Giant Cookies & John Green
The one thing that has always been on my dessert bucket list is a skillet cookie. If you've never heard of this God sent delicacy, it is a giant undercooked chocolate chip cookie made in a skillet pan. When I stumbled across Pinch of Yum's Deep Dish Chocolate Chip Cookie with Caramel & Sea Salt, I had to call Molly over to help me make it.
This was a surprisingly easy & fun dessert to make. Being that we were just making a giant caramel-stuffed chocolate chip cookie, Molly & I had plenty of opportunities to improvise. For example, I found some cinnamon chips, white chocolate chips, & Belgian milk chocolate flakes in the cup board & we just threw half a cup of each of those suckers in there!
Another thing I found really cool about this recipe was that it called for maple syrup in the caramel. I never tried maple caramel before & now, I'm glad I did! We even had some caramel left over & we made some praline. I think my parents ate them all though...
One piece of advice I would give about skillet cookies is to line your skillet with parchment paper. I have read through other skillet cookie recipes & I can't help but notice that this is the only skillet cookie recipe that I have come across that advises you to line your skillet with parchment paper. The reason I am making such a fuss over parchment paper is because you would be saving yourself from some terrifying dishwashing after. Plus, caramel is so hard to clean out! Also, don't be surprised if the skillet cookie looks undercooked, that's how it's supposed to be. The skillet cookie gods knew what they were doing
I highly recommend this recipe to anyone & I would love to give all recipe creds to the food blog Pinch of Yum! Click here if you're interested (you know you are!).
& of course, you can't have dessert without dinner. We made the Barefoot Contessa's famous goat cheese tart. I'd recommend it to anyone but the lactose intolerant!
I also finished reading John Green's An Abundance of Katherines.
I thought the book told a great, slice-of-life summer story that glided along very smoothly.
I also love how I finally understand what all the symbols on the cover mean. The lightbulb represents Colin's awesome ideas. The venn diagram represents Lindsay. The shield represents I-65, which is how Colin & Hassan found themselves in Gutshot, TN. The heart represents Colin's fragile heart. The bathtub represents this part in the beginning of the book where Colin would just go underwater in his bathtub & hope that staying underwater could be his way of escaping from this place where Katherines roam the earth. & the venn diagram represents a chunk of Colin's theorem.
Not only that, I learned the differense between a prodigy & a genius & that the future is unpredictable. If Colin believes it, I will believe it too.
This was a surprisingly easy & fun dessert to make. Being that we were just making a giant caramel-stuffed chocolate chip cookie, Molly & I had plenty of opportunities to improvise. For example, I found some cinnamon chips, white chocolate chips, & Belgian milk chocolate flakes in the cup board & we just threw half a cup of each of those suckers in there!
Another thing I found really cool about this recipe was that it called for maple syrup in the caramel. I never tried maple caramel before & now, I'm glad I did! We even had some caramel left over & we made some praline. I think my parents ate them all though...
One piece of advice I would give about skillet cookies is to line your skillet with parchment paper. I have read through other skillet cookie recipes & I can't help but notice that this is the only skillet cookie recipe that I have come across that advises you to line your skillet with parchment paper. The reason I am making such a fuss over parchment paper is because you would be saving yourself from some terrifying dishwashing after. Plus, caramel is so hard to clean out! Also, don't be surprised if the skillet cookie looks undercooked, that's how it's supposed to be. The skillet cookie gods knew what they were doing
I highly recommend this recipe to anyone & I would love to give all recipe creds to the food blog Pinch of Yum! Click here if you're interested (you know you are!).
& of course, you can't have dessert without dinner. We made the Barefoot Contessa's famous goat cheese tart. I'd recommend it to anyone but the lactose intolerant!
I also finished reading John Green's An Abundance of Katherines.
I thought the book told a great, slice-of-life summer story that glided along very smoothly.
I also love how I finally understand what all the symbols on the cover mean. The lightbulb represents Colin's awesome ideas. The venn diagram represents Lindsay. The shield represents I-65, which is how Colin & Hassan found themselves in Gutshot, TN. The heart represents Colin's fragile heart. The bathtub represents this part in the beginning of the book where Colin would just go underwater in his bathtub & hope that staying underwater could be his way of escaping from this place where Katherines roam the earth. & the venn diagram represents a chunk of Colin's theorem.
Not only that, I learned the differense between a prodigy & a genius & that the future is unpredictable. If Colin believes it, I will believe it too.
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