Sunday afternoons is the our favorite time to make cookies.  My kids love to help out. All three of them sit at the counter on stools taking turns dumping ingredients as I measure it out.  Everytime I throw in something quick like a teaspoon of vanilla, rather than passing it to the kids to get spilled during the hand off, I get “It was my turn to put something in! Why did you put that in the bowl mom, it was supposed to be me!” The order and the level of difficulty has to be completely fair to all three kids to avoid complete disappointment.  And yet for the love of cookies, we continue the ritual every Sunday afternoon.

Zonya inspired me last week with her chocolate chip cookie bars that virutally have no fat!  The only thing I changed was instead of semi-sweet chocolate chips, I added milk chocolate chips. I don’t know why semi-sweet exists. I do not care for them, and never buy them.  They turned out really good.  I had one vote for “love it”, one vote for “like it” and Ketchup boy declared, “I love it, and like it”.  They did keep trying to come back for more.  The kids gave one to my blind father-in-law who said, ” what am I eating here? Is it cake?”  Because it did turn out a bit cakey (as you can tell by the fact they have to eat it with a fork).   He continued to eat it without comment. Which is a red flag for not complete approval, cause he will usually declare he likes something if he does. For the record, I liked it, but I usually love anything with sugar and flour.