me want cookie! raisin & oatmeal or chocolate chip? omnomnom.

When I repeat a recipe,

I know that its for keeps. :)

And sometimes, it's because it's a simple one too!

Cream the butter and sugar.

We use homemade vanilla essence.

And the aroma is irresistable!

Go crazy with Hershey's chocolate chips.

Or my preferred option of raisin and rolled oats.

It almost makes it a healthy balanced diet. :)

Original recipe:

540 g butter

350 g castor sugar

240 g raisins

225 g oat flakes

1/2 tsp vanilla essence

595 g bread flour

1/2 tsp baking soda

Lightly mix butter and sugar.

Add raisins, oat flakes and vanilla essence.

Stir in flour and baking soda.

Shape into cookies. :)

Definitely cut down on the sugar.

I usually go for about 300g. Sometimes, 280g.

**Being the rogue baker I am, I don't follow the recipe at all. 

Thrice I've made this and never once the same.

I've tried equal parts of bread and cake flour.

I've tried less butter.

And I've tried less sugar.

Baking is a science. You've gotta run the experiments till you get the results you want!

Happy baking! 

Chocolate covered goodness #Chocgoji

The first time I bought the milk chocolate Chocgoji,

we had just come home from our evening jog.

I put one into the boyfriend's mouth and asked him to guess what it was.

Raisin?

Nope.

Wolfberry?

Mmmhmm!

I nodded excitedly and handed the packet over.

Eat well. It's good for you! :)

He proceeds to -pour- the Chocgoji into his mouth.

Not like that!

You said it's good for me right?

-_-

These tiny red berries have 15x more antioxidants than cranberries and 50x more Vitamin C than oranges.

Now that's what I call a superfruit!

And not just a superfruit, it's now been coated with cocoa goodness to make it a healthy indulgence.

Thumbs up to YCT Manufacturing for taking care in ensuring that everyone can enjoy the benefits of their product with not just one but THREE variants of Chocgoji-

Milk chocolate, Dark chocolate and Sugarfree Chocolate.

Case in point?

At our breakfast run this morning at Singapore Botanical Gardens,

Mum wanted a hot chocolate.

How about Milk chocolate Chocgoji?

Dad needs a little sugar sometimes to regulate his sugar levels with Type II diabetes especially since we were going for our morning walk.

Sugarfree chocolate Chocgoji, Dad.

This one's okay for you to have a few.

And me?

Dark chocolate.

All that goodness of the raw cacao beans.

And deliciously chewy goji berries.

I'm all ready to go now!

The perfect snack before our morning walk.

Doesn't melt easily either. 

It'd keep well till post walk. :)

The proof is in the pudding, I mean, packet.

Grab a pack today to try it for yourself.

Details for their final islandwide in-store sampling!

Just for today and Sunday (28/10) at the following Cold Storage outlets:

Cold Storage @ Bugis

Cold Storage @ Centrepoint

Cold Storage @ Parkway Parade

Cold Storage @ Takashimaya

Cold Storage @ United Square

Cold Storage @ King Albert Park .

Cold Storage @ West Coast Plaza

Many thanks to Ms Angeline Kwa and YCT Manufacturing for their awesome new product.

Infusing the medical benefits of Chinese traditional healing remedies with Western dessert indulgences.

Love yourself.

Eat well with Chocgoji. :)