Wednesday, June 5, 2019

In the Kitchen with Susan V Vaughn Recipe for Chocolate Chip Cookies



My mother always made chocolate chip cookies when I was little. I remember coming home from school and smelling that amazing sweet chocolate scent. My mouth would water, my stomach would growl, and I’d be racing my siblings to the kitchen for the first bite.
When my first child was school age, my mom taught me her chocolate chip cookie recipe. I wanted to give my children the same gift of home baked treats fresh out of the oven. It took a lot of kitchen mishaps before I mastered the corrected batter consistency and bake time. But I am happy to report I am now a chocolate chip cookie master.

The best part is the recipe is simple and easy to follow.

Ingredients:

1 cup of sugar
1 cup of brown sugar
1 stick of baking butter
2 eggs
1 tsp of vanilla
¼ tsp of salt
1 tsp of baking soda
1 ¼ cup of flour
1 cup of chocolate chips  


Instructions:

Set your oven to 375 degrees. 

Pull out two mixing bowls. 

In one bowl mix flour and baking soda together. 

In the second bowl mix sugar, brown sugar, baking butter, eggs, vanilla, and salt. 

The second bowl should be mixed until the batter is smooth. 

Combined the contents of the first bowl into the second bowl and mix until the batter is brown in color. 

Add the chocolate chips to the batter and mix in well. 

Take out a cookie sheet and roll the dough into tablespoon size balls. 

Place each ball on the sheet, leaving enough space in between for each cookie to grow. I usually do about three well-spaced balls in each roll. 

Place the cookie sheet in the oven. It takes close to twelve minutes for the cookies to flatten out and become brown. 

When you see this happening, you know the cookie sheet is ready to come out. 

Let the cookies cool on the sheet a bit before taking them off. 

Then pat yourself on the back because you are now a chocolate chip cookie master!

Sweet Escape
Smitten Series
Book One
Susan V. Vaughn

Genre: Contemporary Romance

Publisher: Inkspell Publishing

Date of Publication: June 5, 2019

ISBN: 978-1-949931-10-5
ASIN: B07R9VQBZM

Number of pages: 184
Word Count: 59,000

Cover Artist: Najla Qamber

Book Description:

Ted Harper knew moving to Milford to open his dream bar wouldn’t be easy. But he could have never imagined he would be so easily distracted from his goal. Violet Marino is beautiful, smart, captivating, and unfortunately, his next-door neighbor. Now Ted has a dilemma on his hands he didn’t anticipate as his life becomes entangled with a woman he can’t seem to forget.

Violet Marino has spent decades caring for her family and working at her father’s restaurant as a waitress. Hardly the life she dreamed of living when she was a little girl. But after her mother died, she was never a little girl again. Thrust into the parenting role for her two younger siblings, Violet sacrificed everything for their well-being.

When a handsome business owner offers her more than just a sweet escape, Violet is tempted to take him up on the offer. Even if that means jumping into the unknown.

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Excerpt 3

“Watch this,” he said. And then he took a running start and leaped onto the third monkey bar, swinging his long legs back and forth, before jumping the fourth and fifth bar to grab onto the sixth. 
She watched him swing toward the next bar, trying to hide her appreciation. He somehow managed to make such a childish thing look good. He was a big man, but he moved his body with agility and grace. And he had no hesitation in doing something so ridiculous. He was fearless. Something she admired. 
“Are you done playing around?” she asked in a hopeful tone. She was starting to become jealous. Ted was free to play around and do what he wanted, while her life was like a cage. 
“I’m not playing. This is serious work.” Ted jumped the last bar and swung for a flying dismount that landed him directly on his butt.
She stared down at him, fighting the urge to laugh. “That looked serious.”
“It felt serious.” He stood up, rubbing his lower back. “I guess I’m showing my age now.”
She nodded. “I guess you are, old man.”
He put his arms around her waist and pulled her close. “You could make me feel young again.”
Her body tingled with awareness. Ever since he’d kissed her last night, all she wanted was for him to do it again. And yet, there was this little voice in the back of her head warning her to keep her distance. This man was too goofy to be serious, and she was not a woman who desired a fling. As of yesterday, she wasn’t a woman who desired a man for any reason. 
How quickly things have changed.

About the Author:

Romance Author, Susan Vaughn understood the meaning of sarcasm before she could walk. Her childhood in the suburbs of Detroit was spent mainly trying to outwit her six creative siblings. When she wasn’t working on the next soul-crushing jab, she sharpened her imagination on romantic literature and day dreamed about her knight in shining armor.

It didn’t take long for this hairdresser by trade to turn her passion for reading romances into writing her own unique love stories. Susan lives her life finding laughter in all situations, and delights in marrying sarcasm with romance to create realistic falling-in-love stories in the unlikeliest of scenarios.  

Susan lives on the shores of Lake Huron with her real life knight in shining armor and enjoys watching their three children learn the art of sarcasm and wit.

Twitter handle: @susanvaughn1124



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