More Christmas fun

Last night we made cookies for Santa. Instead of making regular chocolate chip cookies, we decided to try to mold them with cookie cutters. Much hilarity ensued:





Of course, they had to be decorated:





And we underestimated how much the cookies would spread when cooked:



They were still tasty!



There was much to be unwrapped:





The husband surprised me with a shiny:



And we are replete on our traditional Christmas breakfast of cheesecake and mimosas. Cheers!



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Decadence in baking

A few months ago, a picture scrolled through my Facebook wall, of Tollhouse chocolate chip cookies stuffed with Oreos. I've been wanting to try this ever since, and today I finally did so, as I had the perfect excuse of a friend's 40th birthday party. You follow the standard Tollhouse recipe, except increase the baking time to 15 minutes. I formed the dough around each of the Oreos by hand, dusting my fingers with flour in between each cookie. There was very little spread in baking, resulting in thick chewy delights with a surprise chocolatey crunch.




Okay, where's my milk?


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