100 Pop Bud cookies

I am a bit behind in posting but have to share last weekends handy work ... 100+ cookies. No, you are not welcome to eat them, I'm not sharing, just sharing the photos. (FYI, if I have shared these cookies with you, know those are the ones that fell on the floor) With the help of Karen, our hostess and teacher, I learned how to make Pop Bud cookies. This is a modified dutch cookie recipe. Bud, Karen's father, wanted to removed the fat and cholesterol from the cookies so that he could enjoy them.

**side note: I can't advocate eating white flour and sugar, it is in fact, unhealthy as it robs vitamins from your body, is not nutritious, causes disease when eaten in excess (diabetes for one) and eventually turns to fat anyway; however, if you are vegan or eggs gross you out and cow juice (milk) turns your stomach and/or you don't really care about white flour or sugar... these cookies ROCK!!!! I fall into the first category and prefer to keep my distance from gooey eggs/chicken wannabes and cow liquid... unless they are in a divine recipe. Did I mention these cookies are wicked good??? I have enjoyed 2 with coffee while typing this post.


baking should be this much fun!!!

The recipe makes a batch of 100+ cookies and it would have been an arduous task if Karen had not laid out all the tools and ingredients. The recipe is basic (sour your own "milk", flour, sugar, oil, vanilla, salt, baking soda) but it makes such a huge batter for which you need a special spoon (must be mixed by hand), gigantic bowl, and a special frame and rolling pin to roll these bad boys out (we used a flyers cookie cutter, so these were bad boys cookies... the fighting, slashing and boarding kind).

Thank you Karen! Our next lesson opera fudge!