Double Chocolate Cookies | Recipe

Do you ever get confused about whether to have a chocolate cake or a cookie? Well I do, and these cookies are the perfect solution when that happens. It’s an amazing quick fix when your greedy heart wants all the chocolate. I found this recipe in the Anna edit blog ( it was named Vivianna does makeup when I first found it) and my gosh! I’m so glad I tried it. It has become my favourite ever since! I’ve made a few tweaks, for instance I add wayy less chocolate than the original recipe. I mean I’d go broke if I spent so much money on chocolate on a regular basis.  I’ve also halved it because the full recipe yields too many cookies to handle. So here it is:
Yield- 18 cookies

Ingredients:

Butter- 100g

Sugar-100g

Brown Sugar- 80g

Egg-1

Flour- 150g

Baking Powder- 1tsp

Baking Soda- 1/2tsp

Cocoa- 38g

1 bar (160g) of Dairy Milk Chocolate or any Chocolate of your liking, chopped roughly

Method:

1. Pre heat oven to 200c for 8-10mins. Prepare a cookie sheet lined with baking paper or silicone baking mat.
2. In a bowl, sift Flour, Baking Powder, Baking Soda and Cocoa powder and then using a whisk give them all a mix. Set aside.
3. In a separate bowl, using an electric mixer, cream butter and sugar together until light and fluffy ( About 2 mins). Add the egg and mix just until combined
4. Add the Flour+Cocoa mixture to the Butter+Sugar+Egg mixture and mix until combined.
5. Finally, sprinkle in the chocolate chunks and give it one more mix. The dough will be a bit soft. Put in the fridge for 10 mins.
6. Take it out, roll the dough into little balls ( about 2 Tbsp size) and place them in prepared sheet. Keep some space in between each cookie as they will spread while baking. If you want to be a bit extra, press down the cookies to flatten them a bit and then place a chunk of chocolate on top of each cookies dough.
7. Bake for 8-10mins. Take it out of the oven, the cookies will still be soft, don’t touch them or try to eat them.  Have patience and let them cool for 30mins.

These cookies probably take less time than it took for me to write down the recipe, if you have the ingredients on hand that is. The waiting to cool part sucks I agree but still at the end of it all you will get to eat one of the best cookies you’ll have in your life! Try it, eat it, love it.

The First Wedding Cake| Behind the scenes of Tira apu and Arnob bhaiya’s wedding cake

If I had to describe myself as a baker in one line I’d say…”I love me a good challenge and a new recipe!” Aand one fine November evening Nazia apu ( my most beloved co-worker and friend) gave me both!

She called me up and to my surprise just dropped the question “Ei tumi Tira’r wedding cake banaba ( Would you like to make Tira’s wedding cake?”). Let me give you two very important pieces of information so that you understand why this was a surprise. 1) I had never made a wedding cake before. 2) I had never expressed any intention of ever wanting to make celebration cakes let alone a wedding cake to her before!

While I gracefully accepted the offer of making a freakin’ wedding cake for the first time in my life, inside I was like…

Evolution of Eid Desserts | What I made for Eid

Last ramadan my cousin asked me “Eid er jonno ki banachho? (What are you making this Eid?” and I replied “Oh I haven’t decided yet but I guess I’ll bake something from the new Nigella Lawson book that I got.” Hearing that she paused for a while and said, “I meant, what clothes are you making Zymin apu.” I think that gives you an idea of how excited I get about baking something (something new) for Eid!

As this year’s Eid draws to a close and I’m left with no desserts but a lot of leftover whipped cream (not complaining though, I love whipped cream!), here is a little roundup of all the desserts I’ve baked over the years for Eid and the inspiration/stories behind them.

Eid ul Azha 2014: Strawberry Tuille Cannolis and Petit Fours

Right before that Eid, I had gathered the courage and cash to splurge (I was a student back then) on my first baking book called Baking with Julia from a bookstore in New Market, Dhaka. Therefore, needless to say I was really eager to try out something from that book. So I made one of the easiest recipes from it named Strawberry Tuille Cannolis.

Chocolate and Vanilla Marbled Cupcakes: The Dynamic Duo!

Today, dear readers, we’ve got a zebra of a cupcake. Is it chocolate with vanilla, or vanilla with chocolate?

I used the hummingbird bakery’s chocolate marbled cupcake recipe, and a got a moist, dense cupcake.

Weather Friendly Frosting: Ganache

Dearest reader, is the humidity getting to you too?

The weather in Dhaka, Bangladesh is definitely not frosting friendly this time of the year. Between the heat and the rain, it’s a mission to keep piped frosting upright during an outdoor event. But have no fear; we’re here to do the testing! Here are two frosting that (in my experience) have been able to endure the crazy character that is Bangladeshi weather.