Riddle me this...what's more Christmasy than baking Christmas cookies? NOTHING! So imagine my excitement when my co-worker Michelle invited myself, Amy and Sarah over to her house to bake some yummy cookies. All we had to do was bring a recipe and a smile :) I really wanted to make mint choclate chip cookies, but the Safeway grocery store didn't have any mint choclate chips. Needless to say I was pretty bummed. Instead I bought some red and green striped choclate chips....festive, but not mint. Oh well.
After the grocery store we made our way to the Eastern Market area of DC (so cute!) to Michelle's house that she shares with four other roommates. Once there we began our baking. This is the part of the story where I want to drop a hint to all the bakers out there: olive oil does not equal vegetable oil!!! When we couldn't find the veggie oil, we thought "We'll use olive oil...same thing right." The answer is NO! What resulted is what we now refer to as--cookie blob.
After the disaster that was cookie blob, we decided to follow the recipe on the back of the choclate chip package...our perfect cookies came out of the oven just a few minutes later. We hung out for awhile, ate some cookies and chatted by the fire. Very cozy DC evening!
After leaving Michelle's we had plans to go see the national Christmas tree. We made it to the parking area around the tree, but not to the actual tree. It was soooooo cold that we only made it about 20 steps from the car. We decided we were not dressed for the cold and would come back another, not as cold, day to see the tree.
