Guess who is the host for Sweet Melissa Sundays this week? Melissa Murphy. Yeah, that's right! THE Melissa Murphy! How cool is that? The recipe for the week is Chocolate Chip Cookies with Toasted Almonds.
This recipe was actually the perfect choice for me this week. One, it wasn't too involved. Two, I was planning on making chocolate chip cookies anyway.
Nathan and I aren't fans of nuts in our CCCs, so I did half of the batch with almonds and half without. I preferred the ones without almonds, but no worries... The ones with the almonds were eaten just as quickly! For me, it is pretty hard to screw up a chocolate chip cookie. There is something about them that is just comforting and delicious, with or without nuts!
I did use a few of them to make Peanut Butter S'Mores (the original reason I was going to make CCCs) and they were fantastic, too. I guess no matter how you choose to make/use this recipe, it is GOOD!
Thanks to Melissa Murphy for not only hosting this week, but for creating such a wonderful cookbook! Head over to the SMS page for Melissa's write-up!
Your cookies turned out great! Of all nuts, almonds are some of the very few I can eat, so I took advantage of it in this recipe (most CCC recipe include walnuts so yay!).
ReplyDeletedelicious looking cookies!
ReplyDeleteWow, those s'mores look amazing, what a wonderfully decadent treat! And I still have lots of cookies left, how tempting!
ReplyDeleteLooks great! I love the ribbon around the cookies in the first pic. :o)
ReplyDeletechocolate chips are my favorite cookie. I dont think I would have ever thought to put almonds in them. YUM
ReplyDeleteYour cookies look wonderful. I think I would have preferred mine without nuts, but they were still really yummy!
ReplyDeleteI'd eat em! With nuts or without! LOL.
ReplyDeleteOh my the last picture made me drool! Your cookies look so good. I thought this recipe was a nice change with the almonds. I just shared some with my friends and her husband could quit eating them!
ReplyDeleteThat first photo is very sweet! These cookies look and sound so yummy, I think I need to make them now!
ReplyDeleteOh my - please send a s'more to me right away. Fedex can have it here by morning. :)
ReplyDeleteHard to beat a chocolate chip cookie. Yours look great (I prefer them w/o nuts as well).
ReplyDeleteThe cookies look great, but then you had to make PB S'mores with them! I want to eat the screen!!!
ReplyDeleteWow- those s'mores look lethal!
ReplyDeleteChocolate Chip Cookies + PM S'Mores! What an awesome combo!
ReplyDeleteMmmm, these look so good. I love the s'mores!
ReplyDeleteThose peanut butter smores look amazing!
ReplyDeleteLove your photos this week! The ribbon around the cookies and the s'mores look so wonderful! I really enjoyed these cookies - definitely a new favorite!
ReplyDeleteYum, peanut butter s'mores! I want one!
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Hi Christine!
ReplyDeleteWow, your cookies look amazing... I love both pictures, the one with the tied ribbon is adorable, and that peanut butter s'more- holy cow, I have no words! Decadent doesn't begin to describe!
Hope you have a chance to stop by my site and check out my cookies, too! Can't wait to talk to you again after next weekend's SMS recipe post!
-Joy