Today, a recipe.

I have been comfort eating for a while now, so I figure if I'm going to do it, I'm going to do it right. Life is too short to eat crappy food.

Ricotta cheese has been a culinary epiphany for me these last few weeks. In the past, i've only thought of ricotta as a filling, but who knew you can eat it full on. It is both sweet and salty with the most enticingly creamy texture. I was salivating in the parking lot of the grocery store thinking about buying it.

I searched recipes on allrecipe.com for ricotta and came across a bunch of cookie recipes, so i decided to give one a try. The recipe i've posted has been halved, so the text doesn't quite match the ingredient amounts, so use common sense if you are going to follow :)

The dough was literally the most perfect tasting cookie dough i have ever had. It was so light and fluffy, i would imagine i ate about two cookies worth of cookie dough while i was mixing it. The consistency was a lot less dense then regular sugar cookie.

I mixed the wet ingredients in my brand new food processor (thanks mom!) because i don't have a mixer, and it worked great! The wet ingredients were the perfect consistency to hand mix the dry ingredients in, thank god.

The recipe called for a frosting, but i didn't have enough powdered sugar to make the full amount, so i decided to toss some sprinkles on a couple of uncooked cookies, and good thing too because mark came home in the middle of my baking session and declared he hates frosting -_-

 The cookies came out of the oven really light colored. So much so that i ended up baking them two minutes longer then the suggested time even though my knife was coming out clean. After the cookies cooled, i was able to see that the bottoms had browned. I wasn't nervous about drying the cookie out because i knew how much moisture the dough had, and i was right!

I must admit, mark was right about the frosting. I only frosted two cookies, and it neither added or detracted from the overall yum experience. Even Maggie wanted in on the action. Of course mark indulged her the second i had my back turned.

All in all, great recipe, great baking session and great cookie. This is definitely something i am going to add to my box of yummy recipes.