It's getting to be...that...time of year in my part of the world. That time of year where it's cold, and dark, and any semblance of self-control I manage to force upon myself for other months inevitably craps the bed in the face of a parade of succulent temptation and the comfort of eating and drinking too-sweet things in too-great of quantities.
But, in the words of the philosopher Bugs Bunny, if you can't beat 'em, join 'em!
Spent a good part of the day making mounds'n'mounds of peanut brittle and cookies (Chocolate chip, peanut butter, and snickerdoodle). I think I overcompensated adding-in some flour to later batches because the first ones seemed to have too little...And it might be time to retire one of my baking sheets because it's getting a bit too used and is baking unevenly.
Thankfully, most of the stuff has been taken off my hands and away from my eyes by a bake-auction...But I know I won't have that saving me in the future (and, really, even having what I kept around probably isn't good for me). It's a battle I know I can't win. I can just delay losing it for a little while.
But, that brings me to another question for folks: Best kind of cookie? Are you a traditionalist with the ol' standby chocolate chip? Mix things up with something different? Go really oddball and like mincemeat cookies (upon a net search, I have discovered these do not refer to what I thought they did. Apparently it commonly refers to a holiday cookie that's sweet...While the one I always heard of it as was literally a meat-and-onion cookie? Weird.)
Personally, I go ga-ga for snickerdoodle (I kept all of them for myself...I'm going to have to force myself to give some to the sister from my greedy, greedy clutches). Because cinnamon is just a great spice that needs to go in more things. Molasses maybe coming in a distant second, but there's something about it that keeps me coming back.
