CoooOOOoookies!

Admittedly, I am not a good cookie baker.  My cookies always end up burnt, misshapen, and not too great tasting.  Usually, I can follow a recipe and it turns out pretty good, but cookies and me just don't mix.  However, I always feel like baking this time of year and since I have nothing else to do, we decided to bake some cookies this afternoon.  We chose two recipes: Chocolate Chip and Thumbprint Cookies.  I was just gonna do the thumbprint cookies, but Evan wanted some chocolate chip.  I am convinced that the one recipe for chocolate chip cookies that I have is flawed because each time I've tried to make it, the cookies were melted, flat, burnt pieces of crap.  So Evan was put in charge of finding a new recipe. 

After 2 trips to the grocery store - I forgot baking soda the first time - we were ready to bake.  I started with the thumbprint cookies because the dough needed to chill for an hour.  My mom makes these thumbprint cookies every year, so I decided I needed to try them myself.

While the thumprint dough was chilling we whipped up the chocolate chip cookies.  Evan was in charge while I supervised.  And being, well being Evan, he decided that he wanted to add some marshmallows to the chocolate chip dough.  I convinced him to only put marshmallows in the last few because I thought the marshmallows would just melt and mess up the cookies.  Well, his recipe was successful! Not only did all the cookies turn out (minus a few with burnt bottoms) the ones with the marshmallows were pretty tasty!

Next up, I baked the thmubprint cookies and Evan filled them with apricot and boysenberry jam.  Usually, these cookies are made with nuts, but since Evan is allergic, I only made 6 with nuts for me.  Toss in some "Colbert Christmas Special" and "A Muppet Family Christmas" playing on DVD in the background and it was quite the merry time.  And now, we have 2 plates full of cookies that the 2 of us have to eat!!  I could be nice and fix some plates for our neighbors, but that would require actually talking to them, and doesn't sound like something I'd do. :)