Cake Bites

For Valentines Day I made cake bites for my husband. My friend Bethany sent me a recipe from a pretty neat website, however I tweaked it a little, cuz I'm picky about my sweets. I think they turned out really good, however I found out that I need to work on my drizzle skills... still yummy though!

Cake Bites

Ingredients: 

• 1 box of cake mix (I used chocolate, baked in 2 9 inch pans)

• 1 can cream cheese frosting (16 oz.)

• 12 oz of milk chocolate (and/or white chocolate for variety)

• wax paper

Directions:

1. After you bake the cake, let it cool completely, crumble into large bowl.

2. Mix thoroughly with 1 can cream cheese frosting. (It's easier to use your hands, messy though)

3. Roll mixture into quarter size balls and place on wax paper covered cookie sheet.
4. Put in the freezer for 3 hours (overnight for best results).

5. Double boil to melt the chocolate.

6. It's easiest to spoon the chocolate onto the frozen cake balls so they don't start to fall apart in the melted chocolate. Spread the chocolate evenly over all of the balls and place in the fridge for half an hour.

7. You can decorate the cake bites by melting white chocolate chips (also using the double boil method) and then carefully spoon into a zip lock bag and snip a small corner. Drizzle/design the bites freely. 

8. Keep in the fridge until ready to serve.

Arguably THE Best Chocolate Chip Cookie Ever

This recipe was given to me by my mother, I remember her making these cookies throughout my childhood. And I may be somewhat biased, but I've been told on quite a few occasions that these are the best cookies ever made. Some would even go as far as to pay me for the recipe! But I have denied the requests, until today, when I have finally decided to share this recipe with the internet world. Enjoy! 

THE Best Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe

Ingredients: 

2 1/2 cups flour

1 teaspoon baking soda

1 cup butter

1/2 cup sugar

3/4 cup brown sugar

2 teaspoons vanilla

1 egg

2 cups chocolate chips (or more if you're a chocoholic like Giniel)

Directions:

Preheat Oven to 375 degrees (Fahrenheit). 

In a small bowl sift together flour, baking soda, and salt

In a large bowl cream together butter, sugar, and brown sugar. Add vanilla and egg and beat well.

Add the dry ingredients to the butter/sugar/vanilla/egg mixture 

Add chocolate chips. Bake 10-12 minutes or until slightly brown. 

**The key to making the simple chocolate chip cookie into THE best chocolate chip cookie ever, is the cream mixture. The butter should NOT be melted, but should be around room temperature, and extremely soft. (if the butter is frozen, put in the microwave on defrost setting).