I Actually Remembered

How many times have you forgotten to capture some of the memories around the holidays. I'm sure plenty of families bake for the Christmas season and fail to take pictures. I ACTUALLY remembered this year. While I'm not in any of the photos (since I'm the photographer and scrapbooker in the family... you all know what I'm talking about) I did capture the chaos in my kitchen baking the cookies my husband asked for as part of his Christmas present. I did threaten to individually wrap all the cookies for him, but that would be just as torturous for me as for him.

When I went shopping for my missing ingredients I did have enough foresight to buy extra mixing bowls and baking sheets. Sean's cooking set had several sets of measuring cups, so those came in extra handy.

And here are one of the batches of cookies I made. If you go to Sean's blog (the family blog) the recipe is posted there (http://seansm0m.blogspot.com/). I did discover if you want photo worth cookies, use a small ice cream scoop or if you're an avid baker and have one of the mini pastry scoops (looks just like a miniature ice cream scoop complete with the mechanism to dislodge the batter). Once you've scooped it on the baking sheet, flatten it out a little and press a few chocolate chips into the top... and there you have it, photogenic cookies!!! Who knew?