The (weirdest) BEST cookies ever!

What a fun weekend it’s been! We had a great time with my parents yesterday. They treated us to lunch at Ruby Tuesday (I love the new style they have going, plus they have the best salad bar ever, and really good flavored lemonades/ teas. Try the blackberry lemonade…so good and it’s such a beautiful beverage too!). Then we got to show them around to hubby’s school, the lake we frequent for exercise and picnics, and of course, our lovely apartment. So much fun!

My mom and I also had fun playing around in my little kitchen yesterday too. I stumbled upon this recipe at the Clumbsy Cookie blog earlier in the week. Don’t those cookies look divine? What y’all need to know is that my mom has been on a quest to find the *perfect* chocolate chip cookie to meet all my dad’s criteria – soft, yummy, not too cake-like, puffy/ no thin cookies, chocolatey, etc. She has tried dozens of recipes but my dad has yet to dub any of them the *perfect* chocolate chip cookie.

I thought these cookies looked like they could be a contender. Except for that one really, really, REALLY weird ingredient: hard boiled egg. Yes, you read that right. I was kind of freaked out when I first saw that, along with hubs, dad, and mom. But because they looked so darn appealing, mom and I decided to try this hard boiled egg in a cookie thing out!

The recipe we tried was this Double Chocolate Hard Boiled Egg Cookie from the Cookie Madness blog. I’m going to go ahead and type out the recipe below, specifically with some changes we made in the directions. (We stuck to everything mostly the same because it was the first time trying it out, and didn’t want to sacrifice the integrity of their cookie creation!)

Ingredients
2/3 c. all purpose flour (I used unbleached)
2 T. natural, unsweetened cocoa powder
4 T. unsalted butter, cold, cut up
dash of salt
1/8 tsp baking soda (I had to approximate, I only have as low as a 1/4 tsp.)
1/4 c. granulated sugar
1 T. light brown sugar (packed)
1/2 a hard boiled egg**
1/4 tsp. pure vanilla extract
1 T. fat free sour cream
1/2 c. chocolate chips (I used my bogo Nestle semi-sweet chocolate chips)

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
2. Combine flour, cocoa, and cold butter until a coarse and mealy texture (you can use a food processor or a pastry cutter, I think all my mom did was just put my Kitchen Aid mixer on the highest speed). Then add salt and baking soda.
3. Break down the 1/2 a hard-boiled egg (this can be done in the food processor. I used my handy coffee-grinder and it worked like a charm).
4. Add the granulated and light brown sugars and the super chopped up hard boiled egg. (Texture should still be mealy).
5. Add the vanilla and sour cream.
6. Stir in your chocolate chips.
7. Divide the dough into 8 medium-small balls of dough and place on a parchment paper/ silicone mat covered cookie sheet.
8. Bake for 16 minutes (we tried taking them out at 12 minutes because they looked done on the outside, but when we cut into one, it still needed a few more minutes).
9. Let cool; enjoy.

**One thing I did differently is that I didn’t hard boil my egg. Mine were technically microwaved egg cookies. All I did was put my egg in a ramekin, break the yoke (you need to so it won’t explode!) and put it on for 30 seconds at power 5. At this point the white of the egg was done, so we took that out, and put the yoke back in another 30 seconds on power 5. We then just took half of the yoke and half of the white and processed them into super tiny bits in my coffee grinder. {The other things we did differently was that we didn’t use a food processor and we made 8 cookies instead of 2 ginormous cookies like the original recipe intended).

Review: ABSOLUTELY AMAZING!!! Here are a few pictures that my mom took from our baking time together:

You can definitely see the sketchy looking hard boiled egg in there!
My gorgeous momma and I taking a baking break to pose for a picture.
Still determined, although feeling awkward that we can see tiny specks of egg in the dough…
Cookies going in…
Cookies coming out!
The “inside scoop” of the cookie.

Like I said, these were surprisingly incredibly fantastic. I still have 1/2 a hard boiled egg, so later this week I’ll try making the actual chocolate chip cookie with this method. Really hoping this works! It’s really pretty easy to make too! After I make the chocolate chip variation, I really would like to experiment with healthing this little cookie up a bit. Adding some flaxseed, elimating some butter, etc. I’ll let you know what I come up with!

As far as the rest of the weekend, it was fun. Our kind of fun. Hubs and I have decided that we think we are boring. Didn’t even make it to having kids before we became a boring old couple! But we did hit up Tijuana Flats for lunch today with our friends Tressie and Jonathan, and then hubs and I walked a 4.5 miler around Lake Wales. (Saw a bunch of kids out learning how to sail kid-size sailboats AND saw a wedding on a gazebo over the lake. Wish I had my camera with me!) And now we’re just being boring again. He’s lesson planning, I’m blogging, and will soon be studying nutrition.

Comment suggestion: Any body have ideas for cheap (preferably FREE) fun? I feel like it’s so hard to think of ways to get out that are cheap/ free (and no, I do not consider going to the movies cheap. We paid less for lunch today!). We’d much appreciate suggestions, we don’t like being boring!!!

Hope everyone gets a great night’s rest before the start of a new week!

Love,
LC