The theme of the day is chocolate!
I cannot get enough of the sweet stuff. From hot chocolate to pieces of a dark chocolate to my lunch to cookies, my day had been full of delicious cocoa.
Lunch
Today’s lunch included chocolate in the form of chocolate hazelnut butter, spread on a toasted Thomas’ whole wheat bagel with raspberry jelly.
A sliced apple and more Justin’s chocolate hazelnut butter served as my sides.
And then it was time for a chocolate-fueled hike!
Ryan and I bundled up and took Sadie on a five-mile hike on the trails near our house. It felt good to get some fresh air and move around a bit after spending the morning cooped up inside working on an article.
Remember how Sadie chased after a black bear before?
(When I read that sign aloud to Ryan today I inserted the word “humans” after “small mammals” to see if he was paying attention. Muhaha!)
Well, it turns out Sadie is not as brave as we thought.
She stopped in the middle of the trail and had a barking fit over an ominous palm.
Haven’t you heard? Rogue palms are very dangerous. Ryan naturally sprinted ahead and jumped on it, which absolutely thrilled Sadie. I swear they speak the same language sometimes.
After our hike, the chocolate fun continued… and this time it involves you! 
Mason Jar Cookie Giveaway
A couple of weeks ago I was sent a jar of ingredients for a special cookie recipe… one that I created!
The Mason Jar Cookie Company is a company that provides you with all of the ingredients you need (with the exception of egg and butter) to make cookies that you create through their website.
I named my mix “Git in Mah Belly.”
To an oatmeal cookie base I added:
- Valentine’s Day M&Ms
- Pecans
- Toffee
This afternoon, Ryan and I were craving warm, gooey cookies after our chilly hike, so I used my “Git in Mah Belly” mix to make us a batch of oatmeal, toffee, M&M and pecan cookies.
I’m not sure why my cookies didn’t seem to rise, but at least they tasted great!
I prefer chewy, thin cookies over dry and cake-like cookies any day.
The best news is that The Mason Jar Cookie Company is giving away one of their jars of cookie mix to one of you!
One winner will be able to create their own cookie mix though the company’s website to have sent directly to them ASAP!
To enter this giveaway, simply comment below telling me about your favorite kind of cookie. I’ll randomly select a winner tomorrow morning.
Good luck!
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there’s a recipe from an old southern living cookbook that we used to make called “monster cookies” – a combination of oatmeal, peanut butter, m& m, chocolate chip, and pecan cookies that you used a 1/3 cup scoop to measure out the dough…. amazing!
My favorite without question is my moms famous chocolate oatmeal no-bake cookies! They’re incredible!
I love peanut butter cookies, but I love anything with toasted coconut!
shortbread cookies
Favorite cookies? Hmm… chocolate, peanut butter, sugar… not picky! Just as long as there aren’t nuts or raisins, I’m a happy camper!
My favorite kind of cookie is made with brown sugar, semi sweet chocolate, milk chocolate and caramel chunks baked to an ooey gooey perfection!
I love peanut butter chocolate chip cookies!!!
Truthfully I love cookie DOUGH the most! If I had to choose just one baked cookie though, it’d probably be oatmeal raisin. Yum!
My favorite is peanut butter, walnuts and caramel.. yum!
Peanut butter chocolate chunk!
My favorite are oatmeal chocolate chip cookies! But really any cookie is a good one!!
Anything that has chocolate, PB, toffee, or Oreos in it is my kind of cookie!
i like trail mix cookies with peants, pretzels, and pb chips..mm.
oatmeal – with any kind of dark chocolate pieces mixed in!
I love peanut butter cookies!! Peanut butter chocolate chip are pretty darn tasty too!
Mmm….I love a good snickerdoodle.
My theme of the day seems to be leftover cake batter. 🙂
M&M cookies. Although, all cookies are good cookies!
I love oatmeal cookies with dark chocolate and heath bar pieces!
My favorite kind of cookies are monster cookies! PB + oats + M&Ms = edible amazingness.
I love all kinds of cookies! It is so hard to just choose one! My all-time favorite though would have to be chocolate chip peanut butter cookies!!! 🙂
I love chocolate chip cookies that are not cooked all the way and still gooey!
My favorite kind of cookie is COOKIE. I love them all! Chocolate chip, snickerdoodle, oatmeal… mmmm
White chocolate chip macadamia nut! Or classic chocolate chip 🙂
Oatmeal Raisin! mmmmm
chocolate chip!
Oh wow! I have always wanted to try Mason Jar Cookie Company, but my budget can’t justify it right now. I am a big fan of an oatmeal base with some dark chocolate chips and cranberries. Yum!
I’ve recently been hooked on toffee cookies. Seems like we have similar cravings!
I love any kind of cookie with white chocolate…SO delicious! 🙂
My favorite cookies are dishpan cookies that I found on Pinterest! I’ve already made them twice and know they will be made many (many, many…) more times in the future!
i have not met a cookie i didn’t love but the fav is prob the big ny-style black & white!
That is such a difficult question to answer, it is hard to pick just one! Currently though I would love a chocolate chip peanut butter cookie!
Dark chocolate chip is my favorite!
Definitely something with peanut butter and chocolate chips. Yum!
I love oatmeal cookies! No raisins though – just straight oatmeal =)
I love peanut butter oatmeal chocolate chips cookies!
Chocolate Chip!
Classic chewy chocolate chip!
I love ginger/molasses cookies. I don’t know what it is about them but once I eat one I honestly can’t stop!
I’ve never met a cookie I didn’t like…but …if i had to pick just one I’d say peanut butter chocolate chip. so good!
My favorite cookies are oatmeal chocolate chip! I also love any kind of cookies with M&Ms. Yum!
Oatmeal raisin cookies! YUM!!
My favorite type of cookies are oatmeal raisin cookies with chocolate chips!
Nothing beats the classic chocolate chip cookie…with extra chocolate chips of course!!
My absolute favorite cookies were ones my mom used to make that she called PMS cookies. They had chocolate, nuts, ripple chips and a bunch of other random things and they were sweet and salty at the same time. Amazing.
oatmeal chocolate chip cookies are my fave!
chocolate chip! 🙂
Potato Chip Cookies!
😀 COOKIES! I eat them rarely, but when I do, it HAS to be vegan oatmeal chocolate chip! (the raw dough or baked!) Not too fluffy, not too crunchy.
Plain ole chocolate chip.
The mason jar cookies look and sounds yummy. I have to say peanut butter chocolate chip are my favorite, along with red velvet cookies.