Fortune Cookie Day- 13 September

What more fun than eat a cookie that tells you the future or tells you something of wisdom? Because if you already eat a cookie and add calories, why not enjoy what the cookie tells?

Contrary to what is commonly thought, fortune cookies are not from China but from San Francisco. They were invented by the Japanese chef Makoto Hagiwara who worked at the Japanese Tea Garden. He handed them to the people walking around in the garden, but to his sorrow he never patented it.

A fortune cookie is a crispy cookie that is usually made of flour, sugar, vanilla, and sesame seed oil with a "lucky note" hiding inside. A lucky note is a piece of paper with a wise sentence, a proverb, or a vague prophecy.

Many Chinese restaurants around the world tend to serve fortune cookies, which is why many people mistakenly think that fortune cookies are Chinese.

So in honor of the lucky cookie day, eat a cookie and discover what the future holds for you.

Chocolate Chip Day- May 15

Who doesn't like chocolate chips?
Chocolate chips are a great addition to cakes, cookies, ice cream, pancakes, malawach, crepes, chocolate, coffee and even as a snack alone.

To celebrate the chocolate Chip day, add chocolate chips to all kinds of things as we listed earlier, or prepare something special with chocolate chips.

You can also arrange chocolate chips in special shapes like smiling faces or write something. Chocolate chips can also be an excellent decoration for cakes.

Who Invented the Chocolate Chips?

Like many things in life, chocolate chips were invented by accident. It began with the first chocolate chip crate prepared in 1937 by Ruth Wakefield from the Toll House Inn in Massachusetts. She wanted to make chocolate cake, but she was out of cocoa powder. So she mixed pieces of dark chocolate in the cookies with cookies. The cookies were a great success. In 1939, Wakefield signed an agreement with Nestle whereby the company would add its recipe to cookies for its chocolate packaging, and it would receive an unlimited supply of chocolate. At first Nestle added a small cutting tool to her chocolate tables. In 1941, Nestle began to produce the chocolate shaped chips. A few other companies followed suit.

Nestlé also has a chocolate chip brand called "Toll House" after the inn where the cookies were invented.

French Macaron Day- March 20

French macaron day is a day of celebration in honor of the French cookies, baked light, made from two interlinked cookies with cream.
The macaron is a general name for light-baked cookies whose dough contains no flour, butter, oil or margarine, and is based on protein foam and sugar. The day of the French macaron is a festive day for French cookies, lightly baked, made from two cookies.

Who invented the French macaron?

The French macaron was invented by Pierre Desfontaines, a confectioner from the delicatessen of Lourdes in Paris. He invented the idea of a cookie consisting of two layers of macaron dough with different fillings that hold the layers together, such as butter cream, jam or ganache.

French macaron are not only tasty and have a delicate and addictive texture, but come in a variety of colors and flavors, a real feast for the eyes.

Macaroni in Gift Box (link)

 

In honor of the day of the French macaron, make colorful macaron or buy a delicious pastry bakery and do not forget to offer me some too.

Chocolate Cupcake Day- 18 October

What can be better than a chocolate Cake? Chocolate cupcakes!

Why? Because it's personal and you don't have to share it with anyone! 😉

The cupcake originates in 1796, when in the recipe for chocolate cake in the American cookbook of Amelia Simmons, it was written "cake for baking in cups".
This book was the first known cookbook and baking book written by an American.
In pictures: The first edition of the American Cookery, written by Amelia Simmons and published in 1796.

The word cupcake first appeared in 1828 in Eliza Leslie's recipe book, "Seventy-Five Receipts for Pastry, Cakes, and Sweetmeats".
In the picture: the recipe that appeared in the book from 1828. You can see that the writer called the cake cup cake, in two words.
The cupcakes were originally baked in heavy clay cups. Today, you can bake them with appropriate cups, cups or molds that can be easily found in any kitchenware store.
Cupcake Day Chocolate is a national day of the US To celebrate the cupcake day, make a delicious cupcake, add whipped cream or cream and cherry or candies, or sprinkle with powdered sugar.
 Happy chocolate cupcake day!

Malawah with chocolate cookies

Here is another thing you can do with malawah, this time it's sweet. It is very easy to make and the taste is like fresh chocolate croissant (it also look like it).

Ingredients:

Malawach

Chocolate spread

Instructions:

Take the malawach out of the freezer. Let it defrost until it is soft (not too much time so it won't get sticky, about ten minutes, depending on the room temperature).

Place it on a baking pan, on baking paper.

Spread chocolate spread on it. 

Cut it to eight pieces.

Roll each piece from the end to the inside.

Put in the oven over medium heat for about 20 minutes.

This is what you get- an amazing pastry for your coffee!

As you can see, malawach is good for meal or desert, and you can play with it and make a lot of great things. So next time you're going to buy food, look for malawah, you shoukd try it!