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

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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.

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

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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.

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Broken but tasty.

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Using pretzels as a base again.

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Rolos and then cookie dough on top.

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Add a few M&Ms on top.

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

Photo-A-Day #620 12/19/06

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Photo taken by Allison, enhanced in Photoshop by Me

Tonight Allison and I went to our church for the Christmas Story. My cousins Madison and Haley were both in the show. Madison was in the choir and Haley was a dancing angel. The 3rd grade puts on the show every year. We went to see them because they were in it and because they leave tomorrow for their trip to Florida. They are going down there to be home schooled and will be learning about many historical places in Florida. Sounds like a really cool trip to me.

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Madison in the Choir

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The Dancing Angel, Haley
(Photo by Allison)

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Dancing Angel, Haley
(Photo by Allison)

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This camera was always in my shot.

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The Cast.