Cookies

My first batch of Cold Weather Cookies are in the oven.

For those of you not in the know, I have been effectively banned from baking whenever it is above 70 degrees Fahrenheit. Apparently baking during a heat wave is anathema. Since it was a gorgeous 60-something degree day, complete with dreariness and continual mist, I was given the green light.

Tonight I made my usual chocolate chip cookies, but I also mixed in white chocolate chocolate chips and chocolate chunks. Tomorrow I may or may not bake an apple crisp. I was just on the phone with my brother, and my sister-in-law and the kids have been baking up a storm of all things apple today. Apple cake, apple bread, other things with apples...

Pop!

Today I heard the one noise I do *not* want to hear from the microwave.

Popping.

...I was melting butter. Windex isn't even helping clean up the mess.

On the bright side, my Kahlua Chocolate Chip Cookies came out of the oven about 20 minutes ago, and I'm raring to try one.