Cookies?

Blah Blah Blah.
It's the start of the week and I'm having my Blacks.
No Monday blues for me, it's always black.
Just finished my first exam paper this morning and I wrote one section of the answer wrongly. Ultimate face-palm about it. It's like in the question there were part a, b and c. For for part b answer, I accidentally wrote it in part a. So at part b I kept wondering what else to write and I couldn't remember what to write for that part, so I kind of wrote only one sentence. T.T
And to think I wonder why my part a answer is kind of long. Major SIGH about it and well, just hope my lecturer who marks the paper see my horrible mistake and at least grant me some sort of pity marks for it. Hahah. I doubt so!

Moving on, I realize that places I want to go on Monday are always closed. My both dessert place and now my dim sum place. I am in agony.
Speaking of which, one of these days next week shall head down to Swee Choon to try their dim sum out. That's like on my food hunt list now.

Short post, then I'm back to studying again. Thursday my next paper, so that give me 2.5 days to study and practice the revision questions.

On Saturday morning, did a quite baking for brother.
He ordered from me 50 cookies for next week snacks. His logic? 10 cookie for everyday.
I have every intention to see him fatdie and grow fat.
Sacrifice my chocolate bears for this baking. Finally of some use for them, instead of looking at me each time I open the fridge and begging me to eat them.

It was a terrible terrible thing to do to them, but it had to be done.
Mass murder.
Off with their heads!

Though it kind of look like some bear funeral after that.
Damn. I'm sadistic.

So I mince them up into smaller pieces and use them instead of chocolate chips.
Was kind of hoping that they would look interesting on the cookies, I mean eating a cookie with a bear head staring back at you?
How often does that happen?

My gigantic ball of dough after I rolled it up.
And from the recipe that I was following, it is recommended to leave the dough overnight or at least in the fridge for an hour before baking to get the ingredients to be absorbed and good for baking later.
Silly me left it overnight instead, since by afternoon I wasn't in the mood to bake.

The next day...
My horror. My mistake.
The recipe said to take the dough out 10 minutes before baking!
And that's what I did... BUT, apparently even in Singapore humid ridiculous warm weather, my dough still refuse to be soft enough for me to roll them into balls.
Lesson learned, to take them out maybe an hour before baking instead.

Second thing the recipe advice me to do, roll them into tall towers.
I know I'm freaking short, and asking me to roll them into tall towers is like looking down on me. No link here but whatever.
So it is said that per roll needs about three tablespoon of dough to make it a nice big generous piece of cookie.
Unfortunately for me, I'm not generous, not to my brother at least, so my roll were only 1.5 tablespoon. Half of the supposed amount.
That way I can make more cookies and reach the quota of 50. Like DUHH!

And I got cheated.
Either that I really don't know how to bake cookies.
Those damn dough ball don't get flatten at all, like they were still freaking standing up tall even after 10 minutes inside the oven.
Annoyed, I use my spoon and flatten the instead. So that explains the cracks on each cookie.
I have no idea how hers flatten down so nicely in the picture, but then again, she doesn't show her baking process, only the end result.

Okay, they don't look any appetizing like at all.
Just passable only.
These cookies are with cream cheese frosting that I added inside, hence lighter in color and softer inside.

These flat cookies on the other hand, were from the second batch.
That's when I flatten the cookies first before putting them in, which I realize is also not a good idea 'cause they aren't as chewy and soft as the first batch. 
And these are the suppose chocolate chip cookies with the bear heads inside, but well, as you can see, no bear heads.
They got melted in the oven instead and blend in with the cookies.
So it's a trial and error experiment for me on Sunday morning, kind of my first time baking chewy soft cookies.

Anyway I followed the recipe from this blog but again with some modification of my own. I did try to follow every step except for putting chocolaete chunks and the butter part.
So well, it kind of didn't turn out as how her pictures are.
Disappointed in that area, hence the appearance part look horrible. 

So I managed to reach my quota of 50 and with a few leftover.
Maybe next week or something, I want to attempt to bake peanut butter cheesecake.
A dear boy introduced me to this awesome cheesecake place in East Coast and now I'm super tempted to attempt to bake that. And hey, when you got the motivation to bake for someone, the more you want to attempt to bake it right?