Yet another cookie post

So if you’re tired of looking at pictures of and reading about cookies and baking, skip this post!  Last week I made some snickerdoodles, sugar cookies, and peanut butter cookies.  I hadn’t made any of these before, and I was on a bit of a sugar high after.  :)

Here are the tester snickerdoodles before going in the oven:

And all fresh and ready to eat!  I froze the rest in balls before coating them in cinnamon/sugar.  I’ll do this after the thaw and before I bake on party day!

I’m not a snickerdoodle fan myself, but I had several volunteer testers who deemed them good and snickerdoodle-y.  I don’t think they’re the best you’ll ever have, but they have some pretty great ingredients!  All my cookies are made with freshly ground whole wheat flour, real butter, farm fresh eggs, and either turbinado or sucanat for the sugar.  (Quickly – both are pretty much less-processed forms of your standard table sugar.  Sucanat is best, as it’s evaporated sugar cane juice, and it retains the most nutrients and actual natural good stuff that sugar cane has.  Turbinado is dehydrated cane juice.  It’s cheaper but does not have much of the good stuff left in it.  I think it’s still better than the white granulated sugar though.  Neither is actually a health food… just more natural than the customary stuff.)

Anyway… all of these cookies are pretty much sugar cookies, so I was curious how they’d turn out with the turbinado.  The consistency is affected a bit, but I think they still taste great!

Sugar cookies all baked up!  I went ahead and baked all the sugar cookies before freezing.  I’m hoping I don’t regret this later.  :)

Mmmmm… peanut butter cookie dough.  I froze these just like this:

I’m hoping I’ll be able to just throw them on the baking sheet, let them thaw a bit, and bake ‘em up.

I baked a few (obviously!) and they turned out just fine.

Matt thought they were great, and probably if I had one right now I would think that too.  I was on serious sugar overload by the time I got finished baking these cookies.  :)

I’m done baking cookies for a few days while I wait for my Azure standard order to come in on Tuesday.  I ordered 25lbs of sucanat.  Yikes!  I’m totally out of sugar and I don’t want to get any more not-sucanat just days before my order comes in!  I made banana bread yesterday and discovered after I’d already mixed up the other ingredients that I was short on sugar.  This turned out to be a great thing as the bread turned out delicious with almost half the amount.  Wahoo!

I found two or three more recipes today that I can’t wait to make next week!  One is a pumpkin cookie with white chocolate chips – very fall-ish!  I also plan to make some no-bake cookies (I’m drooling right now), though I will probably have to wait until the last minute so I don’t eat them immediately all by myself.  It’s really been all I can do to keep myself out of the dough in the freezer.  Ya’ll – this is some serious self-restraint for me.  My first word as a baby was cookie.  Seriously.  Just ask my mom.