s’mores – AT-AT Everywhere

Sadly, I’m already caught-up on my backlog of holiday baked goods. I thought I’d wrap-up with a short ditty on how I packaged the treats. I typically opt for a cellophane bag, some festive Glad Tupperware, or a little Christmas bag or box. However, I am quite the sucker for all things Martha Stewart, as well as cute paper goods. Naturally when you combine the two, I’ll wreak all kinds of domesticated havoc.

But seriously, is this Martha Stewart Cookie Box not the cutest? It seemed like a great way to showcase my Grinchmas Cookies, S’mores Cookies, Walnut Butterscotch Oatmeal Cookies, and Martha Stewart’s Snickerdoodles. And it even has a freaking window on it for Pete’s sake.

I didn’t create a separate post for the Snickerdoodles because I made them at night-time and the photos were just awful. Plus, no one would be impressed by the process of making a Snickerdoodle… not that anyone is impressed by anything on this blog anyway.

Getting excited to bake this weekend! My hiatus is drawing to a close!

As an aside, I usually take a lot of pride in carefully selecting things to hyperlink to throughout my posts to shed a little light on certain situations. Well, I’m shamelessly swallowing that pride and am admitting to having absolutely no tie-in to the one I’m about to share. It just plum made my week. Hell, it’s made my year so far and I couldn’t find a clever way to include it. So here it is. #nerd

Happy New Year!

Writing is so unbelievably cathartic. I know none but a very select few actually read through these posts, but I’m going to pull out my “Collect $200 and Pass GO” card and maximize the medium I have going here. It’s not you, it’s me.

2011 as a whole was on the rockier side, but I’m indelibly grateful for what I do have in my life. So now that I’ve gotten that out of the way, I can complain scot-free!

Kidding.

But really, I am happy that 2011 finally came to a close and am looking forward to all that the new year will bring. Yes, 2012 just got real.

Campfire Nostagia with Just 3 Ingredients!

I took a brief sabbatical from writing, as I was spending a lot of time not only making new content for this blog, but just plum having some FUN. I need to do more of that this year.

My annual holiday bake-a-thon was full steam ahead a few weekends ago. However, instead of creating a single post inclusive of all of the things I made during this year’s bake-a-thon, I’ll create separate posts for each item. It’s an organizational thing (or perhaps OCD) – you can pick which. I hereby commence my backlog of holiday treat posts with the S’mores Cookies I made for my coworkers, Christmas dinner for my mom’s side of the family, some friends. I got the recipe from The Girl Who Ate Everything (my kind of girl!).

Dough - Almost Ready! — Dough – Almost Ready!

I made these twice over Christmas weekend. The first batch came out too thin as I used too little dough to cover the graham crackers. For the second batch, I made fewer but thicker cookies by putting nearly twice the recommended amount of dough on each graham cracker and was much happier with the outcome.

These were a bit to sweet for my taste as I’m not a huge fan of milk chocolate, but I loved the texture of the cookie dough hot out of the oven. They were still chewy a couple days later, but it’s just not the same as when it’s fresh.

I thought of a great tagline, and whipped out the graphic design skill (yes – singular “skill”) to make tags for the cookies. I really love puns, so don’t judge me based the below…