a very BAD idea.
Remember when I said earlier that I'd stick to this diet thing, yadda, yadda? Well...um yeah...then THESE happened.
It started simply enough. It's snowing...I told you that. And I mean it's SNOWING! I'm locked in the house with my kids, various animated talking animals, cats and dogs that are mad b/c I won't let them out, etc. And I started the day good...and I got a little cocky. I mean I didn't have THAT many calories for lunch..and I wanted something sweet. And then I thought that my coffee maker might be dying...and that sent me into a downward spiral...hugging the machine and crying out to it "PLEASE don't leave me!!".
I might have a slight coffee addiction...just sayin'.
Where was I? Oh yeah...cookies.
I started trolling blogs for a cookie recipe for which I had the ingredients. And I looked. And I looked.
And then I clicked on the cookies link under the recipe tab on HowSweetEats
I go here and lurk quite frequently, I follow her on Twitter, I wish she'd come and be my personal chef...
I looked through the list and clicked a few, shaking my head and getting discouraged b/c I didn't have what they called for...
then..towards the bottom of the list I spied White Chocolate Mocha Cookies.
I realized I had ALL the ingredients the recipe called for.
I realized I had a stick of butter already out and softened (how convenient!).
So I made half a batch. I thought I'd just channel my blogging buddy Andrea and eat one. She's got a GREAT policy about 'homemade and just eat one' and she's got an AWESOME blog too btw...and I have a feeling she might make these cookies for her next cookie craving!
White Chocolate Mocha Cookies (adapted from HowSweetEats-linked above)
1/2 cup butter-softened
3/4 cup sugar
1 egg
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
1 cup whole wheat flour
1/4 cup dark cocoa powder
2 teaspoons instant coffee powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup white chocolate chips
Oven at 350
Cream butter, sugar, egg and vanilla
Add flour, cocoa, coffee powder, soda, and salt
Fold in white chocolate chips
Bake for 8 minutes
Cool on sheet for 2 minutes-remove to cooling rack
Now for me...it was over at the batter. I knew tasting the batter I'd have a problem with the cookies. That problem being staying AWAY from them.
I took one of the cookies from the rack, and stood at my back door...watching the snow..and I took a bite....and I got chills....maybe from the draft coming in the back door? No...from the cookie...from the creamy white chocolate, the chewy chocolate mocha center....
I then inhaled 4 more.
Frick.
Honestly...I used the whole wheat flour b/c I HOPED it would make them taste "healthy"...and allow me to stop at one. Nope.
I figured up the calories and they come in at around 95 calories each. Which is fine..if you just eat one....but I didn't. *sigh*
You know what DID stop me? The fact that I ate them too quickly and got a stomachache.
a very BAD idea.
Remember when I said earlier that I'd stick to this diet thing, yadda, yadda? Well...um yeah...then THESE happened.
It started simply enough. It's snowing...I told you that. And I mean it's SNOWING! I'm locked in the house with my kids, various animated talking animals, cats and dogs that are mad b/c I won't let them out, etc. And I started the day good...and I got a little cocky. I mean I didn't have THAT many calories for lunch..and I wanted something sweet. And then I thought that my coffee maker might be dying...and that sent me into a downward spiral...hugging the machine and crying out to it "PLEASE don't leave me!!".
I might have a slight coffee addiction...just sayin'.
Where was I? Oh yeah...cookies.
I started trolling blogs for a cookie recipe for which I had the ingredients. And I looked. And I looked.
And then I clicked on the cookies link under the recipe tab on HowSweetEats
I go here and lurk quite frequently, I follow her on Twitter, I wish she'd come and be my personal chef...
I looked through the list and clicked a few, shaking my head and getting discouraged b/c I didn't have what they called for...
then..towards the bottom of the list I spied White Chocolate Mocha Cookies.
I realized I had ALL the ingredients the recipe called for.
I realized I had a stick of butter already out and softened (how convenient!).
So I made half a batch. I thought I'd just channel my blogging buddy Andrea and eat one. She's got a GREAT policy about 'homemade and just eat one' and she's got an AWESOME blog too btw...and I have a feeling she might make these cookies for her next cookie craving!
White Chocolate Mocha Cookies (adapted from HowSweetEats-linked above)
1/2 cup butter-softened
3/4 cup sugar
1 egg
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
1 cup whole wheat flour
1/4 cup dark cocoa powder
2 teaspoons instant coffee powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup white chocolate chips
Oven at 350
Cream butter, sugar, egg and vanilla
Add flour, cocoa, coffee powder, soda, and salt
Fold in white chocolate chips
Bake for 8 minutes
Cool on sheet for 2 minutes-remove to cooling rack
Now for me...it was over at the batter. I knew tasting the batter I'd have a problem with the cookies. That problem being staying AWAY from them.
I took one of the cookies from the rack, and stood at my back door...watching the snow..and I took a bite....and I got chills....maybe from the draft coming in the back door? No...from the cookie...from the creamy white chocolate, the chewy chocolate mocha center....
I then inhaled 4 more.
Frick.
Honestly...I used the whole wheat flour b/c I HOPED it would make them taste "healthy"...and allow me to stop at one. Nope.
I figured up the calories and they come in at around 95 calories each. Which is fine..if you just eat one....but I didn't. *sigh*
You know what DID stop me? The fact that I ate them too quickly and got a stomachache.
Comments
And thanks for your kindness, love!
XO
Jessica
And, um, snowstorms qualify as an ironclad justification for being bad. ;)