The Communion Cookie and Crazy Story

I decided to bake cross cut out cookies for my son's first holy communion and not the rice krispie treats I wrote about earlier. I was a bit under the weather right before the communion so I wasn't going to bake the cookies, after all we were going to have cake, but the cookies were for the guests to take home. I gave it some thought and baked the cross cut out cookies and then stayed up late frosting and bagging the cookies. They looked so nice. Some were frosted all blue and some, at my son's request, were just outlined in blue and I added white for design.

I put the finished bagged cross cookies in a basket and the morning of the communion my husband took the cookies and cake and everything for the party over to the hall that we had booked. A man was there washing the floors so my hubby just left the stuff there along with a couple of fruit platters that I was up late putting together and plates and decorations and utensils and, well you get the idea.

We came back later to find the place locked and no one ever showed up to let us inside. So there we are everyone in the parking lot waiting for some one that never showed up. We called the food people and had them send the food over to my house stopped and bought some pop and dessert and headed home. My family and friends made it a great day. They helped pick up the house a little and bring over chairs and helped set out plates and cups and everything. What could you do?

The matter has since been resolved and everything turned out to be just wonderful.

We are very proud of our boy. They grow up so very fast.

~Michelle

Stuffed Chocolate Chip Cookies

I was in the mood to bake today after visiting my son's new school. Why did that put me in the mood, who knows. (I have been searching the web for recipes and that probably was the reason I wanted to bake.) He is going into the 4th grade in September and will change schools. I remember when I was sending him off to Kindergarten and when the bus came he seemed so sad, so scared. He just looked at me with these big puppy dog brown eyes. Those eyes were saying, "What are you doing to me?". I have to get on this bus with a bunch of kids that I don't even know?

Well, he loves school and the new building is really amazing. It's a 4-5-6 building with 2 gyms, a pool and music lessons. It has just under 1500 kids spread over the 3 grades and is a very big school. The greatest thing is that it is still an elementary school and it definitely feels like a great transition place for middle school. We had a great tour today with the principal and look forward to taking my son there next week to check it out.

OK, back to the baking. I baked Cream Cheese-Stuffed Chocolate Chip Cookies. I used the recipe from BakingBites. She is right they make very large cookies. They baked up to be around 4" wide. As I have said before, not exactly good for the Weight Watchers diet.

The cookies were easy to mix up but not so easy to fill. The dough was hard to wrap around the cream cheese and white chocolate filling. When they baked up the filling thankfully stayed inside the cookie, so that was good. The cookies are soft in the middle and crisp on the edges. The filling really does give it that little something extra.

I brought some in for a few co-workers; I found that the cookies do not travel as well as smaller cookies. I think that the filling makes it a little too soft to hold up in baggies. My work friends just LOVED the cookies... "tastes like Christmas then chocolate and then yummmm cheesecake"... and the cookies also received to thumbs up from someone else.

I love to bring baked goods into work for everyone to enjoy:)

Give these cookies a try you will not be sorry they are delicious.

~Michelle