My lovely friend S gave me homemade cookie mix for Christmas. It’s a great gift, because it’s an excuse to bake and then I get a large Mason jar to store dried lentils in afterwards. It was originally a recipe for “classic sugar cookies” but since I have a belligerent streak, and it was going to be a rather large batch of cookies, I decided to create several variations of a similar theme. I started with mixing the base recipe in one bowl, and then I scooped a chunk of it out into another bowl to add particulates.
A classic cookie, in three movements:
Movement 1
Hemp hearts
Sesame seeds
Mandarin rind and juice
Raisins
White chocolate chunks
Ground nutmeg
Movement 2
Turtles (those caramely chocolates, cut up into pieces)
White chocolate chunks
Large flakes of oats
Movement 3
Dark chocolate chips
Milk crumbs (essentially a mixture of white chocolate, milk powder, sugar, butter, and flour – a delicious mystery)
Ground ginger
All three cookies were made of the same base: the contents of the jar, butter, eggs, the last scrapes out of the bottom of the peanut butter jar, chocolate cake crumbs (why should they go to waste?) I didn’t measure a thing, just added what seemed right. All in all, a melodious way to make several things good to eat.