We’re a sleepy household these days. With an almost-four-week-old in the house, the longest we get to sleep is in three-and-a-half-hour stretches. (Well, last week I thought my baby slept for five and a half hours, until my guy reminded me that I actually did get up during that time. I didn’t believe him until I checked my iPhone app that I use to track feedings … sure enough, a 3 a.m. feeding that I didn’t remember, until about 15 minutes later when it finally came back to me. Scary.)
So, life’s going by in a bit of a sleep-deprived, slightly confused blur. Even the dogs, who dutifully accompany me to my comfy chair in the nursery for every nighttime feeding, are feeling the interruptions … they sleep a lot more during the day. Oftentimes on the sofa, butt-to-butt, as if they find it reassuring that even though this strange little human has invaded their space, at least they’ve still got each other.
So with all this lack of sleep going on around here, naturally I would be attracted to cookies like these that are heavy on chocolate and caffeinated to boot. So attracted, in fact, that I’m sending the majority of them to work with my guy tomorrow, lest I eat the entire batch myself.
These cookies are awesome. They’re essentially your basic chocolate chip cookie recipe, transformed by two simple ingredients. Add instant espresso and unsweetened cocoa powder and you get cookies that are intense, delicious, out-of-this-world, the stuff that dreams are made of. If only I remembered what it was like to sleep long enough to dream.
(Not that I’d change a thing, of course!)