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Cookies & Cupcakes From Love

Posted on February 14, 2014 by LFFL

Made with Pillsbury Big Deluxe Chocolate Chip cookie dough and Nestle Toll House Chocolate Chip cookie dough; with sprinkles on top.

I had a beautiful and fun day today with my 5-year-old niece who spent the entire day with me baking her little heart out. I must say, this is all her handiwork. And we’re talking almost 50 cookies!

Though all she had to do was tear the pre-cut cookie dough from the package—she DID put the sprinkles on all by herself! This is a talent in and of itself. You’re either born with it or you’re not. After all, sprinkling is an art form.

She also had a tub of cookie dough which required using the mini-scoop, squeezing the scoop—which took all the strength she could muster from both of her tiny hands, and then dropping the balls onto the baking sheet.

Made with Betty Crocker Chocolate Fudge cake mix, eggs, canola oil, and water; with sprinkles on top.

Here is more of her handiwork in these bite-sized mini-cupcakes. She whirled the cake beater till the batter was good and smooth, put the liners in the cupcake tin, poured the batter from a measuring cup into each individual paper liner, then strategically placed each individual sprinkle by hand one-by-one exactly where she wanted them to go.

And that’s three batches of 24—THREE! For a minimum of 72 mini-cupcakes that needed sprinkles.

So, if you have nothing else to do today, do some baking with your little nieces, nephews, or some random kids.

Take-Away Life Lesson: Allow a minimum of 13 hours for strategically placing sprinkles one-by-one for each round of cupcakes and cookies.

It's Cookie Time

Posted on June 29, 2013 by LFFL

Well, these little darlings (or big, technically) came from Whole Foods Market yesterday. I usually walk right past the bakery area, but yesterday I was feeling a little daring. And since I’ve never tried their baked cookies before—I figured, eh, why not?

You just open the clear cases, take a sheet of thin paper they have there and grab your own cookies and other baked goods, put them into a sack or box, and be on your way.

So the first one, front and center, is the Cocoa Chewie Cookie—the only thing I can tell you is it’s full of the chocolatey loveliness that it looks like it is. It lives up to its name. Although its look and size made someone think I had a hamburger pattie on my plate with two cookies. (Apparently, my reputation precedes me.)

Top right is your basic Chocolate Chip Cookie—there was nothing special about it. Just a good chocolate chip cookie.

Aaannnndddd on your far left, folks, we have here what’s called the Vegan Crazy Jeff’s Cookie—yeah, he’s crazy alright whoever he is. I didn’t make it past the first bite on that one.

So, if you have nothing else to do today, try some fresh-baked cookies at your local health food store and see how you like them. Get up and experience different things. It’s better than doing nothing. Live a little! Even if you just live to learn that Crazy Jeff will no longer be a part of your life again.

Take-Away Life Lesson: There’s always some truth in the naming of a food product. Read between the lines.

Did I Really Just Eat All That?

Posted on March 21, 2013 by LFFL

Sooooooo, yeah, I did eat this entire box of yummy chocolate chip goodness throughout the course of a day. What can I say? It’s what made me happy at the time. I go through different phases where I constantly buy and eat boxes of chocolate chip ice cream until I get sick of it and stop again until the next year. I don’t know where it comes from. It just spikes outta nowhere, I tell you.

Do you think the saturated fat will cling to my arteries at some point? Let’s hope not. I do eat lots of bowls of oatmeal from time-to-time. So I’m hoping that kinda rinses it away. I guess when you think about all the ice cream one person eats over the course of a year, I’m probably doing much less in a shorter period of time is what it amounts to.

Chocolate chip ice cream — Last year, I decided to eat this bad boy straight out of the tub. I didn’t see the point of putting it into a bowl when I was just going to go back for 2nds and 3rds anyway.

So, if you have nothing else to do today, list out all the reasons why you should NOT scarf down an entire box of ice cream by yourself and put it to memory.

That’s all I have to say on the subject.

Take-Away Life Lesson: Read nutrition facts BEFORE eating entire boxes of ice cream or better yet—maybe don’t eat a whole box in a day.

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