Or the blog post in which I finally use the KitchenAid, profess my undying love for it, and make some pretty darn good cookies in the process.
You know how some guys are about taking a million different photos of their "tricked out" cars? And you look at those photos and think "what the heck, it's just a car, it doesn't look any different at this angle, or that one, or that one...."
I totally had a moment today where I had to tell myself to stop taking photos of the KitchenAid and focus on the food. Hence the paucity of prep photos with this recipe. It really is ridiculous.
Now that I'm working again, I have really missed my kitchen time. I'm missing my cuddle time with the fiance too, to be entirely honest. I can just hear him now "I can't believe you wrote that in your blog!" (he is far too shy about any sort of public acknowledgement of our coupleness- I have no idea how he is going to react at the wedding when we will be forced to kiss. multiple times. in front of an audience.) And again, after that parenthetical statement I can hear him... echoing his earlier statement. Poor guy.
For whatever reason, my second job has decided in the last few weeks that they
really love me, and I've been closing at the store at least two nights a week (after a full day in the classroom), and working at the store all weekend. Kitchen time has been close to nil. I think the most cooking I've done is browning some beef for tacos. Cuddle time has faired a little better, but not much.
Somehow, I managed to get tomorrow off work. Which is a darn good thing, because we have a family gathering for one of Dave's cousin's first communion. Dave's aunt asked me to bring cookies to the party and I jumped at the chance. Making food for other people is probably my favorite thing in the world, after cuddling. (Yes, I'm being ridiculous on purpose. Again, I have to say, Poor Dave) The interesting aspect of this food assignment is that two of the young children in the family cannot have food dyes. So the awesome looking
Monster Cookies my darling matron of honor made were out. Then I had two genius thoughts: Snickerdoodles! Some variation on classic chocolate chip cookies- look for that recipe to follow soon! So the cinnamon-sweet adventure in the kitchen for this weekend began.
Snickerdoodles (from the ever awe-inspiring
SmittenKitchen)
2 ¾ cups all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons cream of tartar
1 teaspoon baking soda
¼ teaspoon salt
2 sticks unsalted butter (room temperature)
1 ¾ cups sugar
2 tablespoons ground cinnamon
2 large eggs
1. Sift together four, cream of tartar, baking soda and salt; set aside. In a mixing bowl (or in the bowl of your KitchenAid, yay!) combine butter and 1 ½ cups sugar. Beat on medium speed until light and fluffy- about 2 minutes. Scrape down the sides of the bowl. Add eggs and beat to combine. Add dry ingredients and beat to combine. Chill dough to desired scooping consistency (about an hour worked for me).
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2. Preheat oven to 400 ° F with one rack in the top third and one rack in the bottom thrd of the oven. Line baking sheets with parchment or silicone baking mats.
3. In a small bowl, combine ¼ cup of sugar and the ground cinnamon. Use a medium cookie scoop to form balls of dough and roll in cinnamon sugar. Place about 2 inches apart on baking sheets.
4. Bake until the cookies are set in the center and begin to crack, about 10 minutes, rotating the sheets halfway through. *the cookies will NOT brown. So seriously, just about 10 minutes. Or you'll burn the bottoms of the cookies. Not that I did that with the first set in the oven or anything*
5. Transfer sheets to a wire rack to cool, about 5 minutes, before transferring cookies to the rack to finish cooling.
6. Eat these bad boys. It seems silly that something so simple is so good. But there it is.
