she says i'm much too thin, she asks me if i'm sick

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Remember that healthy eating kick? I’m still totally on it, but I am not made of stone.

These cookies are – according to Smells Like Dessert – the absolute Holy Grail of chocolate chip cookies. I’m not entirely sure I agree – they’re good, but they’re not so good that I’m going to quit on my trusty family recipe. (They are also HUGE. Like, ENORMOUS. I can see why the recipe calls for making them so large, because they are a lot softer having been baked like that, but. This definitely makes giant, Starbucks-sized cookies, and one is more than enough.)

I also did something a bit weird with this recipe, which may be why I didn’t love them quite as passionately as the original blogger. When I went to start baking, I discovered that my brown sugar was hopelessly hard and unusable, so I tried a substitution gleaned from the internet: one cup of white sugar and a quarter cup of molasses to replace one cup of brown sugar. It worked out – the texture of the cookies is perfect, and they’re not too sweet – but there is a bit of a molasses-y aftertaste. I don’t mind it, really? But it definitely changed the character of the cookies.

Song of the Entry: Jack’s Mannequin – Holiday From Real

nobody wants to hear you sing about tragedy

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Thanks for bearing with me over the short, totally unplanned (lazy) break I took from blogging when I went back to visit my parents over the holidays – don’t worry, I didn’t get much crafting done while I was there, anyway.

To start off the new year, a new picture of some new (to me) cookies – Peppermint Chocolate Cookies, discovered at penniesonaplatter via foodgawker. These were delicious – although I didn’t realize until after I’d baked them and tried one, they really are peppermint chocolate shortbread. Still. Wonderfully pretty to look at, and a surprising amount of fun to bake.

Song of the Entry: Fall Out Boy – Disloyal Order of Water Buffaloes

you'd better not pout

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Cookies I baked for a my Secret Pal in the holiday gift exchange at school. More of these cookies, but with white chocolate chips inside instead of semisweet – I think I may need to take a break on them for a while, or I’m going to start to get sick of eating them!

Song of the Entry: The Beach Boys – Santa Claus is Coming to Town