Part LVI: Honey Chocolate Chippers

Out of this week's selections these were the cookies I was looking forward to making the most. I love honey, and the recipe called for an entire cup of it! Along with toasted pecans, which I also love.

Verdict: Unimpressive. The lovely flavor of toasted pecans was drowned out by the chocolate chips. I think they would have been better with just honey, pecans, and oats.

Next Week's Selections:

Chocolate and Nutty Peanut Butter Cookies

Molasses Snaps

Double Chocolate Banana Cookies

Next week I will be on the east coast, and I will try to stick to my baking regime, but I can make no promises. I will get to these cookies as soon as I can! They are the last three recipes in the chocolate chip section!! Hooray!

Part LV: Double Chocolate Cherry Cookies

Yet another recipe which called for maraschino cherries

I carefully placed a cherry in the center of each cookie

The recipe called for a frosting made with sweetened condensed milk and melted chocolate chips

After letting the cookies cool I frosted them

Verdict: I liked these-the dough was sweet and salty, and the cherries were actually complimentary, and not too sweet. They were a nice surprise, since I covered them in frosting and didn't know when I would bite into one.

Next Up: Honey Chocolate Chippers

Part LIV: Cocoa Chip Cookies

Since I am going on vacation-leaving at 11pm tonight to catch the red eye to Maine, I made the cookies this morning and I'm posting early, for once!

I didn't take too many photos but here they are.

Here are all of today's ingredients

The recipe called for semi sweet chocolate chips, but I decided to use white chocolate chips for a little color contrast

Verdict: Not too bad. I liked the color contrast of the white chips with the chocolate dough, but the taste didn't bowl me over or anything.

Next Up: Double Chocolate Cherry Cookies

Part LIII: Mom and Katie's Crunchy Chocolate Chip Cookies

Okay just a few more pictures from the festival. The lovely cock ring toss

I wish I had taken better photos of the festival. I've gotten good at close up shots of food and flowers, but people and landscape type scenes not so much.

Cookie time! These cookies had wheat germ and oats in them, and some nutmeg, which I thought would make for an interesting variation on the chocolate chip cookie

The dough has an interesting texture due to the wheat germ. Hubby J couldn't find wheat germ at the store, so I used wheat bran.

By the end, I was severly unmotivated to find a creative way to photograph these cookies. But at least this photo is proof that I did indeed finish. making. all. three. cookie. recipes

Verdict: I liked these the best of the three. The wheat bran and oats gave the cookie an interesting texture, and the nutmeg a good flavor that complemented the chocolate chips.

Next Week's Selections:

Cocoa-Chip Cookies

Double Chocolate Cherry Cookies

Honey Chocolate Chippers

I'll be visiting the east coast next week so I don't know when I'll have a chance to post again, so stay tuned!

Also, I've only got 6 more chocolate chip cookie recipes to go, including these three. Next chapter: Keepsake Bars. First recipe: Luscious Lemon Bars. I am excited. No really, I am! All these chocolate chip recipes are starting to taste the same.

Part LII: Fruit and Nut Chippers

I went for a run on Saturday morning, and when I came back my cats Phyllis and Begbie were being painful adorable together. Here's the proof

Here are more pride photos. People were wearing all kinds of crazy and awesome stuff, or, in other cases, were not wearing quite so much

After cats and pride, cookies don't seem to be too interesting. The fruit mentioned in the recipe title, was apricots.

Literally, a pile of cookies

Verdict: Mediocre. I couldn't taste the apricot, so they just tasted like chocolate chip cookies with walnuts to me.

Next Up: Mom and Katie's Crunchy Chocolate Chip Cookies

Part LI: Sour Cream Chocolate Chip Cookies

This weekend I spend quite some time at the Portland Pride Festival. Most of this week's photos will be from the festival, because its way more interesting then pictures of cookies!

This is the booth I volunteered at.

The booth across the way from us sold men's underwear. That booth got a lot of traffic, since there happened to be an actual male model advertising the merchandise

Now for the cookies. Didn't take many photos of these

Verdict: Tasty! The recipe called for sour cream and honey, which added a richness and sweetness that I haven't tasted in any of the previous cookies. I mixed semisweet chocolate chips with the milk chocolate chips the recipe called for, but I don't think it made much of a difference, taste wise.

Next Up: Fruit and Nut Chippers