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Update: Sorry if my blog looks a little weird but the side bar that is usually directly next to my posts is right at the bottom of my page including the subscribe area, the categories etc. It will NOT for some reason appear next to my blogs and looks awful so as I try to contact wordpress.com incessantly without starting forum and actually just emailing them, I’m sorry you will have to deal with it! If any of you can help, please do 😀
Sorry, what is Foodie Pen Pals?
Foodie Pen Pals is a food exchange program started by the wonderful Lindsay @ The Lean Green Bean between both foodie bloggers and food lovers in the US and Canada. She has forever been extending this project, now including the UK and recently, doing special exchanges across the Southern Hemisphere 😀
I was allowed to try it for one month and I was absolutely thrilled. Shopping for and waiting for food? how could it possibly get better right?
The wonderful Natt over at In Need Of Natt got my name for this exchange and it was absolutely wonderful 😀
Living in South Korea, the home of sweet and cute, she sent me a parcel determined to break any diets and pacts I had with dry bread and water (which I actually never made ;))
So here goes – yes, there was a little translation problem but hey, she is vegan and understands my vegetarianism so I know everything is sweet and beautifully meat free! Of course, I cannot have tasted everything by now (actually I could but mum worries about cavities and stuff ;)), so here is my wonderful parcel unwrapped – thank you so so much Natt 😀
These were some totally awesome Korean version of Skittles – yum!
And cute packaging right>
- Ummm… this one will be a surprise when I open it but I think there is some kind of chocolate involved and seeds because of the birds 😀
Or mini chocolate eggs? 😉
- A plethora of lollipops 😀
Who can resist apple, strawberry, cola or what I would assume, bubblegum?
If you shake it, it rattles like popping candy 😉
Sunflowers seeds! I can totally read 😀 😀
- These are like chocolate freckles but instead of hundreds and thousands, there are small pearl-like balls stuck on – cute right? 😀
And now we get into the chocolate load up – love you Natt, know me way too well 😀
Can’t go wrong, so smooth, silky and smooth 😀
These next 2 bars, I am pretty sure they are chocolate, one grape and one peanut 😀 – Cool combos right?
Thanks again Natt, it was brilliant and I am sure as I quickly slowly progress, I will enjoy every minute! And your note was so wonderful too!
Want to join Lindsay’s awesome global village foodie project? Visit this page to find out all the info and sign up soon 😀
I love making friends around the world, as corny as that sounds 😉
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As much as I am sure I overloaded you all with food, I simply HAD to share a cookie recipe I recently made up – its highly chocolatey, thin-nish and very addictive so if you are in the mood for nice and simple, leave (or stay and bookmark for another day :D)
Due to my lack of desserts, this is one filled with my favourite things – white chocolate, Nutella, hazelnuts, brown butter 😀
Making this for an outing with friends, it is only coincidence that they like these things too (why else are we friends ;))
They are so soft and so beautifully melt-in-mouth, you will never be able to stop at one (assured!)
Also just be a little weary… I may or may not have smudged the white chocolate chip while putting them on top of the cookies… oops 😉
Enjoy the recipe my friends!
Brown Butter Hazelnutella Chip Cookies
Recipe Inspiration: Love And Olive Oil
Makes: 24
Ingredients
- 113g butter, salted
- 6 tbs caster sugar
- 1/2 cup dark brown sugar
- 2/3 cup Nutella
- 1 egg
- 1 tsp vanilla essence
- 1/2 tsp coffee essence
- 1 cup plain flour
- 1/2 cup hazelnut meal (ground hazelnuts)
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 cup mini white chocolate chips
Method
- Preheat oven to 180 degrees C. Line 2 baking sheets with baking paper
- Brown butter over medium heat until it is frothy and has a nutty smell to it. As soon as a brown colour, remove from heat and coll for 5 minutes
- Stir in both sugars
- Mix in Nutella spread (because the mixture is warm, it will melt the Nutella into batter)
- Beat in egg then both essences
- In a large bowl, sift together flour, baking soda and hazelnut meal and whisk to combine
- Gently fold the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients until the mixture is smooth and combined
- Using a tsp, drop dollops of dough onto the baking sheet, keep them 4-ish cm apart
- Slightly flatten them with a knife and bake for 6-7 minutes or until set
- While cooling on tray, quickly press in white chocolate chips on top, as many as desire per cookie
- Transfer to a cooling and rack and cooling completely
- Fill with extra Nutella, make ice cream sandwiches and eat away 🙂
See, see did I not tell you these would be addictive? Here are a few more shots to get you in the indulgent mood 😉
Work that cookie!
These cookies have been linked to Zesty South Indian Kitchen’s Favourite Recipes Event – so much fun and Swathi hosts a diffrent one each month! This month, obviously, it is cookies 😀
Oh, and before I forget, to all those in the US, Happy 4th of July, I am really enjoying all your festive posts 😀
And a belated Happy Canada Day to the maple syrup gurus!
Go Bake Yourself 