The math isn’t exactly challenging: 12 cookies in 12 days; this is December 11th; tomorrow is the last day; and I have posted five cookies. Five. Bear in mind that I’ve made eight, and have dough for a ninth sitting in the fridge just waiting for several hours of time so that I can play my favorite holiday music, spread out my materials, and decorate cookies. Trust me when I say that time between the hours of 6 and 10 p.m. does not count as an available chunk. Once upon a time I could have been extremely productive at that time of day, but no longer. It’s easy to conclude then that I will be engaging more in a month of cookies, or something like that. And perhaps I’ll throw in a holiday bread or two. Maybe.
Nevertheless, here are my Hazelnut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies, which not only look like ordinary chocolate chippers, they taste like ordinary chocolate chippers. That isn’t a bad thing if you’re me, because chocolate chip cookies will always be my favorite cookie even though I’d never consider it a holiday cookie.
I had hazelnuts in the pantry, so decided to make my own hazelnut butter for these. It’s not complicated if you have a Cuisinart, 10 minutes, and don’t mind telling your neighbors to prepare for the sound of nuts clacking crazily against plastic.
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