MOCHA CHOCOLATE MORSEL COOKIES…& A MUSIC MEME
I guess one can never have enough of chocolate chip cookies. These ones above are our current favourite…crisp, chocolaty & nutty too, with just the right hint of mocha. I scribbled the recipe down from the back of a box or chocolate chips packet ages ago. The chip cookies I’ve posted earlier were sans cocoa. These ones are more indulgent; quite a treat & disappear very fast…so watch out. Like most cookie recipes, this one is versatile too. Skip the cocoa if you want pure unadulterated chocolate pleasure, skip the nuts if you ain’t a nutty person. I have substituted 1/2 a cup of plain flour with whole-wheat flour, & thrown in some walnuts to give it a slightly healthier twist; believe me, these taste great & are pretty easy for kids to make too!
Method:
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Lightly grease 4 baking sheets. Preheat oven to 180 degrees C.
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Sift the flours + baking soda + cocoa powder + a pinch of salt.
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Cream butter & sugar. Add egg + vanilla extract & whisk.
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Add dry ingredients + chocolate chips + walnuts (if using)
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Make 1″ size balls, flatten a bit with a fork. Top with sprinkles, M n M’s / Smarties etc if desired.
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Bake for 15-20 minutes till done & tops begin to crack.
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Cool on racks.
a batch with walnuts…
& another without!!
I had been tagged for a music meme AGES ago by the brilliant Arfi @ HomemadeS. I say brilliant because that’s what she is…in every respect. A lovely human being, a great friend, a genius photographer with culinary skills to match…& belongs to a family of musicians. I feel quite unaccomplished; when I was young, I always thought I was this huge singer waiting to be discovered…LOL…in my dreams. I was singing ‘Karma Chameleon’ while driving the daughter somewhere the other day, & she turned around & said…‘You should be singing somewhere; you’re quite good, you know!!” *Blush* I thought to myself, I am singing somewhere, & here is good enough!! Relegated to the realms of bathroom singers lost to the world, I have a rocking passion for music & am happy to be tagged for a music meme. Thank you Arfi…
List seven songs you are into right now. No matter what the genre, whether they have words, or even if they’re not any good, but they must be songs you’re really enjoying now, shaping your spring. Post these instructions in your blog along with your 7 songs. Then tag 7 other people to see what they’re listening to.
It’s summer here now & the songs singing to me at this time are …
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Tracy Chapman – Fast Cars…one of my favourites now, & when I began working. I still sing at the top of my voice when I hear her sing this song. I love it; it stirs my soul (like all the following do too).
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River of Dreams – Billy Joel…love his songs; Piano man, Uptown Girl, She’s Always a Woman…*sigh*
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Carlos Santana – Into the Night…Gimme Santana & Latin music in any form. Iglesius too.
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Boy George & Culture Club – Karma Chameleon…takes me back to college. Foot-tapping, peppy number.
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Eric Clapton – Layla…the acoustics, the guitar, the voice. The only live Western music concert I have ever attended in my life is Eric Claptons‘ at London’s Royal Albert Hall, one very wet & cold night in the winter of 1990-91(1990!! Did I tell you I was ancient!!). The album released after the show was ’24 Nights’, as I think the show ran for 24 nights. We flew down to the UK after work specially for the show, almost got bumped off the aircraft coz we were airline staff, but the Capt was a gallant man & took us giggly girls on board! We couldn’t see a thing coz our seats at the Hall were by far the cheapest, but the show was entirely enthralling & memorable. His ‘Tears in Heavens’ touches a chord deep down in me.
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Dire Straits – Sultans of Swing…all time forever favourite; the whole album actually. I can listen to this looped all day long. It’s nirvana!
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Credence Clearwater Revival – Cotton Fields…somehow makes me think of Mammy in ‘Gone With the Wind’!
That’s the bunch I’m listening to currently & must admit that I rarely waver far from the sorts like above. Sometimes I wonder if the current generation can connect to the genre of music I enjoy. Am relieved to see the kids enjoying Abba (now creeping into the charts again), Boney M, Bon Jovi, U2, Bryan Adams, Santana as much as Will.I.Am, Hanna Montana & Enrique etc. I did try & introduce them to a bit of Bob Marley too (his Buffalo Soldier still enthralls me) but with no spectacular luck. I am about to tag a further 7 as the meme requires me to. Actually, am curious hear what others listen to. Is my music a generation old? With thoughts of the sort here goes…
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Amy @ Familia Bencomo …she’s been run ragged by her family this vacation, so we will hear from her sometime (more like whenever), but I’d like to peep into her juke-box.
- Manggy @ No Special Effects…what makes you rock, Doc?
- Arundati @ Escapades…when the raves & rants run out, what do you sing?
- Dhhangit @ Dhhangit’s Kitchen...she makes her food sing to her; spell out the tunes girl!
- Ivy @ Kopiaste …she is a regular at Opa, so I know she’s musically inclined!
- Mike @ Mike’s Table…what’s the genre that churns out such gorgeous frozen desserts
- Meeso @ For the Love of Food…time to share your music too!
Signing off with a cut-out cookie I made with the same dough using pressed edible flowers on top…
Deeba @ PAB
About me: I am a freelance food writer, recipe developer and photographer. Food is my passion - baking, cooking, developing recipes, making recipes healthier, using fresh seasonal produce and local products, keeping a check on my carbon footprint and being a responsible foodie! I enjoy food styling, food photography, recipe development and product reviews. I express this through my food photographs which I style and the recipes I blog. My strength lies in 'Doing Food From Scratch'; it must taste as good as it looks, and be healthy too. Baking in India, often my biggest challenge is the non-availability of baking ingredients, and this has now become a platform to get creative on. I enjoy cooking immensely as well.
24 Comments
Manggy
Nice! The cookie with the flower is quite pretty, but the ones with the candies are quite beautiful in their own delicious way, haha 🙂
My preference in music knows nothing of time– I love some current songs, I love some old songs. I know what I like 🙂 Thanks for the tag and I’ll find some way soon to write about it 🙂
Dwiana P
another yummy cookies Debra, would you mind to share??? 🙂
meeso
Mmmm, I could eat quite a few of those chocolately cookies right now! Nice to read your meme, I listen to a lot of music so this will be a fun meme to do, thanks for taggine me 🙂 Oh, and those are some great music choices 😀
Susan from Food Blogga
Wow, it’s been way too long since I’ve had chocolate chip cookies. Those look sooo good, Deeba!
Bharti
Love the cookie with the flower- so funky! And all the pictures are just plain gorgeous. You’re so talented Deeba! The music collection was fun to read.
Nags
such pretty chubby cookies! especially like the ones at the end of the first collage 🙂
nicisme
Nice choice of music – you’ve got an 80’s thing going on there!
The cookies are looking mighty good!
Noodlehead
First time here, and you have a superb blog! I adore baking and I’m not going to rest till I try out every recipe that you’ve mentioned here 🙂
Oh yeah, I love karma chameleon and layla too! i think layla initiated me into clapton 🙂
Divya
Yummy cookies Deeba…Choco chip cookies just sound like comfort food,no wonder it got over quickly,they look so pretty!!
Ann
Beautiful and delicious-looking cookies! I love the pressed flowers. And your music list is terrific!
Ann at Redacted Recipes
familiabencomo
OMG!!! You will die when you actually hear what I listen to. When my DH gets into my car he always changes the station & asks “What are you listening to?” My daughter calls it teenager music & we both like to play it loud. I’ll have to make up something for this so than no one realizes how uncultured I really am.
Your cookies look oh-so-wonderful. You’re right – you can never have enough chocolate. I hope to try this one soon.
Looks like I have a lot to catch up with – you have been bust with all of these fabulous posts. Lucky woman!
Tanti baci to you, my friend,
Amy
Purnima
HEY Deeba ! SO glad to hear frm u..am currently in my good old home, Mumbai, for a two month vacation, the net connection being a bit pathetic cant blog hop as it takes quite loooooooong to open a blog, forget commenting..hee..but enjoying food here and everything…wd b back to kuwait by aug end..sep is the month when i can actually read the 1k + posts showing in my reader..have a great week, hope Meher n Rohan hv new academic year to keep them on their toes, making ur mornings crazy all over again! Those cookies r to die for Deeba! Bye for now..tks for dropping a line, feels very special!!
Rachel
Deeba…those are some awesomingly (wondering if there is such a word) tempting cookies..
I relate so well to ur music list….kind of similar…
azcookbook
I loved your cookies! Can’t take my eyes off the screen. I am addicted to chocolate cookies:) and yours are especially inviting:) Another great recipe from the Queen of Baking, yes, yes, that’s you:)
Mike of Mike's Table
Those cookies look delicious and have just the right amount of poof to them…which has me thinking: I need to make cookies! Also, thanks for the kind words. I’ll try to get to it…lol, despite my best intentions, I’ve found that I’m awful about memes…
Jacque
Mmmm, they look delicious! and the flower-topped cookies… how creative!
Joy the Baker
I haven’t visited in a while bit a I’m so glad I stopped by. These cookies look like chocolate heaven! I love how thick and tall they are. And with walnuts? Simply delicious.
And Fast Car is one of my favorite songs too. Tracy Chapman is just an all around winner!
A&N
I cant believe Stairway to Heaven from Led Zeppelin is missing from you list!
Also try Metallica’s Nothing else matters and Mama said 🙂
A&N
I cant believe Stairway to Heaven from Led Zeppelin is missing from you list!
Also try Metallica’s Nothing else matters and Mama said 🙂
Ivy
You always make such beautiful cookies, I feel like getting up and baking some. Thanks for tagging me. You’ve brought some nice memories back and shall try and post about it soon.
bee
you are a temptress and a torturer. i want one of those right now.
Nina's Kitchen (Nina Timm)
What beautiful little cookies. I love the candy ones too.
Your choice of music could have bee my choice.
Ruth Elkin
I absolutely love chocolate chip cookies! These look really good! So cute.