You know what I loved? I LOVED my #100daysoflookingtothesky project. I REALLY loved it. But, like I said the other day, that project has run its course. I’ll never look at the sky the same way again, and I’ll still reach for my phone every time I see something beautiful up above, but it’s time to do something different.
I’ve been thinking a lot about what I originally intended this blog to be, and what I’d like to spend my days doing over the next little bit, and how I could get a little more connected to my One Little Word this year as it’s already more than half over! Over the next little bit, I’ll be celebrating a few millstones too . . . the 5 year anniversary of my surgery (the Husband thinks this is a bigger deal than the 5 year all-clear I just got) and soon after the start of the new year, I’ll be turning 40 (yikes!). Never mind that there are about a million and one little things/projects that I’d like to explore!
So I’ve come up with this . . .
#100morselsofjoy
Yup. Starting tomorrow I’m going to be embarking on another 100 day project. And this time, I’m going to focus on one thing a day that brings me joy. Could be something small, and mundane, or big and exciting. Either way, I can’t wait to get started on this new project. My intention is to post a picture of whatever my morsel of joy is that day and to do a quick blog post about it too.
Please feel free to join me on this project, and add any photos you want to #100morselsofjoy. Or, just follow along as I find bits of joy here and there!
Now, to jump start this new project, I thought I’d share a repair that brings my family lots of delicious joy … while I am very much a proponent of clean eating, I have also aways said that there are times in one’s life for treats. Summer holidays at the cottage are PRECISELY the time for a few treats. And today, the kids and I got to a little baking in my favourite kitchen. And we made . . . Smartie cookies. I like to do a quick search before I post “old” family recipes – just to see if anyone has ideas on how to improve on my recipe, or to see if it’s something other people actually make. A search of Smartie cookies yielded some interesting results – namely more recipes for cookies like this seem to come out of the UK than the US . . .
Anyway, these cookies are a cottage staple for our family for years. Everyone loves them and it’s hard to keep them around for long! I hope you enjoy them!
Smartie Cookies
Ingredients
- 1 cup softened butter
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 1/2 cup white sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 2 1/4c all purpose flour
- 1 tsp baking soda
- smarties (today we used 400g in total)
Directions
- Preheat your oven to 375. If you can, use the “Bake Convection” setting on your oven so that you can put all the trays of cookies in at once to cook . . .cuts down on baking time!
- In the bowl of stand mixer, cream butter and sugars together until the mixture is light and fluffy. Add in the egg and vanilla and mix until everything is well combined.
- While the mixer is running, put the smarties into a large Ziploc bag and beat them with a rolling pin to smash them up a bit. This step is totally unnecessary, I just like it when the chocolate inside the smarties gets melty and gooey . . .
- Add in the flour and mix until it is just combined.
- Dump in the smarties and give the whole thing one last mix.
- Shape the dough into 1″ balls and place on a cookie sheet. These cookies don’t spread too much, so you can get quite a few on a tray (at least 20). Using your hand, flatten them out (so that they’re about 1/2′ thick) and bake in the oven for 8-10 minutes.
Let cool and enjoy!
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