

Please share your fun ideas for welcoming new neighbors in the comments. Last summer when ... coincidentally ... we welcomed a different family into that same house, I posted about the muffins I brought and Barbara left some superb ideas in the comments! In this new case, the family has lived in our town longer than us, so I don't have too much advice for them! :-)
Chocolate chip cookie recipe:
I believe this recipe came a van Houten bag of chocolate chips a LONG time ago ...
makes ~5 dozen; oven 375.
Ingredients:
1 cup softened butter
1 cup granulated sugar
1/2 cup brown sugar
2 eggs
2 tsp vanilla
2 1/3 cups unsifted flour (I now use whole wheat flour - as if that's a "healthy" choice with all that sugah! - which does seem to make the cookies flatten more)
1 tsp salt
1 tsp baking soda
12 oz. pkg semi-sweet or dark chocolate chips
1 cup walnuts (optional)
Cream together: butter, sugars, eggs & vanilla 'til fluffy. (personally, I think the people who don't do this and just mix everything at once {KM!} get the super flat cookies ... But I'd eat them either way!)
In a separate bowl combine dry stuff: flour, salt & soda.
Stir into creamed mixture.
Stir in chips (and nuts if desired.)
Drop from teaspoon 2 inches apart onto ungreased cookie sheet.
Bake for 10 minutes. (I do about 8, depending on my oven as we prefer them super soft and ooey gooey!!)
Fill a glass with cold milk & dig in!
12 comments:
What a cute way to wrap a gift of cookies! A great thing for a neighbor to do.
Thanks so much for stopping by today... and for making me hungry!!!
Audra
oooh, I can almost smell those through the screen. yummo! Stopping by from SITS
What a lovely idea! And what a lovely gesture. I still don't know some of my neighbors so I probably shouldn't be handing out advice, haha.
how sweet and thoughtful.
They look so ooey gooey I am drooling here!!
YUM! I love the idea of a parchment envelope!
Those look so yummy! And that's such a lovely way to welcome a new neighbor. I'll have to keep it in mind.
Thanks again for inspiring me! We have new next-door neighbors who should be moving in shortly!
Just wanted to say the same...a great idea...and such cute wrapping!
Ooooooh yum yum I want those cookies - I think I might make some today.
Laura dropping in from SITS
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Beautiful blog, I love it. Happy Sharefest Saturday! It's still Saturday, right? :)
A new neighbor just moved in this week and my 8 year old is begging to go over and bring them some goodies. I am totally stealing this idea!!!
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