Well, maybe not as painful, although you may find it painful to observe my "clashing" stripes. By pure lucky coincidence, I happened to be wearing horizontally-striped socks and I thought it was a funny combination with the vertical stripes of the apron. If you disagree, remember what your mother taught you about what to do if you don't have anything nice to say.
I have plenty of nice things to say tonight - we'll start with the cookies.
My first "nice" statement is to point out how lucky my colleagues are that I am a woman of my word (and that by telling them I was baking I created built-in accountability). Mister and I each had one small cookie to test their quality and were completely impressed.
In addition to being attractive on the outside, these cookies are "charming and delightful" and a pleasure to be around. I do not expect them to last very long tomorrow - they are just the right amount of sweet, aided, in part, by the cinnamon sugar in which I rolled them before plunking them down on the baking sheets. However, the generous amount of Earth Balance that began the batter contributed to an incredibly buttery taste and texture - you could liken these to a combination of those Dutch butter cookies so much like shortbread, and honest to goodness sugar cookies.
They are, in a way, sugar cookies - The recipe, filched gracefully from realsimple.com is for Brown Sugar Drop Cookies but my increasingly OCD self couldn't deal with the ugly little deposits of dough on the sheets, so I rolled them into buttery little balls and then dunked them into cinnamon sugar before pressing the down a little onto the sheet.
Time to pack them up! Before Mister and I eat them all...
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