Half Past Three on Labor Day

Every day at half past three

I stop for a cup of tea

And a cookie or slice of cake

In between "chores", I baked some cookies

to have with my Labor Day tea

In the breakfast room

And since it is a holiday, a pretty tea pot

The Johnson Brothers Indies

with cup and saucer to match

Garden flowers are garlic chive blossoms

And the cookies are

Chocolate shot cookies

Just two

More for later in the week

They're like an oatmeal shortbread

Rolled in chocolate shot (or jimmies)

And are good keepers

Both before they're baked

(for they'll last a while in the fridge)

And after

(for they'll last a while in the larder)

Where, you might ask, is the chocolate shot?

It's white chocolate shot

I bought a larger bag than I needed for a cupcake

And had this huge bag left

Aha, I thought, chocolate shot cookies

And until that bag is gone, we may have more white chocolate shot cookies for tea

They're good

Not too sweet

Just right for a tea cookie

My only "flub" -- I made them way too big

They're the size of cookie jar cookies not tea cookies!

CHOCOLATE SHOT COOKIES

1 cup salted butter (I use unsalted and add 1/2 t. salt)

1 c. powdered sugar

1 1/2 c. flour

1/2 t. baking soda

2 t. vanilla

1 cup rolled oats

1/2 c. chocolate shot sprinkles (jimmies)

Cream butter and sugar.    Sift flour and soda together.    Add vanilla, flour mixture and oats to the creamed butter/sugar.    On a rectangular piece of parchment or wax paper, form dough into a long cylinder and roll it in the chocolate shots (otherwise known as chocolate jimmies)

Chill dough (wrapped loosely in the wax paper/parchment) for 45 minutes.

Cut slices and place on an ungreased cookie sheet.

Bake at 325 for 25 minutes or until lightly browned.

It's Tuesday and I'm joining Sandi at Rose Chintz Cottage for Tea Time Tuesday and Bernideen for Tea in the Garden (it's raining and so I'm inside but you can see the garden through the glass)

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