While most of my friends along the right coast found themselves snowed in today, here in the Roch, we enjoyed our daily serving of about 3-4 inches of snow. While not officially snowed in, we are stir crazy non-the-less. It seems as though this is the longest winter in the history of winters....and yet, I know that our winter usually lasts until April--we still have a loooong way to go. *sigh*. So, to pass some time, we have taken to baking a batch of cookies each week. Each week I enter into this activity with high hopes of harmonious cookie making, the sweetness of my cooperative children matching the sweet memories we are creating together. And each week, without fail, my dreams are quickly dashed to delusions as this activity deteriorates into a push and shove fest between my three little darlings, each vying to pour the ingredients or to stake their claim of the coveted spot directly in front of the mixer...god forbid they have to be on the side of the damned thing! And it never fails that one will start shouting and then someone will start crying and then this well intentioned mother turns into this:
And yet, each week, thinking like I am the mother of one well-behaved child instead of the mom of 3 very cute children blessed with strong personalities (aka ill-mannered) I take on this crazy activity like I have amnesia. Today, our most imperfect selves tackled the "Perfect M&M Cookies" and although they were baked through screams and shoves and tears, they turned out to be delicious cookies that filled up a nice chunk of this afternoon. I thought I would share, as this is a really easy, and in theory, fun recipe to make with the kids...and the cookies are delish! So, for all of my snowed in friends out there, here is a little sweetness to help get you through these dreaded days of winter!
Perfect M&M oookies
2 1/4 cups all purpose flour
1 tsp table salt
1 1/8 teaspoons baking soda
1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter at room temp
1 cup white sugar
1/2 cup brown sugar
1 tsp vanilla
2 eggs (at room temp or warmed in warm water for 5 mins)
about 5-6 m&m's per cookie.
combine flour, salt and soda in a small bowl
combine butter, sugars, vanilla in large bowl and mix until creamy...add eggs one at a time, mix well, add flour mixture.
form dough into small golf balls (slightly flatten) and arrange on cookie sheet. bake 7-9 mins...remove from oven and immediately/gently place m&m's in hot cookies, transfer cookies to rack to cool.
Enjoy!
Things I Like...Perfect M&M Cookies...baked by imperfect people...
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