I spent the morning baking cookies. Today was a "Teacher Appreciation Chili Lunch" at Calvin's school. Since I'm not a chili-maker, I volunteered to bake cookies for dessert. After committing, I found out I was THE dessert provider. Nobody else was bringing anything. So last night, I baked up 4 dozen Mint Chocolate Cookies (they taste like Girl Scout Thin Mints). This morning, I mixed up a double batch of Maura's Chocolate Chip dough...half, I did with chips, and half with m&m's. I ended up bringing about 11 dozen cookies to the school. (I also kept about 2 dozen for us!)
For those of you who don't know, Maura's recipe is the ONLY chocolate chip cookie recipe I will use after she and I had a bake-off in college. The neighbor "swim-boys" came over to pick the winner. Hers won. (Whatever ;D) I haven't made the Nestle Tollhouse version off the bag since!
*See all the dough on the paddle? All mine!
**Note to Maura--I know, I know, they're not big enough, and where are all the m&m's? For some reason, almost all the m&m's sunk to the bottom of the cookies. Weird. Should've maybe added a bit more flour?
so do you plan to share the recipe? oh, and we need to have a talk about facebook. you're not on it and i think there are a few things you would like to see... like some kid who just posted a bunch of pics from 'behind the scenes at NBC15 in Madison'... you wouldn't believe how much is EXACTLY the same as when we were there!
ReplyDeleteYeah. I'm not so sure about facebook. I'm afraid of who might come out of the woodwork. I get all the positives. I just don't really like the negatives.
ReplyDeleteAs for the recipe...click on "A Dish to Pass" on the right. Click on "cookies" on the right side of Maura's blog, then scroll down to October of 2007. My only "change"...I use 1 tsp of vanilla...because that's the recipe she originally told me. Maura says it's always been 2 tsp. but that's not what I have on my card! ;D Just depends on how much vanilla you like, I guess!
Hey! I figured this was the easiest way to get back to you since I can't track down your email address. Thanks a lot for the card -- I'd love to catch up. Shoot me a message at brian AT bellmontpartners DOT com! B
ReplyDeleteI will shoot you an e DASH mail PERIOD K
ReplyDeleteOK, I'm now officially hooked on your blog. When I got on the site and saw that cookie photo from yesterday, I felt a mix of disappointment and irritation (why no post yet?...it's almost 1:00!) Take all of this as a compliment.
ReplyDeleteNo Pressure!
ReplyDeleteSeriously, now you know how I feel when my favorite blogs aren't updated.
I'm updating every day...but I really can't do it by a certain time.
Sorry. ;D