Why you wish you lived in my house

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Cause I have much baked goods in my house at the moment.

Starting at the bottom of the pic, those round foil pans of delicious are cinnamon rolls that I made for my co-workers (you also wish you worked with me). The lumpy things in the muffin pan are Pear and Granola Muffins. The cookies on the plate next to the muffins are Peanut Butter and Chocolate Chip Cookies. And the cookies at the end of the table are Lemon Basil Cookies.

Full disclosure: I am not totally responsible for all of this. Mary came over last night and helped me bake and that kinda looked like Mary being a whirling dervish in the kitchen and me in the dining room agonizing over just how much flour I should sprinkle my work surface with. Mary bakes much more often than I do so she was much more at ease cracking eggs and creaming butter and whatnot. And to be fair, I was working with YEAST. And yeast is alive. And I don’t take working on living things lightly. So, yeah, our final tally was Mary: Lemon Basil cookies, Peanut Butter and Chocolate Chip cookies, Pear and Granola muffins; Kelly: Cinnamon Rolls.

Also, I won’t tell you how much butter we used. Just trust me that it was obscene.

The baby was helping, clad in his chef hat. I should have taken pictures but I was busy staring intently at the yeast. Then he fell off of his stool that he was standing on. Sigh. He changed into some sweatpants and retired to the couch for the evening, where he and the husband watched Shaolin Soccer. I really thought he would just pass out there, but was surprised to find him still awake at 10:00. Awesome.

The biggest surprise of this batch were the Lemon Basil cookies. I got the recipe for those from my friend Sheryl after she mentioned them on her blog the other day. Oh my god. They’re so good. We used dried basil but I imagine they would taste even yummier with the fresh stuff. We also used golden raisins in place of currants, but I think the raisins were a little too sweet. I would really like to try them with some dried cranberries.

What’s that? You want to see more cookie pr0n? Well, I’m happy to oblige…

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7 Responses to “Why you wish you lived in my house”

  1. Kristabella Says:

    Ooooh…….I have a cookie exchange on Thursday and me thinks I may have to make the peanut butter & chocolate chip ones. Because there is nothing better in the world than peanut butter and chocolate together in one cookie.

  2. mikebee Says:

    SO JEALOUS

  3. Amber Says:

    I made cookies last night. Chocolate chip. 70% of those cookies fell on the floor when I was transferring the cookie-filled parchment onto the counter from the cookie sheet. They landed in a big melty gooey blob. I totally ate a bunch of the lump, though. I ain’t fancy.

  4. Mary Says:

    Oh my Lord, those muffins look so damn good. Are they that delicious in real life?

    (I shared some lemon cookies with my co-workers and every single one of them moaned orgiastically.)

  5. sweetney Says:

    OMF DROOOOOOOLE.

    KELLY U BESTERT!

    (sorry, not getting old any time soon)

    this is not good for my diet. no, not at all.

  6. kdiddy Says:

    Kristabella, do indeed make some peanut butter and chocolate chip cookies. they are just round bits of happiness.

    Amber, that sucks, but I totally don’t judge you for salvaging what you could. I would have done exactly the same thing.

    Mary, the muffins are really yummy and would be fantastic for breakfast.

    Sweetney, ur jealousey is palpuhbull.

  7. Scooterbird Says:

    Ho-lee magoo. I think I just gained five pounds looking at this post. Your bake-fu is mighty.

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