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This year I would like to share more about some of the recipes that I try out at home. One of my favorite categories of books to read is cookbooks. This may be strange to some, but I enjoy reading the little blurbs explaining how a recipe came about and what makes it special. Although I often feel inspired to make new recipes, only rarely do I make the effort to gather ingredients and bookmark recipes for later use.
I had Life Is What You Bake It: Recipes, Stories, and Inspiration to Bake Your Way to the Top on my library holds list for a while. When it was finally my turn to check it out, I knew I wanted to try Vallery Lomas’ recipe for Olive Oil Chocolate Chunk Cookies. Since I already had all of the ingredients in my pantry, whipping up a batch was no trouble at all.
I even had Maldon salt that I had ordered from Amazon already on hand. Flaky sea salt is listed as an optional ingredient, but it really adds a nice textural crunch and flavor. (This salt cellar is from the Hearth & Hand with Magnolia collection from Target, which we received as a gift).
Aren’t those flakes of salt so pretty? Rolling the dough into balls as instructed in the recipe also resulted in perfectly shaped, round cookies. This recipe is a keeper!