I currently allocate a disproportionate amount of my food budget to The Study and Science of Baking Cookies. Assignments Chocolate Chip and Gingerbread (with what I guess I’ll call Regal Frosting: half buttercream, half royal icing) are pictured above.

[Aside  On the top of my list of Things To Buy Once I Have a Legitimate Disposable Income is a proper pastry bag. Until then, my ziploc-with-a-hole-in-it method will do. Anyways, the gingerbread looked fine and the guys absolutely demolished them. There is no higher compliment.]

Postscript. Keep up with my Instagram for a more complete chronicle of my baking adventures. I’m a millennial: you can’t expect me to use just ONE social media platform to share the mundanities of my life.