baking

Tonight, on a whim, decided that I needed to bake cookies. Needed to, so I hunted down a recipe I had seen online and went to town. The butter was melting, I had all my dry ingredients in a separate bowl, the egg and egg yolk were ready to go. As I was whisking the sugar into the butter I thought to myself "wow, I had all the ingredients to make these in the house- I am such a prepared little baker" when I realized I did not have the main ingredient to my chocolate chip cookies- the chocolate chips. What I did have on hand was random bulk items left over from making trail mix to bring to school. The recipe called for 2 cups chocolate chips, I DID have peanut butter chips- one cup, and the other cup I substituted raw cashews, crushed. Well, I am currently baking the last tray of them and they turned out great. Next time I make cookies I will have to forget that ingredient again so I can have something new- no sunflower seeds though, not in a cookie- yuck.

The recipe I used was from here.



Side note: I just opened the oven for the last time tonight and thought to myself "Gee, this is so warm. I wish I could sleep in here." Then I realized what I wanted.