Cookie Series - Equipment needed to be a successful cookie baker

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To My New Friends,

You already know that we can do a job only as good as the equipment we have. So, in continuing my cookie series, I thought I should cover the basic stuff needed so I wrote an article today on Essential Cookie Baking Equipment. I've baked cookies since I was 12 and dinosaurs roamed the Earth but I know many people haven't. It's so easy to buy mixes or slice and bakes or pull a parts. Even easier to buy them off the shelves or out of the bakery. But nothing smells, feels and tastes as heart warming and toasty delicious as home baked cookies! 

I baked cookies every single Holiday with my kids when they were little. Then I baked every time I had my grandson who is now 15. Now my granddaughter is 7 and she has been helping to measure, break eggs, mix, roll and cut out cookies since she was 2 years old and that is no exaggeration!  The main thing I always thought of raising my kids and now when I have my grand-kids is what their memories will be of me and of their childhood. My childhood memories aren't so great so I was determined that my boys would have great memories. When I lost my son 3 1/2 years ago, when he was 29, I was so devastated that I'm only just beginning to live again. But one thing that has soothed me through it all is that I KNEW he had good memories of his childhood. Thank God for that, I could not have lived with thinking otherwise.

This column I write has helped me so very, very much. Giving me something to center my attention on. I can't be left to just think, as I'm sure you can understand. And it's not just the writing, it's knowing that I'm contributing in some small way, that maybe I make a difference in some one's day.

And most of all, it has helped me to face the world again, a virtual world maybe, but the people are real. I ask you to please be my friend. Bear with me if I repeat my sadness. Visit me at my column. I need the readers, the support. The money doesn't matter, but I need the readers, the "numbers" so that I won't lose this column. I feel like for the first time in years, I have not just seen the light at the end of the tunnel, but have stuck my toe onto the ground.

Cherish your children, remember every moment. Make their life and yours count. Make memories you can both share when times are hard. I cherish my oldest son, Chris, who is thriving, with a loving wife and 3 terrific kids, Logan, Grace and Ethan and I cherish the memories of my baby son, Scott. Thank God I have the memories, I feel so privileged to have known my Scott, he was quite a smart, giving, loving, well-respected, successful, handsome, loyal and honest young man. I will put a picture on here one day for you to see. But not yet.

And as always, Hold Your Children Close,

Linda