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There will be Crumbs… Delicious Tasty Crumbs

blueberry crumb barsSomething about these bars makes me want to get all cutsie about crumbs.

I’m tempted to coo the cute little crumbs left behind on my plate.  Tell them how delightful they are.  Boast how those blueberries could not have found a better pairing.

I’d apologize for eating the bar from which they came but I’m too busy using the back of my fork to pick up the leftover crumbs.  I’ll eat those too.  So I won’t waste my time apologizing.

Crumbly crumby goodness

And as I rub my belly, I’ll daydream of their eulogy, where I’ll talk about how they were the best of crumbs.  So well rounded too (especially considering they’re squares!).  They made the perfect breakfast and tasted so good with coffee.  And later in the day they made a great sweet treat snack.  As a dessert?  They hit the spot.  And then I’ll choke up a little… and explain how they were the only mess I ever truly enjoyed cleaning up… or eating up.  Finally I’ll wipe a tear from my eye and dust the crumbs off my blouse and bid farewell.

And while I’ll miss those crumbly crumbles… I’ll be OK cause there’s more where that came from… in my kitchen displayed on a blue dinner plate.

And once Sweets and I finish those off… I can always make more… but until then how bout you get your blueberries rinsed and your apron on.

blueberriesLet’s get to baking.

Blueberry Crumb Bars

Adapted from Smitten Kitten

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Chocolate Chip Cookies

Cookies

Cookie anyone?

There of those of us who can cook and those of us who can bake.

So far baking hasn’t been my thing.

Whereas cooking has plenty of rooms for recipe tweaking, baking (at least in my experience so far) seems to require things to be a bit more exact.

Somehow I always end up with a sunken-in cake, gooey brownies (like raw gooey not yummy gooey) and don’t even get me started on icing things – just rest assured it’s a mess.

But recently my most wonderful little sister gave me a darling apron decorated with cupcakes (which I also manage to mess up) as an early birthday present. The gift seemed to ignite a random baking urge so I decided to take a shot at baking the one thing I knew I could make well – actually, pretty damn well if I don’t say so myself.

bday apron

Happy early bday to me!

Chocolate Chip Cookies – no funny business – just flour, sugar, eggs, butter, chocolate chips and one classic recipe courtesy of Nestle Tollhouse.

They’re easy and always a treat but I warn you, bake these with plans of removing them from your home as soon as possible, to ensure that you (I) don’t eat them all.

Luckily I work at a newsroom and news folks will eat anything set out for public consumption without even so much as a, “Hey, is this the same open thing of dip that was here yesterday?”

So combine a newsroom with the restaurant Sweets works at and you can be assured that one way or another every single one of those cookies would have a loving home to take them in… or at least a satisfied tummy to spend their final days.

This recipe is not mine and not at all tweaked – it’s probably the only recipe I have ever followed exactly – like I said before when it comes to baking it’s best to leave the funny business elsewhere and just do what you’re told.

So grab a bag of Nestle Tollhouse Chocolate Chips, look on the back and there’s your recipe.

Classic Chocolate Chip Cookies

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