From the time I started to learn to bake, I have been baking cookies. All through high school I would bake cookies. Arriving home from school I would pull out the ingredients and whip up a back of cookies. My favorites were chocolate chip cookies and peanut butter cookies. I would often make other kinds of cookies, but those were my favorites. Since that time I have realized that baking cookies is relaxing for me. When I am stressed or concerned about something I will navigate toward the kitchen and once again start a batch of cookies.
For many years, I would make big batches of cookies. As my family grew I learned to double and triple batches. As one would expect, kids grow up and move away from their parents home. This is the situation I have found myself in…my kids, one by one, are growing up and leaving home. It has been an adjustment downsizing my cookie batches, plus, I have cut out sugar and refined flours from my diet, so I have had to stretch and search for new recipes. It is sometimes challenging, but even so, I still find the act of baking cookies relaxing, what better time to bake cookies than during a pandemic? Relaxing and rewarding with a sweet treat at the end of the process.
In this video I make two different batches of peanut butter cookies.