I don’t know where you’re sitting right now, but I’m in the D.C. area, and we are currently under a blizzard warning. This, of course, comes after the 2-3 feet of snow that got dumped on us over the weekend. Suffice it to say, I’ve become intimately acquainted with my home over the past several days.
So what do you do when you have two people off of work and a toddler in the house? You certainly don’t clean, as the state of my living room will attest. Instead, you eat, pray for the baby’s naptime, and eat some more. I’ve used this time to make my vegetable muffaletta, as well as some to-die-for spicy molasses cookies.
My friend Lauren over at Baking, Books and Booze, posted this molasses cookie recipe after the last time she got hit with a snow dump. I had never had them before, and honestly molasses cookies didn’t sound terribly appealing to me, but I had all of the ingredients and clearly nothing better to do, so I went for it.
I basically followed the recipe she posted, except, like her, I kind of kicked up all of the spices a little bit. Plus, I added my new favorite thing for desserts: Chipotle peppers. The funny thing is, is that I always forget how large the holes are in the chipotle peppers bottle, so I kind of dumped more in there than I was planning.
However, the cookies turned out awesome. It’s like cookies and candy got married and made hot, fiery love. These guys are definitely spicy, but are so good that even my 16-month-old doesn’t care about the burning, and has been known to snatch these right out of my hand as I’m eating.
They’re super quick and easy to make (they only bake for 10 minutes), and are so worth the mild effort put into them. So whether you’re stuck in the snow, or just know the value of a good cookie, you should definitely give these bad boys a shot.
Clacked by Kona Gallagher 
on Feb 10, 2010 @ 12:40 EST5EDT
