Test Batch Bonanza Part 2

We lied. We had to test one more time. This time, Dina forged ahead alone (no kids, woot! woot!). Just another flour tweak because of fun things like gluten and protein and flakiness and crispness and all that stuff that you shouldn't think about when you eat our cookies (but that we should).

"Take another little piece of my heart now, baby;

Break another little bit of my heart now, darling."

(Janis Joplin is telling you to eat our cookies!)

Dina's just reward for another day of baking.

If it means anything at all, baking, which led to the beer, then led Dina to think "hmmm...chili sounds good for dinner." You can bet this wasn't the only beer imbibed that day (which is why, again, no icing yet).

Test Batch Bonanza (and 1st Post!)

Welcome to Hello Kookie! We're just a couple of pals who, aside from raising our boys (2 for each of us, thank you very much testosterone gods), love love love cookies (and well, ok, almost any food, too). Our little company is dedicated to organic cookies -- fun to see, fun to eat, and for us, fun to make!

We're still in our infancy (although thank goodness our youngest boys have turned that corner), so it's time for us to make what we hope is our last test batch in the home kitchen before we move to the big leagues, a commercial kitchen! Juggling the 4-kid schedule, we finally got together to see what would happen with a tweaked recipe (now being armed with a little science behind the flour -- yes, that's what we said -- science).

Getting ready:

Butter + Sugar = Yum, already!

Our precious little monkeys...

Storing up for the winter (aka, the icing).

Ok, if we must, we'll taste test! You can stop twisting our arms!

Next post, prime-time icing time!