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French Baguettes

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French Baguettes
Super easy bread
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Prep Time
1 hr 30 min
Cook Time
15 min
Total Time
1 hr 45 min
Prep Time
1 hr 30 min
Cook Time
15 min
Total Time
1 hr 45 min
Proofing yeast
  1. 1/2 C warm water
  2. 2 envelopes dry yeast (1 1/2 tbps)
  3. 2 tbsp honey
Bread
  1. 1 C warm water
  2. 3 1/2 to 4 C AP flour
  3. 2 tsp salt
  4. 1 egg, beaten
  5. Vegetable oil for greasing bowl
Instructions
  1. 1. Mix 1/2 C warm water with the yeast and honey. Wait for about 5 minutes for the yeast to eat the honey, until its bubbly.
  2. 2. Mix the flour and salt together.
  3. 3. Pour the yeast mixture into the dry, and mix
  4. 4. Gradually add the 1 C warm water to the flour mix, only until the dough is slightly damp and holds its shape. You might not need to use the whole cup.
  5. 5. Knead the dough for 2-5 minutes--You can tell when it's about ready if the dough springs back if you push on it lightly with your thumb.
  6. 6. Lightly grease a bowl with vegetable oil. Let the dough sit in the bowl for an hour or so in a warm place, covered with a damp towel until it's about doubled in size
  7. 7. Shape the dough into 2 baguette sized pieces, let sit for another 30 minutes or so
  8. 8. Stick it in the oven for 15 minutes, at 450C. You can choose to use an egg wash to make the crust a bit more crunchy and shiny.
  9. 9. Yummy bread! 😀
Adapted from Kelsey Nixon
Adapted from Kelsey Nixon
sophie's blog http://blog.justsophie.com/

I love bread. But I love freshly baked bread and strawberry jam even more. Here’s a recipe I found for really incredibly easy french baguettes that ends up being pretty delicious. I was a bit nervous when I made these at first since I didn’t have a bread maker nor bread flour, but it turned out pretty well even when I worked the dough by hand. Bread that you eat after a bit of hard work tastes leagues better than bread anywhere else!

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-Sophie

Chocolate Chip Cookies

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Chocolate Chip Cookies
So delicious
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Prep Time
20 min
Cook Time
15 min
Prep Time
20 min
Cook Time
15 min
Dry
  1. 1 1/3 c AP flour
  2. 1/2 tsp baking soda
  3. 1/2 tsp baking powder
  4. 1/2 tsp salt
  5. 1/2 tsp cocoa powder (optional)
Wet
  1. 1/2 c softened butter
  2. 1/2 c brown sugar
  3. 1/2 c white sugar
  4. 1 egg
  5. 1 tsp vanilla extract
Extras
  1. 1 c semisweet chocolate chips
  2. walnuts? almonds? gummy bears?? whatever extra stuff you like!
Instructions
  1. 1. Preheat oven to 350F
  2. 2. Mix dry ingredients together well
  3. 3. Cream butter with sugar until you can't see clumps of butter anymore
  4. 4. Mix in egg and vanilla
  5. 5. Mix dry in wet
  6. 6. Pour in chocolate chips
  7. 7. Shape into vaguely ball shaped objects, and place on baking sheet well spaced.
  8. 8. Bake for 15 minutes, but check the oven around 10 minutes or so. Cookies should still be soft when coming out of the oven, as long as the bottom of the cookies are brown
  9. 8. Eat delicious cookies.
Notes
  1. Depending on the condition of the butter, the resulting dough may be either too crumbly or too watery. If too crumbly, use 1/2 tsp of milk to get the dough to form. If too watery, refrigerate the dough for 30 minutes or so until firm.
  2. Watery dough will cause the cookies to spread a lot and be really thin. Crumbly dough will make your cookies taste like rocks. Your preference though, haha.
sophie's blog http://blog.justsophie.com/
Chocolate chip cookies were the first things I ever baked. It was for a bake sale back in 4th grade, and I made the cookies from a mix. Because even back then I was a super baker and totally great at reading instructions, I left the cookies in the oven to cool instead of taking them out and rock hard cookies the next day, haha. (My teacher told me they were delicious anyways… Man, he was a great teacher. ;_;)

A decade later, I have refined the cookie baking process, and have come up with a recipe that seems to be received pretty well. The card is at the top of the post, but more detailed instructions and pictures will be below.

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