A big part of FHE for us are the treats. We don't have desert very often so Monday nights are always a good night for the kids. It's amazing how well they eat their dinner knowing there will be treats IF they eat their dinner. Usually I take the easy route and buy the pre-made cookies and we throw them in the oven during FHE then eat them still warm at the end. But I decided last night to bake them from scratch...this rarely works out for me. They are always flat. But Todd spent some time on google and found lots of good tips so I tried it out. I didn't use melted butter (softened but not warm), I added extra flour so that when I touched the dough it wasn't sticky, I refrigerated the dough after I put it on the cookie sheet and used cool cookie sheets instead of the warm one over and over again. The dough looked perfect and it was DELICIOUS. But my cookies were flat, flat, flat. So depressing. The only thought I have is that my baking soda is too old. I don't even know if this gets old and causes flat cookies but I'm going to try to replace it and see if I can make cookies that aren't nasty flat.
As you can see from today's picture the kids still ate them and loved them. They LOVE to dip them in milk and they are sooooo messy. (not a great, or even good, picture - but I had to use my phone and the kids were being crazy so it was hard to capture the moment)
