makin' whoopie pies

chocolate+pink=awesome

I feel I have the authority to say this now that I've completed some classes in color theory.

some kind of sugar and spice

Here's a fact about giving people cookies, they often respond with 'Ooooh, what kind are they?'. And in this case I legitimately didn't know.

I used a recipe for brown sugar cookies, but I didn't have brown sugar...then I added super dark chocolate to half of them.

Since these cookies are heavy on the cinnamon, I billed them as cinnamon [chocolate chip] cookies. Then the cookie receivers respond 'Ooooh, cinnamon.' And everything in the world seems right.

we like ike[a]!

At the conclusion of the major Ikea battle need v. want v. really, really want thus need you are rewarded with Ikea Food.

I closed out my most recent trip with these imports: great sandwich cookies with vanilla raspberry and chocolate hazelnut filling.

I feel safer going forward knowing the outcome of the next battle--

I really, really need these.

mallo out

It's one of the most wonderful times of the year!

Mallomars are back on our local grocer's shelves!

Due to their heat sensitivity, Mallomars have a season that starts about now and runs until it gets warm again. While I really like summer, I also really like Mallomars--so the balance of life is maintained pretty well for me through this transitional period.

After months of idleness, the time is now(!) to hunt, gather, and begin stockpiling for summer.

c'est la vie bohème

I have been quite nomadic recently. I moved from out of town to downtown to uptown before I moved into my own space midtown. In the uptown apartment, as far as I can tell, whenever someone new comes [or there is butter in the refrigerator], there is baking. Shortly after I arrived, we made these Bohemian Chocolate Cookies.

Perhaps these are bohemian because there are no eggs and you can eat lots of the dough and not worry about getting food poisoning--and I suppose that a mind free of worry is quite bohemian.


But I like to live on the edge and when we made cupcakes (a new roommate was flying in) I tried the egg-inclusive batter--and lived to move life to my new home the next day.

wafering affections

Wafer cookies have always been fine by me.

Same with most any game in which Mario features prominently.

Here we go!!!

bunny business

Oh man, I love candy. And sales. So you may think I would be all over day-after-holiday candy sales. You would be correct.

I get really excited about candy sales and often end up with way more candy than I can consume. Which explains why, over a month after day-after-Easter, I still had a herd of Reester Bunnies around to fashion into cookies.

no scout about it

While I have been through many cycles of girl scout--I wasn't, I was, I wasn't, I was, I am not--I have always loved girl scout cookies.

Currently, I have no girl scout connections but I do have an oven. And am old enough to use it. So I made my own Samoa Bars.

Quite the enjoyable substitute for a girl with no scout.