One of the best things about moving to the City of Blinding Lights is that two of my dearest and oldest friends, who are twins, already live here. Back in high school, we spent countless rainy or chilly afternoons baking in between pencilling out statistics problems or reviewing the AP test reading list. The giant honey out cookies and chocolate bread pudding were legendary, as is the time that Mitt, one sister's cat, stepped in the pizza that was left waiting on the counter as the oven preheated. During our college years, visits back home often involved baking, or at least reminiscing about said chocolate bread pudding.
Today I took the train downtown to the younger twin's apartment, where we pored over recipe books and checked the chocolate chip supply in her cabinets. It wasn't too long before her sister was there, and we were all laughing in happy anticipation of the sweet delights. I couldn't resist a recipe called "Almond-Cornmeal-Cherry Sharing Cookie," and was totally enchanted by the idea of baking one giant cookie that the recipe instructed us to crumble into 15 pieces for sharing among guests.
15 pieces, ha ha ha ha ha! We made swift work of our sharing cookie! And what joy it was to share it.
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