{"id":47,"date":"2012-04-06T15:13:40","date_gmt":"2012-04-06T22:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.authorjennifergriffith.com\/?p=47"},"modified":"2012-04-07T17:46:22","modified_gmt":"2012-04-08T00:46:22","slug":"sugar-cookies-and-pride-stupidity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.authorjennifergriffith.com\/?p=47","title":{"rendered":"Chocolate Kissed Sugar Cookies"},"content":{"rendered":"

This morning I\u00a0needed to make about six dozen cookies for Easter for the kids at church. I always dream big when I sign up for volunteer stuff, so I assumed I’d be making darling egg-shaped sugar cookies decorated with pastel frosting and cute Easter sprinkles<\/a>. Then, this morning, when\u00a0the moment of action was upon me, I had a lot less gumption.<\/p>\n

As it mixed, my heart sank at the thought of rolling it all out. I can never quite get the thickness consistent, and I end up with some thin cookies that burn on the same cookie sheet with\u00a0thick ones aren’t done yet. Then a stroke of genius hit me. I had Brach’s Star-Kisses in my freezer. I could roll the sugar cookie dough like that peanut butter blossom dough–in balls and rolled in granulated sugar–and then bake it and squish a chocolate on the top of each one.<\/p>\n

It took 1\/3 of the time and the cookies were all done (not frosted!) and in the waxed papered layers in the freezer within an hour. I felt like the queen of all baking brilliance. Uh, except I tasted one. A hint lardy since I was out of shortening and had to substitute lard. Oh well. It’s for the kids. Their senstivities will be dulled by the Smarties and chocolate bunnies and Spree<\/a> and Skittles <\/a>and Sixlets<\/a> and they won’t notice. It’s kind of like our boyfriends in college <\/a>used to say: “They’re good enough for the girls we date.”<\/p>\n

\"Chocolate<\/a>

Chocolate Kissed Sugar Cookies<\/p><\/div>\n

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