and all the preggy ladies say yay!

no, this isn't a cute way of telling you i'm pregnant again.  

a good blogger doesn't write an entire post (a novel like post, at that) about a recipe she found on a food blog.   but lets be real... as a mother to a 5 month old and a 21 month old, you better take what you get. 

and much to my husband's sadness, i haven't gone julia child on you.  i know with two recipe posts in two weeks i totally had you fooled.  what i'm going to tell you about is in honor of all the preggy ladies out there.  girls, i know how hard it is to go 9 months without consuming raw cookie dough.  wait, do i really need to use the word raw there?  if it's dough then it's clearly raw.  ahem.  so, yeah, it's hard going 9 months without cookie dough.  so hard that with my 1st babe i couldn't do it.  i did sneak a few bites of dough.  and then felt like i would be dead by the morning or arrested by the FDA.  much to my surprise, neither happened.  although, now my son has a severe severe SEVERE egg allergy to which i feel responsible.  dang eggs, why do you have to be in almost every baked or unbaked good?! 

well, i have news for you.  cookies don't need eggs.  so there.  thanks to my new friend, joy i've been made aware of this.  okay, she doesn't know i exist so maybe i can't be qualified as her friend.  but she's like the popular girl that everyone wants to know and be.  so i'm telling you that she's my friend so you'll think i'm cool too.  she is brilliant and came up with a piece of pure divinity... frozen chocolate chip cookie dough balls dipped in chocolate.  have you died and gone to heaven yet???  with one bite, you will.  

wait, do you hear that? It's a choir of pregnant women uniting with one voice proclaiming hallelujah and r.i.p. to no cookie dough for 9 months.

before getting to the recipe, i have a few matters of book-keeping to attend to.  to further my case and emphasize the point that i'm so not going julia child on you, let me remind you that it is quite important to make sure you have all the ingredients necessary before you start a recipe.  i know, i know, you're thinking, duh.  of course.  you learned that in kitchen 101.  well, i didn't take kitchen 101.  as a consequence of this reality, after creaming my butter and sugar i noticed i was fresh out of vanilla and also out of my "go to" vanilla substitute (maple syrup).  instead i used water.  which, i'm pretty sure if i had taken the previously mentioned class i would've known better.  soon after, i realized i did not have  the necessary1/2 cup of peanut butter.  i really only had 1/4 cup.  but there was no turning back now.  i continued on with my lacking peanut butter and figured it would somehow still taste good.  and guess what?  it did.  lucky us.  but, the good news is, i know it will taste exceptionally good if made with all of the ingredients in their proper amounts.

another matter of book-keeping - i was really excited about this recipe because i wanted hunter (my egg allergy boy) to get his first taste of chocolate chip cookies.  it was going to be monumental.  well, it would've been a better experience if the dough wasn't rock hard frozen.  just saying.  

and now i'm going to quit babbling lest you think that i'm not only a bad blogger, but also a bad baker, and mother.  

but seriously, if you want to be tempted with every post, go visit  joy the baker.  (thanks manda, for introducing me to joy.  i owe all my extra calories to you.)  and now i must go work out.  

mine don't look as good as joy's...

but she doesn't have a cute sous chef like i do. : )

chocolate chip cookie dough balls, by joy the baker

(makes 9 large balls)

1 stick (1/2 cup or 4 ounces) unsalted butter at room temperature

1 cup plus 2 Tablespoons all purpose flour

1/2 teaspoon baking soda (i know we’re not baking them, it’s for flavor)

3/4 teaspoons salt

1/2 cup brown sugar

1/3 cup granulated sugar

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

1/3 cup Greek yogurt or applesauce or peanut butter

1 cup semi sweet chocolate chips

1/2 cup chopped walnuts (optional)

1 1/2 cups semi sweet chocolate chips, melted for dipping.  click for directions.

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