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…but let it be known, I reserve the right to change my mind about everything!  frequently!

I just can’t be the mom who never bakes cookies, I just can’t do it!

Have you ever seen the movie Stranger Than Fiction,  Harold Crick, played by Will Farrell?  Harold is just so sad and pathetic as he tells his auditee/baker that he doesn’t like cookies, that his mother didn’t bake, that he only ever ate store-bought cookies.

I just can’t do that to my kids.  Kids LOVE cookies!  Mine do, anyhow.  And they REALLY LOVE the cookies I bake.

I have been a really bad mother.  I know y’all probably think I’m just being silly, or making an excuse to eat some yummy treats, but I am crying for how my short-sighted prohibition of sugar has hurt my relationship with my kids.

Now, they love me a bunch, even without sugar, but there is just a certain wonderful thing that handing a kid a yu-u-u-ummy, homemade cookie does in their heart and in their eye.  You know, that twinkley part of their eye that they reserve for the monent you give them the gift of gooey, delicious, warm cookies.

So, there.   I’ve changed my mind.  Don’t hate me, please!

I still have a low opinion of sugar, but, I’m gonna make my kids some cookies today.

Later I’ll have a little talk with myself about looking before I leap and over thinking things.  But today I’m gonna get some twinkle back in my kids eyes!

The Very Best Chocolate Chip Cookies Ever!

Preheat your oven to 350°.

Cream together:

• 1½ cups butter, slightly softened
• ½ cup oil, I use coconut or olive
• 2½ – 3 cups sugar, I use white because I hate measuring brown sugar and don’t always have it on hand, if you like you can use ½ brown and ½ white.

Add, one at a time:

• 5 eggs
• 1 tablespoon vanilla
• 1 teaspoon lemon extract, OR mint extract – we are divided on which is best and make it both ways.
• 2 tablespoons baking soda
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 2 cups whole wheat flour
• 2 cups unbleached white flour – you’ll add more in a minute.

Knead in:

• 12 oz package of semi-sweet chocolate chips
• 1 cup walnuts, chopped

For the next part you need either a heavy duty mixer, like a Bosch or Kitchen Aid OR a strong teenaged son!

Add more unbleached white flour, kneading it in by hand until it is stiff, like bread dough.  You’ll know its stiff enough when you start hearing and seeing the chocolate chips falling out of the dough as you knead.  It’s weird, but unmistakable.

Now shape the dough into largish golf ball size balls and flatten them into thick disks between your palms and lay ‘em on an ungreased cookie sheet.

Bake ~ 10 minutes @ 350°.  Cool on cookie sheet before removing them to a towel laid out on your table or counter.  This makes a huge batch of nice big gooey, yu-u-ummy, delicious cookies that bring the twinkle!

We got the original recipe from the Pearl’s.

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