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.
& 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…
