEN w PB JELLY BARS

Its the 5th of May , Cinco de May and a long time since my last post. There is so muc happening ,but more on that later , for now i wanna talk about Ina's Garden and one of the best PB Jelly Bars ever.

This is the first Bake along for Ina's Garden and Yummy C chose this wonderful recipe (which i am yet to bake and i sure want to and will and here is the recipe just for u )

I m baking it with a sub and am looking forward to share the experience with u , and till then if i hop to town and lay my hands on a jar of skippy PB , PB it will be.

And here are we , the co hosts of Yummy C , with this weeks PB Jelly bars.

April of The 21s Century Housewife and The 21st Century Housewife’s Kitchen

Chaya of Comfy Cook's Kosher Kitchen and Bizzy B Bakes

Louanne of Louanne’s Kitchen

Peggy of Pantry Revisited

and of course, ur truly...

We are a new group and for the introductory post we were so so glad to have many of u join in.

VANILLA SALTED BUTTERY BREAK UPS - A COOKIE for FFwD

If u have Butter ,Vanilla ,and Sel Gris( a goan one) added to flour , what else can u expect but deliciousness galore and lods of it.

Thats exactly what the Salted Butter Breaks ups that we are baking this week with FFwD , is all about , plus lods of fun.

I totally wanted to try these cut out too and at the same time didn wanna loose out on the fun of a large cookies that i could break out and dip with my coffee.(my fav current being Columbian coffee, which am sipping right now as i write).

The egg wash makes it so much easier to sprinkle some more salt , though i went the sprinkle way +  u can play around here , Lavender will be so so pretty , wouldn it ? 

Or maybe some saffron threads of Green sicilian Pistachios ?

Or jus ur fav salted nut , chopped jus the way u like it best?

Another thing i love about these is that they are nice and crispy around the edges and as u get closer to the center they tender with jus a bit of chew in them.

The smaller cookies baked crisp ,all the way thru though.

And its a very easy cookie too , u mix up and bring together the dough in a jiff , press and roll out into the thickness u want , refrigerate, paint egg wash n bake .

AN OREO COOKIE d BAKED WAY @ MANY WAYS ~BAKED SUNDAY MORNS

 If Oreo's are kind of cookie , these will be too.

They have that same ,almost same chocolaty flav ,and are filled with a filling close to the original.

For those in India , this one is a replica of the Pure magic cookie , which is also something i love.

 To begin with i have a filled Shamrock cookie, jus in time for St.Patricks aint it.
I didn sprinkle these with the salt but i think Vanilla Fleur de sal is so good.

 I know , my cookie cutter is like this and then i cut them out with mini hearts.

Baked sunday morns have thought me one thing for sure , that as fas as possible i shouldn miss out a recipe from Baked , coz they jus keep getting better + the fun of baking together is not to be missed.  


And then there are flowers, pretty flowers in time for Easter and Summer, jus round the corner.

What really made me joyful about these cookies , is the filling , always wanted to whisk a filling at home that resembled my fav packaged cookies , coz the way i eat them (read jus below) , i am always running out of cream.
+ i love packing tiffins so am always giving tiffins to family even when home and all those ''creamless'' cookies find their way to the tiffins , with complains galore later.
Infact now , nobody takes an oreo from me , coz its always without the filling.
this fillin recipe has solved this problem for life.

The filling is with more shortening and some butter with some light rum ( used butter extract instead of rum ) and vanilla extract.

Fantastic.

Now whether an Oreo or Pure Magic, there is a way i eat these , i join all the filled sides together to make a sandwhich of 3 layers with 3 layers of the cream , yeah the cream is never enough and the rest i store in my pink , heart painted tin , to dip into Nutella and leftover fillings ,so there are no complains around home that urs truly eats all the cream and leaves the biscuits for the rest of the gang:-)

INTENSELY CHOCOLATY GOOEY LOVE BROWNIES with CHOCO CHERRIES @ VALRHONA CACAO NIBS

 INTENSELY DARK CHOCOLATE , GOOEY , NUTTY BROWNIES with A CHOCOLATE SWIRLED CHERRY AND VALRHONA CACAO NIBS...
+BROWNIE POP TRUFFLES...
yeah i think thats what the name should be.....
However muc i try to keep my titles short , i dont end up doing that.
These really chocolaty Brownie ,

 BROWNIES CALLED BOWNIES,WHY DID U THINK?
WHATS TO KNOW HERE I THINK....
BROWNIES ARE BROWN,I NOTICED SO,
AND THATS A CUTE NAME BY TO GO....
LIKE A CAKE'S A CAKE,
A DELICIOUS BAKE!!!
AND A COOKIE IS A COOKIE WE  LOVE AND KNOW,
A CRUNCHY MUNCHY DELIGHT SOMETIMES CHEWY SO,
IS ROSEBUDS CONNECTED TO A BROWNIE SO GOOEY,
OR THATS THE BROWNIES.IS IT?
WHAT ELSE COULD IT BE I STILL WONDER,
ANYBODY ELSE ANY ANSWER????

Happiness doesnt elude me a single day & the reasons keep piling on too.
These brownies have to be the toast of the season really!!!

 Oh loveee is soo in the air * 365 + these were baked for someone special , someone warm and someone filled with genuine love ...

Was and am more than thrilled for baking these for the reason + this months Forever Nigella is seduced by chocolate.

Isn't Gooey chocolate , more so gooey chocolate brownies , jus that?

And Dark gooey chocolate in some gooey brownies....ahh sure seductive...

Am sure Ms.Lawson would have loved to baked these for someone as wonderful , packed them in a nice box and gone along too.

 And yeah these have to be re-named as intensely chocolatey super delicious best ever fudgy brownies, and actually there are jus a few steps, melt the butter and chocolate , add the whisked sugar ,vanilla and eggs , fold in flour and nuts , and BAKE ....
I have step by step pics to make it seem easier but at the end thats all there is to it really.

Glitter and glittering hearts ...wouldn Nigella approve that jus a sprinkle of something dresses these up ?
Yes, next time i must have little candles popped into them , what i loveee is Nigella gives credit to the candle idea to her fren, a rare quality among the celebrity chefs to , goes on to say how endearing her heart is....

 A cherry chocolate bite for coffee...

MADAGASCAR VANILLA BEAN RED VELVET LINZER HEARTS WHOOPIE PIES @BAKED SUNDAY MORNINGS

The whole place ,and more so the open kitchen , smells like cake right now.....ok Chocolate cake ....doesnt that sound good?

Wait wait....Red Velvet Chocolate cake....ahh better???

I think i can call these a cookie cake , and this is the first time i am  ever enjoying one or eating one coz there are no whoopie pies that happen here.

Ok ok heart shaped linzer Red Velvet Whoppie pies,  with Marshmallow fluff filling......now now , that is what completes the pic!

This should be there at every wedding , maybe on a lolly stick , but they should be there for sure.

Coz they are like a wedding , when 2 become one , here 2 whoopie pie singles , come together to make one deliciously cute whoopie pie.

This is my first post for Baked Sunday Mornings , where we are baking our way thru the new BAked +no rules, always a +, its also the first time ever im biting into a whoopie pie , so honestly i have no nostalgic memories of this one , but have been looking forward to a whoopie pie , so its a post of all firsts happening here.

They were lovely , the chocolaty flavor so good, with Vanilla making it better , i thought espresso would bring it out more , but than that would not be a red velvet than no?

The reason i chose the Marshmallo fluff filling , from the whoopie pie pan box, is coz ,as far as i know, thats what goes into whoopie pies , and i so wanted that.

I love Linzer cookies ,and Faith , a sweet and dear friend has these linzer cupcake up , ever since ,everything i bake , i want to make them Linzer.
Oh yes , there will be cupcake too:-)
And Linzer = piping some more fluffy filling in the cut out , detailed pics below...

And these are the CupCake Red Velvet Whoopie Pies, oh yeah , hearts...and there are some more below..

COOKIE CRUMBLE,JAMMERS + R&J COOKIES in SABLES @COOKIE BAR@NYC with MS GREENSPAN

 Ur are all snuggled up in ur pink bedroom ,dreaming away under  ur pink cuppycake comforter , and u have been thinking cookies all evening and its only natural that as u drift off , ur going to be thinking cookies too.....

And jus as ur drifting off , ur mind starts putting together a dozen and more cookie ideas and u wanna get up , switch on ur laptop and get right away to put the post , bake the next day and complete the post...

This is exactly what happened to me ,the day i read all about Ms Greenspans Jammers and more at the cookie bar.

Adding more goodness to a wonderful Sable , the buttery ,tender ,melt in ur mouth cookie , only makes things better and add some fantastic home made preserves and topped with streusel/Crumble , is always a winner and more.

I mean how can  this go wrong , A Vanilla bean Lemon zest Sable , reinforced with some Vanilla Crush And Fiori di sicilia...

And u need no sprinkles for these , but i could help taking my heart sprinkles out , but finally these babies landed on the cookies:-)

 So here i have some wonderful Vanilla bean Sables , made better , with rubbing some zest in the sugar , and a wee bit of Fiori di Sicilia.
Infact ,along with the Vanilla bean , u can go with any of these flavors , or maybe jus all and they'll be absolutely wonderful.
Go with whatever flavor rocks ur boat , or a little of all maybe?
What ever rocks ur boat , rocks these cookies too.......

I lovee streusel and find myself many a times adding streusel to many a bake and a bit back when i saw lemon bars with streusel i was jus as excited as well.

I am also always adding a Vanilla bean or 2 every where , including my streusel and sables!

Oh i filled them with Caramel and chocolate last time and this time there is something fantastic too...Jammmmm...lods of good fruity jam = jammers.

Beginning with Sables , baking them in rings ( nice straight brown edges on the cookies come coz they are baked in the rings), i used shaped rings , like i do many a time , for cookies ,right from the wedding cookie to many more....so was more than happy when i read that Ms. Greenspan does this too!

 Oh sure , had lods of cookie cutters to wash , some of them custom made , but that was a breeze with some hot water and good dishwashing liquid.

So lets begin with the cookie , for step by step pics , go here , this time i patted them all to cut out the shapes desired and bake them along with the same cutter.

Here is the dough , patted out , roughly into 2 squares , ready to be cut out, after an over night refrigeration.

 And before u go any further brew ur self a coffee, Vanilla coffee is good...and if there are hearts and pink , then fantastic.....

And pour urself some, to begin with ie.....u can dip in more as u go...