cookie thief

the kitchen in my house growing up was always busy during the holiday season.

during december, my mom was a baking fool.

i don't think there is anything she cannot bake...

and it all tastes amazing!

i can remember our living room table during christmas time vividly.

it was a large, dark, wood table.

but during the holiday's, you could barely see the table at all.

my mom had that table covered with cookies, pies, lemon bars, 

and basically every treat you could dream of...

but there was one treat in particular that i dreamed of.

chocolate chip mint puffs.

{excuse me while a drool a little}

of a whole table covered in sweets, 

those were the cookies i would stealthily sneak into the living room to gobble up.

i couldn't ever get enough of them.

they are christmas to me.

and they are delicious!

now i just need to figure out how to make them, because i tried...and let's just say it wasn't pretty.
ugh.

sure, they look ok from the pictures...but after telling my mom what they tasted like,
and more specifically the texture they were,
there was a list of things that i need to do differently next time.
did that stop me from eating about 10 of these babies in one sitting?
nope.