Status Update – Cookie Monster
Oh my gosh, THESE exist!
Yes, those are Cadbury Crème Egg cookies! I found them at CVS yesterday when I was picking up some aspirin and heating pads for my neck and shoulders (which is a whole other story). They’re perfect too! There are eight, fairly small cookies in the package. Cadbury Crème Eggs can be murderously sweet, but there’s just enough in each cookie to give you the taste of a crème egg without overpowering you.
This is a dangerous discovery. Anyone who knows me knows that I absolutely LOVE cookies. They’re the perfect sweet treat. You can regulate how many you need and either eat a gigantic cookie extravaganza or just have one. Believe it or not, I’m a just one kind of girl. And I’ll also admit that I prefer to bake my own. Here’s a lovely batch of peanut butter chocolate chip cookies I made the other day using my top-secret recipe.
One of my earliest childhood memories involves cookies. Well, I was about four, so it might be a memory and it might be one of those things where you’ve heard the story enough times that you form a memory. Apparently my love for cookies is genetic. My memory is when I was tiny and my mom was annoyed (as much as my mom got annoyed, which wasn’t much) because someone had eaten an entire box of Oreos. My dad insisted it was the cookie monster. Being four, I absolutely believed that there was a cookie monster who came into our house and ate those Oreos. Of course, the real culprit was obvious. And yes, I have seen my dad eat an entire sleeve of Oreos in one sitting.
But of course at this time of year, when we think of cookies, we think of one type in particular:
Yep, the Girl Scouts got me the other day at the post office. I broke right into the box of Peanut Butter Patties, of course. They are far and away my favorites. They actually remind me of a kind of snack cake from here in Philadelphia—Tastykake brand peanut butter patties. P.S. If you don’t live in a place where they sell Tastykakes, I’m sorry. Anyhow, the Girl Scout cookie that I’m really interested in trying is the S’mores. They’re the limited-edition cookie for this year, and I’ve heard great things about them!
So are you a cookie monster? What’s your favorite cookie?
