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Chewy Choco Chips Almond Cookies @ Almost Famous Amos Cookies

Ingredients

♦ 2 cups (454 g) butter
♦ 4 cups (440g) flour
♦ 2 tsp. baking soda
♦ 2 cups (450g) granulated sugar
♦ 2 cups (400g) brown sugar
♦ 5 cups blended oatmeal (fine powder)
♦ 24 oz (680g) choco chips
♦ 1 tsp salt
♦ 18 oz (510g) Cadbury bar (grated)
♦ 4 eggs
♦ 2 tsp baking powder
♦ 3 cups chopped nuts (your choice)
♦ 2 tsp vanilla


Ingredients (Quarter of the above recipe)

♦ 113g butter
♦ 1 cup (110g) flour
♦ 1/2 tsp. baking soda
♦ 112.5g granulated sugar
♦ 100g) brown sugar
♦ 1.6 cups blended oatmeal (fine powder)
♦ 170g choco chips
♦ 1/4 tsp salt
♦ 127g Cadbury bar (grated)
♦ 1 eggs
♦ 1/2 tsp baking powder
♦ 3/4 cups chopped nuts (your choice)
♦ 1/2 tsp vanilla

Preparation

♬ Melt butter over low heat and set aside to cool
♬ Sift flour, salt and baking soda into paper plate
♬ Pour butter into mixer bowl and add sugar and brown sugar (beat for 2 mins medium speed)
♬ Whisk whole egg and add into mixture (beat in low speed)
♬ Mix until thoroughly combined about 30 seconds
♬ Gradually integrate dry ingredients
♬ Once flour is worked in, drop the speed to "stir" and add choco chips (or stir manually)
♬ Chill dough for 1 hour
♬ Preheat oven to 190 degree Celsius
♬ Put into the oven (6 mins or till a lil' brown)
♬ Leave in oven for 3-5 mins

Note:

I just scooped the dough out using a fork and didn't shape it. =)

Flat New York Cheese Cake

Crust Ingredients

♥ 3/4 cup ground digestive crackers
♥ 1 1/2 tbsp sugar
♥ 1 1/2 tbsp butter

Cheese Cake Filling Ingredients

♥ 250g cream cheese
♥ 75g (1/3 cup) superfine caster sugar
♥ 1 egg
♥ 20 ml (1 tbsp) lemon juice
♥ 100 ml whipped cream
♥ 1 1/2 tsp corn flour
♥ 1/2 tsp vanilla
♥ 2-3 tsp white choco chips (additional)

Preparation

♬ Preheat oven to 150 degrees Celsius
♬ Mix crust ingredients and press crumbs onto the bottom of pans (7 or 8 inch)
♬ Bake for 7 mins and leave to cool
♬ Combine cream cheese, sugar and vanilla (medium speed)
♬ Add eggs (low speed)
♬ Add whipped cream, lemon juice, and flour
♬ Bake at 150 degrees Celsius for 30 mins or until center of cheesecake is almost set
♬ Turn off oven and let it sit form 10-15 mins
♬ Use knife or metal spatula to run around the sides of pan to loosen
♬ Refrigerate 4 hours or overnight

Note:

Substitute for crusts: choco digestive cracker crumbs, choco wafer cookies, bread crumbs, vanilla wafer crumbs, ground granola crumbs mixed with ground hazelnuts