Saturday, April 3, 2010

Not Cool, Blogger!

Arrrgh! I just spent the last hour waxing poetic about my time at co-op, my unwillingness to grow up and embrace the furthering of my adult life with my birthday tomorrow and my ability to continue being a kid at heart by living vicariously through "my kids" at the Club, then Blogger decided to go all AWOL on me and delete my post!! Given that it's almost midnight, you'll have to forgive me for this half-assed re-writing, but I wanted to share these cookies I made up for the kids to do this week while they were still (semi) topical! Even though I'm not getting this post out as early as I wanted to (I had hoped to have it up a few days back so that you could actually have them on Easter if you wanted), if you happen to have leftover goodies hanging around after the kids have slung themselves off on their respective sugar highs, keep these in mind! They're cute, colourful and incredibly rich, but so worth every bite!


Colourful Easter Nest Cookies
Makes 15
1/4 cup butter
1/2 cup brown sugar
1 egg
2 tsp vanilla
1/2 cup cocoa
1/2 cup flour
1/4 cup Kamut flour
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
1/3 cup jumbo semisweet chocolate chips
1/4 cup miniature semisweet chocolate chips
1/4 cup miniature M&M's
15 chocolate "Mini Eggs"
  1. Preheat the oven to 350°F. Lightly grease a large cookie sheet.
  2. Cream butter and brown sugar in a medium bowl. Add egg and vanilla, beating well.
  3. Add cocoa, flours, baking powder and salt, stir in gently.
  4. Fold in the chocolate chips and mini M&M's.
  5. Drop 1 1/2" balls of dough onto the sheet, leaving about 1 1/2" of space.
  6. Lightly press a Mini Egg into the centre of each ball of dough.
  7. Bake the cookies for 10 minutes.
  8. Cool completely on the sheets. 
Amount Per Serving
Calories: 153.0
Total Fat: 7.2 g
Cholesterol: 23.2 mg
Sodium: 13.1 mg
Total Carbs: 22.4 g
Dietary Fiber: 1.8 g
Protein: 2.4 g

4 comments :

  1. Sorry Blogger's being a pain. Perhaps switch to WordPress? ;)

    Thanks for the recipe. I had to do a double-take, though, as I read "Arrrgh!" and saw a cracked egg on top of what looked to be a cake. There's no sense of scale, you see, and the crack in the egg... well, looked like something gone horribly wrong!

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  2. Blogger has done that to me before, but I found it had saved the post as a draft....of course I found it after I rewrote the whole thing....
    Happy Easter

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  3. So sorry about your little incident, but blogger normally saves it as a draft. Anyway I thought that little cracked egg was just too cute!I bought kamut flour about a month ago so now I could try your recipe yum!

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  4. Ahhh! look at that evil-lovely list of ingredients. BOOM!

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