Posts Tagged ‘chocolate chips’

  1. just made: dessert for breakfast

    January 13, 2013 by justgathering

    I made banana bread. Again.

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    But this time I used a Smitten Kitchen recipe, and I added a boatload of dark chocolate chips instead of millet.

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    Yeah, it was good.

    I also got a little more technical and whipped up some scones for Sunday brunch.

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    An amalgamation of recipes from around the web, I’m calling these cinnamon streusel scones. They were wonderful, and I guess my friends are lucky.

    I have been consoling myself with baking because the Phoenix Half is totally off for me. After what I thought was a very conservative nine days of rest, I suited up for a run this morning — it was unseasonably chilly for Phoenix and I had to put socks on my hands because my gloves are packed away under my bed in Brooklyn — but I made it less than half a mile before my IT band called it quits.

    2013-01-13 07.30.25Yes, that’s frost on the ground behind my hopeful-looking Garmin. I would run through five feet of snow if it meant I could run right now. Sigh.

    My foam roller is in the mail, so until it arrives I’m focusing on other ways to keep moving. (Spin! Yoga! Kickboxing! Crossfit…?!) And, you know, baking for people. It calms me.

    I’m not watching the Golden Globes, and I still haven’t seen an episode of Girls. I feel behind the world, or at least outside of it. And that’s perfectly fine. I’m going to go curl up with Daniel Boulud’s Letters to a Young Chef and plan the next brunch.

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  2. Just Made: Vegan Chocolate Chip Walnut Cookies

    January 19, 2011 by justgathering

    * MARATHON COUNTDOWN: 25 DAYS *

    Gotta keep the cookie jar full, right?

    I just had to tell you all to head on over to the PPK and bookmark this recipe for chocolate chip cookies. I subbed 1/2 cup whole wheat flour for the tapioca flour, added 1/2 cup walnuts, and left the cookies in the oven for five or six extra minutes. They turned out fabulously, and I think I’ve found my go-to classic cookie recipe.

    That is all.

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  3. Just Made: Chocolate Chip Zucchini Bread

    August 11, 2010 by justgathering

    It’s a common problem this time of year: too many zucchinis, too few delicious zucchini recipes. Fret no more. Pick those zucchinis and make this zucchini bread. That is an order.

    I’ve revamped my old zucchini bread recipe, and this one is so much better. You’ll find this one in the Recipe Box now.

    One of the changes I made was to increase the zucchini by 50%. Check out those beautiful green bits!

    One thing I made sure not to change about my old recipe: chocolate chips. My family has informed me that chocolate chips are not a standard ingredient in zucchini bread. I say that’s garbage. They are a necessity.

    This loaf lasted, oh, 16 hours? That includes about 7 hours in which everyone was sleeping.

    Ready for the recipe yet? Alright, here it is.

    Chocolate Chip Zucchini Bread

    1.5 C spelt flour (or other flour of choice)

    1 T cinnamon

    1/2 tsp baking soda

    1/4 tsp baking powder

    1/2 tsp salt

    1/2 C maple syrup

    1/2 C applesauce

    1/3 C almond milk

    1/2 tsp vanilla extract

    3 C shredded zucchini

    1/2 C chocolate chips

    Set that oven to 350 and grease a loaf pan. Combine the dry ingredients, except for the chocolate chips. Combine the wet ingredients, except for the shredded zucchini. Mix the wet and dry ingredients, and then fold in the zucchini and chocolate chips. Bake for 75 minutes.

    I’m thinking I need to make another loaf of this stuff… I might just go do that, but first, I’ll leave you with a picture of Barbara, who took to eating tomatoes out my mom’s garden when we were home in Illinois last week. She’s a thief, but she’s an adorable one.

    Tomato? I didn’t see a tomato.

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  4. Just Made: Possibly the Best Vegan Chocolate Chip Cookies Ever

    August 8, 2010 by justgathering

    Cookies and I do not have a great track record. Usually my cookies come out more like what my sister likes to call pancooks — dessert-like objects that look like cookies but have the texture of pancakes. Either that, or they taste like something you might eat to keep yourself, ahem, regular.

    Well, I’ve learned my lesson. For the time being, I’m sticking to tried and true cookie recipes from proven bakers. The only substitutions I’m allowing myself to make are simple ones I know will work. Promise.

    My new baking practices are working well for me, and this recipe for Chocolate Chip Spelt Cookies (which came to me from The Vegetarian Times by way of Have Cake, Will Travel) might be my new standby.

    Celine cut the original recipe down to make two very large cookies. I doubled her measurements and made sixteen small cookies.

    And I did make a couple teensy changes. I used almond butter instead of peanut butter, and I added an extra tablespoon of chocolate chips for good measure.

    I’m not kidding when I say that these cookies were some of the best I have ever eaten. They’ve got the ideal amount of chew, and the maple syrup (can you tell I’m on a maple kick lately?) adds the perfect touch of sweetness. Plus, there are only seven ingredients (and that’s including baking soda and salt); with a recipe so simple, it’s hard to go wrong.

    These cookies disappeared within two hours, and now that they’re gone, I’m moving on to some savory recipes. I’ve got some giant zucchinis to use up before I leave Illinois, and it’s a perfect rainy kitchen day…

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