White Chocolate Chip Dreams

As predicted, I lost some sleep over baking and blogging. I was up late last night baking cream cheese bars and crepes for morning breakfast to go with the coffee that I’ve given up for the last 40 days. As soon as the clock hit midnight, my pot of coffee was perked and ready for a midnight swig but it wasn’t as good as I remembered! Perhaps, that’s an indication that my bad habit may be kicked!!! Technically, I baked on Easter Sunday since it was after midnight. My philosophy was if I was going to dirty my kitchen, I was going to do it all at once.

Next it was on to making White Chocolate Chip Dreams. This cookie calls for orange zest and white chocolate chips. I really, really love the orange flavor. It makes this cookie outstanding and I could have eaten the entire bowl of cookie dough. The white chocolate chips give it that oh, so sweet flavor. I know next time I need a cookie fix, which will be quite sometime after this venture is over, I will whip these up just for the yummy dough. The recipe is easy to follow and no sudden disasters occurred early Easter Sunday with every store closed. I think my cookies turned out great.

Drizzling the white and dark chocolate over the cookies was successful. I have always bought the specialty candy pieces from the cake decorating store but this recipe called for chocolate squares found at the grocery store. This new tip will save me an extra trip in the future. Sandy graciously lent me her small squirt bottle to drizzle the chocolate. This worked well but sometimes I would get an air bubble that would cause me to lose the continuous line of chocolate. I also wanted to experiment with the baggie technique too. I was able to get out most of the air thus eliminating the air bubbles. I found the difference between the techniques is in the amount of chocolate that was being released. The bottle had a wider opening so I used triple the amount of white chocolate required. I snipped a super small hole in the baggie to drizzle a fine line and had left over dark chocolate. In my opinion, it’s just a matter of preference. I like how beautiful the drizzle makes these look. I just may do this topping on traditional cookies to give a little pizzazz!

I had my sweet Easter Bunny making personal deliveries with me today. The only problem that we did have was getting the cookies to their destination without the topping melting some. He had to leave two deliveries on porches and hopes that your cookies didn’t turn out too messy. Angie, we hope those two beautiful dogs next door didn’t get to your cookies first!

I admire that Theresa’s daughter, Catherine, created this recipe. Apparently she has inherited the baking gene! Lucky her!

Now it’s off to bed to snuggle with my little Easter Bunny. Happy Easter, Phoebe