Discovering 2014: Chocolate Peanut Butter Chip Cookies

Discovering 2014 is a personal goal to complete a daily project throughout the year!

Today's project was Cookie Sticks. As you can see from my title, the sticks part is debateable! There's a bunch of pins on Pinterest showing these gorgeous cookie sticks, which seemed simple enough. Well, I made cookies, at least. :)

The last time I made chocolate chip cookies from scratch was about a decade ago. I still don't know what I did wrong, but they were absolutely inedible, and I left the baking to my husband for many years afterward. With all the baking I did over the past couple of months though, I was confident I could get this finally right.

Discovering 2014: Brown Sugar Snickerdoodle Cookies

Discovering 2014 is a personal goal to complete a daily project throughout the year!

Today's project was Snickerdoodle Sugar Cookies. I followed this recipe by Mommy's Sweet Confessions, which in turn was adapted from this Better Homes and Gardens Cookbook.

This follows a normal sugar cookie recipe pretty closely, but also uses brown sugar, cream of tartar, and is rolled in sugar and cinnamon. Since I've covered making sugar cookies before I didn't take pictures throughout the entire process this time, but the full recipe can be found at the end!

Discovering 2014: Cookie Bowls?

Discovering 2014 is a personal goal to complete a daily project throughout the year!

Today's project was Cookie Bowls. As you can see, something didn't go as planned. My results reminded me of this:

Discovering 2014: Sugar Sprinkles Cookies

.Discovering 2014 is a personal goal to complete a daily project throughout the year!

Today's project was Sugar Sprinkles Cookies. Yes, these are just sugar cookies with sprinkles on them, but hey, I've never made homemade sugar cookies before (the husband normally does the baking) so it's a first for me!

The recipe from Averie Cooks was spot-on and the only problem I had was having to lengthen my cook times, but I think that's because I made my cookies larger than they did. Especially the giant cookies.

WHAT?! GIANT COOKIES?? Well, check out my pictures of the creation process!

Discovering 2014: Italian Lemon Drop Cookies

Discovering 2014 is a personal goal to complete a daily project throughout the year!

Today's project was Italian Lemon Drop Cookies, better known as Anginetti. I followed this recipe from Food.com exactly, and they turned out perfectly. Since I didn't have to deviate from the recipe at all, I'm just going to simply share some pictures I took while working on them!