Entry #3 — The Sabrina Carpenter One
if you could hear me laughing rn ahahahahahaha
Welcome Back ahahahahahaha. I think I set this to go live at 7am, do you know where your girlfriends are? ahahahaha I can’t stop laughing
I’ve been planning and thinking about this one all week lol. I was listening to Brina at work on yt, as I do, and on the side was a recommended video of her baking Christmas cookies. & if you know me, Christmas kinda starts on October 1, I’ve already put the tree up and the wreath on the door. Anyways, her cookies are at the same time chocolate chip and m&m, and that’s what I decided to bake this weekend :)
So, let’s get into it. Went to handy dandy H-E-B and I bought a hand mixer, I ain’t whisking no more. Also, the Christmas m&m’s aren’t out yet, but the Halloween ones are! So, mine are Halloween cookies :)
Anyways, let’s get into it. This recipe didn’t have weights, which I now prefer, so I did my best to not pack any of the dry ingredients, so it doesn’t overpower the butter and eggs.
1 cup butter, melted — 1 1/2 cups brown sugar — 1/2 cup granulated sugar — 2 eggs — 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract — 3 cups all-purpose flour — 1 teaspoon baking soda — 1/2 teaspoon salt — 1 1/4 semi-sweet chocolate chips — 1 cup M&M’s (whichever holiday ones are on sale lol or normal ones)
Ok, so first in a large bowl, mix the melted butter and both types of sugars until they’re smooth and thick. After the butter and sugars have incorporated, add each egg one-by-one, mixing each one in, before adding the 2nd one. Then, add the vanilla extract and keep mixing :) I like to add ALOT of vanilla, but I just really like that flavor, so probably still follow the recipe lol. Oh, don’t forget to pre-heat your oven to 350 degrees F!!!
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Next we’re gonna mix the dry ingredients. Throw the flour, baking soda, and salt together into another large bowl and whisk them, so they mix. Your mixtures should look like below at this point.
Now, we’re gonna combine the dry and wet ingredients. Slowly, start adding bits of the dry mixture into the wet mixture, making sure they mix before adding more of the dry mixture. Keep doing this until you’ve combined it all :) It should look like below once you’re done!
Finally, we’re going to add the chocolate chips and M&M’s into the dough. Throw em in and keep folding the dough, the chocolate needs to be everywhere. Imagine getting a cookie without any chocolate, yeah we wanna avoid that. Should look like below when it’s all combined! I threw mine into the fridge an hour to chill a bit, but you can do a half hour, or not at all, but I’ve heard chilling the dough helps everything incorporate better and helps the spread once they are in the oven.
Unless you wanted one big cookie, we’re gonna shape the dough into individual about 1-inch or so balls. I was able to make 45! Last step before throwing em in the oven is preparing your flat pan. Cut a sheet of parchment paper and cover the top. Now, we can bake :) I was able to fit 8 balls onto my pan. Bake each batch for half an episode of Wizards of Waverly Place (12 minutes), lol that’s what I was watching while baking. It’s my favorite childhood show :) After each batch, lay the cookies on a rack for cooling. Continue this cycle until you’ve baked all your cookies!!!
These are mine OMG WOW WOW WOW :) :) :) Look at how they look inside
& you’re done!!!
Small surprise now, I’ve been working on creating a logo for the blog, to use as my pfp. Lemme show ya my concept and what I’ve got so far
This is v3 of my first idea, except at this point, I made the hat more puffy. Just easier to tell it’s a hat lol. & I put a cookie, cake, and cupcake on top. On the real one, I’ll replace those with things I either want to bake or what have been my favorites so far. Btw, I like hand-drawing because it feels more personal and drawing is just really fun for me :)
After deciding this was the one I wanted to go with, I started drawing the one I’d like to eventually use
This is my 1st time shading and I’m pretty happy with it! I might try again, but honestly I’m very happy with how it looks so far. I’ll start choosing what I’d like to put on the hat next, but so far, this is what I’ve got :)
Thank You so much for joining me on this one, I’ve been so excited to write this one & this is my 1st time baking FOR the blog, so it’s kinda a big one. Brina might just be my favorite celebrity, so extra excited lol. Oh, you’ll find I have nicknames for like everybody, so in case you got confused, Brina is Sabrina Carpenter. Blondie is Taylor Swift also.
I hope you try the recipe, you couldn’t stop my laugh or wipe the smile off my face while I made the cookies.
-Baker Juan Ruiz
