Mini Carrot Cakes

I'm back! Having a baby is an amazing experience, but it took me a while to feel normal and capable again. Baby Thomas is almost 3 months old now and he seems so big already. I love him so much!

Born February 27, 2013 at 8:08 pm

Our family of 3! James, Cami, and Thomas

Okay now to get to the point... a Dish & Serve post! Courtney from baxtronlife.com is behind this wonderful experience. Check out her blog, she is very down to earth and blogs about a variety of things. Courtney, thank you for finding a way to do a Dish & Serve and for taking so many great photos, too! Courtney's words:

Our little family loves to spend time cooking and baking together in the kitchen. When DeAnn from the S.I.P. Project asked me to share a recipe for her Dish & Serve series on her blog, I was delighted. Now, since we've been away on an extended business trip in Alaska, it wasn't a matter of finding a great recipe to share, it was figuring out who to give the treats to once they were made. Luckily we've become friends with two other business travelers who work for my husband's company. Since one of them isn't big on sweets, we decided to find out what kind of things the other one would like --- carrot cake was her choice, and Zion loves cooking cupcakes, so it was easy to decide on making mini carrot cakes!

After we got our cupcakes cooking in the oven, it was time to make a delicious cream cheese frosting. Now, anyone who makes frosting from scratch will tell you that it is no easy task to do by hand. Since we don't have a hand mixer up here where we are staying, I used the next best thing --- my strong husband! After much elbow grease and a slight variation on the ingredients to make it easier, we finished our delicious frosting.

We taste tested a few of the cupcakes to make sure we weren't going to be sending over any disasters to our friend, and then packed up several to bring to her. We knew she'd love them and couldn't wait to see her reaction!

She was thrilled to receive some home made goodies, especially since she has been away from home much longer than we have been! I loved seeing Zion proudly hand over the cupcakes she had made.

I loved the pictures, but loved Courtney's adorable little girl helping her daddy make the cupcakes even more. That is just too sweet. Courtney, great job capturing the surprise on the face of the cupcake recipient! I am wishing I had a carrot cupcake now! Please email me if you have a Dish & Serve experience you would like to share, I would love to post it! Cami at dish.n.serve@gmail.com

Mini Carrot Cakes (Variation of recipe from paleomg.com)

Prep- 10 min, Cook- 20 min, Serves- 10-12

Ingredients
For the carrot cupcakes

3 large carrots, shredded (about 1.5 cups worth)
1 cup almond flour/meal
2 eggs, whisked
¼ cup Virgin Coconut Oil, melted
1 tablespoon raw honey
1 tablespoon cinnamon
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 teaspoon nutmeg
½ teaspoon ginger
¼ teaspoon cloves
½ teaspoon baking soda
½ teaspoon baking powder
pinch of salt
¼ cup chopped walnuts (optional)
¼ cup raisins (optional)

Preheat your oven to 350 degrees.

Put your shredded carrots in a bowl, mix in almond flour, follow with remaining dry ingredients except for raisins and walnuts.

Whisk your eggs in a small bowl, add honey and vanilla and stir until mixed.

Add egg mixture to other ingredients and mix together.

Fold in raisins & walnuts if using.

Place cupcake ingredients into a muffin tin lined with paper liners . Should fill 10-12 muffins depending on size.

Bake for 18-20 minutes.

Easy Mixer-free Cream Cheese Frosting (Recipe from spinachtiger.com)

12 ounces whipped cream cheese (1 1/2 containers)

5 tablespoons pastured butter, softened

5 1/2 - 6 cups confectioner’s sugar

3 tablespoons of heavy cream 

2 teaspoons real vanilla extract

Cream butter and cream cheese together.

Add in confectioners’ sugar, one cup at a time until about 5 cups have been added.

Add in heavy cream and vanilla.

Add an additional 1/2 to 1 cup of confectioners' sugar

Beat until fluffy.

Manicotti for Lunch?

This Dish & Serve is brought to you by one of my bestest friends since the 7th grade! That's a long time people! This is Renae, she now lives in FL and she had a great experience with her first Dish & Serve, she even decided to do another one! That means in the near future I will post her second Dish & Serve all about beautiful *pink* PB cookies. Yeah, you have got to see that one! This is how Renae chose to Dish & Serve:

I work at a local bakery with two other people. We are always extremely busy and hardly ever have any time for breaks. I usually take my own lunch each day and on Fridays, dinner because we usually work from 9 am to 10 pm.  My two co-workers most of the time go get fast food, or order Domino's pizza which is right next door on a daily basis. I decided that they should have a home cooked meal! I took them a homemade manicotti dish and also took some frozen garlic break since that is what I enjoy with my manicotti! They were really appreciative :) 

Manicotti Recipe:

Manicotti Shells (7 shells, feeds 3-4)

Marinara sauce (1/2 Jar)

Ricotta Cheese (about 3/4 of a small 15 oz container)

Cream Cheese (1 block)

Shredded Mozzarella Cheese (1-1.5 cups)

Pepper, garlic salt, Red Crushed peppers

Flat serving tray

Boil Manicotti shells, see directions on the box.

Brown the meat, season with pepper, garlic salt, and crushed red peppers to liking.In a separate bowl mix ricotta, cream cheese and half the mozzarella (save some for the top!). Once the meat is done combine it with the cheese mixture.

Stuff the shells with your creamy delicious mixture, Easiest way to stuff is get a large ziploc bag, cut a small slice off the corner andput your mix in the bag. I have also used a spoon or butter knife but takes longer!

In your flat serving tray, spread some marinara sauce to cover the bottom. Place stuffed manicottis in a row, cover with marinara sauce and top with shredded mozzarella cheese! Bake in the over until marinara sauce is boiling. 

I know this recipe is delicious, Renae sent it to me over a year ago and I had to try it! Thank you, Renae for sharing your experience and this great recipe!

 How will you Dish & Serve? Contact me at dish.n.serve@gmail.com

-Cami

Sweetie Pies

Another Dish & Serve post I am so excited about! My good friend, Casandra, made these delicious-looking pies. So many of us bake/ cook things and take them to someone in need, someone we love, or someone we randomly thought about. I love the whole idea of Dish & Serve, it can be as easy or complex as we have time for. Serving others can be fun and delicious!

Casandra's words:

 I took them to my family because they have done so much for Michael and I and also to my visiting teachers. I am just trying to get to know them so I thought a treat would be a good way to go over there and start to build a relationship with them. I took one to Sam because she loves Apple Pie and is pretty busy this semester so I just thought I would let her know that someone is thinking about her and that someone loves her. 

By way of explanation, Michael is Casandra's husband and they have been married for about 4 months. Visiting teachers are friends from church, and Sam is another good friend of mine and Casandra's. What a girl! She took them to 3 different groups of people. That is a convenient thing about baked goodies, they can be divvied up and taken to many different people.

Now for this recipe and a great picture, I want to try these!

Sweetie Pies

 

Recipe is slightly adapted from the one found at www.ourbestbites.com

Pie Crust

2 cups all-purpose flour

2/3 cup and 2 TBS Crisco shortening

4-6 TBS ice-cold water (or more if needed)

1 tsp salt

Apple Pie Filling (combine all ingredients below):

2 medium tart green apple, peeled and grated

1/2 tsp ground cinnamon

2 tablespoon packed brown sugar

2 tablespoon flour

1 tablespoon lemon juice

2 tablespoon cold butter, grated

Glaze (Whisk all ingredients until smooth):

1/2 cup powdered sugar

1 tablespoon butter, melted

1-3 tsp milk (Add milk until desired consistency is reached)

2 drops of food coloring

Mix flour and salt together in a mixing bowl. Cut in shortening using a pastry blender until the pieces are pea sized. Sprinkle 2 TBS of water over part of the mixture and gently toss with a fork. Push to side of bowl and repeat until all is moistened. Form into two bowls and put in fridge to cool. While dough chills make the apple pie filling.

After it’s made take the dough out of fridge and flatten dough with hands on a lightly floured surface. Roll dough out until about 1/8 inch thick. Preheat over to 375 and line cookie sheet with parchment paper.

Cut the dough with a heart shaped cookie cutter. Place filling in the middle, keeping it at least ¼ inch away from the edges. Wet your finger with water and wet the edge of the pie dough shape. Wet the edges of the 2nd pie dough shape (one without filling) and place on top of the other.  Press them together gently with your fingers to seal the pieces together.  Use a fork to crimp edges, being careful to seal edges around the stick.  Poke a fork into top of pie one time so steam can vent. Brush with butter and sprinkle with sugar or leave plain and put a glaze on it afterwards.

Bake pies for 15-20 minutes until barely golden. If you use a glaze, spoon over pies while they are still warm. Cool completely and package how desired.

The pie cutter I used was about 4" and made 7 pies.

Hope you all had a fantastic Valentine's Day and weekend!

-Cami

You Don't Have to Cook to Serve

Hooray for the first Dish & Serve post I have been involved with! This is Cami, and I am very excited about helping to get Dish & Serve posts happening regularly. Please let me know if you would like to participate in this wonderful experience: dish.n.serve@gmail.com



I have found that almost all of us do this already, what Dish & Serve is all about I mean. We make cookies and take them to friends, we make dinner for someone who just had a baby (I did this yesterday!) or make fresh bread and deliver to someone having a hard time. But not everyone enjoys cooking or baking, and there is a good option for those who aren't so enthusiastic about having someone else try their food creation.

My good friend, Becky, shared this experience for Dish & Serve:

    The other day I was called by a friend from church and asked to bring dinner to another lady from church whom we both had never met because she hasn't attended in a while. Her brother just passed away unexpectedly and her mind has been so preoccupied that she could use some meals for her family to give her one less thing to worry about. Well my week was pretty swamped and I wasn't sure when I'd have time or what I would make as I don't cook much (for good reason)! However I guess felt obligated to say yes. I should have been more willing because it was such a sweet experience.

    Since I'm not a great cook and didn't have time to go to the grocery store, I decided I would just order her family some Chinese food. Who doesn't love take out for free? When I arrived, this woman was so sweet. She invited me into her home and introduced me to her son and told me what was going on in her family and spent some time getting to know me as well. Although I didn't stay long, I expected to just drop off the food and leave so it was a pleasant surprise. She was just so welcoming and when I left I felt inclined to give her a hug so I did and she willingly received it. It really made my day to visit this woman I had never met and it reminded me what a sweet experience it is to serve!

Becky didn't mention here that she just had a baby 2 months ago! It's not like she has a lot of time on her hands, so this shows that even when we are busy, there is always a way to help others and take the focus off ourselves. Thank you Becky for sharing this experience!

Here is a wonderful recipe I made yesterday and delivered to our friends that just had a baby boy. I am almost 8 months pregnant myself so I am not up for standing in the kitchen for hours, which is why I love my Crock-pot. This comes from the Taste of Home cookbook, but can also be found on their website, click on recipe title to go directly to webpage. 

                                                     Fiesta Chicken Burritos

8 Servings

Ingredients

• 1-1/2 pounds boneless skinless chicken breasts
• 1 can (15-1/4 ounces) whole kernel corn, drained
• 1 can (15 ounces) black beans, rinsed and drained
• 1 can (10 ounces) diced tomatoes and green chilies, undrained
• 1 jalapeno pepper, seeded and finely chopped
• 3 tablespoons ground cumin
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon paprika
• 1/2 teaspoon pepper
• Dash cayenne pepper
• Dash crushed red pepper flakes
• 1 package (8 ounces) reduced-fat cream cheese, cubed
• 8 flour tortillas (8 inches), warmed
• Optional toppings: Daisy Brand Sour Cream, shredded cheddar cheese, shredded lettuce and chopped tomatoes

Directions

• Place chicken in a greased 4-qt. slow cooker. In a large bowl,
• combine the corn, beans, tomatoes, jalapeno and seasonings; pour
• over chicken. Cover and cook on low for 4-5 hours or until chicken
• is tender.
• Remove chicken; cool slightly. Shred meat with two forks and return
• to the slow cooker. Stir in cream cheese. Cover and cook 15 minutes
• longer or until heated through.
• Spoon 3/4 cup chicken mixture down the center of each tortilla; add toppings

Hope you enjoyed my first post!

- Cami

Dish & Serve - Peach Crostata

Peach Crostata

A big thank you to Deborah of ....

                                                                                               for today's Dish & Serve...

I took this quote from her about page, "I love the people I cook for and I want them to live long healthy lives, so when I feed them, I want to feed them well. Friends say that dining at my house is like receiving "spa treatment". Everyone can use a little retreat from the demands of everyday life....even if that retreat lasts only as long as a meal with family and friends." I just love that, don't you!? I want to stop writing this post and make this peach crostata right now or better yet make my way over to Deborah's house for some "spa treatment" thinks she will mind??? I have never attempted something like this but I love crust and I love peaches sounds like a win, win to me! Have you ever made a crostata?

Dish -

Peach Crostata

This makes 2 small crostatas or 1 large. I prefer to make 2 small, as they are easier to transport.

For the crust

2 cups all-purpose flour

¼ cup granulated sugar

¾ teaspoon salt

8 oz unsalted butter, chilled and cut into approximately 16-20 cubes

6 tablespoons ice-cold water

Directions

In a food processor, combine flour, sugar and salt. Cut in butter until mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Add the water and stir until mixture forms a ball. Turn the dough out onto a lightly floured board and form into 2 disks. Wrap in plastic and refrigerate for 1-2 hours (or overnight). Do not over work the dough. You want to be able to see flecks of the butter.

For the filling

5-6 ripe white peaches, sliced

For the crumb topping

¼ cup brown sugar

¼ cup white sugar

1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon

1/8 tsp salt

4 tablespoons unsalted butter, chilled and diced

Egg Wash

1 whole egg and 1 egg white whipped together in a bowl

Directions

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper and set aside.

In a bowl mix all ingredients. Roll dough rounds out to an 11-inch diameter. Trim out 11” circle and discard leftover dough. Place dough on cookie sheet. Fan out fruit to 9” diameter. Brush egg wash on 2” remaining dough.

Fold exposed dough over fruit. It should leave an open center to the crostata of about 6 to 7 inches. Egg wash the exterior dough. Add a few small chunks of butter to center of crostata. Sprinkle entire top with crumble mixture.

Bake at 350 degrees for approximately 20 minutes or until the crust is a flaky golden brown.

Serve with scoops of vanilla ice cream or frozen vanilla yogurt.

Serve -
"I have a very close family friend whose husband has been diagnosed with vertigo after two scary trips to the ER.  These turn of events have impacted the daily lives of  my friend, her husband, and their immediate family.  Vertigo attacks can come on without warning and they leave her husband sick and practically bedridden for days after each attack.  He no longer drives independently because he’s afraid of having an attack while behind the wheel, so his wife drives him to wherever he needs to go.  My friend and her husband are into healthy whole foods, and they have all but done away with sugar in their home…but my friend has had her eye on my peach crostata for a few weeks now…and she’s mentioned  how much she’d like to try a slice.  This peach crostata has little sugar in it and if you omit the crumble topping, it has even less.  So, I decided to surprise her with a peach crostata sans the crumble topping.  However…I did take with me a small container of Haagen Dazs Frozen Vanilla Yogurt.  You have to have just teeny little spoonful of the vanilla yogurt melting on the crostata slice to experience the full effect.  It’s pure heaven!"   


Don't we all know someone who could use a little brightening to their day? Do you need a little brightening to your day? Then bust out your favorite recipe and take it to someone else! Take a few pics write a few lines and you have a Dish & Serve post. Okay the last part is optional but I would love it if someone volunteered to do one, don't make me call on you...


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Hope you enjoyed today's post my friends! Thank you for all that you do! 

SIP Summer Camp - A Ray of Sunshine Craft

    

My kids patience with me taking photos has been VERY limited. The photo above was the best I could get in the 3mins they let me take photos of them modeling the service craft we did. She must be saying something to him in Tagalog cause he looks confused.

The service craft is a card holder. You make the card holder and write 10 cards or however many you want to the SAME person. The idea. Say you know someone who is battling cancer or some other disease or ailment. Or just anyone you want to shower with love or you know is having a hard time in some way. We are sending one to my grandma who lives alone and stays pretty busy but I know she gets really lonely. I don't live close enough to her to be there and give her a hug and hang out very often.  So when she feels the sky is looking pretty grey she can pull out an instant ray of sunshine to push those clouds away and pull in some sun. You can also tell the person to hang on to the card holder so you can replenish it when it's empty.

 Also if you don't feel like you can write 10 cards to one person - find small cards, cheating? Not if you are a person who isn't long winded like me. Just find a card size you know you fill up.Put your favorite quotes on the cards and share why the quote lifts you up. Tell them about how they have helped lift you in the past. Or just share fond memories the two of you have had together. Write a joke you know will really make them LOL.

In my head as I pictured how this activity would go with my kids I imagined me imparting to my kids the true value of service and how it makes us and others happy. Yeah...well it didn't go that way. I procrastinated putting this post up because I felt like I failed. But I know it's better to try and fail then not to have tried at all. My husband told me I didn't fail but I still kinda feel like I failed. I know they must have gotten something out of it...right? I know I learned a few things like what was I thinking my kids can't write yet, which makes it harder to do the important part, writing heartfelt cards. Yeah I can fill them out for them which I planned on doing but they also have a hard time really thinking about the person in a meaningful way. I am one of those parents who looks at toys and the age will say 8+ on the box and I will think oh...my 3 year old will totally love this, and I am wrong %90 of the time. This is one of those moments. Here is what I would do differently

-Pick a time when kids are the mellowest during the day or do something to help them focus or mellow out a little.

-Do the activity in 3 parts, you know your kids and if you think you can bust it out in one shebang go for it. 

1) make craft 

2) Talk to your kids about people you are writing cards to, and discuss service and why you do it and when (I did my best at this). Take a break, a few hours a day whatever works for you. 

3) come back and write cards.

Making the craft 

1) Glue scrapbook paper onto card board. 

No he's not playing air maracas he is pounding the paper onto the cardboard after he glued it on.

2)Cut scrap book paper out that you glued to cardboard with razor.

3) Paint card pockets. We used acrylic paint which took two coats of paint. I think spray painting would work great but I am not letting my 5 year old do that. The card board bends really easy so either measure out how big you want it to be and then make your folds or cut a small box that already has the folds (where the flaps are) so you don't have to measure it all out.

Here's my theory, we are all bipolar kids just don't know how to hide it like adults. Two pictures below taken within a few minutes of each other.

 Moving on...

4) Glue card pocket onto scrapbook paper with hot glue gun. Glue trim or ribbon on if you want to fancy it up some. I think it would be cute to glue a pom pom trim around 3 sides. Depending on your kids ages they will be able to do more or less of this craft. Some kids may enjoy using a Silhouette this is where it could come in handy, it would look much better to print out what you want it to say. As you can see my hand writing isn't great, maybe I should just tell them Zaya wrote it. Which I would have had her do if she had wanted to. If I were smart I would have done this with my talented scrapbooking friend Misty. If anyone does this project I would love to see your completed work, upload it onto The SIP project Facebook page so I can see it, please :) 

5) Make a stand for the back of your card holder and glue on with hot glue gun. Attach ribbon with hot glue to keep the cardboard stand from sliding out.

Your done with the craft!

I also thought I would share a game my husband used to do with his family growing up. This was great  to do while paint was drying. It's called Don't Eat Pete! Take a bunch of M&M's and put them on the table. Have one person turn around so they can't see the candy. Pick an M&M and name it Pete. Have the person turn around and start eating the M&M's one by one. When they pick up Pete everyone yells DON'T EAT PETE!!! It's easy and the kids love it!

My daughter is looking up at my husband wondering if she has Pete.

 The next day. My son was being super cooperative when it came time to write cards. Zaya got frustrated with the writing part. I had her practice on paper before she wrote it on the cards. I know the biggest thing is to keep trying, learn from my mistakes and don't give up. Teaching my kids about serving others is not going to happen all in one moment it's consistently doing for others and involving them that is going to have the biggest effect on them. I wanted them to have a good experience so if they got upset I didn't try and force them do finish it. I don't want them to associate frustration with service. When they get a little older I can do more to persuade them to finish what they start, at least that's my thinking.

I hope you found this post helpful in some way. I WILL be doing another post for SIP Summer Camp this week. It's already planned out and ready to go :) Also spread the word about SIP Summer Camp via Pinterest or Facebook or whatever I have no motive other then to get people serving others.

If anyone wants to do a Dish & Serve post (follow link to see an example) please let me know. You know you want to!

Dish & Serve - Raisin Pie & giveaway

The lovely Jane from Adventures in Dinner is here today to Dish & Serve. I launched Dish & Serve on her blog to see the original post and to see why I started Dish & Serve check out this link.

I'm beyond happy to be guesting today at DeAnn's amazing blog and to be a part of 'Dish and Serve'.

DeAnn is so inspiring and to be honest I struggled to decide what to do.

I finally decided after WAY too long (thanks for being patient DeAnn) to pull out a recipe of my Grandma Kelly's for Raisin Pie.

This recipe is really the height of old fashioned pies. You just don't see them anymore and to be honest I've only seen this version in my area of Canada (Ottawa Valley).

If any of you have seen it elsewhere I'd love to know.

My neighbour (across the street) lost his wife a year ago very abruptly and he had a large group of relatives over recently to plant a tree in the backyard in her honour.

A beautiful Magnolia as gracious as Vivian was.

Not really knowing what to say I offered my support through food.

Pour boiling water over 1 1/2 cups of raisins.

Let stand until cool and drain, saving the water.

Get your pie crust ready or use prepared.

In a bowl combine; 3/4 cup sugar, 2 T. flour and the zest of a lemon (yes, in my bowl is a LOT more-I made three).

Add in your raisins with the juice of one lemon and 1/2 cup of your raisin water.

Place in 9 inch pie crust.

Dot with butter and top with pastry.

Poke with a knife to release the steam.

Bake (on a tray unless you'd like to clean your oven) at 350 for 40 minutes or until the bottom is browned.

Share.

If you would like to do a Dish & Serve post just let me know! I would love for you to do one :) Hint, hint, nudge, nudge.

I am going to do a giveaway, right now...well you can enter right now. 

For what you say, hows about a $30 gift card to Target?! Sound good?!

(and if you don't live by a Target a gift card to another store will be arranged)

What you have to do to enter:

1. Pin two different things from my blog onto Pinterest

2. Like my Facebook page if you haven't already

3. Leave a comment saying that you did both and boom you're entered. 

easy peezy lemon squeezey...now get to it!

Starts today, ends Sunday night the 10th winner will be announced Monday the 11th

Dish & Serve Chocolate-dipped oatmeal chocolate chip cookies

This title is a mouth full but who wouldn't want a mouth full of yummy chocolate dipped deliciousness???I am SUPER excited to have Torie & Liz here from Bake Me Something Good. ALL their recipes are pretty amazing, their site is a go to spot to get your sweet tooth fix. I couldn't be more happy with their post. 

We've all been there - the last day on the job. No matter how excited you may be to start a new position, it's tough to leave behind co-workers and friends, and to move out of the comfort of a familiar routine.


When we heard that our friend Jess was leaving her current job for a new one, we knew we wanted to do something to make her last day extra special. And when we want something to be special... we bake!


On Jess's last day at work, we showed up with some tasty Chocolate-Dipped Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies. Jess was surprised and touched, and there were tears all round! We told her she could share the cookies with her co-workers or keep them all to herself, and being the kind person that she is, she shared. Jess even sent us a note the next day:


"I'm completely honoured that you two chose me for your random act of kindness. I love moments of "paying it forward," and I feel really special that you thought of me. I will, indeed, pay it forward. I'll let you know who the lucky recipient is. : )"


It was a win-win for everyone - we felt great, Jess felt great, and cookies were consumed! If you'd like to try some of these goodies yourself, here's the recipe – it’s adapted from one of our favourite food blogs, How Sweet It Is.

Chocolate-Dipped Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies
Adapted from How Sweet It Is; Makes 60 cookies

1 c margarine or butter
1 c sugar
1 c brown sugar, loosely packed
2 eggs
1 tbsp + 1 tsp vanilla
2 + ½ c flour
½ tsp salt
1 tsp baking powder
1 + ½ c rolled or large flake oats
1 + ½ c chocolate chips
2 + ½ c dark chocolate for melting
Optional: 1-2 tbsp milk, if dough is crumbly

Preheat oven to 375 degrees F and line two cookie sheets with parchment paper.

Combine margarine, sugar and brown sugar in an electric mixer.  Beat in eggs and vanilla until thoroughly combined.  Mix in flour, salt and baking powder, then add oats.  If dough is crumbly, add one tbsp. of milk at a time until it is no longer crumbly.  Stir in chocolate chips by hand, then refrigerate for at least 30 minutes.

Scoop dough by tablespoon onto prepared cookie sheets and flatten slightly.  Bake for 10-12 minutes.

When cookies have cooled, melt chocolate over a double boiler or in the microwave for 30 second intervals at 50% power.  Dip each cookie halfway into the chocolate and set on wax paper to harden.

Enjoy!

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