Great Chocolate Chip Cookies

I made some chocolate chip cookies that came out great.

The recipe came from this post in a blog called "A tender CRUMB". I spent a while converting the measurements to the metric, and substituting the pastry and bread flours listed with regular "all purpose" flour with supplements as found on the web. You can find the calculations I did in this spreadsheet.

The cookies were delicious. They didn't come out soft, but were very good nonetheless.

This is the recipe I used (for half a batch of the original recipe above, something like 45 cookies):

unsalted butter	225		grams
white sugar	288		grams
dark brown sugar	124		grams
large eggs	2		eggs
AP flour	336		grams
cornflour	8		grams
gluten	7		grams
salt	9		grams
baking powder	5		grams
baking soda	5		grams
pure vanilla extract	0.5		tablespoon
bittersweet chocolate, coarsely chopped	454		grams

Passion fruit pancakes

This morning I finally found a good way to eat the some of the passion fruits falling from the vines in our yard (apart from just spooning them up). Passion fruit pancakes!

The pancake recipe is a simple one I found a few years ago. It's the best non-sourdough pancake recipe I know.


Here's the recipe (makes 12 pancakes):
1 cup flour
1 tablespoon white sugar
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 egg
1 cup milk

Mix all wet ingredients together. Add wet ingredients to dry ones. Cook pancakes on frying pan or griddle until brown on both sides.

2 tablespoons vegetable oil
The passion fruit (with a little powdered sugar) is a great topping. The passion fruit juice is absorbed into the pancakes, and the fruit remaining on top is delicious. This is definitely something I'm looking forward to having again!