A Perfect Eclipse Recipe

 Recently, I've been baking. 

A lot.

It's a great way to connect with people, it's a way to pass the time that's not completely without effort, and it makes my house. Smell. DI-vine. 

Two recipes in particular have stood out: my grandmother's chocolate sauce recipe, and a new sugar-cookie recipe that utilizes it for half the dough. It's a combination that I'm calling: Moon Cookies.

Da-da-da-daa! Moon cookies.

So, what's the recipe? How does it work? Why do they look so gloriously like little moons? I don't have the answer to the last question, but I do for the first two.

You will need: 

• Your sugar cookie recipe of choice. I've provided my favorite below.
• Your chocolate sauce of choice. I'm not posting my grandmother's recipe, but it's a halfway point between a chocolate syrup and a chocolate gravy.
• The usual bits of kitchen accouterments. 

Ingredients:

• 2.75 cups flour
• 1 tsp baking soda
• .5 tsp baking powder
• 1 cup butter, softened
• 1.5 cup white sugar
• 1 egg
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• A couple pinches of salt
• 1.5 tbs chocolate sauce

You'll want your oven at 375ºF, baking for about 10 minutes. The dough will likely be wetter than usual for a sugar cookie.

1. Combine your dry ingredients together (not the salt). Set to the side.
2. Cream together your butter and sugar. I usually let my butter soften by leaving it out for a day or two...unless I don't plan ahead, at which point I use a microwave.
3. Add in the egg and vanilla. Mix well. When all mixed, add in your dry ingredient mixture. Note: Make sure you have added a good amount of salt as well. The chocolate sauce will add a lot of extra sweet for you to balance out.
4. When your dough is well mixed, cut the dough in half. Put half off to the side, and the other half back in the mixing bowl.
5. Mix in your chocolate sauce with the half dough in the bowl.
6. Normally, you would want to make balls of dough around the size of a walnut (about what you get from spooning out some dough). Take an amount roughly half of that from both sets of dough, and lightly roll them together in your hand. Your goal is to combine them together with the warmth of your hand, not mix them together.
7. Bake until done (about ten minutes), let sit for a minute or two, and enjoy.

With the upcoming eclipse, these cookies should be perfect for any and all moon parties. Enjoy.

This has been an adventure of the austentatious! If you liked it, tell your friends. If you hated it, tell your enemies. And if you don't care either way, then tell everyone.