The other day Truman was having fun making a paper airplane zoom around the room. At one point it landed on the floor next to where I was sitting, and he said, “Mom, can you get that for me?” I was confused. “What, like, you want me to pick it up for you?” He was standing 2 feet away. “Yeah.”
And that’s when I exploded. “NO I CAN’T PICK IT UP FOR YOU, DO YOU NOT EVEN REMEMBER THAT I’M 9 MONTHS PREGNANT, ANYTHING THAT FALLS ON THE GROUND IS DEAD TO ME!!”
Hi, welcome to my house these days, where I will yell at you for asking me to do small favors. Poor kid’s going to be traumatized. I actually have big fears about what my kid’s early childhood memories will be. Truman’s only 6, is his first memory going to be about his mom losing it over a paper airplane?? Noo! I’m a nice mom most of the time! Just not when I’m pregnant!
2 weeks to go you guys, and then I will stop complaining about this nonstop. Also PS the baby countdown is the same as the Christmas countdown, so you’ve got 2 weeks left to get your shopping done! Hop to it!!
But until then, I’m baking ALLLL the cookies. I just make a huge double batch of everything and freeze the rest for later. You’ve never seen baking like a 9 month pregnant nesting food blogger. We’ve already made Butter Pecan Cookies, Gingersnaps, Spritz (hopefully updating that post soon), Cardamoms, Chocolate Chunk Gingerbread Cookies, and these AMAZING Rolo cookies.
How to Make Rolo Cookies
You’ve had rolo cookies before, right? Or some version of them. They are a classic! Usually you see them made with cake mix cookies (one cake mix, 1/3 cup oil, 2 eggs, as found in these Homemade Oreo Cookies.)
(Sift your cocoa if it’s clumpy) But the basic idea is a chocolate cookie wrapped around a rolo, rolled in sugar and baked. Today’s homemade version is 10x better than the cake mix version in my humble opinion, and only takes a few more minutes to put together. You don’t even have to chill the dough! Can we get a hallelujah!!
Wrapping one rolo in chocolate cookie dough is good.
But wrapping TWO rolos in chocolate cookie dough is even BETTER. Yes please. Come on now, you didn’t visit my blog because you suddenly wanted to embrace moderation, did you? Accept it. If you do two rolos (you should) try to use the same amount of dough as you would for one rolo. The goal is to get a higher ratio of caramel to cookie, not to have a giant cookie. When I used two rolos, I made the dough balls a little more oval shape than round, as shown in the above photo on the left. One rolo sitting on top of the other (wrapped in dough).
You can see the dough all over my fingers in the process shots above. It’s quite sticky. You are going to think these cookies will be a disaster and bake as flat as pancakes if you don’t chill them for at least a little while. That’s what I thought. But I’m glad I tried it without chilling, just to make sure! These cookies puffed up and cracked like a dream, no chilling at all. Hooray! You can go from zero to cookies in about 30 minutes with this recipe!
See how nice and puffy they are? This is immediately out of the oven. I sprinkled with extra sugar after baking. See note above about my lack of moderation issues.
(How many cookies do you have to take bites out of or break in half to get all the caramely photos for this blog post? About one thousand.)
These would be such a fun cookie to add to your Christmas plates this year! No one can resist rolo cookies!
More Christmas cookies you are going to love!
The Best Bakery Style Double Chocolate Chip Cookies « today’s recipe is a simplified version of this one. So classic! Mexican Hot Chocolate Cookies (Chocolate Snickerdoodles) « cinnamon and chocolate forever! The Softest Sugar Cookies of Your Life « for real, no lies here my friends. The. Softest. The Softest Chocolate Sugar Cookies « the chocolate version. So good! Chocolate Crinkle Cookies « these are so ultra fudgy! Homemade Oreos with Cream Cheese Frosting « you could make these cookies and stuff a rolo in them instead of using today’s recipe. Easy peasy! Buried Cherry Cookies « I have made these every year for the past 12 years at least. White Chocolate Cranberry Cookies « these have coconut and oatmeal and everything you need! Christmas Monster Cookies from Dinner at the Zoo Christmas Pretzel Hugs from Dinner Then Dessert Turtle Thumbprint Cookies from I Am Baker
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