Crispy Almond Chocolate Oatmeal Cookies

I personally like my cookies all nice and crispy, so I deliberately spent hours looking for just the right recipe... Couldn't really find any. At least none that claimed to be crispy.

What I did stumble across was that 'Famous Amos' recipe that was apparently sold to a lady for RM250 without her knowing about it. Apparently she paid with her credit card and didn't find out til later about the extra charge? Well, myth or no myth, I thought this would be a good base to try out a few of my modifications..

1. No eggs - they add to the chewiness of a cookie. So... No eggs for me. Instead, I substituted eggs with 1/4 cup cream(35%) + 1/4 cup water.
2. Omitted the baking powder - it adds to the acidity of a cookie, making it chewy.
3. Did not add the brown sugar. 

Needless to say, I came up with something almost completely different but oh-so-delicious. Between the 2 of us, my brother and I finished 2 dozen cookies within minutes of them being out of the oven.

Crispy Almond Chocolate Oatmeal Cookies

115 g butter (1/2 cup)

1/2  cup white sugar

1     tsp vanilla essence

1/4  cup cream 35% + 1/4 cup water  @ 1/2 cup cream 18%

1     cup all-purpose flour 

1     cup blended rolled oats (1 1/4 cup rolled oats blended finely in food processor)

1/2  tsp  baking soda

1/4  tsp  salt

50 g coarsely blended almonds (toast them before blending)

1/5  cup rolled oats

100 g grated chocolate (cooking choc)

Preheat oven to 200

Eggless Oreo Cream Cheese Cookies a.k.a Oreo Cheesecake Cookies

Have been poring through dozens of blogs looking for a cheesecake that'll tickle my fancy, and what'd ya know? I stumbled upon THIS - a collection of all sorts of cheesecakes!!

The first recipe that simply had me going was the Oreo Cheesecake Recipe... How tempting does that sound? I've been told it sounds generic, meh... But I'm a sucker for both cheesecake AND oreos, so I just HAD to try this.

Eggless Scones - Perfect for breakfast!

My mom was the one who first introduced me to scones. Growing up, I used to love eating them as my mom used to do quite a lot of baking before that one traumatic incident that has, since then changed my entire family's livelihood.

Back in February 2011, years or maybe even a decade since the last homemade scone, my mom asked if I could, in her place bake the family some scones. Having forgotten how to make the scones, we referred to this ancient baking book. Needless to say, the scones didn't turn out as great as I would've liked them to.

After heading back to Moscow, the imperfect scones stayed in my mind and I vowed to find my perfect scones recipe. Who knew I'd find it in the likes of an EGGLESS scones recipe? I can't remember where I'd gotten this recipe from or else I'd credit the owner.