Playing House with the Coxes: Gavin's Famous Cookies

Gavin and I thought we'd do a little tribute to cooking blogs today and post our famous cookie recipe. Last week I had a tall order to fill: bake cookies for a family gathering and spend some much needed one-on-one mom and Gavin time together. Who says you can't do both together?! So below you have a step by step recipe for Gavin's famous Rocky Road Cookie (with a little help from Rachael Ray)!

The Ingredients

25 lbs of pure sugary cute kid with an apron

8 oz. butter or baking Crisco-y stuff (room temperature)

1 1/2 cups brown sugar

3 eggs

2 1/3 cups flour

1 tsp baking powder

1 tsp baking soda

1 tsp salt

2 tsp pure vanilla extract

1 cup chopped almonds

2 cups chocolate chips

The Instructions
(My comments in italics)

Mix together butter and brown sugar

(Note: Holding a purple walrus is optional, but while it does not add anything to the flavor, texture or make up of the cookie, it does make the preparation process a tad bit more fun)

Apparently I got a little too bossy during this step. I believe Gavin is putting me in my place.

Add eggs and blend.
We only had one blending snafu which was when Gavin turned the blender on while it was not in the propper blending position. We only lost a little bit of the cookie batter- probably the equivalent of half a cookie. Don't worry- we ate the other half to make it all even out.

Combine flour, salt, baking soda and baking powder into sifter and add in.

Gavin was a big fan of the sifting action. It looked like snow.

Add vanilla and blend.

Add almonds and chocolate chips.

Gavin gladly dumped the entire bowl of almonds into the cookie batter; however he took special care to drop the chocolate chips in handful by handful. Believe it or not, not a single one entered his mouth! He was very serious to maintain the integrity of our cookie making activity.

Place rounded spoonfuls onto cookie sheet.

Gavin felt compelled to also flatten each cookie with one of his spoons. I'm sure there is some very special reason why this is an important culinary step, but I'm not really sure what it is.