In the Oven

I made some really good Almond Joy cookies and wanted the recipe somewhere I could refer back to. I've included a picture which is the one with the original recipe. My cookies looked nearly the same, but I forgot to take a picture of my own. Yuuuummmm. 

Almond Joy Cookies

(Recipe from a Facebook share)

Preheat oven to 375

2.25 cup flour

1 tsp baking soda

.5 tsp salt

.5 cup butter

.75 cup white sugar

.75 cup brown sugar

2 eggs

1.5 tsp vanilla

2.5 cup chocolate chips

1 cup sweetened coconut

1 cup chopped almonds

Grease cookie sheet (or put down parchment paper).

In a medium bowl, combine flour, baking soda, and salt. Set aside.

In a large bowl, cream together butter and sugars, beat in eggs one at a time, add vanilla.

Stir in dry ingredients until well mixed. Then stir in chocolate chips, coconut, and almonds. 

Drop by tablespoon on the cookie sheet and bake 8-10 minutes. 

I got at least 48 cookies out of this. You can certainly half the recipe (I actually halved it from a recipe calling for even larger measurements!).

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Also, we're doing the thing where we take a picture of me every week. Here's week 9. A grape baby was inside me.

And week 10, with a kumquat baby inside me. 

I don't like the idea of filling this blog with pictures of me, but since I do want a visual record with easy access, I guess this is what I'll be doing. Soon I'm sure it will all be pictures of Baby J and no one will even remember what I looked like before. Anyway, I'm still feeling good (no stomach problems whatsoever), just sleeping a lot more. I haven't gained any weight yet, but it's not due to a lack of delicious cookies!!!