Whatcha Making Wednesdays .... Chocolate Chunk Cookies...

Welcome to Whatcha Making Wednesdays...This week my K4 class made Nestle Tollhouse Chocolate Chunk cookies... (Yummy!)... the ingredients and directions are located on the back of the chocolate chunk package... I have also listed them below....

Adding some flour to the mixture...

Putting in some chocolate chunks...

The finished cookies...

Ingredients

• 2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 cup (2 sticks) butter or margarine
• 3/4 cup granulated sugar
• 3/4 cup packed brown sugar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 2 large eggs
• 1 3/4 cups (11.5-oz. pkg.) NESTLÉ® TOLL HOUSE® Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chunks
• 1 cup chopped nuts

Directions

PREHEAT oven to 375º F.

COMBINE flour, baking soda and salt in small bowl. Beat butter, granulated sugar, brown sugar and vanilla extract in large mixer bowl until creamy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Gradually beat in flour mixture. Stir in chunks and nuts. Drop by rounded tablespoon onto ungreased baking sheets.

BAKE for 9 to 11 minutes or until golden brown. Cool on baking sheets for 2 minutes; remove to wire racks to cool completely.

PAN COOKIE VARIATION:
GREASE 15 x 10-inch jelly-roll pan. Prepare dough as above. Spread into prepared pan. Bake for 20 to 25 minutes or until golden brown. Cool in pan on wire rack. Makes 4 dozen bars.

FOR HIGH ALTITUDE BAKING (3,500 to 6,000 feet): Increase flour to 2 1/2 cups. Add teaspoons water with the flour; reduce both granulated sugar and brown sugar to 2/3 cup each. Bake drop cookies for 8 to 10 minutes and pan cookie for 17 to 19 minutes.

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Baking with Ryleigh...Chocolate Chip Cookies...

During class the girls made Chocolate Chip Cookies (Nestle Tollhouse- recipe on the back of the package of chips)... great way to use many skills- listening and following directions, colors (I color coordinate the bowls), fine motor, math (measuring) and science (how and why do the cookies rise?)... but best of all they are just yummy!
The girls adding their eggs...

Using lots of arm strength to stir the dough...

Spooning in the flour...

Adding the chips...

Luckily...Braeden woke up from his nap... just in time to help taste the cookies with the girls... my favorite part is the hair...

Here he is saying..."cookieeeeeeeeeeeeee"....

Taking a bite...

Grumpy that it is not more chocolate-ie ....

Decides to eat it anyway... but decides he will not be happy about it...

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stART - If you give a mouse a cookie

A story + Art = a great stART!!!


This week we read If You Give A Mouse A Cookie, by Laura Numeroff... very cute book that goes through a series of events...if you give them a cookie they will want milk...which leads to something else...eventually ending up back at the Mouse will want a cookie...

For our project we made a cake...that was cut into bite sized squares...making it a cookie? We used a yellow cake mix; then swirled in some chocolate sauce (making it marbled); added some butterscotch chips throughout the top; and eventually topped it with a little bit of powdered sugar...Very Yummy....


Ryleigh adding the "wet" ingredients to the mixture...

Stirring the batter...I LOVE these cooking utensils (as does Ryleigh)...
the bendy legs and arms get me every time...

Ryleigh adding the butterscotch chips to the top...I didn't get any pictures of the chocolate being added...because I added it..and then used a knife to swirl it...

The finished yummy project....we cut them into little bite sized squares...

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