Choco-LOVE Cookies

Every year around Christmastime, I get into a baking frenzy. This year was a little different in that I didn't have as much time to bake as I have had in years past. I made a ton of sugar cookies though - more like eight or nine dozen - you know, just a few cookies. ;-)

My go-to Christmas cookie is my sugar cookie - everyone tells me how delicious they are. I find that making a soft and almost melt-in-your-mouth sugar cookies with rum-vanilla icing make people salivate after the first one, and I won't exaggerate. I *always* get asked for more. So...that was/is my priority cookie.

However, a few days after Christmas, I made my most favorite cookie: Chocolate Crinkles. My mom used to make them every year for Christmas, and this annual tradition has been passed along to me. They're so good! As much as I love really sweet cookies, these have more of rich cocoa flavor with a hint of sweet. Yum.

Chocolate crinkles are another type of rolled cookie that requires some refrigeration before baking. Once you make the dough, it needs to chill in the fridge for about two hours. Once chilled enough, you grab little bits of the dough, roll it into balls with your hands, and drop them into powdered sugar before transferring to the cookie sheet.

To make you hungry:

http://allthingsemmy.blogspot.com/2015/01/the-best-darned-chocolate-crinkles-ever.html

An ooey-gooey chocolate core with a slightly chewy exterior with melted powdered sugar makes these confections to-die-for.

The recipe I like to use can be found here on my AllThingsEmmy Blog. (Yes, I 'borrowed' the images from myself. hehe)

Off to dream in chocolate-land,

Your Em

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Compassion

Months ago, I filmed a video about compassion and empathy. When I downloaded it to my computer, I didn't have the time or the drive to edit and upload it... until today. I re-watched the full 11:37 video and realized that my message was very clear and that it applies just as much to today as it did when I originally filmed it in November.
Compassion. It's something that many people lack - not on purpose, but out of convenience. Out of carelessness. Without a thought. People aren't bad because of it, rather unaware and lacking mindfulness of who is around them and how they may be feeling.
I wanted to share this video as a reminder for people to view other people as humans - as people just like themselves. To have empathy and compassion because you just do not know what another person is going through.

Lovingly yours,
Em

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