Snow day cookies

The kids had no school this past Friday due to.... you guessed it... MORE SNOW!  We decided to do some baking. Cookies of course! We chose peanut butter, oatmeal, choc. chip. I didn't have a recipe on hand so I searched good ol' google and found quite a few. I finally narrowed it down and after we had already mixed the wet ingredients, I realized we were out of baking soda! (I had used the last of it trying to clean my mattress a few days before, after my son wet my bed at 3am. That's another story though)
I was not about to take all 4 kids out to the store, so I improvised. I added a little extra flour and used baking powder instead. 


I'm pretty sure my help ate more dough then we actually cooked! Their idea of helping me bake cookies is standing at my feet asking over and over "can I have a lick yet?" Oh, and of course "Can I have a hand full of choc. chips PA-LEASE!!!!!"

 the taste testers 

Then comes the hard part...... the waiting! That oh so long 10 minutes in the oven.  They just can't stand the suspense. We like to put a movie on in the other room after the initial mixing of the ingredients. That way when those fresh, warm cookies come out, the kids can plop them selves on the couch with 2 or 3 and enjoy the show with their tasty treat.

the timer  

The cookies came out just fine... you would never know I had to do a quick fix on the ingredients at the last minute. I like to make mine a little on the smaller side. That way when the kids aren't satisfied with 3 cookies and are begging for number 4, it isn't so bad. Not to mention when I indulge in a few (or more) myself after they go to bed at night! ;)

   the final product