- Less fortunate kids's bedroom around the world showing
2. Being in the less fortunate shoes
“ Once you collect the coins, you can put it your money box “
I love having cookies around. Whether I need a little pick me up or just a quick sugar fix. Having cookies handy is comforting. And knowing I can have one and be good or eight and feel good, cookies equal comfort for me.
And chocolate cookies. well they just make it all even better.
Chocolate cookies with chocolate chips.
Uh huh. That’s the stuff.
I found these dark chocolate chips at the grocery store and had to use them right away.
I guess they’re new from Nestle. It’s about time they joined the party. I love dark chocolate.
Oh, I forgot. The cookies are kissed with peanut butter, too.
Yes. Yum.
Start out by creaming the butter, sugar and peanut butter.
Add the eggs and vanilla.
Beat it all together.
Add whisked cocoa, flour, baking soda and salt to the creamed mixture.
Then add in those dark chocolate chips and stir it all together. Oh yeah.
Take the cookie dough and roll into small balls roughly 1 1/4″ in size.
Place on parchment paper and bake away.
They’ll be on the smaller side, but they’ll bake up nice and thick.
And oh so good.
Help. Me.
If you’re a nut lover, you can also roll them in chopped pecans right before baking.
Just like so.
I baked some plain and some with pecans to play.
But, I like the plain ones better. Plain, slightly under baked and warm – right out of the oven.
Hard to resist. Basically, I like to torture myself. Then I can seek comfort with more cookies.
It’s probably good to be alone when you take them out of the oven. No one needs to see that behavior.
Just curious. Raise your hand if you’ve ever eaten an embarrassing amount of cookies before they can even cool.
Dark Chocolate Chip Comfort Cookies
1 1/2 cups flour
1/2 cup cocoa
3/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup butter, slightly softened
1 1/2 cups sugar
1/2 cup peanut butter
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla
10 oz. dark chocolate chips
chopped pecans, optional
So, a manuscript has officially been delivered, a whole 6 hours in advance of its deadline. I am the eternal college student, apparently, though if you’d asked me 18 months ago when I was going to finish my book I could have probably told you right then “Five minutes before it is due.” I’m classy like that. I would hardly say that the cookbook process is finished — we’re still ironing out some kinks, there’s copyediting (I can’t be the only one who pities the copyeditor who must deal with the madness I pass off as grammar, right?), some reshoots, they’ve been kind enough to offer me design input though they’ll probably regret it when they see what bad taste I have… I won’t bore you with the details. But for the most part? I’m back! Whee! And there’s no place else I’d rather be.
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