Brown Butter White Chocolate Chip Snickerdoodles

Snickerdoodles.  

Is there a more fun word to say than snickerdoodle?  I submit that there is not. 

It just makes me think of little kids giggling. So innocent, playful, and happily unaware of the imperfect world we live in. 

Ignorance is bliss right?

When I was younger, I remember feeling so invincible. 

In my mind, there was no broken thing that couldn't be mended, no mistake that couldn't be righted, no bad choice that couldn't be undone. 

And if it really couldn't be fixed, oh well. Life went on either way. So why fret about it? 

Sometimes I get caught up in the "grown up world" where things go wrong and consequences ensue. And sometimes I let a mishap get me down. 

But mostly I try to remember what my 10 year old self would say if we could meet face to face. 

I'm sure she'd repeat one of her favorite lines. Words of wisdom. 

"It'll all work out, it always does". 

When I got a little older and was dating, I had a boyfriend at one time who was a little dramatic you could say. But I still held on to my childhood optimistic mentality. I often repeated to him in his moments of drama my favorite line, "It'll all work out, it always does". 

In once such instance he got more frustrated and proceeded to blubber on about how things don't always work out and that this thing that was bothering him could not be fixed. 

I told him something that I'll never forget and which has actually changed my own perspective on things in life many times since that day. I said, "You know, just because it doesn't turn out perfectly how you want it to, doesn't mean things didn't work out". 

Made him stop and think. Heck, it made me stop and think. 

Anyway, enough profound ideas on the meaning of life for today! 

Really you just need some of these snickerdoodles. They'll make any day, good or bad, way better. 

Oh and the brown butter? A must! I can't believe I've been living without it for so long. Why didn't any of you tell me I was missing out on such a delicious experience?! 

I blame you. But you can make it up to me. By making some of these cookies and dropping them off at my house. 

Okay, you can stay and eat them with me. 

*Recipe adapted from Two Peas And Their Pod