Life Through My Eyes
Who doesn’t love chocolate chip cookies [in any way or form]? I’ve done chocolate chip cookies, chocolate chip cookie pie, chocolate chip cookie bars, chocolate chip cookie cups one way, and then a second way and let’s not forget the chocolate chip cookie dough cheesecake! Did you figure out I LOVE chocolate yet?! … and …
Oreos. Ice Cream. Hot Fudge. Peanuts. Whip Cream. Each alone, is delicious… so the combination? Absolutely amazing! As much as I like to make things homemade from scratch, some days are semi-homemade days… where I get help from the store. This time I got a lot of help from the store. As in all I …
I’ve been having a major sweet tooth lately. Not exactly sure why. Although I was still super tired from the trip to Virginia, Monday was one of those days that I needed something sweet. Like at that very moment. The first thing that popped in my head? Chocolate chip cookie dough cheesecake squares. It’s something …
So the day of Sabih’s graduation party? It also happened to be my cousin Naairah’s birthday! Thursday we head off to Virginia for her graduation ceremony that day followed by her graduation party on Saturday. For her, I made a confetti cake. I used the same homemade yellow cake base recipe as I did for …
On May 30th my cousin, Sabih, graduated from college and yesterday we celebrated! He loves basketball – and when I came across a similar idea a very long time ago, I had immediately thought at that time that I have to make this for Sabih! Fortunately, I remembered last week and decided to try it …
Apparently I’m having a major sweet tooth lately. Today I made chocolate cake with pecans in it. Usually I don’t even like chocolate cake! For the chocolate cake you will need: 1 and 1/2 cups of [all purpose] flour 1 cup of sugar 1/4 cup of unsweetened cocoa powder 1 teaspoon of baking powder 1 teaspoon …
Apparently on a baking spree today. Not only did I make Chocolate Chip & Pecan Muffins [from scratch] for breakfast today, but then I also made homemade [from scratch] cookies with chocolate chips and M&Ms in them. I don’t know anyone who doesn’t like a) cookies b) chocolate and c) M&Ms. So a combination of …
What’s better than freshly homemade chocolate chip muffins [from scratch] for breakfast? Ones with pecans in it for crunch. Typically I pair chocolate chip with walnuts a lot, but the pecan today… love it! What I used: 1 and 3/4 cups of flour 1/2 cup of sugar 1/4 cup of brown sugar 1/2 teaspoon of …
Continuing my streak of incorporating nuts with my cheesecake, Friday I made a White Chocolate Macadamia Nut Cheesecake. This time, I experimented with a graham cracker base. Three cheesecakes, three different bases so far. Each one, very different but oh so good. Click here and here for my other cheesecake recipes so far. For today’s …
So my chocolate chip cookie recipe that I used to make my Mini Chocolate Chip and Peanut Butter Cookie Cups a few days ago? I used that same recipe for another version [version two?] of “cookie cups” Saturday night. This time, I used a combination of milk chocolate chips, white chocolate chips and toffee bits! I think …
