Dec 12, 2015 Are you enjoying the lead-up to Christmas? For me, this is the absolute best part – the 24 December days of baking, music, lights, gift shopping, and the all around warm fuzzies. It doesn’t hurt that my birthday is right before Christmas, too. This is the first year we will be in Vancouver on our own. Every other year (of the 10 we’ve lived here) we have either visited my family in New Brunswick, or Adarsh’s family in Dubai and India, or else family has come to us. It’ll be different, but I’m so caught up in newborndom and general busy-ness to really think about it too much. And our older son is finally starting to understand what’s going on, which makes all the preparations so exciting and fun. These cookies freeze very well, so feel free to bake in advance. Just freeze them in a single layer before packing into freezer bags, because they are soft and will stick together otherwise. Be SURE to underbake them for the chewy brownie magic. They should be set at the edges and starting to crack, but should be visibly underdone in the centre – they’ll firm up more as they cool. As always, the better quality the chocolate, the better tasting the result. Use a dark bar that you’d enjoy eating. Then (this is the important part) try not to eat it before you bake the cookies.
