Birthday week cookies: #15cookiesin2015 part 4

When I set the intention to make more cookies this year, specifically 15 batches, I intended to try all new recipes. However, since last week was my birthday week, I decided to fudge the 'rule' just a little bit. I made my favourite oatmeal cookies from my grandma's recipe cards, but tweeked them by adding in Reece's Pieces candies. These are my new favourite! They were so good, my husband and I ate 30 cookies in 3 days. They didn't even make it to my birthday!

Snickerdoodles: #15cookiesin2015 part 3

Today I made cookies for my Bookclub meeting. Snickerdoodles, because I love cinnamon, I love chewy cookies, and they look so pretty all rolled in sugar. 

We are discussing Emma by Jane Austen. I haven't even broken 100 pages! What a terrible host! And what a terrible book. I keep falling asleep while reading it. I suppose I am just not into that old style of writing. The sentences go on forever! I made one last attempt to barrel through and finish in time, but alas, I gave up. But I did enjoy a little snickerdoodle taste test, and the cookies are delicious and go great with a cup of tea!

#15cookiesin2015 : Intro, and part 1 + 2

I just realized that, while I meant to blog about my intentions for 2015, I never did!  My last post of 2014 kind of touched base on some of my other broader intentions for 2015, but I do want to mention my "task" intention for the year.

This year, I would like to bake more cookies.  I really enjoy baking, and I really enjoy cookies, so it seemed like the perfect project to take on this year.  Especially with last year being so limiting in what I was able to comfortably eat, I feel like I earned a year of cookies!!

I was a little wishy-washy about how many batches would be my goal.  At first I was thinking a batch a week, but I didn't want to gain a hundred pounds.  Then I was thinking to do every other week, but even that seemed like quite a large amount of cookies.  But one per month didn't seem like enough!  So I settled on 15 batches for 2015, because I like the ring of it! However, I am welcome to make more and exceed my goal, of course!

I have the Martha Stewart Cookies book, which is one of my go-to's for recipes.

I have already made 2 batches of cookies from this book.  The first was Chewy Chocolate Gingerbread Cookies, which were so delicious and amazing.  I kind of want to make 15 batches of these!

The second was Orange-Cardamom Madeleines.  But, lacking a Madeleine pan, I used a bunny pan, and a cupcake pan.  

These I was a little disappointed in, mostly due to the fact that Martha and I must have differing definitions of what comprises a cookie.  These are most definitely little cakes.  They were tasty, but not a cookie.  I am still debating if I count this as part of my intention.  I guess we shall see how many I am at come December!