Adultness

Jake and I are having dinner with a friend of his and his wife tonight and it feels a little strange to me because it doesn't feel like we're at that point in our lives, the point where we get together with other couples and have dinner together. It's a strange feeling.

After my mom mentioned that I make good desserts, it was decided that I would make something to bring over tonight. I figured that cookies are pretty safe, since I know that they turn out well about 99% of the time. Jake's friend suggested cheesecake, but since I've never made one of those myself, I decided not to attempt it for dinner this time.

I made some peanut butter cookies first, with about 2 dozen of them being just plain and the rest (probably at least another 3 dozen) having Peanut Butter M&Ms in it. They turned out amazingly! I took around 2 dozen or so over to Jake's house yesterday evening and I think about 1/2 the bag was gone in about 15-20 minutes. Granted, there were about 6-7 people there, but still, that's pretty fast!

Secondly, I mixed up a batch of chocolate chip cookies. The recipe that we have is for a double batch, and I doubled that, so I ended up with a quadruple batch of cookie dough and only 1 bag of chocolate chips (*crap*), so they weren't as chocolate-chip-y as they were supposed to be, but still pretty dang good.

Most of my afternoon was dedicated to cookies and it seemed like the chocolate chip cookies would never be finished! I managed not to burn anything and there were quite a bit of cookies left over after I'd taken out what I needed for dinner tonight, so I left about 6-7 dozen at home, took around 4-5 dozen to Jake's, and set aside 2 dozen to bring in to work today (which I forgot to do). It was a baking frenzy yesterday.