First Posting: Tequila Shot Cookies

My first ever blog post! I have recently made the decision to follow my life-long passion of baking (all 23-years!) and attend baking school here in Seattle. I have always loved experimenting in the kitchen but have always been a little reticent about making a career out of it. Well I have taken the leap and start school at the end of February -- so excited! Since my friends and family can only listen to me discuss the benefits of using room-temperature ingredients in cakes or the differences between fresh-made versus store bought lemon curd, I have decided to share my experiments, my results and my experiences through baking school here instead. Hopefully, if you have a life-long baking passion (or obsession, like me!) you will find my experiments helpful or at least interesting. And now for something a little sweeter...

One tequila cookie, two tequila cookies, three tequila cookies, floor!

My husband and I were lucky enough last week to escape the weather here in Seattle (28 degrees...ekk!)  and take a quick trip to Todos Santos, Mexico to celebrate our one year anniversary. Yay! About 40 minutes out of Cabo San Lucas -- unless you get lost, have no map and can't read the Mexican road signs -- Todos Santos is a beautiful, little artist town on the Pacific coast that is host to the infamous "Hotel California." Besides enjoying the beaches -- four days of 80 degree weather! -- we loved exploring all the restaurants in town. Tacos, burritos, enchiladas, oh my! Most of all, we loved sampling all the different Mexican tequilas! We loved it so much that by the end of the trip we had purchased three different bottles to bring home with us. Little did we know you are only allowed legally to bring 1-liter per person through U.S. customs... Luckily, the customs agent was in a good mood, a rare occasion, and allowed us to keep all our boozy loot!