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Lady Wynwood’s Spies, Volume 7 annotated edition

Earlier I had posted that you can now buy Lady Wynwood’s Spies, Volume 7: Spinster  on my website. But I forgot to mention that for a limited time, if you buy the eBook  or the paperback , you’ll also get the annotated edition eBook with Easter Eggs, behind-the-scenes tidbits, research notes, and random author commentary FREE. Once the book goes into Kindle Unlimited, I can no longer offer the annotated version on my website, so be sure to get it now before the book goes up on Amazon. 10% off coupon code for ALL BOOKS I finally got all the Lady Wynwood’s Spies regular paperbacks in my store, and if you use the coupon code website10 , you can get 10% off all the eBooks and paperback books in my shop! NOTE: If you’re waiting for the Special Edition paperbacks, those will be available in my Kickstarter  later this month. Get 10% off https://camilleelliot.com/shop/
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Chocolate chip cookies with Captain Caffeine

Captain's Log, Supplemental

I suck at baking. No joke. Something always burns—either me or whatever I’m baking.

My husband, however, is great at baking. Probably because he’s more careful than I am. LOL

We also tend to buy too much of any ingredient we need. As a result, we bought several bags of chocolate chips when we only needed one bag because the chips were on sale.

Oh, shucks.

Captain Caffeine made chocolate chip cookies to help use up the many, many—MANY—bags of chocolate chips we’ve got in the pantry.

For scooping out the cookie dough, Captain Caffeine uses an ice cream scoop—much thanks to Alton Brown from Good Eats on the Food Network for this tip. According to the Captain, that ice cream scoop is worth it's weight in gold.

Uniform, perfectly baked cookies! Captain is quite a good baker, unlike his wife.

Snickers, naturally, hoping Daddy will magically drop a cookie just for her. Never mind it's so hot it would scald her mouth.

Captain Caffeine in action.

There is so much butter in these cookies, can you see the sheen of grease on the baking stone?
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Anonymous said…
Yum! Those look so good that they're making my stomach growl! Guess that means it's time for some breakfast.
I'm not much of a cookie baker either, but I did recently post a recipe on my blog for Pumpkin Chip Cookies~ they are fantastic!
Hey, we have the same kitchen floor, only my diamond shapes are a pinkish color! LOL
Have a good weekend~ eating all those cookies!
Fri Oct 26, 05:29:00 AM 2007
Kaye Dacus said…
May I have a cookie . . . PLEEEZZZZZEEEEE? I {heart} chocolate chip cookies.
Fri Oct 26, 06:26:00 AM 2007
Shelley L. MacKenzie said…
Mmmmmm....chocolate chip cookies! I would love some home made chocolate chip cookies right about now. Too bad they don't use ovens in South Korea...or rarely use them.
Fri Oct 26, 06:27:00 AM 2007
april penny said…
I have a sudden craving for chocolate chip cookies. How odd...
Fri Oct 26, 08:53:00 AM 2007
Rachel Leigh Smith said…
How funny! I'm making chocolate chip cookies this afternoon to take to my chapter meeting tomorrow. They'll be baked on a stone and scooped with the Medium Pampered Chef scoop! I don't know how I ever managed to make cookies without stones and scoops.
Fri Oct 26, 10:34:00 AM 2007
Stacey said…
Oooooh, they look yummy... I am so hungry! Does the baking stone really work better than a cookie sheet?
Fri Oct 26, 11:06:00 AM 2007
Crystal Laine said…
Awesome! I love my Pampered Chef baking stones and have darkened mine to a wonderful patina--I like baking. I have the best honey cookie recipe if you're interested...

I love it that whatever you and the Captain are doing that you put up pictures. It is almost like a soap opera that I tune in to watch I(if I watched soaps--you and the Captain are much more interesting, if you ask me.)
Fri Oct 26, 03:18:00 PM 2007
Anonymous said…
Yum. Can I come over? Jeff's the cookie maker in this family.
Fri Oct 26, 07:14:00 PM 2007
Christina Tarabochia said…
Rachel and Crystal, I noticed the Pampered Chef cookware/accessory immediately, too! :-) The best of the best, and I've never been a salesperson for them.

The scoop does make all the difference in the cookies being perfectly baked. I also love the result of spliting the amount of butter the recipe calls for into half margarine (cubed) and half shortening. (Make sure to add the teaspoons of water the shortening suggests for the substitution.) The texture with that mixture is divine.

My son just "outgrew" his gluten intolerance/allergy so we'll be breaking out the chocolate chip cookies tomorrow!
Fri Oct 26, 11:17:00 PM 2007
Dineen A. Miller said…
As one who got to sample a couple of those cookies, Captain Caffeine is an impressive baker. Those cookies are yuuuuuuuumy.

Have to try Christina's suggestions. Just hope I can remember. Cool on the scoop! Gonna have to try that too.
Mon Oct 29, 10:16:00 PM 2007
Irene said…
I love your cookies! And a Captain is handy, surely enough!
Tue Oct 30, 02:37:00 AM 2007
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