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I saw this Red Tin Toy Truck as i was going up the escalator right outside Jusco Supermarket. Malcolm forgot to take his favorite “car-car” along with us that day. He wasnt happy and was sulking in his stroller.

Being the ever loving mom that i am, i went down to ask the girl if the Red Toy Truck is for sale or not. To my delight, she told me it is but it comes together with a packet of Famous Amos Cookies.

It was then that i realised that Malcolm has never tasted Famous Amos Cookies before. So, what the heck. It’s only Rm21.90, and Malcolm gets a new Toy Truck too. And yes, he became the happiest kid as soon as i handed him this Famous Amos Red Tin Toy Truck.

When was the last time you ate Famous Amos Cookies? It was so good that everything was gone in less than 10 minutes. Dare not buy anymore. Can be really heaty.

If you are a real Famous Amos Cookie fan, you can now bake famous Amos Cookie with this recipe. Someone sent me this Famous Amos Cookie Recipe long ago and claims it costs a whopping Rm250, ok.

Ingredients

2 cups butter
4 cups flour
2 tsp. baking soda
2 cups granulated sugar
2 cups brown sugar
5 cups blended oatmeal (measure oatmeal &
blend in blender
to a fine powder)
24 oz. chocolate chips
1 tsp. salt
18 oz. Cadbury bar (grated)
4 eggs
2 tsp. baking powder
3 cups chopped nuts (your choice)
2 tsp. vanilla

Method:

1) Cream the butter and both sugars.
2) Add eggs and vanilla; mix together with flour, oatmeal, salt, baking powder, and soda.
3) Add chocolate chips, Cadbury bar and nuts.
4) Roll into balls and place two inches apart on a cookie sheet.
5) Bake for 10 minutes at 375 degrees. Makes 122 cookies

Ever heard of The Gingerbread Man story? It’s about the Gingerbread Man who ran away as soon as the oven door is opened and in the end, got eaten by a fox. I no longer have the story book but if i see it at the bookstore one day, i will buy it back and read it to my kids as they munch on the Gingerbread Man cookies that i bake. I enjoyed the book very much when i was little.

And here’s my Gingerbread Man Cookie Recipe:

Ingredients:

(A)
60 g butter
100g sugar
pinch of salt

(B )
1 egg

(C)
170g golden syrup/honey

(D)
460g flour
2tsp ginger powder
1/2 tsp cinnamon powder
1tsp Baking soda

Method:

1) Mix (A) till well combined. Add in (B) and cream till smooth.
2) Add in (C), then (D) and mix till well blended.
3) Rest the mixture for 15 minutes. Roll it out to a thickness of around 3mm and cut it using a Gingerbread Man cookie cutter.
5) Bake at 180 deg Celcius for 15 minutes.
6) Once cooled, decorate with royal icing.

Royal icing recipe:

180g icing sugar
1 egg white

Method:

Mix icing sugar and egg white till smooth and of spreading consistency. For a softer icing, use an extra egg white. For stiffer icing, add extra icing sugar.

Hope you like my Gingerbread Man Cookie recipe. It’s a great Christmas cookie recipe. If you dont have a Gingerbread Man cookie cutter, you can get it here:

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Betty Crocker is well known for her cook books and recipes. We do have quite a lot of Betty Crocker ready mixes here. And today, i feel like baking some Betty Crocker Chocolate Chips Cookies with my Philips toaster oven.

Here’s the contents of half a packet of Betty Crocker Chocolate Chip Cookies Mix.

Just need to add butter and one egg to it.

Mix the cookie dough up to a nice lump like what you see here. Can you see the chocolate chips in the dough?

Next, take the baking paper out and cut them to the size of my baking sheet. It’s actually the one that came with my Philips toaster oven.

Spooned the cookie dough onto the baking sheet.

Here’s Malcolm watching me preparing the cookies to go into the toaster oven whilst munching on a cracker.

I managed to get 27 cookies with this batch using half a box of the Betty Crocker Chocolate Chips Cookies Mix.

This is the first tray inside the toaster oven set to 180 degrees Celsius. Bake for about 10 minutes.

Here’s Malcolm testing the first cookie that i baked using the Philips toaster oven. It’s still warm but how to stop a hungry kid, you tell me. The second batch is already inside the oven…..

And after 45 minutes, all my Chocolate Chips cookies are ready. Not bad. Geeeeee…. had better go dig out my Joy Of Making Cookies Recipe Book By Alex Goh. Write a few siple cookies recipe down and head to the baking supplies store on my next trip to town. If possible i’ll substitute all the ingredients with organic baking ingredients. Better mah.

And it’s also time i go get myself a proper oven. The thing now is how big an oven should i buy? 40ltr plus enough or not? I’ve baked brownies, cakes, muffins and now, cookies with my Philips toaster oven. If you’ve been asking yourself, “Can i bake cookies using a toaster oven?”, Yes, it can be done if you are a casual cook like me.

But if you want to bake large batches for festive seasons like Christmas and Chinese New Year, it’s only sane to use a bigger oven, right. If not, you can see how much work needs to be done in order to get 27 cookies, lol. I’ll be out hunting for an oven these days. Hope i find one that fits my budget.