I'm still stuck in kind of a cookie mood so I'm including my favorite cookie pop recipe. These are cooked with a popsicle stick inserted in them and dipped in chocolate for a little more pizzazz. I've brought these to several different events and all have been given numerous compliments. I haven't had time to take a picture of a batch but I will as soon as I possibly can.
There's something special about coming home from school as a kid to warm cookies that makes it memorable as an adult.
Both of my grandmothers baked cookies. My Grandma J was famous for her applesauce chocolate chip cookies. She kept them on a counter in a cookie jar that was metal and painted a bright orange. My aunt, Arva, lives in the same house now that Grandma J has died and I'm certain there is a cookie jar, if not the same one, on her counter as well.
When we were kids we'd all run to the cookie jar to see if it was full (it always was) and then to Grandma J to ask permission for a cookie or two.
Grandma H made chocolate drop cookies that were one of my favorites. I had the chance to live a few years with my grandparents and she taught me to make those. I always ended up doubling or tripling the batch and making far too many. The first time we did it was more of an accident really. I was giving the amount of ingredients to Grandma H as she made the dough. I was used to cooking for 12, she only 2 or 3 so our wires somehow got crossed and we ended up with somewhere in the neighborhood of seven hundred cookies. Since she had been in the great depression she was NOT about to throw a single one away. We ate them for months. That was the last time I made cookies with Grandma as I moved back home with my parents and she died not much later. The story still makes me laugh. I'm including both recipes with the cookie pops. Let me know which one is your favorite. Carren
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