LIFESKILL
Thursday, May 15, 2008 @ 10:12 PM
ok for mother's day,i planned to bake some cookies for my mother,the first thing i should do is to think for what reason i want to bake cookies for my dearest mummy,and its out of love=D okay so i have to consider whether i wanted to do bake those cookie mix which is easy to bake,and it could be done by just adding oil and eggs.Or whether i should start from scratch.i decided to start from scratch because i feel that it shows more sincerity then just buying the recipe half made off the shelf of the supermarket.okay first step to baking cookies from scratch is to look for recipes online.I'm not a pro baker,thus i cannot think of my own recipe,so i went online to look.There were many variety of cookies that could be made.For example,chocolate chip cookies,butter cookies,cookies with nuts and double chocolate cookies etc. if i was to bake for myself i would totally go for the double chocolate cookies because im a chocoholic and i have a sweet tooth,but im baking it for my mum and i have to consider the fact that she does not really like sweet stuff and shes not a huge fan of chocolates.So after much consideration,i decided to go ahead with baking the chocolate chip ones as who doesn't like a nice chocolate chip cookie?I wrote down the ingredients on a small slip of paper and i went off to the super market to buy the ingriedients needed for the cookies. i needed flour,eggs,butter and of course chocolate chip.The recipe also calls for salt and sugar but i've got those at home.The chocolate chips must be of good quality so to make the cookies extra tasty,quality must not be compramised.after getting all my ingrediants i headed back home to start baking the cookies.i planned what i did before starting as i do not want to screw things up.and so i pre-heated the oven and started baking. i took a big bowl and pour the flour,sugar,pinch of salt and butter inside and started to mix it together.i mix it up till i get a dough like thing.and then i added in the chocolate chips.After doing so i oiled the baking tray and placed the chocolate chip cookie dough on it in small bite size pieces. i baked the first batch to see whether the cookies taste nice and roughlt gauge how long to bake it.okay the first batch wasn't so successful,i burnt the cookies slightly but it tasted pretty good.So i tried for the second time setting the time to bake lesser.When the second batch was baked i was pleasently surprise that the cookies were just nice,and thus i took it out to cool on a cooling rack.So i baked the rest of the cookies.when im done i place it all on a nice plate and wrote a nice card to my dearest mummy=). i feel that baking is fun and especially meaningful if you bake it for someone you love.Lots of love went into those cookies and i was pretty happy with the outcome of it!=DLabels: lifeskill project
