Chocolate Wafer Cookies

If you ate some of the chocolate cookies Todd took to the office on Monday you may want to look away. This is the baby "helping." We started by mixing dry ingredients in a bowl: 1 cup flour, 1/2 cup plus 1 tablespoon cocoa powder, and 1/4 teaspoon each baking soda and salt. This picture is him tasting that mixture. He would put the spoonful in his mouth, make a horrible face, then go back to it.

Then we beat 6 tablespoons room-temperature butter, then mixed in 1/2 cup brown sugar, 1/2 cup plus 2 tablespoons white sugar and 1 teaspoon vanilla. Mixed in 3 tablespoons milk, then the flour mixture. Now that was the goods. The boy got ahold of that dough-covered beater and would not let it go. I rolled the dough into a log, wrapped it in wax paper, stuck it in the fridge, then hauled him off to the laundry room to strip him down and throw his cocoa-covered clothes in.

I've been slicing and baking off a few at a time since. 350 degrees for about 11 minutes. Cookies fresh from the oven - yum.