Quarantine Survival Cookies

I kid you not with this title – these cookies have been getting me through 2020.

In case it’s not clear from the blog, I’m a bit of an obsessive baker. I use it as a form of stress relief, but rarely plan on eating all I bake. I used to bring all the excess into the office, to the trapeze rig, to friend’s parties, to family occasions… you get the idea. With the quarantine, that all stopped.  In one of the most stressful times of our lives, I needed to bake. I gave a lot of treats to my neighbors, but my supply was starting to exceed my demand!

At the same time, I was starting to run short on supplies! I always have a back-up bag or two of flour on hand, but in this unprecedented era, I actually ran out of flour. The real problem is that I live on the upper west side (of manhattan), where flour and yeast were nowhere to be found. Strangely, my Brooklyn friends had better luck! Still no 5lbs bags, but she found a stash of 2lb bags at her local! Thus the quarantine barter was born. My dear blog editor Sara bought some flour for me in her neighborhood and sent her cyclist-avid husband on a mission! He brought me 5 adorable little bags of flour in exchange for some sourdough bread and these new creations.