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Double Chocolate Chunk Cookies

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Chocolate

I bought some great (and dangerous) baking stuff from my recent trip to Paris. Various types of Valrhona baking chocolates, cheap and good vanilla bean paste, Iranian pistachios, tonka beans and french butters… just to name a few. So yeah, I’m all ready for a big bake-out! The chocolates are the first I put to use. Into these cookies. These dark cocoa cookies were studded with a blend of unevenly chopped Noir Guanaja 70%, a dark and elegant chocolate and Liat Caramelia 36% chocolate with a caramel and salted butter notes, and finished off with sprinkling of smoked sea salt…

Beurre & Sell Jammers

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Cookies, Bars, Brownies

When I first got serious into baking, I relied mainly on Dorie Greenspan’s book, Baking from my home to yours. I am proud to announce that my copy of this thick, heavy and educative book is torn, tattered and smells like stale butter now. I really learnt a lot from her through the book and so when I read that she had partnered with her son, Joshua Greenspan to set up a little cookie store named Buerre & Sel sometime in late 2012, I became jealous of those who made it to the store. One of their most popular cookies were the…

Original Chocolate Chip Cookies

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Chocolate

WHO CAN RESIST a good old crunchy chocolate chip cookie? We should all thank the creator, Ruth Wakefield. It all started when Mrs Wakefield and her husband bought a tourist lodge which was originally a toll house. They opened a restaurant and inn and thus called it Toll House Inn. One day in 1930, Mrs Wakefield decided to add some chopped chocolate to the then popular Butter Drop-Do cookie, expecting the chocolate to melt and run through the cookies but it didn’t happen. Instead, the chocolate stayed in chunks and a new creation was borned. She named her accidental creation, the Toll House Crunch Cookie, which was extremely popular with the inn’s…