Ordinary Chocolate Chip Cookies

How about a day of the ordinary?
I decided to go classic with an ordinary chocolate chip cookies recipe today :)
Chocolate chip cookies can be desserts, an after-school snack, or a friendly treat to give to your neighbors and friends! Speaking of neighbors, I've always imagined how great it would be to live in a world where you can be close with your neighbors, check up on each other, bring them cookies and have a cup of tea...etc. I always hear from my older friends that this "world" that I am imagining existed when they were growing up. I really envy that. I think right now, we live in a world where your neighbors are strangers. Or even worse, we're worried that our neighbors will do bad things to us if we get too close to them. There's a lack of compassion in our society where we're constantly fearing other people, and just simply don't have the genuine relationships with one another. Don't get me wrong, I know that there are definitely places in the world where that still exist (and good for them!) I just wish that I will have a chance to be exposed to an environment like this in the future.

Lemon Muffins with Chocolate Chips

Want to make these deliciously fluffy lemon muffins with chocolate chips? It's so easy! Just use the recipe from the Lemon Muffins with Lemon Glaze and take out the glaze part and add some chocolate chips!

I have a friend who always give me a bag full of lemons from his lemon tree. It's amazing how different the lemons look compared to the ones at grocery stores. The shape is not "perfect" but what's so great about perfection right? And no joke, those lemons are juicier and the scent is incredible! Times like this is when I appreciate gardening and those who garden. It's truly amazing how something that grows in your own backyard can taste and smell so good. So if you have a lemon tree - I highly encourage you to take advantage of it ;)

Chocolate Chip Blondies

Happy New Year from No Butter Baking! 

To have a great kick start of 2015, I wanted to share with you a No Butter Baking Chocolate Chip Blondies recipe! I will admit... my sister makes THE BEST blondies in the world; however, she is a baker who does not change the recipe. Meaning...that there's butter in it... Although I don't mind eating butter in small consumption, I wanted to explore if it was possible to make something similar with my sister's delicious blondies but with a No Butter Baking twist. I'm not gonna lie, after trying and trying different batches, I am happy to say that I discovered the perfect recipe! I hope you enjoy! 

Chocolate Chip Cookie Cups

Although I enjoy creating my own recipes, I also love to look at other bakers whom I admire and try to add my own "twist" to make it "No Butter Baking". I also alter some of the amount of ingredients so that it won't be too packed with sugar and oil! Today's recipe reference is Averie Cooks. I've been an active follower of Averie Cooks because her recipes are amazing and it actually works!

As many of you are aware, I'm a complete sweet tooth - especially chocolate chip cookies are one of my favorite classic dessert. I've actually never heard of chocolate chip cookie cups so it's kind of a dense version of a chocolate chip cookies in a muffin form. So it's cookie + muffin = absolute heaven! 

Holiday Baking 2014 (vegan brownies, matcha sugar cookies, chewy double chocolate cookies)

Merry Christmas from No Butter Baking!
First of all, I'm sorry that it's been almost three months since I posted some of my recipes... I was reminded by a colleague that the last time that I posted recipe was in October...it's incredible how time flies by... but, this holiday season, it was a baking storm in my kitchen (you know if you follow me on Instagram :) ) So this blog post, you are in for a treat! Three recipes in one blog post!
One is my famous vegan brownies with a holiday twist, second, chewy double chocolate cookies, and lastly, holiday matcha green tea sugar cookies inspired by my childhood book called, "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie" by Laura Numeroff and Felicia Bond with a little twist of Mei.

Chewy Double Chocolate Chip Cookies

As you can tell, I love desserts - I'm a complete sweet tooth; which is why I need to be extra careful what I eat because if it's something sweet, I can easily eat an entire batch! Going back to the topic of cookies, but when it comes to cookies, I LOVE chewy cookies; however, most of the chewy cookies contains a lot of butter. Although I am not against butter (they certainly are flavorful) but whenever I eat something that contains high amount of butter, my throat starts to itch, which is an uncomfortable feeling. Therefore, I was very very excited when I figured out a recipe that can make chewy cookies without using butter! It was quite an exciting discovery for me :)

Chocolate Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frostings

Whenever I think of my coworker, I think of either chocolate, caramel,  or cream cheese frosting. We celebrated her birthday last month and  I  had a hard time thinking what I can bake for her without using butter. After a lot of thinking, I know that I wanted to bake her something that I KNOW that it will taste good. So, I decided to bake a simple chocolate cupcake with cream cheese frosting!

Let me just briefly talk about how much I love birthdays - of course, I love my own birthday but I also enjoy celebrating other's birthday as well. The reason behind my love for this holiday is because you get to celebrate with your loved ones that you were safely able to reach a certain age and I think that's such a wonderful thing. I would say that it's a miracle. Often times, when people are older, birthdays seem like a "celebration of getting older" (more of a negative thing) but, I completely do not agree with that attitude. Regardless of what age you are turning to, I think it's such a beautiful holiday and everyone should be proud of who they are, who they've become, and be grateful toward those who raised you that reflects upon who you are. I always like to send my mom flowers on my birthday - because I wouldn't be here if it wasn't for my beautiful parents (: