Sweet tooth

I think it is high time for a post with a more positive attitude. I realize I've sort of been writing about depressing topics and have been expressing some of my darker emotions. For that I am sorry, and hope you bear with me. Motherhood is absolutely amazing, but it definitely isn't easy either. When I'm feeling my best, I usually don't have my computer in front of me, it is usually when I'm in need of an escape that I find myself writing. The easiest thing to write about is what is weighing on my mind, and as you probably have guessed, it is the more difficult aspects of motherhood. Without further ado...

I don't know if you can get much more positive than fresh baked chocolate chip cookies.

I think I've mentioned before my husband's love of cookies. He can (and will) eat nearly a dozen cookies in one sitting. No cookies in the house? He'll devour half a bag of the chocolate chips, followed by a cold glass of milk. When I bake a batch of cookies, I find he will eat about a dozen fresh out of the oven, but only a couple day-old cookies. Sometimes when he's desperate he might nibble on a two-day-old cookie, but he'd probably rather have the other half of the bag of chocolate chips he broke into before. Leaving me with the leftovers. (because unlike my husband, I believe no sweet should be left behind, and they go straight to mine...)

So I devised a plan. He loves cookies, fresh out of the oven. And while cookie dough tubs/cubes are abundant in the stores, they sometimes don't taste as good, or are overpriced. SO I decided to do it myself.


I mix up a double batch of chocolate chip cookie dough, then proceed to scoop it out and form it into balls like I would if I were to bake them. Then I place them on on wax paper and put them in to the freezer to harden, to keep the sticky dough balls from making dough clumps. Once they harden a little, I put them in a large ziplock bag to keep in the freezer until ready to bake.


I don't add any time to the bake time (I pretty much always shave off a couple minutes when I make cookies so they don't get over baked) and usually put Chocolate Chip cookies in for 8 minutes. I don't even wait for the oven to get preheated all the way. I just turn it on before I put the cookies on the cookie sheet.


Which leads me to the question: Have you ever used Parchment paper? If you haven't, I absolutely love it, and recommend it. I will not go back to baking cookies without it. Cookies easily go from paper to plate, (or paper to mouth) only sometimes leaving a bit of melted chocolate behind (if you didn't let them cool all the way.).

It takes a bit of extra time to make cookies this way (since I make a double batch), but now my dear husband can have fresh baked cookies any night he likes, and doesn't have to hear my excuse as to why I don't have time to whip up a batch of cookies. (We won't even get into how much this method saves my hips.)

In the freezer to harden.

On parchment paper, ready for the oven.

Freshly baked cookies. Yum!