TRAVELS (and more) WITH CECILIA BRAINARD: Baking Burned Chocolate Chip Cookies

Tuesday, December 30, 2014

Baking Burned Chocolate Chip Cookies

I'm baking Chocolate Chip Cookies today. I have an order to make burned cookies - yes, burned. It's a favorite in my husband's family.

I'm not a baker so I use Nestle Toll House dough, the one that comes in a tub in the refrigerated section of the supermarket, and I bake it longer than I should - very easy.

The burned chocolate chip cookie has a mild bitter taste, which can grow on you. It's also very crunchy versus moist and soft. I like it myself.

Enjoy the last days of 2014, and get ready for a wonderful 2015!

Cecilia Manguerra Brainard

Cecilia Manguerra Brainard's official website is ceciliabrainarddotcom. She is the award-winning author and editor of 22 books, including When the Rainbow Goddess Wept, The Newspaper Widow, Magdalena, Selected Stories, Vigan and Other Stories, and more. She edited Growing Up Filipino 1, 2, & 3, Fiction by Filipinos in America, Contemporary Fiction by Filipinos in America, and other books.. Her work has been translated into Finnish and Turkish; and many of her stories and articles have been widely anthologized. Cecilia has received many awards, including a California Arts Council Fellowship in Fiction, a Brody Arts Fund Award, a Special Recognition Award for her work dealing with Asian American youths, as well as a Certificate of Recognition from the California State Senate, 21st District, and the Outstanding Individual Award from her birth city, Cebu, Philippines. She has lectured and performed at UCLA, USC, University of Connecticut, University of the Philippines, PEN, Shakespeare & Company in Paris, and many others. She has served in the Board of literary arts groups such as PEN, PAWWA (Pacific Asian American Writers West), among others.