How will you celebrate National Cookie Day?

I don’t.

I just ate a chocolate digestive. Does that count? I’ll eat another in a celebratory manner!

Hmm, maybe I should bake something.

About time for cinnamon-sugar cookies, maybe. (I don’t call them by their dumb-sounding popular name.) They always seem festive to me, even without added decorations.

Cinnamon-Sugar Cookies

Preheat oven to 350.

Cream together:

1 cup softened butter or margarine* (I use 1 stick each)
1½ cups white sugar

Add:

2 eggs, lightly beaten

Then sift together & add:

2¾ cups flour
2 tsp cream of tartar
1 tsp baking soda
½ tsp salt

Make into little balls (chill 1 hr. first if necessary for manageability) and roll in ½ sugar – ½ cinnamon mixture (2 tbsp. each should do). I make them smaller than golf balls—maybe about 1” diameter or a little more.

Bake on greased sheet or parchment, 5 – 8 minutes (my oven needs longer). Watch out—they’re round and will roll off! Be sure to keep the baking sheet level on the way into the oven.

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*Margarine: some brands these days have very high water content and melt down very badly, leaving insubstantial, collapsed cookies that you can’t even slide off the sheet—they just accordion onto themselves. Check composition and choose carefully.

Pardon me, boss. I need time off to go to @Jeruba‘s house to test a recipe.

Lunch is over. It’s time for a cuppa and some shortbread.

To celebrate, I shall request that people hug me.

@cookieman: {{{HUGS}}}

and a small nibble

I was planning to snuggle up to you @cookieman and maybe just a tiny bite.

^^ I saw him first.

I love cookies. I’m using up things in my pantry, because I will be moving. I have a can of almond paste, so I guess almond cookies are in order. I probably won’t get to it today, but I’ll plan to do it this weekend. It will be perfect, because I’m having breakfast with a friend Monday and I can give her half of them.

@cookieman {{{Hugs}}} and maybe a quick lick.

He’s a big @cookieman – plenty for all to share but most for me.

I overcelebrated it yesterday by buying a box of chocolate covered peppermint joe joes from Trader Joes. They are so good!

I was just at Costco and bought 18 of them….chocolate chip.

^^ Sharing is caring.

I got a free cookie from Subway today. It’s because I filled out a survey, though.

I need to buy milk on my way home.

Could Oreos find their way into my basket?

I bite @cookieman!

O @cookieman where you gonna run to?

Dilemma: I don’t want a package of cookies from the grocery store. I want a cookie from a bakery. I don’t know where such a bakery is.

I’m going to open a fresh jar of Biscoff Cookie Butter. And since its made from cookies, its much better than actual cookies. Just imagine delicious spreadable cookies.

^^I love that stuff.

Heaven! I found macadamia nut shortbread made with butter! Perfect!

@Hawaii_Jake

Is it regularly available in your neck of the woods?

^^Yes

COOKIE DAY!!
Please, for the love of God, don’t get me started! Too late. Did anyone notice that for a brief time Costco had these $10
boxes of Tate’s chocolate chip cookies?

Thanks for the hugs, bites, nibbles, and licks. I had to lay down for a bit.

Get up you bum! Get back here and suffer with the rest of us.

@cookieman Not to jump on the bandwagon late (I’ve always loved you!), but I wouldn’t mind a piece of that too!

Ahh, if only I could clone myself. In a batch maybe. Say, a dozen.

@cookieman you’d better find a way or run or else all of you will be in my stomach!

Cookiemen rollin’ all over de place!

Turn yourself in now. Nothing is more hopeless than futile ambitions on “hiding the cookies”.