So, I got all excited about making these cookies, measured out the dry ingredients, went to Sur La Table to buy just the right size cookie scoop. It was like Goldie Locks: I have a scoop that was too big and one that was too small. Now, I have one "just right." Get home, mix these bad boys up, place perfectly-sized scoops on the lined cookie sheets and turn on the oven.
Notice the oven wasn't heating up, seemed to be gasping for fuel. Prayers folks and I generally don't pray unless it's really, really important. Who to call to borrow their oven? How to transport the sheets? I tried the oven one more time...Thank god! This was the last batch that oven will ever see. It's being replaced as soon as is possible! Kinda sad because it's made a lot of really great meals and made a lot of folks really happy over its 8 year life.
I found this recipe at one of my new favorite blogs, Confessions of a Cookbook Queen. I have a few of her recipes in the baking queue, so keep an eye out. :) The cookies I made were a version of this recipe for her Homemade Fudge Rounds, hence the name change of my own.
And you wonder, why "Kahlua Man"...well, let's take a quick look...
He looks pretty proud! Got this bottle years and years ago from a good teacher friend, Cheryl. Notice the customs tag as it's from the source: Mexico!
Of course, in keeping with our theme, I made modifications to the recipe for the incorporation of booze, both in the cookie and in the frosting. For the cookies, I added 1 tsp creme de cocoa for part of the vanilla. For the frosting, I substituted 2 Tbsp Kahlua and 2 Tbsp coffee for the water. Next time it'll be ALL Kahlua in that frosting!! I also rolled them in "jimmies" the technical term for those little colored chubs of sugar. Found a new and very, very cool baking supply website.
