Chewy Coconut Cookies

These are my husband's new favorite cookie. I believe he even pulled the divorce card if I ever stopped making them. How they came about? I just ask him what kind I cookie I should make and he replied, "something coconut". So I searched All Recipes for recipes and found one that I had all the ingredients for, a few tweaks, a couple of batches and I have perfected the recipe! Original recipe can be found here.

My assistant checking the recipe

To be honest, I never measure the coconut.  I just dump a bunch in!

If you stagger the cookies they won't run into each other. 

My other lovely assistant. 

Chewy Coconut Cookies

Original recipe can be found here.

1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 cup of butter (softened)
1/2 cup packed brown sugar
1/2 cup white sugar
1 egg
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 3/4 cups shredded coconut

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 350 F. Mix the flour and baking soda together, set aside.

2. In another bowl mix together brown and white sugars, then add melted butter until you have a smooth mixture. Beat in the egg and vanilla until you have a nice fluffy mixture. Add the flour mixture gradually then the coconut. Drop by spoonfuls (I used 1 tablespoon cookie scoop) on an ungreased cookie sheet a few inches apart.

3. Bake for 9-11 minutes. I bake some of mine a bit longer to get some with a golden brown coconutty crust. Yum! Remove from cookie sheets to cooling rack. Cool. Eat. Enjoy.

Clearly, this baking stuff is exhausting. 

Halloween Sensory Box

Hi all!!! I know, it's been forever. Well that's what you get when you have a baby and move in the same month. Then it's taken two more months to get any kind of rhythm down in our life. So, blogger fail. Wife/mom win.  But I've had a lot of great blog ideas while I was away. So YAY!! GET PUMPED!!

It's almost Halloween.  My husbands (and me too) favorite holiday.  Also, our anniversary....five ridiculous years if you were wondering....scary, I know.  Anywho, I wanted to do something fun. He doesn't really grasp the concept of the holiday yet, it's all CANDY!!! Oh well, next year. Till then we'll just play.

So here's what I did. I took a plain old plastic storage container (get one with a locking lid) and filled it with black beans and blank eyed peas. I then filled it with Halloween theme items I got at Target, the local dollar store, and some stuff I just had around the house!

Beans and Peas

He helped pour the bags in

And mix them all together. 

I gave him his scoops. Then I added a mini plastic pumpkin, 

baking cups, fake spiders and bugs, Halloween finger puppets, 

and a pumpkin glow ring. Then I just let him go nuts. 

He had fun scooping the beans and
 pouring them into the little pumpkin

Elbows deep!

'Counting' the beans

I guess the ghost finger puppet

needed to see his new molars.

Juice break...

Happy Halloween!!!

Pop the lid on when you're done.
And it's ready to go for next time.