Double Chocolate Chip Cookies

Happy June!

Ok, so the kitchen is still being worked on. I swear it will take another month before I can get in there to bake again.

Today I have a recipe for you that I tried a little while back at the urging of my father who said it looked really good. It’s a different take on chocolate chip cookies. When you think of double chocolate you think of dark/milk and lots of it, but these cookies are double because they have both white chocolate and dark chocolate in them. If you are a white chocolate fan then these are a must try.

Double Chocolate Chip Cookies

You will need:

½ cup of butter or margarine

1 1/3 cup of white chocolate chips or chunks

4  eggs

1 ¼ cup of sugar

2 tsp. of vanilla

1 ½ cups of flour

½ tsp. of baking powder

¼ tsp. of salt

1 cup of semi sweet chocolate chips

In a glass bowl or measuring cup, melt your butter with the white chocolate. Stir up well.

Whip the eggs with the sugar and the vanilla in your mixer with the whisk attachment. Make sure it becomes pale and thick.

In a bowl, mix the flour, baking powder, and salt.

Now whisk the melted chocolate into the egg mixture.

Next, whisk the flour mix in and finally stir in the semi sweet chocolate chips.

Cover the batter and chill for at least 4 hours.

Once chilled, scoop and roll the dough into balls and place on a parchment lined cookie sheet.

Bake at 325 degrees for 18-20 minutes. They will look pale and cracked on the top but underneath 

will be nice and golden.

Cool and enjoy.

Beach Day - DIY's and Survival Kit

Hopefully you are ready for a beach day because that is the focus of this week’s blog post. The colour we chose is again in the Tarte eyeshadow palette and it is called “Beach Therapy” and it is a matte peachy/sandy shade.

Our focus is getting you beach ready so we have some great crafts that you can take with you on your beach day as well as a must pack list of items to make you comfortable for your beach day.

Crafty DIY’s

Something that is so easy and great to take with you to the beach, are DIY decorated flip flops. All you need is a pair of plain flip flops (you choose the colour you like) and then you can find some little adornments that you can hot glue gun to them. You can do a sparkly jewel theme, a shell theme, or any other idea that you may come up with. You can just attach one big flower to each and spruce up the plain pair of flip flops just like that!

Take a look at this for inspiration...

http://www.marciseither.com/diy-fabulous-flip-flops/

Another cool idea we saw was this beach hat. The one in the link below is inspired by a watermelon but you can do any pattern or design that you like. You just need to find a big straw sun hat and some craft/fabric paint and then you can create whatever you like and it’ll keep you protected at the beach and be a fashion statement! You can also add some ribbon (by hot gluing) or other decorative elements (by hot gluing or sewing) if you like.

https://studiodiy.com/2016/06/09/diy-watermelon-floppy-hat/

Something really cool that we found is a decorated cooler. Even your cooler should be stylish at the beach. For this one you’ll need a cooler, preferably a white one, and then you can paint it to a colour that you like and decorate it with vinyl pieces that you can cut out and make whatever shapes you want.

https://thecraftedlife.com/diy-cooler-makeover/#more-12407

Here are a few more things that you can make for the beach (an umbrella, a cover up, and a towel) which take a bit more effort to make. These do require some more skill, haha, so if you are adventurous, then give these a go.

https://sugarandcloth.com/diy-retro-beach-umbrella/

https://www.merricksart.com/diy-friday-pom-pom-trim-beach-coverup/

https://www.simplesimonandco.com/2015/05/simple-diy-beach-towel-tutorial.html/

Beach Day Survival Kit

Ok, so now it’s time to look at the must have in your beach bag for a perfect beach day!

Sunscreen

First Aid Kit (make sure you have band aids, alcohol swabs, after bite, antibiotic ointment/cream, allergy medicine, and a pain reliever)

Change of clothes and a towel

Cooler

Aloe Gel

Sunglasses

Hat

Beach Blanket

Beach Umbrella

Beach Chairs

Portable speaker

Hair Elastic/Brush

Card Games

A good book

Chapstick with SPF

Comfortable beach shoes (flip flops or sandals)

Sand Coasters

Sand Toys/Sand Castle Making Supplies

Sports Stuff (Frisbee, volleyball, baseball mitts, beach ball)

Rubber Dingy/Inflatable Toy or Boat

Towel Clips

Cool Drinks (juice boxes, pop, Gatorade, premade drinks in a bottle, water)

Snacks (fruits, veggies, cookies, chips, crackers, freezies if you have a good cooler)

Lunch/Dinner (sandwiches-egg salad is always a good cool one but any cold sandwich works such as cucumber, ham and cheese or roast beef, pasta salads are another great option, as are wraps, coleslaw, potato salad, bunwiches, cold fried chicken, green salad, and hot dogs)

Portable BBQ (if allowed)