White Chocolate & Cranberry Cookies

I've always been quite like the Cookie Monster! I really, really enjoy eating cookies, especially when there's chocolate on them! White chocolate & cranberry has been one of my favourites ever since I worked at a summer camp back in 2011, but the last time I had them was long ago... On Friday, I had some free time to bake some delicious cookies! They made me so happy! And, to be honest, they were absolutely yummy!!! So now I'm sharing my recipe with you :)

Ingredients

3/4 cup unsalted butter

1 cup dark brown sugar

1 large egg

2 cups flour

2 tsp vanilla extract

2 tsp cornstarch

1 tsp baking soda

1/2 tsp salt

3/4 cup dried cranberries

3/4 cup white chocolate chips

Preparation

1. In a large bowl, soften the butter and then mix in the sugar until you obtain a creamy and consistent mixture, with a bright color.
2. Add the egg and vanilla extract, to make the mixture humid. Then mix in the flour, cornstarch, baking soda and salt.
3. Stir in the white chocolate chips and cranberries.
4. Leave the dough covered and let it chill for one hour.
5. Preheat the oven to 350 F.
6. Drop balls (the size of a tablespoon) on a cookie sheet and bake for 10 minutes, until they are slightly golden.
7. Let them cool down for around 10-15 minutes and then remove from the cookie sheet.

Some Tips

When I went to buy the ingredients at the grocery store, I couldn't find any white chocolate chips. What I decided to do instead, was to buy plain white chocolate and cut it into pieces, that I added to my dough. Another thing that can be hard to find is a cookie sheet. You can use aluminium foil instead of it if you find hard to find it!

Chilling is essential. The recommended time is one hour, but you could leave the dough chill for up to three days. This will give consistency to the cookies when you bake them.

The baking time is short, although it could change depending on how high away from the ocean you are. I would recommend letting the cookies bake until they are slightly golden. This should take around 10 minutes but, sometimes, it can take a few more (or less) minutes than that.

Love,

Photography: Laura Beltran-Rubio

Let's run away to the countryside!

On Monday, I wrote about how much I like to escape from the world sometimes and do something fun! But I don't like escaping only when I'm tired of studying after a very long day in college... I like escaping every time I can because it's awesome and there's always an excuse to have some fun! In this post, I'm sharing with you my escape out of the city last Sunday.

This time, my excuse for escaping was meeting my friends' baby son. His name is Daniel and he is the prettiest creature in the whole world! Ricky and Lily (Dan's parents) live in a countryside about half an hour away from Bogota. They have horses at home and the contact with nature is just amazing. I'm sure Dan will have an awesome childhood there, surrounded by animals, nature and happiness!

During our short journey, I had the chance to shoot some pictures of the trip. It was really relaxing. Although I'm a big city person, and I love the rush and seeing people everywhere, I do enjoy a bit of calm, which was exactly what happened to me during this trip. It started with an early ride, and it was followed by a delicious (and enormous) brunch. And then we finished the afternoon with Lily and Ricky, and their lovely baby. I wish my weekends were like this more often!

Love,


Photography: Laura Beltran-Rubio

Art Exhibition

Whenever I feel bored and tired (classical feeling on a Monday), I just want to escape from my life and do something different. I'm a university student, which means that time in my normal life is spent mostly studying. But when I try to escape from that routine, I LOVE visiting museums, art and photography exhibitions... This time I decided where our escape should be: to my sister's first art exposition!

My Sister, The Artist

My beautiful sister (who I introduced in this post) is an amazing artist, and she had her first exposition last week. Everything was amazing. The people loved her work, and I've never felt so proud of her before! I really hope this won't be her last exhibition!

Love,






Photography: Laura Beltran-Rubio