sharing the batter beater...

When I finished a final exam and research paper the other day, I decided to celebrate by baking cookies. I pulled out my favorite cookie recipe, and I started to mix the awe-inspiring array of scrumptiousness: butter, brown sugar, cinnamon, vanilla, coconut, toffee...

and as if they weren't decadent enough already, I added a cup of semi-sweet chocolate morsels.

When the time came to lick the beater, I didn't want to be selfish. So I shared with my sous chef:

I know cookie batter is arguably much worse for dogs than for young ladies like myself...

But Khan looked at the beater, then at me, longingly, as if to say,

"Aw, come on. A Boykin Spaniel only lives once!"

He seems to have emerged from the incident just fine... although later I found that he had knocked about 6 of the cooling cookies from the counter and gobbled them up. So, if he had suffered any cookie batter injuries, I think it would have been from his own ill behavior and not my generous offering of the batter beater.

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(I'm having technical difficulties linking to the recipe. Go to http://www.hersheys.com/recipes and type "Oatmeal Toffee Cookies" into the little search box. )