Homemade Cookies AMAZING!!!

       I don't even know where to start...Well this month is my birthday, and For my birthday my Aunt, my WONDERFUL AMAZING Aunt got me a Cookie Press. Keep in mind I have many wonderful amazing Aunts. No favoritism here!!!!!!!!! But this cookie press, just made me soo excited. I think at that moment I realized I am meant to cook and bake lol, a cookie press made me drool. OH BOY. lol I have had a cookie press or ten in the past, and i have broken quite a few. They were always cheap and plastic and well when plastic gets old and you are trying to press down the entire press had cracked on me so many times. Then its garbage. UGH. But this cookie press, that I'm drooling over even more now that I have used it... It is amazing!! AMAZING, did you get that ITS AMAZING!!!!!! so well made, so easy to clean, the dies for it are awesome, SO many designs, not a plastic piece on it, all stainless steel. JUST AMAZING!!! :) OK, I think I made my point there, moving on...

       I wasn't sure if I would have what I needed in the house to made sugar or butter cookies from scratch and then I couldn't find a recipe using what I did have in the house, most of the recipes I did a search for wanted me to use ingredients that I just didn't have,like baking soda or baking powder and that was for basic plain cookies, so what to do? Well, i figured how bad could it be if i just tried to make something with what I had... and luckily this actually worked out too!!!!! Whew! I made a cookie batter with egg, vanilla extract, sugar, salt, and then slowly added flour to the mixture until i liked the consistency and it tasted like cookie dough so I must have been on the right track. Then I loaded up the cookie press and went to work. Only there was no work, the lever slides easily, it isn't hard to set up, it was a breeze to clean, at this rate, i could make cookies daily.. I wont but...  Baked them for 6 minutes and perfecto! Now since this was just a plain cookie, I was trying to figure out how to spice it up, I didn't have sprinkles... Hmmm... Well I had some mini chocolate chips and while I normally don't like to use them for dipping I didn't have what I needed to make home made chocolate. So I melted them down, and then I realized that I had some Andes Mint Chocolate Baking Chips. So I added some of those to the mix and melted it down until the chocolate wasn't too sweet and the mint amount was just right. I dunked the cookies in the chocolate, on a few I just did the sides, on some cookies, i did the bottoms, and I made 2 sandwiches chocolate on the bottom and squeeze together! I already cleaned everything up and now I am waiting for the chocolate to cool so I can set them out and take a photo. But everything is already cleaned up including the cookie press, there was no five hours of soaking, there was no pieces falling apart, It was simply AMAZING!!