I sort of invented some cookies tonight, and I thought I'd better get the recipe down before I forget. They are very yummy and not a bit healthy.

Oatmeal White Chocolate Cookies

2 eggs
1 cup butter
2 cups white sugar
2 tbsp molasses
3 cups flour
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp baking powder
3/4 tsp nutmeg
2 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp salt
2 cups rolled oats
12 oz package of white chocolate chips

Cream eggs, butter, sugar and molasses. Add flour, baking soda, baking powder, nutmeg, cinnamon, and salt. Beat until smooth. Add oats and chocolate chips. Drop in 1 tbsp-sized balls on ungreased(? I used parchment paper) cookie sheet. Bake at 350 degrees for 15 minutes.

The molasses might have been closer to one tablespoon than two, I'm not sure. I just used what was left in a container that was almost empty.

Anyway, gotta go. Let me know if you try the cookies.

ETA:

Sometimes I just go on a cooking rampage and make a whole bunch of stuff and spend all afternoon and evening in the kitchen and then my feet hurt and I'm tired and I don't do the dishes like a total cad.

Today I made:

( Pics! )

My bro Andrew and bro-in-law Josh had their birthday things today, never mind the disparate dates. Instead of going laser tagging, I stayed home and made a German chocolate cake. It took me around four hours, all told, and during none of that was I sitting down. There was always something to do. BUT IT WAS WORTH IT. This is the recipe. It's somewhat terrifying. BUT WORTH IT.

Of interest to note: It was not actually invented in Germany. Purely an American thing, named after the founder of Baker's Chocolate, Samuel German. INTERESTING, NO?

I have also decided that the best desserts in the world are made with whipped egg whites. Mousse, cheesecake, Pavlova, and now homemade German chocolate cake. It's definitely a trend. A DELICIOUS TREND.

It wasn't perfect. I couldn't find two cake pans of the same size, just two square ones that were kinda close, so it ended up looking like a South American step pyramid. I almost burned the coconut while toasting it--you have to keep an eye on that. A CLOSE EYE. And the chocolate icing turned out more like chocolate sauce, probably because I used chocolate chips instead of good chocolate, like I should have. We only have a Sav-a-Lot in town and they didn't carry anything better. But I had a Ghiardelli bar for the cake itself, so that was AWESOME. I just poured the chocolate over the cake and it went all over the place, spilling over the edge of the cake plate, but it still tasted wonderful. Just...smears of chocolate everywhere. EVERYWHERE.

I really need to start wearing an apron when I bake.

Another imperfection was that Mom had thrown away like EVERY BIRTHDAY CANDLE WE EVER OWNED. (There were fifty on Dad's cake last month. FIFTY. All GONE.) We had some stubs, a one, a four, a seven, and a zero. Andrew turned 19 and Josh turned 24, so I put the 1 and 4 on the cake with two stubs next to them in place of the missing numbers. So of course every comment on the cake was, "I didn't turn fourteen," from both boys and, "Who turned fourteen?" from everyone else. Sigh.

But. IT WAS DELICIOUS. I pronounce the chocapocalypse a success.

As noted in a recent post, I has been a-baking. My family gave lunch at church today, which is a big deal. (The way my church does it, we have morning service, lunch together, and then afternoon service. Families in the church take turns giving lunch, and we have enough people on the list that my family does it about once a year, so always around Christmas time.)

I made many, many cookies. At least eight dozen of each variety. Here's the tray, before we added sandwich fixings:



DELICIOUS COOKIES!

From top to bottom we have date pinwheels, chocolate double-delights, a candy-cane cookie, peanut butter balls (one chocolate, one vanilla), two Russian tea cakes, some holiday pretzel treats (waffle pretzel with a Hershey's hug melted on top and an M&M), and a sour cream twist. I made everything except the last two. And the doughnuts. Meijer made those, and my mom made the sour cream twists and the pretzel things, though I really wanted to do the sour cream twists because those are my favorite. It was a lot though, so I'm glad she helped me.

I made at least eight dozen of each variety, except the candy-cane cookies, of which I only made about four dozen, but there's a story behind that. Most of them are family recipes passed down through generations. And I couldn't find the chocolate double-delight cookies anywhere online, so apparently they are kind of unique to my family. So I thought maybe someone on my flist would like to try them, because they are AWESOME.

So here are instructions and notes with CRAPPY CELL PHONE AND WEBCAM PICCIES YAAAAAAAYYYYY!!!!

( Chocolate Double-Delights (AKA Hamburger Cookies) )

So I just spent five hours proofreading this really freaking big project for Vera Bradley.

MY EYES NO LONGER WORK. I THINK THEY JUST FELL OUT OF MY HEAD.

::picks eyeballs up off keyboard and pops them back into skull::

Agh.

In other news, I am contemplating baklava. I think I shall make a pan this weekend, because the recipe is not that difficult. And then I shall take it to D&D on Monday night. Unless I burn it. Anyway, experiments are fun! Especially the edible kind.

I think that also I will start blogging on Tuesday about what we did in D&D the night before. Because I find it endlessly amusing, and this is pretty much the best part of my life right now, so I should share with teh intarwebs, yes? Yes.

So, to introduce. My character is Viara Clovenoak, halfing bard. This Monday we finally leveled to ten. Huzzah! Level 4 bardic magic! I am excited about a certain spell called Fugue, but I must buy a focus first, and we are not near a city. But soon! I shall control my enemies by rocking out REALLY HARD. Yes! I shall! Mwa hahaha!

Also I have found two prestige classes that I would like to take. Have to get some prereqs, though. At level twelve, though, Viara shall become a DRAGONSONG LYRIST! I shall use the ancient draconic power to FLY. Yes! I shall! Mwa hahaha!

But anyway. Also in my party is Kazn the Loud, a human wizard who likes to abjure things, Dulp the barbarian, a wonderful killbot Beady McStabslash dwarf with a speech impediment, and Pineheart the druid, a forest gnome who is very small and sometimes grumpy.

We are a very strange group, but we get along very, very well. And WE KILL MANY MONSTERS! Yes! We do! Mwa hahaha!

And our DM, Aaron. He is great. We are soulmates in our love of movies. (So says the omniscient Facebook. All hail Facebook! Amen.)

I will chronicle our adventures in future blogs. Yes! I shall! Mwa hahaha!

Also tonight is Star Wars RPG with Tim Deal and another group of friends. I am very excited. I tell ya, these are good weeks, when I have two RPG nights. Good, good weeks. I think I'll make some lemon poppyseed bread. Or maybe apple butter cookies. Or maybe nothing, because I am tired.

Because we have D&D on Monday nights, I tape Heroes and watch it on Tuesday nights, when nothing good is on. So I watched the latest episode last night. And it was quite good. Yes! It was! Mwa hahaha!

Um, I mean, it was really cool to meet Micah's Nawlins family. They are cool. And Monica! A female character! Yay! A female black character! Double yay! A female black character with powers! Triple yay! A female black character with powers and a believable backstory who might possible turn out to be a force for good with interesting development and . . . ::incoherent mumblings::

Infinity yays!

Now, if they just don't screw her up.

They also did well in only focusing on three or four plotlines, instead of six or seven, so we can actually get some meaty story. And it was interesting, and some of the stories are starting to tie together! THIS is what I waiting for. I am happy.

And I'd better stop writing now before my screwy brain comes up with something else. I think I need a nap.