Poop-tastic cookies

Tonight was the night. I've been counting down the days until making these easter hunt cookies. I'm pretty sure I've talked about them to Jus every day, at least twice a day ever since I found the recipe (which you know, was like, a month ago). Last week, at the grocery, I made sure to choose my green food coloring with care, knowing that it would play a very prominent role in these bad boys. Opening the food coloring box was like Christmas all over again.

I had food coloring. Of my very own. I had now, officially, entered the realm of adulthood.

What better thing to do at 10:30 pm on a Saturday? Duh, Ali, make easter cookies! My hands trembled in feverish delight as I grabbed all of the ingredients, and carefully measured out nearly 5 cups of oats, and dumped them tenderly into my mixing bowl. (Pathetic, huh?) Next came the sugars, and the vanilla, and peanut butter. All blessed one and a half cups of it. I may or may not have added a little extra... If a half a cup is good, two is better, yes?

Turns out green food coloring can't withstand the power of peanut butter.

Then it came to it. The crowning jewel of our easter cookies: green food coloring. I added a bit, and waited for the magic to happen. I added a bit more. And more. And more. My high hopes dissipated. The whole point of the food coloring in this recipe is to make the cookie look like grass, and the m&m's to look like eggs. My "grass" was looking a little, um, "dead". Thanks to the peanut butter.

Jus tried to make me feel better, by telling me that it looked like the grass that grows in England. You know, that kind. All I can say is, the folks there need to water their lawns more, if my cookies were any representation of the average British lawn.

While the little poops may have looked... not the most appetizing, they tasted pretty yummy. Delicious, really. Thanks to the peanut butter.