I love cookies! Chocolate chip, snickerdoodle, peanut butter, and many others. I also love to bake cookies.
A cool fall day is the perfect time to bake cookies. The oven warms the house and the cookies warm the mouth. Okay that was kinda corny but we are talking about cookies.
Childhood
When I was a kid we never bought cookies, we made them. My dad's favorite was Chocolate Chip and so that's what we made. I'm not sure when I started helping but I think it was around 6. We had a routine, we would make a triple batch, then count them to see if it matched the recipes estimate, then freeze most of them for later.
It was easy to make so many because my parents had a commercial mixer that could hold up to 10 cups of flour. They also had a ton of cookies sheets, so we could scoop all the dough and just keep popping in sheets. After they cooled they would be store in a giant tupperware and put in the deep freeze in the garage. This was to make them last longer, but it really didn't work. Except the time my mom locked the freezer or maybe that was to keep us from eating popsicles to fast.
Teenagehood
I still loved to bake cookies. I still made triple batches and put them in the freezer. According to my sister I would get bored after mixing the dough and make her scoop them. I'm sure that's true sometimes mid-process I can get easily distracted.
I did make it up to Annemarie by using cookies to teach her algebra. Since every time I had a cookie she had to have one, I explained that algebra is the same way, each side of the equation needs the same thing.
By this time the freezer was within 10 steps of the Media Room so sneaking cookies during movies was very easy.
Adulthood
By this point I had started eating Gluten-Free, so I had to alter my recipe a bit. Instead of white flour I used a combo of Brown Rice, Tapioca and Corn Starch. This subbed in real nice and no one ever notices they taste different. However, finding the right combo was a trick. There was the time I only had Bean flours and made cookies. They tasted like beans and chocolate, glad I didn't triple that batch.
When Tyrone and I started dating he had to go to a wedding in Montana for a really good friend. I being the new, sweet girlfriend made him cookies for his road trip. The father of the bride was Tyrone's mentor and so Tyrone shared some of the cookies with him. He told Tyrone to marry me cause these were the best cookies he'd tasted.
Marriedhood
A cool fall day is the perfect time to bake cookies. The oven warms the house and the cookies warm the mouth. Okay that was kinda corny but we are talking about cookies.
Childhood
When I was a kid we never bought cookies, we made them. My dad's favorite was Chocolate Chip and so that's what we made. I'm not sure when I started helping but I think it was around 6. We had a routine, we would make a triple batch, then count them to see if it matched the recipes estimate, then freeze most of them for later.
It was easy to make so many because my parents had a commercial mixer that could hold up to 10 cups of flour. They also had a ton of cookies sheets, so we could scoop all the dough and just keep popping in sheets. After they cooled they would be store in a giant tupperware and put in the deep freeze in the garage. This was to make them last longer, but it really didn't work. Except the time my mom locked the freezer or maybe that was to keep us from eating popsicles to fast.
Teenagehood
I still loved to bake cookies. I still made triple batches and put them in the freezer. According to my sister I would get bored after mixing the dough and make her scoop them. I'm sure that's true sometimes mid-process I can get easily distracted.
I did make it up to Annemarie by using cookies to teach her algebra. Since every time I had a cookie she had to have one, I explained that algebra is the same way, each side of the equation needs the same thing.
By this time the freezer was within 10 steps of the Media Room so sneaking cookies during movies was very easy.
Adulthood
By this point I had started eating Gluten-Free, so I had to alter my recipe a bit. Instead of white flour I used a combo of Brown Rice, Tapioca and Corn Starch. This subbed in real nice and no one ever notices they taste different. However, finding the right combo was a trick. There was the time I only had Bean flours and made cookies. They tasted like beans and chocolate, glad I didn't triple that batch.
When Tyrone and I started dating he had to go to a wedding in Montana for a really good friend. I being the new, sweet girlfriend made him cookies for his road trip. The father of the bride was Tyrone's mentor and so Tyrone shared some of the cookies with him. He told Tyrone to marry me cause these were the best cookies he'd tasted.
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| Me baking cookies in my parents kitchen |
The first thing I made in our new house was chocolate chip cookies. We had bought our condo from a sweet old lady and the house still kinda smelled. Between the cookies and all the candles, febreeze, and coffee beans, the smell went away.
I tried making different kinds of cookies to see if Tyrone liked any other varieties, but always went back to chocolate chip.
I made a few attempts at snickerdoodles but they always seemed to run. I solved this by making them in muffin tins. Recently I discovered the recipe I was using called for too much butter, no wonder they ran so much.
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| My lime green Kitchen Aid mixer |
Parenthood
Now that I'm a mom with a toddler who wants to try every thing he sees, I've had to get sneaky. I only make cookies while Samuel is napping. Since nap times have been getting shorter I now make about 24 cookies and make my own cookie dough rolls. I lay out some saran wrap and scoop the dough out in a tube shape. The tubes go in the fridge and come out when I need a cookie fix.
Which leads to my favorite kitchen accessory: Parchment Paper! Parchment paper is awesome. I put it down on the cookie sheet and never have to wash a cookie sheet. It was the one thing I hated about making cookies, washing the cookie sheets.
Since I now only have to make a dozen at a time I can eat a few and then share with Samuel. It will be easy to teach him alegra too. Since if mom had a cookie he must have one too.
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| Samuel eating frosting because mommy had some too |
PS: Thanks to Michelle at http://bloggingatnaptime.blogspot.com/ for the inspiration to write about cookies!
I loved this! I also love your green Kitchen Aid mixer :) So great. Made me laugh to read about you winning Tyrone's heart a bit with the chocolate chip cookies :) I only make chocolate chip now because those are Josh's favorite. He prefers it over fancier cookies :) I'm also excited to try the 8 minute brownie recipe!
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