My own Treats

Thank you all for ur kind thoughts and willingness to send me treats. However, since none of you are close and my YW failed to step up, I had to take things into my own hands.

I have lots of cocoa and sour cream to use up so I thought I'd make myself a cake. The only recipe I could find in my cupboard was a "World War I Chocolate Cake" made with mayonnaise. I looked on-line and it said you could substitute sour cream. So I thought I'd go for it.

Then I made frosting to try and help. Unfortunately I had increased the cake recipe and failed to do so for the frosting as well.

Here is the results (I frosted it AFTER I had already tried to eat some). So what do you do with a cake that tastes... OK (you really can't go wrong with chocolate and sugar)? You take it to church and feed it to unsuspecting YW and their leaders!!

Ya! All gone but the bitter end.

Then I could get down to the business of making myself some REAL treats.

Look at those cookies. I did add too much flour (more flour is good in chocolate chip cookies, but apparently not so much in roll out cookies... especially wheat flour) so they are a little crumbly, but shore do taste good! Maybe just a little nutty.

And you know what makes them even better? GREEN FROSTING!

OK, so I'm not a good froster. They still taste the same.

To bad none of u are here to share with. My VTee's will get to share in the bounty of crumbly frosted cookies.

Then I tried French Bread. That's certainly a good treat!

I don't know what my problem is. I followed the recipe with the water bath in the oven and sprayed them with water in the first few minutes of cooking but I ended up with pretty dense bread.

Good thing I don't mind dense bread. It just makes very small sandwiches.

Now I just need some good ice cream to go with those cookies. Guess what was on sale at Smiths? Mint Chocolate chip! PERFECT. I'm going to get myself some more right now.

PS. I read in my cookbook (America's Test Kitchen) that mayonnaise is pretty salty and they cautioned against adding any to the cake. Since I was using sour cream instead, I think a little salt woulda helped. Just FYI to those of u who care.