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Pandemic Baking | Softest, Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies

I'm a sucker for anything chocolate chip cookies but nothing like the ones made at home.  Not even the popular, imported brands can capture the decadence of a home-made, freshly baked cookies.  I still get that 'commercialized' after taste whenever I eat the supermarket brand.  I still eat em anyway though.  Now, after multiple attempts of recreating and pursuing the best chocolate chip cookie, I am finally resolved with this recipe.  I slightly modified it from different baker bloggers AND surprisingly this came out to be the easiest one to make. Soft and Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies Ingredients: 1/2 cup butter, melted (liquid consistency) 3/4 cup brown sugar 1/8-1/4 cup granulated sugar 2 tablespoons honey (ting! secret's out) 1 egg 2 cups all purpose flour 1/4 teaspoon baking soda 1/4 fine salt 2 teaspoons vanilla 3/4 cup chocolate chips Procedure 1. In a bowl, cream melted butter, brown and white sugar, until dissolved. 2. Add hone...

Fast track

Hey how's everyone holding up?  I hope you are all well and safe and healthy. Consider this my redemption blog and yes, you can all point this out as a result of being quarantined at the moment and also because I just miss writing. I really do. Ok, so fast track six years after.  I am now 40 years old and had to edit my description from a mama of one to now a mama of two!  Two beautiful babies (I still call my eldest daughter baby.  She's 10).  I am still tied up as a working mama and enjoying every bit of it. About a month and a half ago, our government placed our country to Enhanced Community Quarantine as a measure to mitigate the spread of a deadly virus called the Coronavirus.  Not sure why people coined Corona and virus as one word but, yes, it's a big one and currently blowing up the entire world's economy, obviously mortality and social dependency.  Wearing of mask is mandatory and 2-meter social distancing is imposed whenever one goes ou...