Cookie and Babies

I usually set three alarms for the morning and drag myself out of bed on the third one. Today was different. I jumped out of bed as if I had already had 5 shots of espresso. It was cookie baking day at school and I was excited. Today we baked 16 types of cookies. Yes, 16 different types. I was in my element the entire 6 hours of class and did not hide it well. A classmate came up to me and said "I can tell you love to bake, you have had a permanent smile on your face the entire day". I imagine I looked a bit abnormal smiling at the kitchen aid mixer while it whipped my butter to a light and fluffy consistency. My happiness is not easily contained.
Part of the reason we had so many cookies is because we made a variation of the same recipe a few times. For one batter we would use olive oil as the fat, another coconut oil, and lastly butter. We did these variations for the jam print cookies. I preferred the cookies made with the olive oil. It provided a moist cookie with a minuet olive oil flavor. If you did not know there was olive oil in the batter you would not be able to pick up on its flavor.

After tasting and critiquing the cookies we were able to bag them up and take them home. With my sugar high still in full drive, I started on my walk home. A few blocks from school I passed a homeless man asking for food and money. Whenever I walk by homeless people asking for food it pains me. Especially when I have a bag of food in my purse. Depending upon what leftover food I have taken from school that day, I will sometimes offer it them. The bag of cookies was weighing down my bag and too good not to share, so I offered the man some. His response..."thank you" and "will you have my baby". Will you have my baby? Cookies I can do. But a baby? That is getting a little greedy. I responded with "no thank you" and continued on my way.

Here is a list of the other cookies we made...Rolled Fig, Maple Pecan, Walnut Tea Cresents, Peanut Butter, Rugelach, Macaroons, Chocolate Biscotti, Pecan Tuiles, Raspberry Linzer, Black and White Checkered, and Chocolate Pecan Cherry Bars.