a tale of three cookies

 We made a trio of cookies to get us through the holiday this year and fill out some small gift boxes for Lil Momma’s friend crew. Baking cookies is such a weird nostalgia thing for me because while my grandmother, Mimi, loved baking and always had these tins of homemade cookies she’d pull out after dinner for all of us, my own mother (her daughter) thought baking was the worst thing in the world and I grew up thinking the best chocolate chip cookies were Betty Crocker’s bag ones. (A fact that horrified my Mr when we first started dating, haha!) I’ve come to really enjoy baking in the last decade or so and love to try a new recipe each Christmas along with our family favorites. LM loves to help now, which warms my heart, even if that help is more measuring and taste testing vs cleaning up.


Our new recipe for this year was for Chocolate Crinkle Cookies from Mel’s Kitchen Cafe! Described as “They are a delightful cross between a soft, chewy chocolate cookie and a rich, fudgy brownie”, which is wild because that’s exactly how I’d describe them. Not too sweet - even with my arch nemesis powdered sugar - and just a really lovely texture. LM was bummed we were giving most of them away, haha!

We also made my favorite chocolate and chips cookie which is a mashup between Alton Brown’s Chewy chocolate chip cookie and a cookie I saw years and years ago on The Pioneer Woman where she added crushed potato chips into her cookies. I’ve gotten lazy over the years and just add half a bag of crushed Ruffles into the Chewy recipe (always Ruffles - we did the work of testing other brands!) and it gives the salty and texture I need in a cookie. Even the frozen dough is amazing (and sometimes eaten like ice cream over here, haha!).

Our final cookie of the day was Alton Brown’s peanut butter cookie for the Mr. LM made these by herself and they always turn out exactly as one would want a PB cookie to be; a little salty, a lot of flavor, and a lot of lasting power. The Mr doesn’t love chocolate or super sweet desserts, so these fit the bill for him 100%. We even cut 1/3 of the granulated sugar this year and the cookie still worked really well  

Thanks to Suzanne for thinking up the Cookie Swap - even if I’m late, sigh - and inspiring this post! I so enjoy reading about everyone baking adventures (and misadventures). 

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