Cast Iron Skillet Cookie Cake

I need this cookie cake  like I need a hole in my head.  Nevertheless, when I ran across it (thanks to Aparthemt Therapy's The Kitchn)  in my google reader feed I decided pretty quickly that we were going to make it anyway.  We had almost everything we needed to make this cookie happen, so when we bought groceries the other night we made sure to get the only missing ingredients: chocolate chips and butter.  While Ms. Dianne and I were working on the muslin slipcover I posted about recently, Kyle whipped up this cookie cake and...

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Hershey’s Perfect Chocolate Chip Cookies Recipe

Overall, yesterday was a pretty lazy day.  We went to my grandparents' house for a while, scored some discount plants at Lowes (more on that later), swam a little, and watched a movie.  In other words, we did absolutely nothing to warrant making five dozen chocolate chip cookies.  Yet we did.  It started out innocently enough: we had salads for lunch and wanted a sweet treat (terrible logic, I know) but didn't want to eat something from a package (at least we had that going for us?).  I decided to make chocolate chip cookies from the recipe on the back...

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Homemade Holidays: Cookie Mix in a Jar

When I first heard of cookie mix in a jar, I thought it was the most brilliant idea ever.  Admittedly, I am pretty idealistic when it comes to things like this, and I didn't take into consideration a lot of things.  First and foremost, I didn't think about whether the recipes offered up in these projects were any good.  I quickly rushed out to buy flour, sugar, cranberries, and chocolate chips, assuming I could use all the mason jars I've been refusing to throw away over the past few years (in some sort of crisis I might need to can...

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