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Cookies for Carl

This is a photo of peanut butter cookies that I just made for my good friend, Carl. He loves cookies and I always take a dozen over to his house when I am baking.

peanut butter cookies
The recipe I use for these cookies is my own, but it is adapted from a recipe I found online. Their recipe was called Peanut Butter Blossoms, because we put unwrapped Hershey’s Kisses in the middle of each cookie right after it comes out of the oven.

My secret for this recipe is which peanut butter you choose. Some people might be tempted to buy the cheapest brand of peanut butter, or something on sale. But I ALWAYS use Peter Pan Creamy in this recipe and they are simply DELICIOUS!

I think its about time I make a batch of Oatmeal cookies with raisins and chopped walnuts. That always hits the spot with a glass of ice cold milk!

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Baking Bread with Charlotte

I was invited to come to a cookware party by my good friend, Miss Charlotte, so I went with a skeptical attitude and a tight fist on my checkbook. Turns out that I’m not really interested in the line of cookware that she was offering and I didn’t buy anything that night. But while at the party we did get to chatting about cooking and baking and different shortcuts and kitchen tips.

Miss Charlotte invited me to come back one weekend and spend the day baking with her. I think that would be great – I love to bake and it is even more fun when you have someone there working alongside you.

Net weekend we are going to spend Saturday afternoon together in her kitchen making some different breads and rolls. She wants to donate the finished products to a church function the next morning. So I am looking up bread recipes online and finding two that I want to try. We are not using a bread machine to make these – they will be completely from scratch, hand rolled and raised, and then baked with love. I can’t wait to see how they turn out!