MADCookie

This is Project 8 "Get Comfortable with Visual Aids" for the Competent Communication. At our club, we do speeches in any order after you complete your Ice Breaker. I have 4 more speeches to do before completing this book!

The speech is supposed to be 5-7 minutes long. I completly blew the timing and finished over 8 mins. The video on my camera can record 1 gig at a time, so the video stops just before the ending, sorry. If the video gets choppy and stops frequently, then just pause it and wait for it to download in the background. 

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My coworker Slavisa was telling me about this cookie his wife makes. He described it as a chocolate chip cookie with coconut. I like to think of myself as a creative person, but I had failed to think of using coconut in a standard chocolate chip cookie. I make wonderful oatmeal butterscotch cookies, so I should have thought of this new combination. Well, I had a little free time tonight, so a cookie making I go. This recipe is definitely going to be a Christmas cookie that I give out!!

Recipe: Just use the Tollhouse Chocolate Chip recipe. The magic here is in the few twists that Slavisa's wife spurred in me. 1) I made the dough chocolate by melting about 1oz of bitter-sweet chocolate and adding that to the batter just before adding the flour mixture. Next time, I would double that or even triple it. 2) I toasted 2 cups of coconut and added that with the flour mixture.

The take away from this recipe is that we never stop learning. I love cooking / baking as it is a way for me to be creative. I knew I couldn't really screw up this recipe, I could only make it better!

Aftermath

I love my KitchenAid stand mixer. I could easily have trippled the recipe (which I have done before) and my mixer would have been happy to work for me.

Happy Eater!

More eaters! I didn't tell them about the coconut. Am I a bad Dad?