When I Make I Sometimes Bake

Today is a baking day. As a teacher sometimes you are compelled to participate in a various pot-luck meals. On Monday we are having a pot luck lunch and I am bringing cookies. I love to bake. So this morning around 8am I woke up grabbed my usual morning diet soda and sat down with my copy of Hershey's Recipe Collection and started to plot my baking afternoon. Did I want to go a more traditional route of chocolate chip and snickerdoodle or go wild with dried apricot/white chocolate oatmeal. I finally settled on chocolate chip cookies with hazelnuts, snickedoodles, and white chocolate brownie cookie.The baking thus far has been going well. I've got two out the 3 types finished. I added hazel nuts to the chocolate chip for interest, and the snickerdoodles are slightly over done (but are still very good.) It's almost dinner time, the cookie making is done for now, but still I have to muster the energy to clean the kitchen of cookie mess, and start dinner. Frozen pizza? Yes, Most likely.

I always chuckle at the sheer amount of ready made dinners paired with home made desserts we have on a regular basis here at the Marston household. Oh well, I guess we all can't be Martha.