Ice Cream Cups?

Hannah forced me to make these with her. She had a pie craving, but we had nothing to fill it with, so we attempted to make cookie dough cups in a muffin tin to fill with ice cream.

The recipe was the generic cookie dough recipe from below (using Ghirardelli chips) but with these additions by Hannah:

few teaspoons cinnamon

maybe 1/2 c. Nesquik powder

~ 1 tbsp honey

some milk to moisten

and we had to add one more egg to make up for the added solids. They didn't bake so well, but they came out tasting like chocolatey chip cookies. The muffin cups, though, stuck perilously to the dough, and only the most patient of people could remove one; so the rest of the dough was made into normal cookies. No one has eaten them yet, though -- they look slightly terrifying and blobular.

Blackberry Muffins

On a far-off field in our farm, there are millions of native blue and blackberries. They're a bitch to pick, but they're good good good. SO! I took a bag of them (frozen) back to school when I went home for the weekend. With them I made these blackberry muffins, and when I announced my plans, Hannah immediately yelled at me for cooking with baking powder during Passover. Apparently that means more for us...

Cream:

1/2 c. butter

1 1/4 c. sugar

1 tsp vanilla

1/2 tsp salt

Beat in 2 eggs.

Add mixture of:

1 1/4 c. flour

2 tsp baking powder

1/2 tsp cinnamon

Alternately with 1/2 c. milk.

When mixed, add in 2 cups of delicious farm-fresh blackberries. Then fill the muffin cups 3/4 full or so, and sprinkle the tops with a mixture of:

1/4 c. sugar

1/2 tsp cinnamon

3 tbsp flour

2 tbsp butter (cubed)

The first batch swelled a little too much, and Jers seemed to think my knife-tactic of removing them from the pan too terrifying to watch -- he insisted upon taking over and ever-so-gently coaxing them out of their pans, all the while staring disapprovingly around him.

They came out un-pretty, but they taste good -- although this household seems to like cookies far more than anything slightly out of the ordinary. Sugar cookies are next! For Easter, you see.

We tried to bake.

Bean made Nigella Lawson's Chocolate Chocolate-Chip Muffins, and I attempted to use up some ingredients that I will otherwise never get rid of.

So! We embarked on a simultaneous baking adventure.

For mine, I used a sugar cookie recipe and added in some shit. The final recipe was as follows:

3/4 cup butter

1 1/4 cups brown sugar, packed

1 egg

1 tsp salt

2 tbsp milk

1 tbsp vanilla

1 cup flour

1 package instant pistachio pudding mix

3/4 tsp baking soda

1/2 bar chopped white chocolate

1/2 cup dried cranberries

For chocolate, I used the rest of the bar Hannah had brought back as a souvenir from her trip to Israel.

First, cream butter and sugar, and then add in milk and vanilla until it's fluffy. Then blend in the beaten egg, and then the dry ingredients. Finally, stir in the cranberries and white chocolate.

Bake on greased sheet at 350 degrees for 8-10 minutes.

Bean's came out delicious, and he put mint-chocolate on the top of half of them for a nice flavor. But! Mine were flat and undercooked. I combined the first batch into a meal, and the second batch into one giant cookie, and even though at least half of it got eaten by various household members, it was still considered a failure (it is important to consider the fact that Jesse will eat anything).