Frogpondsrock...

Chocolate, chocolate and more chocolate..

Look what arrived in the mail today.

I am feeling a little bit stunned by Mrs Oh’s amazing generosity. Well maybe stunned isn’t the proper word to use. How does totally gobsmacked, overwhelmed,thrilled to bits, and giddy with excitement sound instead?

Every time I pour my heart out, here on my blog, you my lovely internetz always hold me up and give me solace. Mrs Oh is a motherless woman as well and her thoughtful comments on my saddest posts always make me feel that is okay to miss Mum. Even though my grief causes Mrs Oh to be reminded of her own, she still takes the time to console me and because of that care and compassion I know that I am  not quite so alone.

This is the beautiful joy of blogging, the fabulous sense of friendship and community shared by bloggers who have never met in person but are privy to each others hopes and dreams, heartaches and despair.

And I thank each and every one of you for being my dearest internetz.

Now back to the chocolate. mmm.

I squealed with excitement when I saw these Almond joys.

I don’t know how to accurately describe the excitement of receiving a chocolate that I had only read about or seen in the movies. so you will just have to imagine me jumping up and down going SQUEEEE!

Then there were all these little treasures.Turtles and Watchamacallits and Hershey bars and Hershey kisses and and and…

Mmmmmmmmmmmmm.

Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

Thank you so much Mrs Oh. I am in chocolate heaven.

gluten-free… Choc Chip Cookies

I found this recipe and immediately I thought of Tiff and Ivy, as well as Hyphen-Mama. It looked like it would make pretty nice biscuits (cookies).

*note.. soy flour has a strong flavour and can be bitter, apparently the bitterness decreases with cooking.

*another note.. I haven’t cooked these bickies so if they are horrible, I am sorry.

INGREDIENTS:

125g(4 1/2oz) unsalted butter

3 tablespoons brown sugar

3 tablespoons castor (superfine) sugar

1 egg

1 teaspoon vanilla essence

110g (3 3/4 oz) fine rice flour

75g (2 1/2 oz) gluten free cornflour (cornstach)

3 tablespoons soy flour

1/2 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda

3 tablespoons of cocoa powder

200g (7 oz) chocolate chips

Preheat the oven to 170 degrees celcius (325 fahrenheit). Line three flat baking trays with baking paper.

In a medium bowl,cream the butter and sugars. add the egg and vanilla essence and beat well.

sift the flours,bicarbonate of soda and cocoa powder three times into a bowl (or mix well with a whisk to ensure they are well combined). add to the butter mixture and beat well. Stir in the chocolate chips.

place large tablespoons of the mixture on the baking trays. Bake for 8-10 minutes or until golden brown. Leave to cool on the trays for 5 minutes,then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.

I hope that these biscuits taste as good as they look. All the ingredients were available at my local supermarket.. cheers Kim