Comfort Cookies

Remember those peanut butter cookies you used to buy in the school cafeteria?

If you were super lucky, you could sometimes get them while they were still warm. They usually tasted of rancid peanut butter and they were chewy. However, for some odd reason they were really good.

Well, these are not those. These are better.

I'll share a tiny secret - never mind - I won't.

But, I will say that this particular recipe makes the cookies nice and fluffy! I like to bake mine until they're crispy brown on the edges. And what is it about that criss-cross pattern that just makes you want to play a game of jacks? Oh, I know, the criss-cross reminds me of what a jack looks like.

My daughter likes chocolate chips in hers, so I split the batch in half. One half with chips. One half without. There are different variations on this cookie jar staple, but that's another blog.

I love to eat them for breakfast with a hot cup of coffee. How's that for watching your carbs and cholesterol?

Peanut butter cookies just like mom used to make. Wait, that wasn't mom - it was the cafeteria lady in the hair net.

At any rate, these are good!

Eat Some Now, Bake Some Later

You can't be a Cookie Minister without fresh baked cookies on-hand. Am I right? Problem solved.

Solution - refrigerator cookies!

These cookies can be prepared ahead of time, refrigerated and baked whenever you need them.

This week, I made mini-chocolate chip refrigerator cookies. There are lots good recipes online.

Instead of reaching in the refrigerator case of the grocery store for the pre-made ones, you can make your own. Even on a weekday. After you make your cookie dough, you wrap it into rolls. My recipe makes two rolls (or logs), which I then wrap tightly in waxed paper and store in zip lock quart sized bags in the fridge. For best results, cook within 7 days.

I slice mine about an inch thick. My recipe makes an easy four dozen. So that means four separate occasions when I look like I got it all together, when in reality, I'm flying by the seat of my pants!!

Munch-munch.