This holiday season was so wild for me. It was a difficult adjustment both financially and emotionally. There have been so many changes over the past weeks that I feel as if I had been thrown in the spin cycle on a washing machine that was being transported to another planet.
In any case, I didn’t make many Christmas cookies, or even do much Christmas baking. I just tried to keep everything as normal as possible for the kids. That would become my mantra, if I had a mantra..which I don’t. Keep it normal. It is a funny thing… going through a divorce. People that you expected you could count on to love you no matter what become strangers and those that you thought you had a marginal relationship with support you in surprising ways. Being lonely becomes a lifestyle, and trust issues, which I have dealt with all of my life have become magnified.
Who do you trust when the people you have trusted most fail you? Jesus Christ, for me… of course… but that human support everyone needs – where does that come from? I don’t know. I am not saying that if you disagree with what someone is doing you should pretend you agree. But I am wondering what happened to “I don’t like what you are doing but I am standing with you and praying for you … and I am here for you.” Are there people like that in your life?
I have a few – but they aren’t the ones I expected. Anyway… I am working on a new blog at the moment. Just a personal one. I haven’t gotten it up and running yet but I hope to get it up this week. It is called Autumn Tapestry, Confessions of a Peri- Menopausal Princess. If you are interested, stay tuned I will let you know when it is available.
Anyway, New Years Eve needed something festive so I made these cookies. Quick, easy, and several kinds of chocolate. You can’t beat that, right? The cookies are buttery and chewy with butterscotch chips, milk chocolate chips, bittersweet chips, semi sweet chips, and pecans.
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So unbelievably good with a glass of milk or coffee, I hope you will try these. I think they will become a favorite.
Quadruple Chip and Pecan Cookies
- 1 stick of unsalted butter, softened
- 1/2 cup shortening
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 3/4 cup brown sugar
- 2 eggs
- 2 1/4 cups flour
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1 tbs vanilla
- 1/2 cup butterscotch chips (peanut butter chips would be great as well)
- 1/2 cup milk chocolate chips
- 1/2 cup semi sweet chocolate chips
- 1/2 bittersweet chocolate chips
- 3/4 cup pecans, chopped
- Preheat the oven to 375F
- Cover a cookie sheet with silpat or parchment
- Mix butter and shortening until well blended
- Add sugar slowly and beat until the batter is smooth and crystals are gone
- Add the eggs, one at a time
- Add vanilla and beat
- Combine dry ingredients and stir in
- Fold in the chips and nuts
- Chill the dough for about 20 minutes
- Drop by teaspoon on a baking sheet
- Bake for 8-10 minutes, remove from oven when slightly underdone and let cool for chewy cookies.
3 -4 dozen
images: marye audet
