More Cookie Pops

Different colors, different cookie recipe, more confetti - same look.  These are by far the best according to popular vote. 

Cinnamon Rolls

I made Low Fat Cinnamon Rolls for Amie's visit this week.  I pounded out the dough a little too long so they were a little tough, but otherwise REALLY good :)

Cookie Press Experiment

For my birthday, I got a cookie press from Nick and Erin.  (Actually, I got a gift certificate and just cashed it in for the cookie press).  I gave it a go and here are the results.  According to the tasters, the vanillas are much better than the chocolate ones.  

Chocolate Chips - Sweet Success

FINALLY perfected these dang things.  I tried 8 different recipes before I found this one.  Basically, I could now make you any kind you want.  Like flat and crispy?  Fluffy and cake like?  I can cover all of your chocolate chip desires.  Try me.

White Chocolate Chip Cookies

I invented a cookie!  Okay, so I am sure in the grand scheme of life I was not the first person to come up with this, but they are de-lish.  Great for the person that cannot have regular chocolate and still wants the chocolate chip cookie experience.

Thumbprint Cookies

Thumbprint cookies!  These are my absolute favorite cookies.  A bakery in my mom's hometown (Peoria, IL!) makes them and I get them by the dozen when I am up visiting.  Mom nicked this recipe from my granma's friend who swore it was the same... and it is!  

They can be filled with a dollop of icing, or chocolate and are AH-mazing. 

Cupcake Cookies

These were a HUGE hit in law school.  Ben calls them "crack cookies" because they are completely addictive.  Made out of cupcake batter, each cookie is basically a dense version of a cupcake.  I remember making them in law school for Wally, Stud, and I.  Wally and I would eat our respective shares immediately and Stud would save his.   Cookie by cookie, Wally and I would eat ALL of his as well.  Serves him right... leaving them there to taunt us.  Just cruel.

This particular batch got a little smooshed on their way to East Atlanta.  Wally assures me that it didn't effect the taste.

Chocolate Chips

Chocolate Chip Cookies are classics, so I had to add them to the collection.  I've been playing with different recipes, and this one is the best so far.  I'm trying to find a recipe that results in plumper looking cookies.  Everything I have tried makes flat ones.   Surprisingly this classic cookie has been more trouble than expected.

Fortune Cookies

I'm not going to lie. I found this idea on a wedding website and LOVED it, so I ripped it. I have been waiting a few weeks to try it out, and I am so happy I did!  Granted, out of the 10 I made, only 4 turned out to be semi-presentable, but I am thrilled with the idea of it all.  

On the wedding website, it had cute little love fortunes with the couples name and the wedding date as lucky numbers.  Mine have personalized fortunes as well, but since I wrote them they are rather sarcastic.  Would you expect anything else from me?

The top photo here is a "naked fortune."  The ones below have been dipped in chocolate and rolled in sprinkles.  My favorite is the chocolate one with the heart in the right hand corner.  

What do you all think?

Alex's Cookie Pops

The camera wasn't cooperating here, and I have already posted cookie pops, BUT here are a few more that I made for Alex's birthday last week. 

Harry Potter cookies!

Harry Potter glasses, snitches, potion bottles, floating keys, and stars!  Awesome HP cookie cutters inspired by The Chamber of Secrets!  These were just plain FUN to make!  Yummy too!