Thursday, September 30, 2010

Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Cupcakes

Ingredients

For the cookie dough:
  • 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1/4 teaspoon sea salt
  • 1/2 cup butter, softened
  • 1/4 cup white sugar
  • 1/2 cup brown sugar
  • 1 egg
  • 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
  • 1 cup miniature semisweet chocolate chips
For the cupcakes:
  • 1 (18.25 ounce) box yellow cake mix
  • 1 1/3 cups water
  • 1/3 cup canola oil
  • 3 eggs



Directions

Whisk together the flour, baking soda, and sea salt; set aside. Beat the butter, white sugar, and brown sugar with an electric mixer in a large bowl until smooth. Add 1 egg and the vanilla extract and beat until smooth. Mix in the flour mixture until just incorporated. Fold in the chocolate chips; mixing just enough to evenly combine. Form the dough into tablespoon-sized balls; place onto a baking sheet, and freeze until solid, about 2 hours.

Preheat an oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Line 24 muffin cups with paper liners.

Beat 3 eggs in a large bowl with an electric mixer to break up. Add the cake mix, water, and canola oil; continue beating for 2 minutes on medium speed. Spoon into the prepared cupcake liners, filling each 2/3 full. Place a frozen cookie dough ball on the top center of each cupcake.

Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the cake portion of the cupcake (not the cookie dough ball) comes clean, about 20 minutes. Cool in the pans for 10 minutes before removing to cool completely on a wire rack.

Garde Manger - Sandwiches

Pictures of some sandwiches our Garde Manger class made today... Forgot to take pictures of the entire spread. Oh well!



Falafel ^



Reuben with Russian Dressing ^



Blackened Steak Sandwiches ^



Grilled Vegetable Sandwiches ^



Hot Kentucky Brown ^



Grilled Portabella Mushrooms ^


Tony and I's battle wounds for the day.
Mine was a little cut but he filleted a hearty piece off his thumb. (See my amazing bandaging skills ^? )

Garde Manger - Fruits

I realized I forgot to put up pictures from Garde Manger when we did fruits. GRAVE ERROR that will be remedied immediately.



The layout!

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Now pics of my favorites....



Berries with sugary goodness and orange liqueur whipped cream ^

Pears poached in red wine ^


Roasted apples, puff pastries, vanilla icecream, sugared pecans and caramel syrup ^