Coconut chocolate chip cookies! Well measured.
Well, the Thing on Which I was Working has been completed. I promise more on that later. I feel confident about results but not so confident that I want to risk jinxing myself by talking about it just yet.
In other news, Sami and I baked cookies last night. I was out of butter, and couldn’t find the Olive Oil Cake recipe someone had posted on facebook about six months ago, and nearly scrapped the whole baking idea entirely.
Our day was saved when I realized I had precisely 8 ounces of coconut oil – a fat which is solid at room temperature but melts much more easily than butter. Our cookies were a little snappier than the butter variety would have been, and had the added bonus of a hint of coconut essence.
Baking with Sami is always fun, if I arrange us well in the kitchen. She likes to stand on a stool right in front of the low cupboard where the oil, salt, and other whatnot are stored, so I have to remember to take out everything we need first. Then, she likes to help with the “measuring,” which to her just means dumping the measuring cups and spoons into the big mixing bowl. She especially loves mixing, and more than anything, loves rolling cookie dough into the misshapen balls and lining them up in wavy, crooked lines on the baking sheet.
Ok, not more than anything. More than anything, she loves to eat the cookies. It requires a monumental effort of patience from Sami to wait not only for the cookies to bake, but then for them to cool for 5 minutes on the rack before they are cool enough to touch.
My favorite part is the Sami chocolate-face. We have so much fun baking together.
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If only you could see the huge smile on my face. Thank you so much for sharing.
>Our day was saved when I realized I had precisely 8 ounces of coconut oil
It’s like the cookie version of Chanukah!
How delightful. Sami is just growing up so fast. I love your stories about the fun you have with her. Love you both so much.
I have such fond memories of baking cookies with MY MOM! Sami is so lucky to have you as HER MOM!!