Cookies for the 4th

If you have the time or inclination, try your hand at making these fun cookies from Miss Martha Stewart.

If you need friends, make cookies.

Bake sales seemed to be the most popular way to raise funds when I was in high school, although I doubt it’s still allowed in schools today.  These Betty Crocker Chocolate Chip cookies were my specialty back then, and actually gained me one life-long friend.  The secret is not really in the recipe, but in the chocolate chips…Guittard Milk Chocolate Chips.  They’re huge and yummy.  Nowadays I rely more on the BBFCCC (Best Big Fat Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies), which has some notoriety on the web. But my friend graduated this past week-

So I re-visted this old-time favorite for his graduation gift. 

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