"Baking-crazy" and a Virtual party !

Not a very fancy and content-packed post but that doesn't imply it lacks punch !

Until now, I have been doing all my baking in a microwave oven, that too a basic one. Like a frog in a well, I was pretty pleased with the end results and always thought/assumed oven-baked goodies are just well-browned and looked better. Oh boy have I been wrong ! It was not until very recently that I was introduced to the conventional oven baking.  And I have been absolutely floored with the results. They are don't just look uber-cool but tastes infinitely better. What have I been thinking ?!?!

As expected, things at my end are getting a little out of hand. I have been baking non-stop everyday for the past one week !

Anyways, the end products in one week are: 2 pizzas, 2 sets of chocolate-chip cookies 

(almost 16 cookies per session), Lemon cake, Fudgy chocolate brownie. 

My husband and other family friends ( or well-wishers as they call themselves) have declared me baking-crazy and are almost on the verge of announcing an intervention ! Would have sounded more convincing if they didn't so happily munch on the bakes. ;-) That gave me enough motivation to keep my (baking) adrenaline pumping ! Oh noo..! I hear our weighing scales giving out a feeble cry for the exhaustion to be soon imposed on it.

But I must justify that I have adequate reasons for all my baking like; dessert for a dinner party or for the poor aunty who needed to try out pizza making in the oven before her hostel-dwelling son arrives for the holidays or to satiate my baking instinct ( Yes..it counts!)

That was when I remembered the virtual party being hosted by Roshni of Doux Project on the occasion of Friendship's day. Ah ! What more better excuse can I get ? 

So this chewy and yumm choc-chip cookie from Maria's Menu ( which I declare to be my bible for not just baking but all kinds of cuisines) is virtually being sent for the party,which incidentally happens to be the first event I am participating in and has been physically sent to my childhood best friend in the US through her parents.  

Being the first actual cookie recipe that I have tried out, I was super happy as it gave me the texture just as how I had wanted it to be- crisp edges and chewy centre. The recipe has been adapted verbatim from the source and hence not pasting it again over here. Just made the exception of using white sugar only as I didn't have brown sugar in stock.








So, Happy Friendship's day to all of you out  there. Here's to friendships- old, new, virtual, physical!