So I'm not sure if I'm in the "nesting" phase, but there's gotta be some reason that over the last three weekends I have baked 26 dozen cookies for absolutely no other reason than just to have some cookies in the house. Even with me craving sweet chocolaty crunchiness, 26 dozen seems a little overboard.
#76 1/13/13 Chocolate Chip Butter Cookie
We just needed some cookies in the house, and I wanted some good ole' chocolate chip cookies. This was a bit different than your average chocolate chip cookie, but they served their purpose. Not much went into this cookie, just butter, vanilla, flour, powdered sugar and mini chocolate chips. Quick, easy, and tasty.
#77 1/19/13 Rosemary Honey Cookies
So I found out my in-laws are coming up for close to two weeks when the baby is born. Some may say what now? But I was always fine with them coming. Plus I'm going for the amazing awesome daughter in law prize this year. They give that out yearly, right! RIGHT?! However, my mother-in-law generously offered to make some cookies from the cookie cookbook to help me out. I'm not sure how I feel about this. I'm not sure if that counts - I feel like I have to make all 623 recipes. So I decided what I'll do instead is just continue making a batch every week up until baby and freeze some so that we'll have plenty of cookies here already and we'll have no need for more. So I guess the 26 dozen I've made isn't just for Mike and I to eat. I'll have some on hand for my in-laws and visitors to the house (I hope people come to visit me and the new baby - I'll have cookies for you if you help me from going stir-crazy).
So I really wanted to make another chocolate chip type cookie, or a chocolate gooey cookie, but I feel I should mix in recipes that don't sound as exciting. I don't want to get half way through this book and then only have unappetizing recipes left. Also, part of the purpose of this crazy endeavor is to find the best cookie. It maybe that one of those recipes that don't look that good, will actually be amazing. This one wasn't amazing to me - average, but Mike really liked it (liked it enough for 4 smiley faces). See, now I know one of Mike's favorite cookies. This recipe actually does call for dried rosemary and honey - crazy what some of these recipes call for.
#78 1/25/13 Mocha Fudge Cookies
I'm not really sure what possessed me to look at the Big Batch Bonanza chapter of the book and then to subsequently pick out an 18 1/2 dozen batch. It was chocolatey though (I have been rather obsessed lately with chocolate), but not one that I was super excited to try since there's coffee in it.
Some may find this cookie amazing, depends on how much you like coffee - to me - slightly better than average. So what's your opinion about nuts? Generally, I don't like them. This recipe called for walnuts. Sometimes I add the nuts when they're called for and sometimes I omit them. I was going to add them today, since I wasn't anticipating loving this cookie and was mostly making it for other people (who come visit me) - but then after running back to the store for the 2nd time today to get the chocolate chips that I thought I had enough of, I realized I didn't have any walnuts, so I nixed the walnuts for this recipe. Is the cookie still good without the nuts? Or are the nuts really the essence of the cookie? Did I steal the essence? (Note the vague reference to the TV show Friends).
Next week: Super Bowl Party - maybe even 2 batches next weekend (one will be brownies or bars though).
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