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The Cookie Diet

Posted by Julia Axelle | Miscellaneous | Wednesday 26 December 2007 9:45 am

The cookie diet is the diet for people who are hungry all of the time, and therefore eat a lot during the day. This is who the cookies will help. If you eat all day even if you’re not hungry, then this diet won’t help you, and you should try to find something else.
By not being as hungry, you will eat a lot less calories during the day. This in turn, will help you lose weight, almost like you weren’t even trying! So if you are hungry all day, and want to find an easy way to stop eating as much food, you might consider looking into the cookie diet.

Sweet Gourmet: Baking Chocolate Guide

Posted by Joseph | Miscellaneous | Wednesday 21 November 2007 1:23 pm

Several types of chocolate may be used when baking cookies, pies, cakes, bars, and other sweet treats. The amount of cocoa butter and sugar can affect the texture and taste of chocolate—from bitter to very sweet. Below is a quick guide to the most popular kinds of chocolate used in baked goods.

** UNSWEETENED CHOCOLATE – Unsweetened chocolate contains nothing but pure chocolate and cocoa butter. There’s no sugar added. This chocolate is dark in color and has a strong flavor.

** UNSWEETENED COCOA POWDER – Unsweetened cocoa powder is pure chocolate that’s had a majority of the cocoa butter removed.

** SEMISWEET AND BITTERSWEET CHOCOLATE – Semisweet and Bittersweet chocolate contains at least 35% pure chocolate. Cocoa butter and sugar have been added. This type of chocolate is often used in cookies and can be used interchangeably.

** MILK CHOCOLATE – Milk chocolate contains at least 15% of pure chocolate, and is mixed with cocoa butter, sugar, and milk solids. It has a creamy texture and is often used to make chocolate candy.

** WHITE CHOCOLATE – White chocolate is unique in that it contains no pure chocolate. However, it does have cocoa butter. Other ingredients are sugar and milk solids. When buying white chocolate for baking, be sure to check the label first to avoid confusing it with other similar looking white baking products.

** SWEET CHOCOLATE – Sweet chocolate contains at least 15% pure chocolate. Other ingredients are sugar and cocoa butter. Use sweet baking chocolate when you want your baked goods to have a rich chocolate flavor, without the bitterness of other types of chocolate.

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