When fall arrives I get busy in the kitchen, and give a lot of my wares away, as I bake more than we can eat and we are fortunate to have a full freezer with no more room. I can't store things away like a squirrel preparing for winter, so the neighbors, family and friends get to share in my happy hobby.
Lately I have revived a cookie recipe from my mother that I haven't made for many years: Chocolate Waffle Cookies. I love the smell as they bake, and the texture of the finished cookie. Fall puts me in the mood.
If you can't smell them baking, then best you make some yourself. Here's the recipe:
Preheat a waffle iron
Melt: 1 cup margarine
Mix the following ingredients into the margarine:
10 Tbsp. cocoa or 4 squares of baking chocolate
4 beaten eggs
1-1/2 cups sugar
2 tsp. vanilla
2 cups flour
Drop by heaping teaspoonfuls into the waffle iron. Bake until done. Be patient, as you can only fit two - four cookies in the iron at the time. The wait is worth it!
If you like you may use these cookies as the base for a chocolate syrup ice cream sundae. I like to just eat them plain. They are dense like a brownie and oh, so good!
As I write my husband is doing what he likes to do in the fall: planting daffodils and hyacinths. I can just picture them as spring comes, but for now I enjoy the view, sounds and smells of fall: deciduous trees and bushes changing color, squirrels scurrying around burying their catch for winter. I always wonder how they manage to remember where they plant things.
Hope you enjoy your fall. Pour a cup of tea, coffee or hot chocolate, your pleasure, and relish the joy of just being alive to usher in another wonderful fall season. As I look around at my familiar piece of Washington State, I enjoy what I see.
Life is good, isn't it?
Copyright 2004 Jerri Brooker
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