Choco Cookies for Hari Raya

I got the recipe from internet - from some *errr, what my friend said about it - spam, junk mail, or whatever, I'll update later*, as I read the recipe, I thought this could work out. Especially it required some big amounts of oatmeal - something I never be able to finish from my stock - where most recipes ask for quick-cooking oatmeal and I only have (loads of it!) instant oatmeal.

I tried the cookies several months ago, it was nice despite they weren't so crunchy - thanks for the unstability of my old oven. Last week when my parents visited me, they brought along a new oven for me :)

I tried to bake some banana cupcakes with new oven, but then I learned that what people saying are true - you must know your oven well. It ended with a burnt big batch of banana cakes :(

So today I tried baking the cookies in three batches - all with different time and temp.

First one is following the recipe 190 C (where's the symbol for degree here?) for 10 minutes -> turn out well, almost overbake and very crunchy.

Personally I don't like cookies - I don't like to eat my own baking exactly. So it's very difficult to decide which one is better - crunchy cookies or chewy ones. Of all my friends that have tried my cookies before - all of them have different opinions, some would prefer crunchy, some would prefer chewy.

So I baked the second batch with 150 C, 15 minutes. The cookies were chewy - it's also ok. But I started to have some doubt in my mind - is it cooked well? How if some people protest on this? So much for a li'l (or low?) self confidence.

I baked the third batch with 150 C, 25 minutes. I thought "ok, i'll get the perfect one this time. All the wonderful taste between chewy and crunchy." But the temperature was out of control for some first minutes. It was so HOT, and I lowered down the heat, then I wait, and I wait, and I did something else, and I remember I haven't got my cookies but I thought I would be just fine - I used a very small heat. I took the pans out, and put the cookies on the cooling rack. They look a bit darker than usual and they were a bit burnt *_____* what an experiment :P

Anyway, these are the pictures :) I'll post the recipe sometime later, I'm so sleepy :P
Enjoy :D

This cookies use oat, so we can say it's kindda healty :P



Use the blender to grind the oat



Add the choc chips



Add the melted choc - the recipe called to grate the choc, I found it was so handful, so I just nuked it



Final batter, ready to put in baking pans

Ready to bake, yay, you're sooo pretty XD




Freshly baked mmhhh :D




My Cookie Jar :)

Tump, remember when I made my cookies for the very first time?

Potato & Broccoli Schotel with Cheese Sauce (Again!)

Blogger, you ate my posting! How dareeeeeeee you *____*

Ok, this should be a very short one. I baked it tonite, and it's almost finish in 15 minutes. Tonite all the girls were loosing sense of diet - oh no my parents are coming and I will receive these double comments - Mom would say "stop eating, keep your diet", and Pap would say, "Ha, this' nicer. You always look like a skeleton. You should see your mom when she was your age - she's montok, and beutiful".

- ok please, any Singaporean or English language reader - don't ask what that words means. XD

Original recipe was taken from Mbak Anne's blog (oh mine, I've written this part for three times now) - (Mbak Anne, makasih banyak ya sharing resepnya... sangat enak, saya minta ijin untuk posting ya :D)


Before baking - layers of potatos - broccoli - cheese sauce


Fresh from the oven :D



Errr... 10 minutes later? - I'll make it 15 so it's not so shameful XD



oohoo no... I keep the rest in the fridge, believe me :D