COOKIES <3<3
On Thursday, I made some oatmeal chocolate chip (cowboy) cookies.
They turned out very very flat and I suspected my baking soda was dead. Audrey came home from daycare and whined about me making cookies without her, so I promised we'd make cookies together over the weekend, after I'd bought some new soda.
On Friday, Audrey made me promise that we would make Christmas cookies - as she enjoys cutting and decorating the cookies much more than just spooning them on to the pan, obviously. I agreed, and on Saturday we made Christmas shortbread cutout cookies as many of you have already seen in previous posts. Audrey took all of her cookies to her BFF, and the cookies I made we took to our English teachers who were doing a last makeup class, and to Audrey's piano teacher when she went for her lesson.
Now, I still really wanted to make some more cowboy cookies so I promised we'd make more cookies on Sunday. BUT, Princess Audrey wanted to make Christmas cookies AGAIN and begged me incessantly, so I gave in, on the condition that she would make them herself (I'd make the dough of course) and she would make them for all of the family, not just for herself.
So she did, and we ate them.
Today, Audrey went to daycare. YAAAAY!!! Finally I had my chance to make my favorite cookies! I made some cowboy cookies first - which turned out normal thank goodness! Then I thought I'd might as well use the bowl for another batch before washing it, so I made some peanut butter chocolate chip cookies. I now have a box of cookies that should at least last us until Wednesday :P When Audrey got back, she pouted that I'd made cookies without her again, but she got over it when I told her she could eat as many as she liked LOL
I've got the recipes for the cowboy cookies and the Christmas cookies memorized since I've made them so often and they are so easy.
The cowboy cookie recipe I actually got in Home Ec in HIGHSCHOOL LOL I like it because it doesn't make too many cookies. It's half the usual recipes, I think. For me, with my small microwave/oven it takes me 2 times to get all the dough in the oven. For you people with huge American ovens, it'd only take one.
Here it is:
1/2 c butter
1/2 c brown sugar
1/2 c granulated sugar
1 egg
1/2 tsp vanilla
1 cup flour
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp salt
1 cup oatmeal
1/3 cup chocolate chips
1/3 cup walnuts chopped finely
Cream sugars and butter, add egg and vanilla and beat until changes color, add flour and baking powder/soda and mix, blend in the rest, spoon onto pans 4, 5 cm apart at least, bake in 350 F oven for 10 - 12 min.
* You can also make them with 1/2 the sugar, and they will turn out a bit higher and with less spreading and with a muffin-y texture YUM! I'm going to make those next!
So here are all the cookies we've made in the last 3 days.
Some extra sky photos <3
And a dragonfly on the ledge of our emergency stairs. It stayed very still as I took 3 or 4 pictures :)
