Cookie Monster Mode: [Easy] Coffee Flavoured Cookies

It only takes around 20 minutes to bake- 10 minutes to prepare and mix the ingredients and another 10 to bake the cookies. So if you want a quick snack, here's an easy cookie recipe that can go with your afternoon tea or coffee. Shout out to coffee addicts!

Coffee Flavoured Cookies

Cookie Monster Mode: [Easy] Red Velvet Cookies

It's the love month again and you can already smell chocolates, roses and wine in the air. The malls are filled with decorative hearts, cupids and red ribbons. Chocolates and scented candles are on sale. Flowers are 15% more expensive. Stuff toys, teddy bears and cute little giveaways are best sellers to the teens this month.

Sigh, I've been dreaming of a short mini-vacation with hubby and the kids- away from the hustle and bustle of the city... but our budget and schedules are not so friendly. :-(

Euan is celebrating his 5th birthday on the 17th. He's going to have a party at school (17th Feb) and again at home on the 20th. Oh, we're going on an out-of-town field trip on Sunday,  the 14th of Feb - yes, on Valentines day! So I guess, that's how I'm going to celebrate my "love month" this year.

To lift my mood of the coming busy days, I dived into my favorite hobby: food. What's better than to bake and eat, right? Since it's Valentines, here's a red velvet cookie recipe to celebrate L-0-V-E.

Red Velvet Cookies

Cookie Monster Mode: [Easy Recipe] White Chocolate Oatmeal Cookies

Craving for something sweet? Do you have 20minutes? Let's bake!


White Chocolate Oatmeal Cookies 

White Chocolate Oatmeal Cookies (and some Raisin Cookies on top)

Cookie Monster Mode: [Easy Recipe] White Chocolate Oatmeal Cookies with Fruits and Nuts

To justify my cravings, I always find a reason to celebrate something. Since I've been gaining considerable amount of weight due to my non-stop cookie-eating, here's an easy cookie recipe to celebrate another 3lbs on the weighing scale. Happy end of January! :-D

Cravings solved!

White Chocolate Oatmeal Cookies with Fruits and Nuts 

Euri and Euan's Studio Photos

Finally, I had the kids photos taken last week! Eugene was, as usual, against the idea of bringing the kids to a professional photo studio as it is expensive and in his own words, "not a necessity".  I agree that it's really not necessary but with the kids' birthday coming in a few weeks, I just couldn't resist having their pictures taken. In fact, I need a new set of photos to use for their birthday invitations.

Euan's birthday is on the 17th of February. My little prince is turning 5! My darling little angel is turning 1 on the 23rd of April. Their birthdays are only more than a month apart so I'm so excited doing the birthday planning and all. :-)

There are a lot of photo studios in Manila but I've been eyeing CamKids since I gave birth to Euri. Haha. Anyway, here are some of the photos from the photo shoot taken by CamKids Studio, Robinson's Magnolia.

Cookie Monster Mode: [Easy] Colourful Raisin Cookies

Colourful Raisin Cookies (I added Cinnamon to other batch)

Been craving for cookies this past week. I've been baking cookies on a daily basis! Yes, I know it's bad for someone who's on the brink of diabetes, but when you're suffering from uncontrollable craving for sugar, there's no way to go but to give in.

I've taken into consideration that too much sweets will shorten my life span, so the cookies I baked a had less sugar than the ordinary cookies I bake. I even played with the recipes and turned them into my own cookie-experiments. I don't usually write down the recipe of my cooking/baking experiments, but since baking is more science (meaning it follows precise measurements unlike cooking), I know I needed to write it down or memorize it in order to make it perfect for next time.

Here's my latest "just got lucky" aka "tsamba" cookie recipe:

The Cookie Base and Easy Chocolate Flavoured Cookies

If you are like me who has this unstoppable cravings for sweets, I suggest you keep a cookie base mix in your cupboard so that when you have this sudden urge to eat something sweet, you can easily whip up a cookie or two.

Cookie Base (you can use this for at least 3 cookie recipe)


Mix the following ingredients:
5-6 cups of flour
1 cup of refined sugar
1 cup of brown sugar
1 teaspoon of baking soda
1 teaspoon of salt

Here's a good and simple recipe to start: