Photo-A-Day #621 12/20/06

Photo-A-Day 621 122006

Update: The cookie has been coined, cookie Kaboom by my friend Marilyn.

Tonight I made experimental cookies for tomorrow’s little Secret Santa, Hanukkah Armadillo celebration. The photo was one of the edible casualties. Sorry to see him go, with milk! Yummy, yummy. I wanted to make a cookie that used some of my favorite snacks, pretzels, cookies, Rolos and M&M’s. The results came out tasting okay but looking rather strange. Here is some photo documentation of the creation of my ultimate holiday cookies.


The first batch started with the pretzel.


I then added Rolos in either loop.


M&Ms were added to the small opening.


I then covered the creation with cookie dough, put them in the oven at 350 for 5 minutes, spun them and cooked for another 5 minutes and then took them out to cool.


The finished product, notice the Rolos have exploded into gooey caramel blobs.

The next batch I tried it another way.

Christmas Cookie
Inverted the cookie so the dough was on the bottom and everything else was on top.

Christmas Cookie Experiment 2006
The finished Product, looks a little better but the Rolos exploded again.

So I tried something completely different and since I had no more full pretzels I just used single loops.

But before I did that I had the casualty cookie.

Christmas Cookie Experiment 2006
Broken but tasty.

Christmas Cookie Experiment 2006
Using pretzels as a base again.

Christmas Cookie Experiment 2006
Rolos and then cookie dough on top.

Christmas Cookie Experiment 2006
Add a few M&Ms on top.

Christmas Cookie Experiment 2006
The Finished Product. These came out looking and tasting fantastic, can’t wait to share them with everyone.

Eragon, the book, much better than the movie…

I loved the books Eragon and Eldest. Allison and I listened to both books on CD. I picked up Eragon in a Wal-Mart in Arkansas before a very long drive to Texas from Arkansas. I absolutely loved the story and was so disappointed because the movie was so rushed and terrible. Christopher Paolini created a whole new and wonderful world. Eragon and Saphira live in that world in my mind, the world created by the movie as far as the landscape was pretty close, but the story was so off from the books that it became distracting and painful to watch. I am looking forward to the next book in the series, I think it will most likely be named Empire or something like that. No release date on the movie yet but I am constantly watching. I am anticipating this much more than the last Harry Potter book to come out (There is a series that actually translated well to the big screen).