Adventure #5: Chocolate Chip Lava Cookies

            Over the weekend Garrett and I reunited in the kitchen and completed adventure #5. Garrett thought that I was entirely too successful without him in the previous adventure, so when he suggested that we bake another dessert, I agreed. My hope was that this dessert would prove to be as fun and simple as the last and would therefore boost Garrett’s confidence. Together, we baked chocolate chip lava cookies, and they turned out great!

            In order to complete our adventure, we had to first accomplish step one, shopping. This shopping experience was the easiest by far. We already had almost all of the ingredients needed to make the cookies. In fact, we were only lacking two, so we set off for the store in search of chocolate chips and vanilla ice cream.

We arrived at the grocery store, quickly found the items we needed, and checked out. I should note, however, that there was one minor dilemma with this task. As poor college students, spending almost six dollars on ice cream simply could not be justified, so we had to weigh our options and settle for the cheapest brand, Always Save. It was after the decision was made that we checked out and headed home where we embarked on step two, baking.

First, we preheated the oven to 350 degrees. We then gathered all of the ingredients needed which include the following:

 ½ cup (1 stick) butter, softened

½ cup light brown sugar, packed
½ cup granulated sugar
1 large egg
½ tablespoon vanilla extract
1 ¾ cups all purpose flour
½ teaspoon salt
½ teaspoon baking soda
1 bag milk chocolate chips

I began combining several of the ingredients in order to make the dough while Garrett worked on melting the chocolate chips. I was very skeptical of the method used to melt the chocolate chips, which included placing them in a Ziploc bag and microwaving them. I thought that the bag would melt in the microwave along with the chocolate, but Garrett assured me that only the chocolate would melt, not the bag.

            When the dough and chocolate were ready, we flattened individual pieces and placed them in a muffin tin. We added the melted chocolate to each cookie and then topped them with another cookie. We then placed the cookies in the oven and baked them for 20 minutes.

 

 

            The timer soon sounded, and we removed the cookies from the oven. We let them cool for several minutes and then we each had our own chocolate chip lava cookie topped with vanilla ice cream. The batch consisted of ten cookies of which Garrett, my mother, and I each got one while my brother got seven! Needless to say, they were delicious!

            Adventure #5 was completed successfully, proving that Garrett and I are exceptional bakers. We still have a lot of room for improvement when it comes to cooking though, so we won’t be baking another dessert anytime soon. What should our next adventure be?

 

The full recipe for chocolate chip lava cookies can be found here http://www.kevinandamanda.com/whatsnew/new-recipes/chocolate-chip-lava-cookies.html