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Hearthstone Cookies

March 12, 2014 by kamaliaetalia

Hearthstone graduated from beta yesterday with what seemed to me to be a relative lack of fanfare — perhaps it had already been scheduled to “go live” this week, but got overshadowed by the hullaballoo surrounding the unexpected opening of Warlords pre-orders and boosts to 90?

In honor of Hearthstone going live, I’ve made some edible Hearthstones!

I used Millya’s Unconjured Cinnamon Bun Frost Cookies recipe, with a few modifications. I used 1/2 teaspoon each of vanilla and almond extract instead of a full teaspoon of vanilla in the dough. I replaced the brown sugar in the filling with blue sugar crystal sprinkles, and I used finely chopped almonds instead of walnuts or pecans. I also left out the cinnamon and didn’t replace it with any other spice, though I considered using ginger or cardamom.

I suppose I’ll try Hearthstone eventually; for now, I have way too many things I want to do in WoW to allow myself to get distracted by another game — even if it’s from Blizzard and uses a lot of familiar concepts from WoW. The Hearthsteed mount is not, at this time, a lure; to me, it looks kind of wierd and freaky, and I’m content (for the moment) with my total mount count.

The Old Ladies may be thinking, “but Kam, didn’t you tell us on Saturday that you were giving up junk food, including cookies, for Lent?”. Well, yes, I did — I made an exception for these cookies because I’d been planning to do this for quite a while. I don’t literally observe Lent, anyway — Mormons celebrate Easter but don’t do the Fat Tuesday/Ash Wednesday/Lent/Good Friday thing. Although we have regular fast days on the first Sunday of every month, the concept of voluntarily abstaining from a luxury or indulgence of some kind for an extended period of time is still a good one. For some years now, my Mom and my sisters and (sometimes) I have chosen something to abstain from during Lent, using the Lenten season as a sort of way to supplement or reinvigorate our New Year’s Resolutions. One year, I chose just chocolate ice cream. During Lent, my ice cream consumtion as a whole — which was, at that point in my life, rather excessive — decreased, and afterward, I continued to be able to exercise more restraint. Hopefully, once these cookies are gone, I’ll still be able to resist junk food for the remaining time until Easter!

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  1. on March 12, 2014 at 3:46 pm Vidyala

    That’s so clever, they are adorable! Did they taste good?! It also tickled me that you have my recipe printed out in a binder, including the drawings, haha. ❀


    • on March 12, 2014 at 3:58 pm kamaliaetalia

      Thanks! They do taste good!
      Hehe, I have all your recipes printed out in my binder of “recipes from the internets” — I print or hand-copy most recipes from the internets that I think I might actually want to try, because I don’t yet have a smartphone or tablet with which to conveniently access the internet while I am in the kitchen. πŸ˜€


  2. on March 12, 2014 at 7:39 pm wowstorylines

    Oh those cookies do look good.


    • on March 13, 2014 at 6:51 am kamaliaetalia

      They are!


  3. on March 13, 2014 at 2:17 am PlaidElf

    Those look delicious. And pretty. I want to eat hearthstones! What a fun idea to celebrate the launch. πŸ˜€


    • on March 13, 2014 at 6:52 am kamaliaetalia

      You should make some, then! πŸ˜€


  4. on March 13, 2014 at 5:28 am tomeoftheancient

    They look almost too pretty to eat! As horrific as I am at Hearthstone the lure of another mount was too much for me. I found I’m still horrible at Hearthstone, lol, nothing’s changed.


    • on March 13, 2014 at 6:52 am kamaliaetalia

      Almost, but not quite πŸ˜›
      But did you manage to get your three wins for your mount?


      • on March 13, 2014 at 7:13 am tomeoftheancient

        Yes … sort of, lol. But I got the mount so all good!


      • on March 13, 2014 at 9:38 am kamaliaetalia

        Yay!


  5. on March 14, 2014 at 10:18 pm Cymre

    Oh they look great. Wish I could have tried one. πŸ˜›


    • on March 15, 2014 at 6:54 am kamaliaetalia

      Thanks! I wish you could, too πŸ™‚



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