RECIPE - CHOCOLATE SUGAR COOKIES

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These are my mom's favorite cookies! Super super easy to make and a little more sophisticated than a normal sugar cookie. Chocolate is always better!!!

1/1/2 cups flours

1/2 cup cocoa powder

1 teaspoon baking soda

1/4 teaspoon baking powder

1/4 teaspoon salt

10 tablespoon (1 and 1/4 sticks) butter

1/1/2 cups sugar

Mix flour, cocoa, baking soda, baking powder and salt. Cream butter and sugar. Combine and roll into small spheres. Cook for 9 minutes at 375 degrees.

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BEST SOFT CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIE RECIPE

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These are the perfect consistency and taste so delicious.. keep reading for the recipe!

2 cups flour

1/2 teaspoon baking soda

1/2 teaspoon salt

12 tablespoons butter (1 and 1/2 sticks) unsalted butter

1/1/2 cups sugar

1 tablespoon vanilla extract

1 egg

1 egg yolk

2 cups semisweet chocoalte chips

Prehead oven to 325 degrees. Mix together flour, baking soda, and salt. Using beaters cream the butter and sugar. Add in vanilla, egg, and egg yolk. Add in chocolate chips. Add in flour mixture.

Drop cookie dough onto cookie sheets, keeping the balls relatively small since they will expand a great amount. Bake for 15 minutes. Allow to cool completely once finished cooking.

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RECIPE - CURRANT SCONES

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• Hey xx
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• These are perfect for breakfast, not to hard to make, and absolutely delicious! 
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• 3/4 cup 1% milk
• 1 large egg
• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1/4 cup granulated sugar
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon fine salt
• 6 tablespoons (3/4 stick) cold unsalted butter
• 2/3 cup dried currants
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• Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Whisk together milk  and egg. In a large bowl, whisk together flour, granulated sugar, baking powder, and salt. Cut butter into flour mixture until it resembles coarse meal, with a few pea-size pieces of butter remaining. Stir in currants. Stir in cream mixture until just combined.
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• Transfer dough to a lightly floured work surface and pat into a 6-inch circle. Cut into 6 wedges and transfer to a parchment-lined baking sheet.  Bake until golden 15 minutes.
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DAY #14

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I just made an amazing healthy snack!!!

Ingredients:

1-2 Cups of Non-Fat Greek Yoghurt, I used Fage.

1-2 Tablespoons of Unsweetened Cocoa Powder

1-2 Teaspoons of Sugar

1/2 Cup Blueberries

Take you greek yoghurt and mix it thoroughly with the teaspoon of sugar. This should just barely sweeten the yoghurt so it's not bitter with the cocoa powder. You can skip this all together I substitute in Stevia.

Mix in the cocoa powder, since I love chocolate the more the merrier! It'll take on an odd consistency with the powder hitting the cream, but after a minute of stirring you should get a creamy chocolate pudding look. 

Add in your blueberries and enjoy! This tastes so good and has relatively no sugar/fat/calories. It reminds me of chocolate cake mix with blueberries. SO YUMMY.

Anyways, long day. Some Pitbull should cheer me up.

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RECIPE: EASY CHOCOLATE ESPRESSO LIME COOKIES

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Ingredients

1 1/2 cups all purpose flour

1/2 cup unsweetened dutch process cocoa powder

1 1/2 teaspoons instant espresso powder

1/2 teaspoon salt

2 sticks unsalted butter

1 cup confectioners' sugar

1 teaspoon finely grated lime zest

1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract

Mix together flour, cocoa powder, espresso powder, and salt.

Mix together butter, powdered sugar, vanilla, and lime zest.

Beat together the butter mixture, you should get a smooth consistency, think lime buttercream.

Pour in the flour mixture. You should get a very crumbly mixture, but when you take a fistful of this mixture it should clump together and turn solid.

Roll the dough into small balls. Heat your oven to 350 and cook for 15 minutes.

Yummy - done! These are super easy and taste great.

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