TWD: World Peace Cookies . . . It's Hip To Be Square

Huey Lewis said it best, didn't he? I don't know why I think that song is so funny but I do. It could be that my mom used to dominate Jazzercise when I was little and I remember her in a leotard and legwarmers rocking to this song. So, how do Jazzercise and Huey Lewis go with World Peace Cookies? Glad you asked . . .

This week's TWD selection is World Peace Cookies, selected by Jess of Cookbook Habit. I made these cookies over Christmas and I loved them . . . but I was a little miffed that my circles turned into a sort of odd, hexagonal shape because the sides flattened in the refrigerator. If I were Martha Stewart then I'd save my old paper towel cardboard rolls and I'd stuff the dough logs in those rolls to keep them beautiful, perfect circles. But, as fortune would have it, I'm not Martha and I don't save my paper towel rolls, and even if I did, I would never be able to fit the dough inside. I mean, the circumference of one of those things isn't that great, do you know how small you'd have to roll out your dough? All I can picture is me trying desperately to jam the log of dough inside and having it squish up and turn into an awful mess. And, I'm pretty patient but I'm pretty sure that it'd end with the dough in the trash. No thank you! So, I decided that for my 2nd time around, it's hip to be square. Now, this dough is a shortbread of sorts and it doesn't have an egg so it's pretty crumbly. I think that, no matter what, it's going to be hard to make a perfect shape with this dough. But, I used my bench scraper thingee and made a square, it might be a rectangle in math-speak, but in my kitchen it's a square. Next time, triangles?

I know that some people mentioned having issues with the dough being too sandy. Thank goodness that wasn't the case here. I am not sure whether the relative humidity has anything to do with this dough being more or less friendly. I used Pacific fine sea salt from Penzey's in these because I don't have any fleur de sel and I didn't feel like purchasing it. That's about it. These cookies are super simple, in my opinion.

So, World Peace cookies are so good that if we air-dropped them all over the globe, we'd have world peace? I don't know about that (there's always some disgruntled types who can't be swayed even by chocolate, right?) but these are sooooo good! I like them best warm out of the oven but they're great cold too. Dudley ate the rest of these . . . I guess they were so good that he couldn't control himself. I was looking for them and he sheepishly admitted that he'd eaten a lot of them . . . like maybe all of them.