When I get stressed, I get hungry. And so I bake. I haven't baked in quite a while, i have had little homework (actually, i just haven't been doing it all...), I have been managing well at gymnastics and the fall play had not yet taken over my life.
And here they are in all their glory, fresh out of the oven and just dying to relieve my stress.
ps, is that not the most excellent apron you have ever seen? Yeah, I thought so.
pps, these would be even more excellent if i had my bff forever to share them with...
Fast forward to right now. I have an AP environmental science textbook open in a vain attempt at note taking, my math homework and all of it's imaginary numbers make me want to be imaginary, the fall play is in two weeks so I will be having 14 hour school days, we are learning a new tense in spanish, I have two books (one of which I have no started) due for AP english, my drama teacher expects me to be choosing a monologue for an upcoming competition, I am signing up for next semester classes tomorrow and my intra-squad meet for gymnastics is coming up in less that six weeks.
I would say my stress level is pretty high. And so, instead of dealing with these issues and, oh, I don't know...doing my homework, running lines and working out, I decided to make cookies.
Milk chocolate walnut cookies made out of pancake mix. Pancake mix? Yes, pancake mix.
Loosely inspired by this http://newhopemills.com/pages.php?page_id=6, my recipe is as follows (makes about 2 1/2 dozen):
- Preheat oven to 375 and spray baking sheets (mine weren't non-stick, lame)
- Cream 1 1/3 cups packed brown sugar, 2/3 cup unsalted butter and 4 tsp vanilla (I ALWAYS make my cookies extra vanilla-y)
- Add 2 eggs and beat
- Add 3 cups of, wait for it... PANCAKE MIX!
- Beat on medium until well incorporated, and this means well, NO LUMPS.
- Taste your batter...just to make sure its not poisonous(:
- Fold in desired amounts of goodies--I used 1/2 bag of milk chocolate chips and 1/2 cup walnut pieces but feel free to experiment.
- Place rounded teaspoon-fulls on baking sheets
- Bake for 12-15 minutes, shoot for slightly underdone and just let rest before you remove 'em from the pan.
- Don't tell your little brother the cookies are done until you have eaten the biggest one, enjoy!
And here they are in all their glory, fresh out of the oven and just dying to relieve my stress.ps, is that not the most excellent apron you have ever seen? Yeah, I thought so.
pps, these would be even more excellent if i had my bff forever to share them with...
