The Mom I Want to Be

National Chocolate Chip Cookie Day celebrates and enjoys sweet, tasty chocolate chips. Chocolate chips are a great invention, and certainly deserve a little recognition. After all, where would chocolate chip cookies, cakes and muffins be without the chocolate chip!? Chocolate chips are popular in cooking and baking, for a wide variety of breads, cakes, and cookies. There is an almost endless number of recipes. They are also used in decorating. Have you ever had chocolate chip pancakes? How about chocolate chips in trail mix? If you’ve never had these, then you’re leading a sheltered life.  Rare is the leftover chocolate chip. If you don’t use the whole bag, you and/or your kids will likely eat them as a snack before they make it to the storage container. 

 

While there seems to be some discrepancy as to when to celebrate this yummy date – some say August 4th, others say May 15th — I say celebrate on both days, chocolate chip cookies are worth it!  

 

 

2)  Chocolate Cookies with White Chocolate Chips — It’s like a dessert photo negative.

 

3)  Pumpkin-Honey Chocolate Chip Cookies — Who needs to be seasonal?  They’re great!

 

4)  Cool Mint Chocolate Chip Cookies — We <3 Andes Candies

 

5)  Chocolate Chip Mousse Pie — If you can handle a microwave, you have this one in the bag.

 

6)  Liqueur-Laced Chocolate Chip Cookies — Cut us off.

 

7)  Hazelnut Chocolate Chip Cookies — Sweet, sweet Nutella.

 

8)  Peanut Butter and Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies — PB & OCCC.  Perfect Match.

 

9)  Chocolate Chip Cookie and Cream Tart — If you want to take this holiday to the next level…

 

10)  Homemade Mint Chocolate Ice Cream — Fine.  It’s not a cookie but goes so well between two…

 

11) Rainbow Chocolate Chip Pizza — The word “pizza” makes it sound healthy.

 

12)  4-Ingredient Chocolate Chip Wontons — Bet you didn’t see that coming.

 

Seeking Bacon Chocolate Chip Cookies?

 

Make the Old School Chocolate Chip Recipe and affix bacon on top via your favorite frosting or glaze.

 

Provide a worksheet with C’s for tracing across the top.  Provide a rectangle of aluminum foil to fit below the C line, 6 white circles cut from construction paper, markers and a glue stick.  Have your child glue down the foil as a cookie sheet, decorate the cookies and then attach them to the foil.

 

 

Stuffed Sewn Cookie Pillow

 

These directions are for a chocolate chip cookie about the size a child could share with their teddy bear.  However, once your child is comfortable sewing and wants a bigger project, you can repeat this project with a larger felt circle to make a chocolate chip pillow for your child’s bed.

 

Two 5″ square pieces of tan felt

Polyester Fiberfill (stuffing)

Needle & thread

2 Safety pins

One of the following in either dark brown or black: fabric paint in squeeze bottle, permanent marker or holes punched out of felt

 

Cut out two 4″ circles from the tan felt and pin them together with the safety pins. Using the overcast stitch* sew around the edge of the circle leaving an opening for stuffing. Stuff your cookie then sew the opening closed. Now make your chocolate chips on the cookie by either drawing them with the permanent marker or fabric paint or by using a hole punch to punch circles out of dark brown or black felt and glue them on the cookie.

 

 

Read “If you give a mouse a cookie” and do some crafts to extend the reading.