Secret Ingredient Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe

Satisfy your sweet tooth with this delicious and easy chocolate chip cookie recipe. Perfect for any occasion, these cookies are sure to be a hit with everyone! And you won’t believe what the secret ingredient is!

My darling friend Kim had a nanny helping her out one day and my daughter along with hers made cookies with this sweet nanny. Thankfully, I was the happy recipient of a delicious treat! One secret totally makes these cookies irresistible!!

Do you have a single go-to chocolate chip cookie recipe, or do you have different chocolate chip cookie recipes for different occasions? Sometimes I want thick gourmet chocolate chip cookies, so I go with our Levain bakery copycat recipe. Other times I want that tender, perfectly chewy chocolate chip cookie, so I go with our favorite chocolate chip cookie recipe. If I have vanilla pudding on hand, I’ll make our chocolate chip pudding cookies. It just depends!

Well, this CCC recipe is super quick and easy, the the surprise ingredient is something you’ll have on hand already, but you’ve probably never thought to add it to a chocolate chip cookie before.

Ingredients for the Best Chocolate Chip Cookies

Here is the list of ingredients you will need to make these delicious cookies including the surprising secret ingredient:

• Light Brown Sugar: adds richness and sweetness
• Granulated White Sugar: adds sweetness
• Butter: adds fat and rich flavor, shortening or a combination of butter and shortening can also be used
• Eggs: gives the cookies structure
• Flour: just regular all-purpose flour works great
• Baking Soda: gives the cookies their rise and fluffiness
• Salt: enhances all the other flavors
• Cinnamon: The secret ingredient!
• Cinnamon Sweet Thins: Just to add some more cinnamon flavor and a little texture! You can use cinnamon graham crackers or our personal favorite Read more

Apple Bread with Brown Sugar Icing [+Video]

Fall comes and I crave all the apple desserts! This apple bread recipe is perfectly spiced and loaded with that warm comforting apple flavor we all love. And it’s the brown sugar icing that will keep you coming back for more!

I have been waiting to make this apple quick bread for years!! There’s something so wonderful about apple anything but the real treat for me is that brown sugar icing.

When I was growing up my Dad would sometimes request a spice cake for his birthday dessert and Mom always threw on a cooked frosting that reminded me of a thick caramel. For some reason the idea of cozy spices and that warm brown sugar icing became a bit nostalgic for me, and while Mom isn’t a huge cooked apple fan, I knew I could make a version that would make her swoon, hence the apple bread with brown sugar icing.

I have included a few tips for success when making this quick bread recipe, so keep scrolling so you don’t miss those!

Recommended Equipment:

• Bread Loaf Pans
• Light Colored Pot (similar to this one)

Before You Begin…

You’ll want to start by browning the butter you need for this recipe. There’s a section below for how to brown butter. You will use the browned butter in the cake and in the icing, and you will want it ready when you start this recipe. Brown a whole stick of butter, then you will remove 3 tablespoons for the icing and use the rest in bread.

Also, make sure that you have apple butter ready, either homemade or store bought.

What Do I Need to Make This Apple Bread Recipe?

I’m going to divide the ingredients into two groups – ingredients for the bread and ingredients for the icing. Here is what you will need:

For the Bread

• Flour: just regular all purpose flour is all you need
• Baking Soda: acts as a leavening agent to give rise and fluffines

Zucchini Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frosting

Zucchini cupcakes with cream cheese frosting are super moist with a delicious spice cake flavor and fluffy cream cheese buttercream.

Zucchini is such an amazing food to bake with. I know that the whole idea of putting vegetables in baking sounds weird to a lot of people – but trust me – zucchini is incredible in muffins, cakes, breads and cupcakes. It makes baked goods super moist with a soft crumb, just like these Zucchini Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frosting.

So today we’re making zucchini cupcakes with cream cheese frosting. The cupcakes have a delicious spice cake flavor thanks to warm cinnamon, nutmeg and ground cloves. Then there’s a hint of vanilla and a touch of brown sugar for even more flavor.

The fluffy cream cheese frosting is the perfect topping. Smooth, creamy, extra fluffy and slightly tangy. You’re seriously going to love them. One of my favorite zucchini recipes ever!

Why Use Zucchini in Baking?

Using zucchini in baked goods adds moisture, texture and even healthy nutrients without altering the flavor. Zucchini is very mild in flavor and high in water content so it is ideal for adding moisture to a muffin, cupcake, quick bread, etc. The added bonus of using zucchini in baking is getting lots of yummy treats from all that zucchini coming from your summer garden!

Zucchini Cupcake Ingredients

Most of the ingredients for zucchini cupcakes are pantry friendly, and chances are that if you have a zucchini or two, you can whip this cupcake recipe up with little prep. Here is what you need:

Zucchini Cupcakes

• Zucchini: If you grate it finely, you won’t even know the zucchini is there.
• Flour: Just regular all-purpose flour is all you need.
• Baking Powder: Acts as a leavening agent to give the cupcakes rise and fluffiness.
• Salt: Enhances the sweetness and all the flavors.
• Seasonings: Ground Cinnamon, Nutmeg and Ground Cloves
• Vegetable Oil: Adds fat to the cupcakes to keep them moist. Canola oil also works great.
• White Sugar: Adds sweetness.
• Brown Sugar: Adds sweetness and rich flavor.
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White Chocolate Molasses Cookies [+ Video]

A perfectly soft molasses cookie recipe is essential for the holidays, but these white chocolate molasses cookies take things to a whole new level.

That’s right folks, these are not your typical holiday molasses cookie. I know that this is a pretty popular cookie, molasses or ginger snap, for this time of year, but that does not mean that it has to be completely traditional. These white chocolate chewy molasses cookies are actually an adapted recipe from my dad’s side of the family and is over 150 years old! I’ve been holding onto this recipe since I got it from my aunt last year just so that I could share it at the right time of year with all of you.

Family Holiday Traditions

My mom would spend hours in the kitchen baking the holiday recipes that had been passed down through the generations like this one just so we could deliver them to neighbors and families that my parents would find who were in need. Often the treats to those families included a little extra cash, gifts or toys for the kids.

In fact, sometimes my dad would even dress up as Santa so that the families wouldn’t know who he was when he dropped off the goodies. This white chocolate molasses cookies recipe is one we can use to pass on the same tradition which means that I feel like I should do as my mom did and teach my children. It’s hard sometimes. Some of the cookie dough got so squished and squashed that the white chocolate was sticking out everywhere and it looked like quite the mess but I’m so grateful for the memory of helping a 7 year old discover the magic of making cookies for the holidays to give to neighbors and friends and spread Christmas cheer.

Ingredients for White Chocolate Molasses Cookies

I am an avid cookie lover! I’ll choose a cookie over almost any other dessert (except pie, good golly I love pie!), but not all cookies are created equal. I love a thick and chewy cookie that is perfectly baked. I love them a little crispy around the edges and nice and chewy in the middle. These molasses cookies check all the important cookie boxes and the melty white chocolate in the middle is the best surprise. Here are the ingredients you will need:

• Butter, Shortening, or Lard – we usually do half and half
• Light Brown Sugar – adds sweetness and even more molasses flavor
• Egg – adds structure to the cookies
• Molasses – adds sweetness and perfect molasses flavor, Grandma’s brand is our favorite
• Flour – just regular all pur

Peach Coffee Cake with Streusel Topping

This Peach Coffee Cake with streusel topping is the perfect recipe for late summer. Moist vanilla cake, juicy peaches and crunchy cinnamon streusel. Make it with fresh or canned peaches – either way, you’ll love this easy coffee cake recipe.

Late summer is one of my favorite times of the year. The weather is hot, the sun is shining, and grocery stores are full of fresh summer produce. As a child, my parents would typically plan our family vacations in late summer – so it always meant that we’d get a little extra spoiled too.

Of course, nowadays summer is a lot busier than it was back then. But in late summer I always try to make it home for a visit. We’ll sit on the back deck reading and relaxing, and it’s always good to have a perfect summer treat to enjoy at the same time.

And that’s exactly what this Peach Coffee Cake is for. It’s a moist, perfectly soft, buttery vanilla cake. Then there’s a layer of juicy peaches, cinnamon streusel topping, and a drizzle of vanilla glaze.

Recommended Equipment

• 9x13in Pan
• KitchenAid Stand Mixer

Before You Begin…

As always with baking, get your oven preheating and then pull out the butter to start softening and the buttermilk to come to room temperature. Then get started on the cinnamon streusel topping first.

What Do I Need for Peach Coffee Cake?

All of the ingredients for this recipe are straightforward, pantry and fridge staples except for the peaches. Grab those fresh juicy peaches, and here is what else you will need…