Smitten Knows: BEST COOKIES EVER

i am a chocolate chip cookie aficionado, but maybe i mean addict. i get nervous when there are not cookies around, and yet i will completely ignore substandard cookies that are right in front of me. I have discovered this best recipe ever and i want you to know where it is.

http://smittenkitchen.com/2009/02/thick-chewy-oatmeal-raisin-cookies/

Replace the raisins with chocolate chips because DUH. good oatmeal raisin cookies are better than bad chocolate chip cookies, but when i'm in charge, it's oatmeal chocolate chip for the ultimate win. this time, i also added coconut in place of walnuts, because one was here and one was not. i am equally likely to do it the other way around.

i once substituted apricot applesauce for the egg in this recipe and it sucked. do not make that mistake. do it right! enjoy, loves.

graham "crackers"

yummy! 

i made a mess of these, spilling the sugar/butter/egg mixture around the kitchen (and myself), so then i just added ingredients willy nilly. it turned out well! The boy ate all the batter left in the bowl, commenting "loooks like peanut butter". he's right. I didn't roll it out quite enough because there was so much darn batter and it was almost naptime, so the baking time was longer and they're not so much crackers as thin cakes. whatever!

next time: follow the recipe. substitute agave & barley malt for the 6T sugar, and find a honey that's less than $12/lb for the honey portion. 

the boy has cookies. amen.