So, maybe I had a half a dozen, or so, people disappointed to learn that I’m not technically a food blogger when they became acquainted with me through the Great Food Blogger Cookie Swap. I’m sorry if that’s you… I heard about the swap, initially, on another (non-food) blog and my youngest daughter Genny emphatically felt that we should take on this challenge together.
Did you read that last word???
TOGETHER…
I am not a big fan of baking. I LOVE to cook, and I hear I do it well. I especially love to have people over and cook for them. Baking though, I don’t know. I can make some beautiful coffee cakes and about 45 different (and equally perfect) cheesecakes. My baking confidence ends there though… i get nervous, and impatient.
Two things though, about this swap, intrigued me.
1} spending torturous time in the kitchen, baking a batch of cookies and ending up with three different kinds.
2} doing it with Gen.
It was not until after I received my first update email, from the swap, that it even dawned on me that it was a food blogger swap.
if there is anyway i can clause in as an honorary food blogger for the sheer reason that I subscribe to more food blogs than any other type- that would be swell.
Moving on…
Due to many unforeseeable events- our cookie making morning was not only pushed off until the last possible minute- BUT it also became MY cookie making morning. Genny was sick. I became depressed. It was all ugly and sad, but I survived and have lived to tell the tale- complete with photos and the recipe.
Chocolate Peppermint Crunch Cookies…
- 1/2 cup, plus 6 T. unsalted butter, softened.
- 3/4 cup firmly packed brown sugar
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 t. vanilla
- 1 1/2 c. all purpose flour
- 1 t. baking soda
- 1/2 t. salt
- 3 cups old fashioned oats
- 1/2 c. chopped chocolate or chocolate chips
- 1/2 c. white chocolate peppermint morsels
- 1/4 c. chopped candy canes
Heat the oven to 350.
in a large bowl/mixer, cream butter and sugars.
Add eggs, one at a time, beating each until blended.
Mix in Vanilla.
Gently wisk dry ingredients (except oats and mix ins) together in a seperate bowl and then add to creamed mixture.
{this is when i checked on her and she was pasty, grey and deeply sad that she- who loves to bake- was in bed reading while I slaved away over tasty cookie dough in the kitchen. Life truly is not fair.}
Stir in the oats.
When the dough is well blended, add in the chocolate and candy pieces.
Drop dough by rounded spoonfuls on to ungreased cookie sheets.
Bake 8-10 minutes, or until golden.
While they baked and cooled, I made up little Christmas cards to accompany the cookies.
Ta da! Not so bad… Actually, this recipe is one of our family’s FAVORITE Christmas cookies. I am not sure how fresh they stayed, or how well they shipped, but we love them here at home…
Also thought i’d share with you the blogs of the three amazing bakers who sent us DELICIOUS cookies! Kathy Can Cook, Girls Can Tell and My Fiance Likes it……
And the three bloggers who I sent to… CakeFYI, Urban Sacred Garden, and Azucar Means Sugar. {and yes, all things considered- I really was intimidated and sure my humble little cookies were far inferior to anything they make!}
Rainy Day in May... 
Well, no matter how inferior you feel, yours is the only new recipe I'm copying to try in my own kitchen this week (in addition to the many dozen others I've already got lined up to bake!) Sounds delish!
Your cookies look amazing! I bet those food bloggers got nothing on you! ;-)
Loved the cookies! =]
Welcome back Misty. Hope you are all feeling better now and those cookies will surely help.
You can send me some any day! MmmmmmRita t
The cookies were very delicious, They traveled well and stayed fresh. No complaints here. You did a great job and thank you again!
Congrats- be Careful, once you bake, your in it forever!