cookies cookies everywhere...

I don't eat them, but I do like to bake them!

There's nothing like a Christmas-y chocolate chip cookie! I took some pointers from Mariel, and softened up the butter first, added the right amount of salt, put double the amount of brown sugar than white sugar, and added a wee bit more flour. They look pretty yummy!

When I was growing up, we had butter cut outs, by the stack! My mother made them just once a season, but I think she quadrupled the recipe. When they cooled and we stacked them up, the table was covered with stacks. We frosted them for what seemed like hours. She didn't make ten different kinds of cookies, just these. So these are Christmas, to me. I don't eat these anymore either, but I have to make them for Christmas! The batch I made the other day, I actually threw away a few that didn't get eaten, can you believe that? But with only four kids left in the house...and Jon mostly eats healthy, but now he's in Oregon anyway. So why did I make these?

I plan to send some to someone for their birthday!

Phew, that took all day, making and frosting! Now, I can't even relax in my comfy chair because I have to pick up Camille from school and bring her to her podiatrist appointment...