VIRTUAL COOKIES
There are all kinds of cookies of course – the delicious kind and the computer kind. I suppose you could call the latter, virtual cookies.
Computer Cookies are bits of personal information stored on your computer’s web browser. Some cookies are helpful, such as those that store your passwords or user names with your permission. Others are useful because they allow your favorite sites to tailor certain website data to your preferences. Other cookies can track the sites you visit on your computer, which some feel invades privacy. You can view the types of cookies stored on your computer and change your browser’s settings, if you choose. ~Tielle Webb, eHow Contributor
HOLIDAY COOKIES – THE REAL THINGS!
Yes, cookies are all different and the diversification is never more evident than in the weeks before the holidays. I have begun my yearly Battle of the Bulge by baking and then trying to ignore the aromas in the kitchen and the grumblings in my gut. Determined to exercise the ultimate will power, I continue making macaroons and ginger snaps and chocolate chip delights, and put them all up in lovely tins for my lovely family and friends.
“Just one taste,” I think – “to make sure they are all right.” And that leads to two or more tastes and then at least two or more whole cookies guiltily devoured.
“This one broke so it would be a shame to throw it away. Boy, those are good. One more won’t hurt!” Do you know the drill?
THE UN-COOKIE SOLUTION
I will now let you in on a monumental secret. It’s a cookie minus a key ingredient – an ingredient shunned and banned by beleaguered dieticians and health food experts. This deadly ingredient in most other cookies is guaranteed to vastly increase the caloric value of a holiday treat and especially guaranteed to generate guilt in the holiday chef who is accustomed to “tasting.”
What is it you ask?
FLOUR!
A “real-time”cookie WITHOUT FLOUR! Imagine? AND it’s one of my traditional Homeplace easy-breezy, no hassle recipes too!
FLOURLESS PEANUTBUTTER-CHOCOLATE CHIP DELIGHTS
1 Egg
1 Cup Brown Sugar Firmly Packed
1 tsp Baking Soda
1 tsp Vanilla
1 Cup Chocolate Chips
1 Cup Chunky Peanut Butter
Beat eggs.
Mix everything together and drop by tablespoons full onto parchment paper.
Bake at 350 degrees for 10 to 12 minutes.
Credit: This was a recipe reported to me as found in Southern Living Magazine.
I wonder how they would turn out with fake sugar instead of the real thing. Then I could enjoy the whole tin!
HAPPY TASTING! HAPPY BAKING! HAPPY HOLIDAYS TO YOU TOO!
Luv from Your Shamelss Chef, Dor
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I say give up on the holiday Battle of the Bulge!!! Christmas is for eating – we can diet afterwards :). Those cookies look soooo amazing – are they chewy?? Chewy cookies are the best! Oh my, now I am hungry. The fridge is calling……..
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Looks almost easy enough for me to even try 😀
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Too bad I am not much of a peanutbutter cookie fan. My foolproof way to not eat the cookies are to not bake them. Makes the family a little cranky but it works!
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They look delicious! I’ll have to try this recipe when I do my Christmas cookie baking.
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Guaranteed! 🙂
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You are infinitely wise Kate. I can hold off baking all year, but when December descends, I am driven. 🙂
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🙂 🙂 🙂
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I’m with you Cindy – “Christmas is for eating!” The no-flour cookies are not chewy, but they are light and sort of crisp and delicious.
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Great recipe for those people with gluten issues. Oh the battle of the holiday baking bulge. I need to lose about 20 lbs and it’s so hard! 😦 I met a woman the other day who is so thin she takes weight gain supplements, can you imagine? I felt like saying, come eat at my house for a week, I’ll put some fat on those bones! 🙂
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If I could just find some time to do some baking, I’d try these. Sounds good!
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I may have to try these! Thanks and happy eating!
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Oh, I am so glad I’m not alone. If I figure out a trick way to lose over the holidays, will let you know. 🙂
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You have done enough. But when you’re ready for an easy cookie recipe, this is it. 🙂
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Lemme know what you think. 🙂
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They sound scrummy, I’ll be giving these a go over Christmas.
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