That is all I feel these days – cold and damp. And damp and cold. The weather is all rain and mushy snow that doesn’t stick and grey skies all the time. It is great weather for fireplaces, cosy blankets, hot cocoa and bitterly complaining about how bad the weather is.
Someone once commented that Canadians really, really like to talk about the weather. It is totally true – we talk about the heat in the summer, the cold in the winter, and how this particular spring and fall (whatever spring and fall it may be) is failing us by either being too hot or too cold.
But this time, it isn’t just all talk. Mother Nature is just being plain spiteful at this point.
Weather like this calls for drastic measures:
Cookies!
Cookies make everything better. I wanted to make jam thumbprints, and Teagan wanted peanut butter, so we met in the middle and made Peanut Butter Cup Cookies. We used this recipe and they are mighty good.
I did have some problems with the baking time, though. The recipe says to bake them for eight minutes, and many commenters admonished that they wouldn’t look done at eight minutes, but they really were done and if you left them in a moment longer they would be overcooked. I diligently took them out after eight minutes and after anxiously waiting for them to cool so we could start eating, we found out that they really weren’t done, and the bottom half of each cookie was a half cooked mess.
So, I took a chance and heated up the oven again, and stuck them in for another eight minutes to account for having chilled them. They came out perfectly, and the peanut butter cups even remained intact. I am happy to report that they are totally wonderful.
Unlike the weather.
Like this:
Tags: baking, cookies, cooking, food, peanut butter cup cookies, recipes
That is one hell of a dangerous looking cookie recipe! I should not have seen that.