chocolate chip cookies | Living My Full Life

As many readers know, my brother tied the knot on July 27th!

In May, my brother and his then fiance, Racquel, asked me to bake 500 cookies for their wedding. The plan was that I was to bake 500 cookies, and Racquel’s friend was to bake 500 cookies.

Then her friend bailed.

So I baked all of the cookies. And I loved every second of the whole process. It took me a week to bake all of the cookies, so I averaged 1-2 different types per day.

Here’s a list of the cookies:

–Chewy lemon (8.5 dozen)
–Double chocolate (12 dozen)
–Peanut butter, pretzel, and milk chocolate chip (11 dozen)
–Almond butter (7.6 dozen)
–Zucchini cookies (8.5 dozen)
–Mexican wedding (7.5 dozen)
–Chocolate-dipped shortbread (8.2 dozen)
–Glazed orange (5 dozen)
–Chocolate chip (7 dozen)
-Lady locks (I ordered these because they’re hard to make! Sorry I’m not sorry.) (8 dozen)

Some photos:

Lemon cookies

Peanut butter, pretzel, and milk chocolate chip cookies

Almond butter cookies

Zucchini cookies

Mexican wedding cookies… plus a messy kitchen table 😉

Chocolate-dipped shortbread cookies

Glazed orange cookies

Chocolate chip cookies

This is a picture of all 1,004 cookies before I brought them over to Racquel’s house the night before the wedding.

I didn’t take any pictures of the cookies at the reception, but I did visit the cookie table a few times throughout the evening to hear people’s opinions on the cookies (yes, I realize that is very creeper-ish).

The top three cookies that I heard guests rave about most were:

–Double chocolate
–Peanut butter, pretzel, and milk chocolate chip
–Glazed orange

My thoughts on the experience:

-I LOVE BAKING.
–I would do it all again in a heartbeat.
-I’m sad it’s over. Seriously!
-I’m not sad that my freezer now has space for something other than cookies.
-My family and I loved taste testing every single batch of cookies!
-I’m really glad I could help with my brother’s wedding in such a fun way.

Hey.

So, the last time I posted about my “recent eats” was in March. Not acceptable! I became busy during the last month of school and throughout my internship, so photographing food was the last thing on my mind.

Well, I have food photos now. Here are my recent eats!

Pancakes galore.

America on a plate.

Dipping/Snack plate. Gotta love fresh corn!

Taco, kale, mushrooms, and snap peas.

My uncle owns a lot of livestock, and he gave my family some fresh beef, bacon, and pork sausage. So I made bacon-topped meatloaf.

Grilled shrimp. Potato kebabs. Mushroom kebabs. Yum.

I had too much time on my hands on Saturday and I tried to be really artsy with my food.

Fried zucchini. I had to buy this zucchini, but if all goes well, my garden will produce more zucchini than I can handle. What a wonderful problem to have 😉

Lettuce from my garden. Makes me so happy.

Now onto the cookies I’ve been testing out for my brother’s wedding in July…

Peanut butter, pretzel, and milk chocolate chip cookies. YES.

Oatmeal raisin cookies. Can’t go wrong with a classic.

Lemon rings. I made half of the batch into rings and decided they were ugly, so I made half the batch into balls. I just don’t know. I think I might try a better looking lemon cookie recipe. Does anyone have a really good lemon cookie recipe?!

Well, that’s all the foodie pictures I have for now.

This week I get to do more baking because I’m working in the kitchen at my church for Vacation Bible School (also known as VBS) this week. Many of the women who work in the kitchen during VBS are older and “burned out,” so they’re training me to be in charge of the kitchen duties next year. Yikes! Responsibility!