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    Cookies!

    Looking over some posts from December last year I remembered that I had asked what kind of content people wanted to see more of on the blog. And then I realized I had completely ignored the one suggestion I had been given! More cookies! So to amend that I’m posting the link to a shortbread recipe I made earlier in the month. It was very easy (which was good since I had never made these cookies before). A warning: These cookies are crumbly… best to freeze them before eating. And for newcomers to the blog, here’s the page where I describe my journey into crafting spider cookies*. * Please note.…

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    Everybody loves Cookies

    So I was looking over my website statistics and realized that a not insignificant portion of search traffic leads here because of my Spider Cookies recipe page. Seriously. Here I thought the traffic was because of my game design articles or my stories. Perhaps next year I should write a cookbook or something. Any suggestions for titles?

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    Name the Cookies Formerly Known as Spider Cookies

    I do not think I have ever posted about cookies before, but here goes (and yes today was a slow news day around the House of Brent). The other day I mentioned making spider cookies and received a few ‘gross’ comments, people thinking that I was maybe eating sugar-coated spiders, I guess. Which would be kind of yucky. But in fact I had made a type of cookie I used to eat as a kid. We always called them spider cookies (I don’t know why). What follows is the recipe I used. Let me know in comments what you think would make a better name (chocolate macaroon cookies might be…