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a cup of tea and cake

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Exclusive to subscribers 💌⠀ ⠀ There’s a n

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There’s a new recipe dropping in today’s newsletter – only available to my subscribers ❤️ These are my dried fig and walnut brownies, laced with rivers of creamy @cypressafoods tahini and finished with a sprinkling of @maldonsalt ✨⠀
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It’ll be coming to you in a few hours so hit the link in my bio to sign up🔝and be first to receive. ⠀
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#acupofteaandcake #brownies

The most common mistakes I see {and the solutions}

The most common mistakes I see {and the solutions} to making your best **ever** chocolate chip cookie!⠀
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Most of the time, issues with choc chip cookies usually come from over-mixing and under-mixing. I’m letting you in to a few secrets that’ll change your cookie game forever: ⠀
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1. Under-mixing the butter and sugar. ⠀
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People tend to cream butter and sugar for 1-2 mins as opposed to 5-7mins. By creaming for longer, you’ll incorporate more air resulting in a lighter and less dense cookies. ⠀
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2. Over-mixing the dough. ⠀
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Equally, the more you mix and work your dough once the dry ingredients have been added, the more gluten is formed which can result in cookies that are tough and hard. *Top tip*: mix only until you see no more visible flour and no more. ⠀
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3. Not mixing the chocolate chips in well enough. ⠀
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Rather than using your whisk to evenly distribute the chips {which will inevitably overwork your dough}, use your hands instead to gently fold the chips into the dough with a scooping motion. ⠀
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++ my number one tool to get evenly sized balls of dough is to use a cookie scoop. I use a size 20 for most of mine ✨🍪 ⠀
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Have you got any more questions on how to make your cookies even better? Drop me a comment below and I’ll do my best to answer them ❤️ ⠀
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#acupofteaandcake #thecookiechronicles ⠀

You know what people have been asking me a lot rec

You know what people have been asking me a lot recently? “How do you do it all?” ⠀
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And the truth is: I always feel like I could be doing more, and definitely haven’t reached my goals yet. But we’ve always got our eye on someone else who *seems* to be doing it better than all of us. ⠀
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I’ve got about five incredible women who I can think of who are absolutely killing it and I love and admire 👊🏼 ⠀
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Last week I felt like I totally didn’t have it together. I’m exhausted most of the time because I don’t sleep enough. Sometimes I wake up early to squeeze things into my day, but other days I hit snooze and get absolutely nothing done. I worry about most things, and get stressed about how people feel. I try and meal prep lunches and cook dinner fresh every night, but sometimes that in itself, and *all* the washing up, seems too much so we’ll order a takeaway. ⠀
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If we had this kind of glimpse into the lives of those we think are bossing life then we might realise that actually they’re just like us. Trying to figure it out and juggle a million and one things {not always successfully} too. That’s life. I wouldn’t want to normalise chaos or cramming your calendar until it’s chocca *but* we all have days and weeks when things are messier and a little imperfect – even when from the outside things may seem fiiiiine. ⠀
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Wherever you are in the world and whatever you may be doing, regardless of whether you’re feeling 💩 or 💃🏼 just remember you might just be that person to someone else. Someone who inspires others and looks like they’ve got everything together. ⠀
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My self-care cookies are for all the women {and men!} out there who need a bit of TLC right now. Who feel like they’re spinning plates whilst trying to stay in control of whatever’s going on. I’m thinking of revealing the recipe soon — would you make them?⠀
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#acupofteaandcake #selfcarecookies

There’s not many people who’d turn down a batc

There’s not many people who’d turn down a batch of @sarah_kieffer’s toasted sesame cookies... 🤤 ⠀
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I finally got around to making these beauties and they were everything I dreamed of and more ✨✨✨ Have you tried them yet? ⠀
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#acupofteaandcake #100cookies⠀
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