Cookies!

I love cookies, baking them and eating them. :) I feel like I've had lots of cookies in my life recently and I love it!

Someone posted about these cookies on Facebook and I decided to try them. They're Brown Butter Sea Salt Chocolate Chip Cookies. They were soft and delicious! A little more time consuming to make than I'm used to for cookies, but still really good. :)

I brought them into work the next day and they were gobbled up quickly.

I've heard about cookie exchanges before but I've never been to one or hosted one. I've actually been thinking about hosting one for a couple of years now, but it's never worked out... until this year.

I think it was a success! I had each person bring 4 dozen cookies, 1 dozen to sample that day and 3 dozen to divvy out evenly between each person. We had 9 different kinds of cookies. Jam filled Cream Cheese Cookies, Sugar Cookies, Chocolate Toffee Cookies, Mexican Wedding Cookies, Classic Spritz Cookies, Spicy Mexican Hot Chocolate Cookies, Peppermint Shortbread Cookies, Chocolate Peanut Butter Bites, and Gingersnaps.

I made the Chocolate Toffee Cookies.

I might have bought this Cookie Monster shirt just for the cookie exchange, but I feel like it might be appropriate, in general, for me to own this shirt. :) 

I wish I had gotten a picture of all of us who were at the cookie exchange, but, alas, I did not. 

I went to visit my parents in Utah for a week at the beginning of this month. They had warned me before coming that they wanted me to do a lot of baking while I was there. I was happy to oblige. :) 

I made Hot Chocolate Cookies, M&M Pudding Cookies, Toffee Crunch Cookies, and Fudge (not pictured). My parents had a list of people they wanted to give cookies to so we divided them up according to how many people in the families and then they delivered them to friends and neighbors. 

Cookies are awesome! :)