9 cups of dry ingredients (flour, 2 kinds of oatmeal)
4 cups of chocolate chips
Over 3 cups of sugar
3 cups of peanuts
2 cups of butter
2 cups of raisins
1 cup of coconut
All in one cookie
#141 Raisin-Chip Oatmeal Cookies
It's my turn to bring treats for tomorrow's meeting. Is there any question to what I'd bring. Teachers like their sugar, so I had to make sure to bring enough. I'm worried though; as I was baking these; I realized there are peanuts in them - with today's peanut fears, I wonder if I'm allowed to even bring these cookies into the building?
February has been a month of a lot of cookies. Counting backwards:
#140 Zebra Butter Cookies
Joey is 1! I can't believe it's been a year already. We had a jungle themed birthday party for him. I carried the jungle theme throughout the whole party.
How'd I do?
We had rhino meat, gorilla grapes, safari sunset, elephant dung, snake eggs, jungle juice and I made zebra cookies.
A lot of work. I'm hoping these are the hardest cookie in the book.
All the work almost went to waste. The day starts out with water dripping from my kitchen ceiling - and all over my cookie cookbook, several pages are rather wet. However, the book is quite thick, so I am able to dry out the pages that got wet. My dad comes over in the afternoon to figure out the problem. Meanwhile in the day, I run several errands, clean a bit (fortunately I'm blessed to have a MIL who is helpful and willing to help with whatever is needed), deal with my SIL about not being able to take a shower (as we don't know where the leak is coming from), get things ready and have a crabby Joe. As I finish up the scrap dough that is left, the recipe only makes 18 zebra cookies but leaves you with a lot of leftover dough, my dad and Mike figure out the problem. They then determine there's also water in the light fixture. They unfasten the light fixture, meaning to pour it into a bucket. I just take out a cookie sheet from the oven and am ready to transfer them. The light fixture is heavy and they miss the bucket and ALL THAT WATER dumps on my cookie sheet and me. Heads would've rolled if it was the zebras. Luckily, I had put the zebras in a tupperware, just a dozen of scrap cookies are ruined. Oh, and my patience for the day. Needless to say, there is wine with our Valentine's dinner out. I come home to a clean kitchen after dinner - thank you again mom-in-law.
#139 Butter Cookies
Valentine's Day! Joey had a Valentine's/Birthday party at daycare. I had a potato bar at work that I had to bring treats to. Killed two birds with one stone. This heart shaped cookie (made with the cookie press) with butter/powdered sugar frosting went to both places.
#138 Dipped Peanut Butter Sandwich Cookies
Peanut butter spread between two ritz crackers - dipped in either white chocolate or regular chocolate - that's all these cookies are. I was making batch #137 for my crafty women retreat. I asked the group to choose between two cookies. One lady who is always doing everything for everybody else and who never asks for anything said "Anything with peanut butter?" And then two minutes later took it back. It seemed that she felt bad for even asking even though she's always doing for others. So I made this batch (that only makes 9 cookies) for her to have her own personal batch.
#137 Coffee Shortbread
This is one of the choices I gave the crafty group. Mike and I didn't think we'd like them (we didn't), so this was a good way to make this batch and get rid of it. A shortbread cookie (with coffee in it) with chocolate and white chocolate drizzled on top. It was populer.
#135 Whoopie Pie #136 Graham Cracker Brownies
Super Bowl Weekend! I always struggle to find a cookie that matches the teams for the Super Bowl. I went a different route this year.
A football cookie.
I also made the Graham Cracker brownies just in case I didn't have enough food. Graham crackers mixed with chocolate chips and condensed milk.
That's a lot of cookies!
