COOKIES!!!

One of my favorite hobbies is to cook.. now, eating is an essential part of our life so cooking must be something that can't be enjoyed, right? WRONG! Cooking is a wonderful release of stress, because if you don't make something with love overflowing from it, then you have to eat poor tasting food (ok, maybe thats just me...)!

When I lived at home, I was always found making something, and more often than not, that something was edible. My job for holidays was to do the baking... I can make a mean pumpkin pie from scratch, apple pie, strawberry rhubarb, blackberry cobler, any kind of crisps, cakes, and most importantly: cookies! I have a talent where I can read a recipie, having never tasted the cookie, or seen it before, and I can make delicious results! Over the past few years, I try to make a new type of cookie each Christmas. One that no one in my family has had yet. Thats quite the challenge, since I don't live at home anymore. But even though I don't like with a bunch of people who love and appreciate my cooking, I find myself making food to bring to work. I share with a lot of people, cause its always nice when someone comes up to you and says with a mouthfull of cookie (and each hand full too!) "Oh my gosh!! these are sooo good!" or when I tell someone they are made from scratch I got "wow! I can really taste the scratch in them!"

LOL

Over my weekend I made a batch of chocolate chip cookies, and a batch (first time ever) of coconut macaroons!
Now, as I pulled the macaroons out of the oven, I scooped up the crumbs from the counter, and ate them!! Big mistake number 1!! I then decided to make a cup of coffee... big mistake number 2!! After the coffee was made, I decided to eat another 2 cookies.... and.. you guessed it! Big mistake number 3!! So, it took about all I had, to not eat all the coconut macaroons... It was very difficult!

So, while they were cooking I took a few pics from the process!! Enjoy!

When you whip the egg whites and vanilla, they need to form soft peaks...

After the egg whites are whipped to the right consistency, you add in the sugar 1 tablespoon at a time, and continue whipping till they form firm peaks! 



And now its time to add the coconut!!! yummy!!!




Hope you enjoy and try the cookies sometime!! <3
Kryzdy