Week 16:
Cookies - Soft and Chewy White Chocolate Cinnamon Cookies
Event - Early Happy Birthday to my co-worker Brenda and Loretta's wedding weekend
Recipe - http://backforseconds.com/white-chocolate-cinnamon-cookies/Review - These were some of the most well liked cookies I've made to date. Everyone who tried them wanted more. I brought them with us for Loretta's wedding and we all ate several before the reception as well as during! Loretta even enjoyed one. They were delicious. They were soft and chewy just like they claimed, with a slight crisp on the outside. My favorite. The cinnamon was a delicious twist in this cookie. The dough was a great dough and easy to make. These will become a go-to cookie recipe for sure.
Week 17:
Cookies - Cinnamon Honey Oatmeal Cookies
Event - Ron's birthday
Recipe - http://chasingdelicious.com/honey-cinnamon-oatmeal-cookies/
Review - My first ever baking failure!!! The recipe was all in ounces. I have a chart to convert it but I must have done something wrong. The recipe calls for you to scoop out the dough and then refrigerate. I did this and it seemed okay. It seemed a little "wet", but it was staying in the scooped mounds just fine. I figured that's why it was important to refrigerate, to get the dough to set up a little. So I put the cookies in the oven and checked on them at the low end of the time suggested. They were huge. They spread across the entire pan. I let them cool and had to literally peel them off the baking sheet. At that point they were sticky and flexible. I put them in a gallon bag and they turned into one big lump of cookie. They were cooked even though they didn't appear to be. I let Ron try them anyway. He agreed the taste was good, but not so much the texture! Brian, however, ate these all up!Week 18:
Cookies - Softbatch Funfetti Sugar Cookies
Event - Tate's birthday
Recipe - http://www.averiecooks.com/2013/07/softbatch-funfetti-sugar-cookies.html
Review - I made these a little early for my nephew's birthday since we celebrated the Sunday before his actual 4th birthday. I was excited to make him cookies with sprinkles in them, and I'm pretty sure he was excited I made them. I bought sprinkles at the last minute and I couldn't find any with blue in them. However, the large container I bought was still less than the recipe called for. I had some leftover 4th of July and Christmas sprinkles. So I got a few blue in there, but also plenty of red and green. Oh well! These had a little bit of almond extract in the dough, which I love. I think it gives the cookie a little something interesting more than using vanilla extract. These also called for being refrigerated, which I think helped. Even with that, my cookies flattened out a little more than what the pictures showed with the recipe. I don't know that they looked as wonderful, or if they were quite as soft, but these were still quite tasty. The important thing is Tate was excited that I made him cookies for his birthday!Week 19:
Cookies - Perfect Snickerdoodles
Event - Hairstylist and Kathleen's last radiation treatment
Recipe - http://rachelschultz.com/2012/11/13/perfect-snickerdoodles/
Review - I told my hairstylist about my cookie adventure the first time I got my haircut after I started. I took him a couple leftovers from that week I had. He was interested in knowing more and he made sure I knew that if I ever needed to get rid of some I could bring some by the salon! So I knew I had to make him some on this journey. He said he was a fan of snickerdoodles so I chose a basic snickerdoodle recipe for him to enjoy. He was so excited when he saw me. That is the best part of all this. My mom was going to go to a surprise dinner to celebrate her friend Kathleen's final radiation treatment, so we thought that would be a good way to share the cookies as well. Definitely something to celebrate! Snickerdoodles may be one of my favorite cookies, and I probably could've eaten these until I was sick. I think everyone loved these. Again, these were a bit more spread out than the pictures in the recipe, but they were still a great texture. Week 20:
Cookies - Award Winning Lemon Cookies
Event - Meredith's birthday
Recipe - http://www.ldsliving.com/LDS-Living-Lemon-Crinkle-Cookie-/s/64185
Review - Another tasty lemon cookie. I like the powdered sugar coating on these. It was a little bit of a crunch on the outside. They were a bit of a cakey cookie, so depending on your preference it may or may not hit the spot. However, they had a good balance of citrus tart and sweetness in my opinion. Everyone seemed to enjoy these, but didn't have a whole lot to say about them. They were a solid cookie, but maybe not at the top of the list so far. Making them was a breeze - kind of even fun to roll them up and toss them in the powdered sugar. They cooked fairly quickly which is always nice.
