Ghirardelli Chocolate Chip Cookies

Whenever I get the chance to have a vacation out of the country, I always see to it that I visit their supermarket specially the baking section my favorite is the one in Hong Kong called City Super. The one I usually frequent is the on in Harbour City, the hotel that we usually stays at is very near there. What I like about it, is that it got this huge supermarket area! It actually looks cramp but every shelf if packed with different pantry items and there is a whole section dedicated to just baking ingredients and baking paraphernalia. One of my recent finds is the Ghirardelli 60% Bittersweet Baking Chips, I quickly grabbed several packs of it and headed to the cashier! Fast forward to few months after, those baking chips are quietly waiting to be used.

That Chocolate Cake

I wish everyday is weekends! My favorite day of the week is Saturday because the next day is Sunday! Gives me an ample time to bake and lazy about in the house. Normally during Saturday night I go about indulging myself rifling through my extensive collection of cookbooks and finding that perfect recipe that inspires me to recreate in my own kitchen. During one of my spur of the moment, cookbook shopping expedition, I saw this book Essence of Chocolate by Robert Steinberg and John Scharffenberger. I quickly grabbed it and made a dash to the cash register. :D

What happened???

As regular reads of this blog probably noticed that I love scouring second hand bookshops and look for a recent copy, eerrr...actually it's more like few months ago copy but anyway I still get them. During one of my expeditions I got all excited when I spotted on The Best of ATK 2011, I almost squeal and would have probably scared tons of people there, don't worry I managed to control myself and settled on just smiling from ear to ear :D I quickly went home and was reading it cover to cover. I had a hard time choosing what t try first but then again the chocolate fiend in me won and I made the cover recipe.

Giant Oreoes

Giant Oreo anyone?

Look what I found!!! A Giant Cookie Cake Pan!

I used to go to my favorite local baking/cooking supply store almost weekly, but then I got so busy that I haven't been to the stores lately. Last Wednesday, I've been itching to visit the store luckily they have a branch near where I work so it's not so out of the way and got no excuse not to drop by, though it's not as if I needed one.

Blueberry Streusel Muffins

I have a confession I love LOVE blueberries! Whenever I go to the supermarket I always check it out for frozen blueberries. My blog is peppered with blueberry something desserts. Every blueberry muffin recipe that I find, I like to give it a try. For humongous delicious muffins, I always grab my go to which is Tish Boyle's. I even tried whole wheat muffin, trying to eat more healthy, unfortunately that didn't turn out good, a little bit dry and crumbly. THIS particular Blueberry Muffin is from Baking Illustrated, ha! I must admit that it took me so long to finally find a copy of this book that, it took me a while to chose what to bake first. I am one of those Cooks Illustrated fans, sadly not all recipe that I tried from it worked. So I'm quite happy that this being my first recipe from this book and it was a complete success.