Shhh... Don't tell the members of my book club that I made last week's oatmeal chocolate chip cookies using a mix. It was a really busy weekend, and we already had a lot on our grocery list, so I took the easy way out. Still a pretty tasty way out, but I felt guilty.
Because I didn't get my baking fix last weekend, and because I'm constantly baking cookies that I refuse to let Greg sample because they're for work, I decided to do a batch of cookies this weekend, gentleman's choice. The only rule I gave him was that he had to choose a 1 or 2 star recipe. For culinary and literary reasons (one of Greg's scholarly interests is Moby Dick), he chose the White Chocolate Whalers. This was a great choice because I generally can't stand white chocolate, so it would have taken a long time for me to get around to these on my own.
Anyway, these are really crunchy cookies, with rice krispies, almonds, and white chocolate chips. The dough is really easy to make, then you scoop out and roll the dough in more rice krispies before flattening into disks on the baking sheet. The recipe was supposed to make about 18, but I made 24 with a little dough left over, so they could have been a little bigger. They're pretty tasty (even for someone who doesn't like white chocolate), although I'm not sure they'll make the list of recipes to go back to.
This blog post would be a lot more interesting if I had pictures, but our camera currently has no batteries, and I keep forgetting to pick some up. And I will get around to including recipes with posts, but I just don't have the time to copy it out tonight. Blogging fail...
Anyway, at least I'm still making progress, and here's what's up next:
1. Buy camera batteries to chronicle future endeavors.
2. Bake biscotti next weekend. (Tea weather is fully upon us, after all.)
3. Dig my Rubik's Cube out of its drawer and see if I can get any further with it.
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