1. I love the Chocolate Aroma cookies at my local coffee shop, Aroma. They are chocolate, with icing sugar and are almost perfect. And the best thing, when you feel like a small sweet with your coffee, they are a small sweet. They aren't the as-big-as-your-head cookies that Starbucks sells which provide a meal in a cookie and don't actually taste very good.
I've tried a few recipes over the last few weeks to see if I could recreate them and I think I've finally come close. Since this recipe was passed to me as being a possibility by another cookie-loving friend, I should have tried it first. They are called chocolate crackle cookies and are from Martha Stewart's website. As I went over there to get the link, I notice there are several other chocolate crackle cookies that would also be worth a try. But in the meantime, I have these. And they are delicious.
2. Outside today we have a blanket of ice. Thankfully our power hasn't gone off, despite trying to a few times (touch wood). I stuck my head out earlier to look around and could hear ice crashing down off of the trees. It looks pretty but treacherous. So we're hibernating today. I baked the cookies above. We had squash soup from the freezer for lunch with garlic bread made from some leftover baguette and a glass of Chardonnay. Can't get much better than that.3. I made another hat for the Warm Hands Network. I have discovered that I quite enjoy making hats but am less crazy about wearing them. My already flat-as-a-pancake hair does not need the added influence of a hat. With Warm Hands I get to enjoy the making and someone gets to enjoy the wearing. A winning solution all around.
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