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Best chocolate chip cookie recipe ever- Bakery Style Chocolate Chip Cookies

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Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe

Makes 6 Large “Bakery” style Cookies

Recipe Ingredients for Chocolate Chip cookies
3/4 C butter
1/2 C white sugar
1 C light brown sugar, tightly packed
2 1/3 C Flour
1 1/2 tsp baking soda
3/4 tsp salt (Kosher preferred)
1 large egg
1 egg yolk
10 oz. high quality chocolate ( chopped in chucks or small squares)

Directions:
Preheat oven to 325 degrees F.
1. Melt butter (do not brown)
2. Mix sugars with melted butter by hand or mixer on low
3. Add eggs slowly
4. Whisk together dry ingredients
5. Mix together ingredients, add chocolate last.

Divide and make six large balls, divided equally, on cookie sheet lined with parchment or greased lightly.
Bake at 325 for 14 minutes or until golden brown.

Calendula Cream Recipe – Wonderful DIY Salve with Calendula and Beeswax

11:54 am By Canadian Puzzler Leave a Comment

Best Calendula Cream Recipe EVER

Ingredients:
2 Cups Calendula flower
1 Cup Comfrey leaf
I cup chamomile flower
1 Cup Lavender flower
opt: 1/2 Cup Marshmallow Root
opt: 1/4 Cup Myrrh Gum
opt.: 1 Cup St. John’s wort flower

1 litre ( 4 Cups) Olive Oil
Grated Bee’s wax
opt: Essential oil of Lavender
opt: Vitamin E Oil

Directions for Calendula Cream:
1. Combine the herbs and olive oil in a glass jar ( a large mason jar or pickle jar works well). Cover tightly and let sit in warm sunny spot for at least two weeks.

2. Strain oil mixture through cheese cloth, saving oil. Squeeze tightly to get remaining oil.

3. Put oil in double boil on very low heat. Let warm for warm hour. Strain again.

4. Add approximately 1/4- 1/2 Cup grated beeswax, depending on consistency you would like. You can text by dropping few drops of melted liquid on wax or parchment paper and let cool or put small amount in freezer for 5 minutes. Make sure it is spreadable.

4. Add essential oils, Pour into small jars.

This makes a wonderful cream or slave for diaper rash, people with sensitive skin, or dry itchy skin.
I have been making for over 25 years. I started making my own cream specifically to use a when I was using cloth diapers and used as barrier cream. I used to give as little gifts for baby shower or at Christmas and people would keep coming back for more, saying it really helped them with their skin and I keep in my repertoire to make each year!

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Best Traditional Scottish Shortbread Recipe- Grandma Brown’s Shortbread!

3:03 pm By Canadian Puzzler

This is my great-grandmother’s shortbread recipe. She came to Canada from Scotland with my grandfather in 1908, just before the Great War.

My grandmother was born in 1922, when she was growing up, shortbread a special Christmas treat to enjoy and share over during the holidays best eaten with a hot cuppa, a wee dram of whisky and maybe a poem or two.

As far back as I can remember, every holiday my grandmother’s shortbread was all made during Christmas and we have enjoyed for decades. My own grandmother in her later days, well into her 80′, made batch after batch in her old round pie tins. She stored them in cookie tins she saved throughout the years, and stocked up on pounds and pounds of butter she bought on sale and stored on her freezer.

This is as traditional a Scottish recipe for shortbread that you can get- I have made dozens of batches over the past 40y years; When given as gifts or served for dessert at Christmas dinner, people always, always rave about these shortbread cookies and tell me they are the best shortbread cookie they have ever eaten.

Pre-heat oven to 375F (you will lower to 350)

This recipe will make 2 round pie tins or 1 large 9x13in tray of shortbread cookies. I usually line with parchment.

Grandma Brown’s Shortbread!

Ingredients:
1 Cup Flour
1 Cup icing sugar
1 cup corn starch
1 cup rice flour

1lb unsalted butter (yes, its a lot of butter)
large pinch of salt

Directions:
Cream butter ( I have done by hand or using stand mixer)
Cream in sugar
Cream in rest of ingredient until blended.
Spread dough into prepared pans, it will be very sticky.

Put into oven on middle rack; lower heat to 350F.
Back 25 mins or until golden- do not overbake.
When cooled slightly, after about 20 minutes, prick surface lightly with fork.
Cut into desired size squares while still warm, do not remove from pan (they will fall apart unless cooled) let cool.
Store airtight or freeze.
Enjoy!

This shortbread recipe freezes well and keeps a long time. I hope you like it as much as my family and friends do.

Other Vintage and Family Recipes:
Christmas Cherry Balls

Just Like Lush Bath Bombs DIY Recipe ? Make Your Own Bath Bomb Recipe

6:27 pm By Canadian Puzzler

My Small Thoughts DIY Bath Bomb Recipe- Make your own Lush Bath Bombs.
Recipe makes 6-10 bath bombs

Making your own bath bombs at home is a fun and rewarding DIY project. Not only do you get to customize the ingredients to suit your preferences, but you also get to enjoy luxurious baths without breaking the bank. Here’s a simple recipe to get you started:

Please maintain a ratio of 2:1:1 Baking Soda: Corn Starch: Citric Acid. You need at least a 2:1 ratio of baking soda and citric acid to fizz.

DIY Bath Bomb Recipe

2 cups Baking Soda
1 cup Citric Acid
1 cup Corn Starch
1/4 cup oat flour (optional) you can also try using powdered milk for milk bat effect!
1/2 cup Epsom Salts (optional) This makes for a rougher texture appearance on the bath bomb.

1-3 tsp oil (Sweet Almond Oil, coconut oil, shea butter, jojoba oil, argan oil, cocoa butter). I don’t put in too much!
1-2 tsp skin-safe Essential Oils or fragrance oil. I like lavender, lemongrass, ylang-ylang.
( approx 10=20 drops)
1-2 tsp rubbing alcohol (I put in tiny mister)

Use soap dye, food colouring, or mica powder.

Mix dry ingredients. Avoid getting wet with water.
Add oils and coloring to the dry mix and combine until even.
You will have a dry crumbly mixture.

Make Your Own Lush style Bath Bombs

Spray alcohol from a small mister or add a *small* amount of liquid at a time to the bath mob mixture. Pack into your mould (you can buy bath bomb moulds, use muffin tins, silicone mold, etc). And then release when formed. I put on parchment paper and cookie tin to dry/harden- wait at least 24+ hours to use, it may take a while for the bath bomb to dry.

Once dry, you can seal the finished bath bombs with shrink wrap or package them in clear glass jars or paper gift bags.
For added visual appeal, consider decorating the tops of your bath bombs with dried lavender or rose petals. However, keep in mind that this may create a mess in the bathtub, so you may prefer to keep them plain.

With a little creativity and experimentation with colors and scents, you can create beautiful homemade bath bombs that rival those from luxury brands like LUSH. Enjoy your relaxing baths!

Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe

Best Calendula Cream Recipe EVER

Grandma Brown’s Shortbread!

DIY Bath Bomb Recipe

Make Your Own Lush style Bath Bombs

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