Relief!
I spoke to my supervisor for my Media Project at uni today, and she has said that this blog (along with other documentation which I won’t go into here) will qualify as my project?
You know what this means, right?
It means I can say that cooking is my STUDY! HAH! I may never make it to Le Cordon Bleu (AUD $7000 for a beginner’s pastry course? In my dreams!), so I’ll take what I can get 
In celebration, there was more baking to be had tonight, albeit a quick and easy recipe as I’m a bit wiped…these cookies are crisp, crunchy, and very much for a person with a bit of a sweet tooth.
By the way, if you’re reading this, HI LISA 
Honey & Macadamia Cookies
(warning - these are decadant, and equally as dangerous for the waistline!)
Ingredients
125g melted butter
2 tbsp honey
55g caster sugar
1 heaped tsp bicarb soda
50g cup shredded coconut (not dessicated, you need the texture of shredded)
185g plain flour
35g finely chopped unsalted macadamias
Demerara or Coffee sugar (they’re both large grained sugars, I prefer the flavour of demerara, but the coffee sugar crystals look a lot more impressive!)
1. Preheat oven to 180 degrees C.
2. Beat melted butter, honey, caster sugar and bicarb soda till smooth. Stir in sifted flour, coconut and macadamia nuts.
3. Roll rounded teaspoons of mixture into balls, press one side into the sugar granules then place the rounds 4cm apart on a lined baking tray, flattening them slightly.
4. Bake for about 10 minutes, or till they have lightly browned on top. Remove tray from the oven and stand for about 5 minutes before lifting them onto wire racks to cool.
This quantity will make about 20-25 deliciously decadant, crisp and crunchy cookies.
And what was my kitchen-hand doing whilst I was making these golden lovelies?
“Maybe if I look pretty, I’ll get some cookie dough?”
“Pretty please?”
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Ellie He stole one!!! I came to post photos and this entry, did that and started doing my nightly check of the food-bloggers (floggers?) when I heard scuffling in the kitchen…
Now, in Mr. Woofy’s lifetime, he has devoured almost an entire chocolate cake, an entire batch of almond slices, as well as many of my lunches and dinners when I’ve left them too close to his mouth.
I get into the kitchen to catch Mr. Woofy with a cookie in his mouth and a deer-in-the-headlights look, and he busily wolfed it down so I couldn’t take it off him!
I am TOTALLY getting scholastic credit for my culinary adventures! It’s for a subject as part of my media and communications degree, called media project, where you set yourself a (approved) project related to some form of media! Woo!
You should totally try this cookie - the smell from the honey as they bake is drool-worthy!
Lisa He’s a smart boy, that Mr. Woofy! Although mine do not steal from plates or counters.. they do stand directly beneath me when I’m cooking or chopping veggies on the butcher block. If I happen to drop something, Nigel is usually first at it (he’s so much closer to the ground than Chloe) and he’ll run off with it and stare at me.. just staring.. if I make a move towards him he’ll open his mouth a little wider, and the food will disappear instantly. Lil shit. But, if it’s something he really should not have and I yell “DROP IT!” he’ll stop mid stride, drop it from his mouth and then go run and hide under my bed for a minute. teeeee heeeee! Again.. lil shit. 
Ellie LOL! I thought Nigel had a cheeky shine about those big beautiful eyes!
Mr. Woofs is the same…well, actually, as soon as he hears the fridge door, the rustle of plastic or smells anything cooking, he just ‘appears’ at your foot and starts drooling.
Oh god, the drool *sobs* I need to make time to mop the house, there are dried puddles of dog drool all over the kitchen and dining room floors (thank gawd for floorboards!)
Lisa hahahaaa!! My friend, Kim, has an English Bulldog and she also deals with the doggie drool! It’s so funny to go see him.. his whole body shakes, he makes these weird noises and the drool just runs outta him in buckets. He’s so incredibly ugly that he’s so incredibly cute at the same time! I lurve him
I would sooooooo be rollin on the kitchen floor right along with Mr. Woofy for one of those crispedy, crunchedy lil snackers!
So what you are saying is that.. you are getting scholastic credit for all of your culinary adventures in the kitchen?? Where the hell can I sign up for this class?
Annddd… I’ll have you know.. I don’t have a sweet tooth (HI ELLIE!!) I have 32 of them.