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What you may not know about Janet is that when she's not singing and dancing with the Cat's Pajamas, she loves to bake--especially cookies!
When Janet's first daughter Emily went away to college in 1997, she started mailing cookies once a month to Emily and her friends. Thus was born Cookie of the Month Club! The club has grown and grown and grown--Cookie of the Month Club has 10 members now!
Our cousin Gabriel is a cookie lover who makes COMPUTER games, how cool is that?! So he made us our very own computer game called COTMC XTreme! Give the game a try--you eat extreme amounts of cookies and avoid getting hit with vegetables to win.
I hope you'll have fun baking with your mom and dad, and challenge them to a game (I bet you'll win!).
For Holiday Time! It's...
Chocolate Chip Peppermint Cookies!
Ingredients:
3/4 c. butter
1/2 c. packed brown sugar
1 egg
1 tsp. vanilla extract
1 tsp. peppermint extract
1 1/2 c. all purpose flour
1/4 c. unsweetened cocoa powder
1 tsp. baking soda
1/4 tsp. salt
1 cup semisweet chocolate chips
bonus ingredient!
several crushed candy canes
bonus icing!
1 c. powdered sugar
1/8 c. peppermint schnapps (or more peppermint extract!)
Directions:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease cookie sheets. In a large bowl, cream together butter, white sugar, and brown sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in egg, then stir in vanilla and peppermint extracts. Combine flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, and salt. Gradually add to the creamed mixture. Mix in the chocolate chips. Drop by rounded spoonfuls onto the prepared cookie sheets!
BONUS! Roll the cookies in crushed candy canes! Yummmmm!
Bake for 12-15 minutes in the preheated oven. Allow cookies to cool, prepare icing by combining powdered sugar and schnapps/peppermint extract until smooth.