Baking for me is not something that I do on a regular basis, but it’s something that I get in the mood for and when that mood strikes, I love the process of baking. It’s therapeutic in it’s exact measuring and mixing and there is nothing better than the smell of baked goods wafting throughout your house to bring you an immense amount of comfort and joy. Cookies are one of my husband’s favorite sweet treats, and while I don’t make them often, when I do, they have to be the best. What makes a good cookie to you? For me its all about those crispy edges and chewy centers that really make or break what I consider a great cookie. I have been perfecting my chocolate chip toffee cookies for a couple of years now and finally created the perfect cookie and am finally ready to share them with you. My chocolate chip toffee cookies are hands down my favorite cookie and if there is one thing you bake this week, let it be these cookies.
So listen, I can resist brownies. I can resist cake. I can resist pie. I can resist all of these if I am being really healthy. But let me tell you what I cannot resist no matter how hard I try...SHORTBREAD COOKIES!!
I become a crazy person around these cookies. I lose all discipline and sanity when these cookies are around. I suddenly forget any goals I had for the week and don't care how many calories these cookies have, I will eat them anyway! Multiples even.
I may or may not have eaten four of them the first day and maybe then again on the second day that these cookies hung around my house. And then I may have had to give the rest to the neighbors because if I didn't get them out of my sight, I was pretty close to pulling a Miranda from Sex and the City when she put the chocolate cake in the trash and then got it back out and ate it anyway! Oh yeah, that is where I was headed...
Why then you might ask would I make these addicting cookies when I knew I was headed into temporary insanity ? Well...that's a good question. One that I asked myself during the whole time I was baking them. I was actually trying to talk myself out of making them even as I was getting the ingredients together.
But...nevertheless I made them and ate them, and you know what? Turns out I don't regret it at all because every slightly sweet, buttery, flaky bite was totally worth it!
What is better than a glass of Egg Nog during the holidays?
Egg Nog ice cream that's what, sandwiched between two chewy Ginger Molasses Cookies. Whoa...prepare to have your mind blown!
It is basically holiday wrapped up into one lip smackin' good ice cream sandwich.
I am a big fan of ice cream being an appropriate dessert all throughout the year. I am the girl who has a scarf and gloves on eating ice cream outside that people look at like she's crazy. This is because ice cream happens to be one of my favorite foods. There is no way I could ever give it up. My father-in-law happens to be the only other person I know who loves it as much as I do. We have formed quite the ice cream bond over the years.
My husband on the other hand prefers cookies. All kinds of cookies (except sugar cookies), which is why ice cream sandwiches make both of us really happy. It's the best of both worlds!
Since egg nog is pretty much an ice cream base in a drink it was the easiest ice cream I have ever made. And the ginger molasses cookies are super easy as well and are the perfect spicy balance to the decadent ice cream. Just build the sandwiches and freeze them individually and they are ready when you are.
