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In preparation for my blog’s first birthday (April 17!), I will be switching around themes/testing out new headers. Bear with me!
Author: Hilary
Chocolate CJTV Cookies
On Thursday I had my last journalism class of third-year. HOW CAN THIS BE? It seems like just yesterday I was blissfully unaware of the magic of broadcast journalism and was not attributing things and was writing run-on sentences (see what I did there?). I now consider myself a seasoned half-expert and a complete broadcast convert. God I love my program.
To celebrate this love and the end of the year, I wanted to make something for our last television class. I imagine many of you are unfamiliar with the end-of-semester routine with Carleton journalism, so let me explain. We have these three newsroom days where we basically get thrown into the world of same-day production. With tv, this means that you are reporting, shooting and editing something within a few hours, just like the big guns down at CBC and CTV do. You learn so much, but the days are a tad stressful. Food, particularly baked goods, always helps reduce this stress. So here we are.
When I got home Wednesday, all I wanted to do was bake. I had handed in two major assignments earlier that day and thought I deserved a little treat. I was devastated that I had already had to scrap my plans to make a Twitter-inspired fondant cake for my multimedia class, so I thought both me and my classmates deserved this late night baking extravaganza.
I knew I wanted to make some sort of corny television inspired cookie. I originally thought of doing these with a shortbread or sugar cookie base, but quickly decided in favour of something a little more chocolatey. The decorations were completely impromptu. I bought a bag of shoelace licorice with the full intention of cutting them up to make little antennas but, after I (a) ate 3/4 of the bag, and (b) couldn’t figure out a way to stick them on the cookie, gave up and ate the rest. The white and red outlining you see on the cookie is piped chocolate. At 11:30 p.m. that Wednesday night I was hunched over the counter decorating them, so I hope they look good!
PS: I love slightly undercooking chocolate cookies so they taste like brownies.
PPS: CJTV stands for Carleton Journalism Television.
And so, signing off from my kitchen, this is Hilary Duff, CJTV News, Ottawa.
Source (chocolate cookies): Cake Batter and Bowl
Happy Birthday Kristina!
Kristina was one of the fantastic people that I worked with this past summer at Carleton’s Student Experience Office. We had a series of inside jokes involving turtles eating things (google image it, cutest thing ever), and this card pays tribute to those weird (but hilarious) exchanges. Last year Kristina’s belated birthday card had a penguin wearing a tuxedo on it. Clearly we’re starting some sort of animal pattern here.
In case you can’t tell, the turtle is wearing a party hat. Just accept it.
Monster-sized Chocolate Chip Oreo Cookies
These cookies were so large they should have had their own gravitational pull.
When I first saw these cookies on Tastespotting I knew I had to make them. The question was: for whom? My roommates have been experiencing a sugar overload in the past few weeks thanks to all the leftover cupcakes I’ve been bringing home. Our house cupcake count is ranging somewhere between 30-40 cupcakes, which I think is an exceptionally impressive number. Anyways, I wanted to expand the sugar appreciation beyond the walls of my house and find some new recipients for my baking.
And so, I made these for my multimedia journalism class. A few people in the class have been bugging me since the beginning of the term to bring in some sort of dessert, so I thought I should finally oblige. As the end of term creeps closer (only a week left now!) I get lured deeper into an obsessive baking fixation. Baking is my means of procrastination and, whether my schedule likes it or not, I intend to spend at least 12 hours baking within the next week.
But back to the cookies. They are HUGE! In accordance with the recipe, I took an Oreo cookie (the double stuff variety, of course) and plopped a scoop of chocolate chip cookie dough on the top and bottom of the Oreo. Then I smushed the dough around the Oreo, completely hiding it and creating a dough ball that was approximately the size of a small softball. The finished result was a cookie so large you had to eat it like a hamburger.
Make these for kids birthday parties if you dare.
Source: Picky Palate via The Kitchenarian
My Day in Pictures: March 25, 2011
I bought a bunch of new packs for my iPhone Hipstamatic app. This is the result.
1: Britt playing “Here Comes the Sun.” Me singing along horribly. Let Friday night begin.
2: The first of many creepy iPhone shots I took at the new Shoppers Drug Mart in my neighbourhood. The lighting in the fragrance aisle was too great to resist. I am 100 per cent sure the sales lady thought I was an extremely shady shopper.
3: Likely my future kitchen furniture. Very 1980’s, especially as seen through my new Hipstamatic lens. You can’t fully appreciate it from this picture, but the chairs are the most fantastic pastel easter egg colour. The table centre piece is a tiny giraffe family peering out the window.
Hilary Makes 