Won't Want for Cookies

I'll spare you the poetry that I could write about the dozens of cookies we made on Monday. Seriously, I can't stop listening to Hzards of Love by the Decemberists. I listen to it on my ipod. I listen to it in my car. And I'm listening to it in my head right now with no auditory device.


So I have dozens and dozens of cookies and brownies. Here we have blondies, which are brownies with no chocolate, sugar cookies, butter cookies, brownies, and the ever popular chocolate chip cookies. There were gingersnaps, but they had a molasses incident.


The blondies have toffee in them, and I think they are my favorite.


The sugar cookies are really hard. And they need icing.


The butter cookies melted a little because the oven was too low (how does that happen?) But they are delicious, with some almonds, a pistachio and a dried cherry.


The brownie is also good, but has nuts. Yuck.



The chocolate chip cookie also has nuts, but they're small enough that I don't mind. And the recipe called for shortening instead of butter. When I asked why, it's because you don't want the butter flavor to overpower what you're making. Plus, shortening is cheaper.
So there you go, the cookie round up. There were 4 dozen chocolate chips, 2 dozen brownies, 2 dozen blondies, 2 dozen sugar, and a dozen butter. 11 dozen cookies divided by 4 members of my group. Ok, thats just over 30 cookies for me. It looks like a lot more than that. But come to our house if you're hungry.