The Baking Medic

Wow. 2011 gone already. I once heard that time seems to more quickly as you age. Each year that passes by is a smaller fraction of your life. When you’re four years old, a year is a quarter of your existence! By now, as I edge further into my twenties, I find myself thinking ‘Really? Today is Dec 31? It’s that time of year already?’.

This past year was a busy year for me. I continue to live up to my title ‘The Baking Medic’, trying to bake every week if I can. Despite my best efforts, not everything that I bake is shared on this blog. Sometimes there is just no time to take a good photograph before it is all gobbled up!

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I am beginning to think there are two magic ingredients in baking: cream cheese and condensed milk.  In the past, I have made various desserts that taste heavenly but are so simple and easy it almost seems impossible. Without fail, they have contained either condensed milk or cream cheese. Some that use cream cheese include my white chocolate mousse, my cream cheese icing, my chocolate chip cookie cheese cake brownies. As for condensed milk, it is a key ingredients in my chocolate fudge, banoffee pie and homemade ice cream.  This recipe uses both! And little else.

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Last night I was struck by a craving to bake. Do you know the feeling? When you just. need. to. bake. However, at 5.30pm I was reluctant to try and brave the hordes of other students buying dinner at Tescos so I was restricted to what storecupcoard ingredients I had. Luckily with me being me, there is almost always chocolate, butter, flour and sugar in the house. A few eggs generously donated by a flatmate (perhaps with a vested interest in the products of said baking…?). And finally a quick look in the fridge revealed a tub of cream cheese. Et voila! Everything you need to make these absolutely heavenly Chocolate Chip Cookies Bars right at your fingertips.

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