Love Love Love and Bake

               Hello there romantic lovers ;). Guess what special holiday is coming up? Valentines day! The day you can express your love for your crush or tell your girlfriend or boyfriend you love them. These days buying presents can turn out to be expensive. There's no reason to go waste so much money, when home-made presents always prove to be the best. What says I love you better than cookies? Nothing! You're right. Everyone loves sugar and baking cookies for your loved one is something he/she will be sure to love. Here's how to make special Valentine's Day cookie that will make your lover say the 3 words and 8 letters every person wants to hear.

Lovely Valentines

Ingredients you need include: sugar, butter, milk, vanilla, egg, flour, baking powder, salt, red or pink food coloring or if you're extra ambitious get both!


Step 1: Add 1 cup of sugar, half a cup of butter, 3 table spoons of milk, and 1 egg into a large bowl.

Step 2:  Whisk until a smooth texture.

Step 3: Add 3  tea spoons of vanilla abstract. Mix again.

Step 4: Add 2 spoons of salt, 3 spoons of flour, and 1 spoon of baking powder to the mixture.

Step 5: Mix until the dough has a homogenous look.

Step 6: Put 2 to 4 spoons of food coloring depending on the shade of red you want.

Step 7: Mix thoroughly. Make sure that the dough is red throughout.

Step 8: Wrap the dough in plastic covering and put in the refrigerator for one hour.

Step 9: After the food coloring has settled, take out cookies and preheat the oven to 400 degrees Fahrenheit.

Step 10: Shape the dough into whatever you want it to be whether it be a heart, letters of your lovers name, the letters of i love you, or something else. Make it unique for your prince/or princess.

Step 11: Bake for 5-9 minutes depending on how you want the texture to turn out(5 minutes for soft or 9 for a little crunchy.

Step 12: Take out and let cool for a minute. Let your lover know how special he/she is to you, because out of all the people in the world remember he/she chose to be with you. Enjoy the cookies and just love, love,love.

Until next time! xoxoxo
Cookie Galore

Pizzelle Cookays

Ciao cookiefriends! This week I will be teaching you how to do some cookies the Italiano way. I know from experience it will turn out magnifico. People will be convinced you're a true Italian after making this type of cookie. Not only is it low in calories, it is crunchy and mmm mmmm good. The ingredients you will need are: 6 eggs, 1/2 a cup of vegetable oil, vanilla abstract, all purpose flower, baking powder, and sugar of course! 

PIZZELLE COOKIE RECIPE

Here are the steps to creating this delicious pastry:
              
Step 1: Crack the 6 eggs into a bowl and stir them until the mixture is smooth. 

Step 2: Add 1 teaspoon of oil and vanilla abstract to the mixture.

Step 3: Sift the flour and baking powder onto the egg mixture. Blend all ingredients until smooth.

                                                                                    Step 4: Set the color control of your                   pizzelle maker to medium.

Step 5: When the pizzelle maker gets to the right temperature & the ready light lights up, add 1 teaspoon of batter into every pizzelle pattern and close the lid.

Step 6: Let the pizzelles bake until the ready light turns on.

Step 7: Remove cookies and let them cool for 1 minute.

Step 8: Enjoy the cookies.

Please tell me how your cookies turn out! For suggestions on cookie recipes please comment below. I hope you love the cookies as much as the Italianos do! Until next time... Ciao!

Bonjour cookie monsters!
Today I will be telling you about a small french pastry I learned to make in France. This pastry is small, sophisticated, and  the perfect snack! Can you guess what pastry this is? It has a round shape, comes in several different colors, and is a little bigger than a quarter. If you were thinking of macaroons, you are correct! The colors and sweetness of them, will make it hard to eat just one.

MACAROON MAKING

• Step 1: Pulse a 3/4 cup of almond flour and 1 cup of sugar in a food processor until thoroughly mixed.
• Step 2: Preheat the oven at 375 degrees Fahrenheit.
• Step 3: Whisk two large egg whites until the mixture is foamy.
• Step 4: Add a pinch of tartar cream & 1 cup of superfine sugar.
• Step 5: Whisk for about 5 minutes.
• Step 6: Over the egg whites sift the flour mixture.
• Step 7: Mix again.
• Step 8: Put the mixture into a macaroon baking pan.
• Step 9: Bake for 15 minutes.
• Step 10: Take out the macaroons and let them cool for 5 minutes.
• Step 11: Put chocolate, raspberry, or coconut filling.
• Step 12:  Eat away!!

The Classic Batch of Cookies or Should I Say Happiness

Hello Cookie lovers! Do you find yourself constantly craving a snack or a sweet treat ? Well if you are, then today is your lucky day! I am going to give you guys a classic recipe, a recipe that is sure to bring a smile to your face and warmth & delight to your mouths. It has been my grandmothers for years and boy is it good. There is no feeling of too much sweetness nor bitterness. It is just right. The recipe is one everyone will enjoy. Cooking this recipe can bring such joy to your friends, family, and neighbors. To ensure that the cookies turn out scrumptious, follow every step precisely.

• First you begin by putting1 teaspoon of baking soda, a teaspoon of salt, two sticks of Land of Lakes beat butter, 3/4 cup of brown sugar, 3/4 a cup of granulated sugar and 1 teaspoon of vanilla abstract into a large sized bowl.
• Next mix the ingredients until you get a creamy soft texture.
• One the mixture within the bowl has gotten creamy, add two eggs inside the bowl.
• Stir the eggs around until they become a part of the mixture.When you stop seeing the separation between the eggs and the rest of the mixture you can stop mixing.
• Also add flour to mixture and 2 cups of Nestle Toll Semi- Sweet Chocolate Morsels.
• Mix the ingredients again until, the mixture is homogeneous throughout.
• Once your mixture is the same throughout, it is time to start baking.
• Take out small portions of the mixture with a spoon and lay it on a baking sheet. The sizes of the cookies can vary, but I recommend having the cookies be one to two inches because they grow bigger as they bake.
• Heat the oven to 375 Fahrenheit.
• When the oven reaches the set temperature put the cookies inside.
• Allow the cookies to bake for 8 to 11 minutes for a nice crisp.
• When the time is up, remove the cookies from the oven and let them cool for two minutes.
• After they have cooled off a little bit, enjoy your delicious cookies and share with friends.

I hope you enjoy this classic cookie. xoxoxo CookieGalore