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Cookies

When you were a kid, chances are your mom had warm chocolate chip cookies waiting for you after school on more than one occasion. And nothing's better than warm chocolate chip cookies with a glass of cold milk. But there are a lot of other cookies besides chocolate chip cookies, and you probably have memories associated with different kinds.

Memories of Baking Cookies

Most women have fond memories of baking cookies with their mothers when growing up. It was always fun, but the reasons for the fun change. When you're really, really little, the big deal was that you got to help at all. Usually that meant that you poured some of the ingredients into the bowl. Your mom probably started you out on something simple that you couldn't possibly mess up, like pouring the sugar in or adding the chocolate chips. When you were older, she taught you how to crack the egg so that none of the eggshell got in the cookie batter. Of course, the best part of baking cookies is licking the beaters, scraping the bowl for the last bit of dough or even eating the raw cookie dough! (Somehow that's when your little brother shows up to "help.")

There are other reasons that baking cookies is fun. It's fun to make sugar cookies because you get to use the cookie cutters to make cool shapes. Then when they're done baking, you get to decorate them. And it's fun to make peanut butter cookies because they are easy to make and it's fun to dip the fork in the sugar and make criss-crosses on each cookie before they go into the oven. Snickerdoodles are fun because of the name and because they are tasty. (Hey--it doesn't take much to please a child!)

Then there's the tradition of baking Christmas cookies and leaving them for santa with a note. That's a fun tradition to pass on to your kids. It's hard to figure out what tradition is more fun--leaving cookies for santa as a child or watching children leave cookies for santa.

In any case, you probably don't have a bad memory involving cookies!

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