Mini Egg Cookies; April 11 2022

I have fantastic news!

If you saw last week’s blog post, you saw that I was raising money on behalf of a friend of mine, a Canadian refugee. Yesterday, we met our goal! I’d like to thank everyone who donated and shared, with special thanks to those who hosted a Twitch stream to spread awareness. I’m deeply touched by everyone’s generosity.

Personal news: I’ve stuck with my poem-a-day thing and finished Day 11 early, but also wrote several others as part of a collection. I compiled them, refined them, and submitted my 16 poems to a contest after getting plenty of feedback! This is huge for me, because I haven’t written much poetry before now. In high school, I used to write angsty song lyrics for fantasy novel ideas that still only existed in my head, but I don’t really count those.

I also participated in #MoodPitch on Twitter and got a couple of requests for my books by publishers, so overall, I’m doing pretty well this week! In celebration, I wound up making cookies with micro-mini eggs, which felt seasonally appropriate.

So, I’m going to do something I’ve never done before on this blog and share my recipe for them, because they were fantastic! It was inspired by this chocolate chip cookie recipe, with some alterations. So, here goes:

MINI EGG COOKIES (made 34 cookies):

1 cup of softened butter

1 cup granulated sugar

1 cup densely packed golden brown sugar

2 tsp of vanilla extract

2 large eggs

3 cups of all-purpose flour

1 tsp baking soda

½ tsp baking powder

1 tsp table salt

2 packages of Cadbury’s Micro Mini Eggs

Preheat oven to 375 degrees F and line your baking sheet with parchment paper. In one bowl, mix together the flour, baking soda, baking powder, and salt; in another, larger bowl, use a hand mixer to cream together the butter and sugars.

Once the sugar and butter is looking fluffy, add the vanilla and mix again; then, add the eggs one at a time, mixing in between.

Fold in the dry ingredients a little bit at a time. Do this part by hand, or with a spatula – the dough will quickly get way too thick if you keep using the mixer. Once it’s formed the dough, add your Micro Mini Eggs!

Roll into generously sized balls (mine were about 2 inches in diameter) and bake for 10 minutes. Give them a moment on the pan, about 2 minutes, before transferring them to a cooling rack. Once they’ve cooled down, enjoy!

And while you’re eating cookies, here’s the next part of a story:

Over the course of minutes, they managed to slow the rise and fall of their chest into something approaching normal, made all the more difficult when they realized: it wasn’t just the danger they’d forgotten. They tried to bring to mind anything about themselves, about where they were, but…

A foggy, disorienting blank stared into their skull amidst the emerging stars.