Chocolate And Apricot Chip Cookies
Do you like baking with your kids? Generally, I do not. I really want to let them help, to get them interested in baking and to experience the fun of turning a few simple innocent-looking ingredients into something amazingly tasty. But they’re too messy, and while I’m trying to keep them from pouring a whole bottle of vanilla extract into the butter/sugar/egg mixture, I lose track of how much baking powder I just added to the flour mixture! So I generally try to occupy the kids with something else while I bake.
However, while my daughter was at preschool last week, I decided to enlist the help of my 2-year-old son to help me make an interesting-looking recipe on the back of a bag of dried apricots. The recipe was for chocolate and apricot chip cookies; like a chocolate chip cookie with chopped dried apricots.
