I LOVE your April Fool's Post and look forward to it every year. My mother was a good cook, and she insisted that milk, cream and butter were the secret to her success. Long before "cookie brittle" made its debut in stores, she would make her toll House Chocolate Chip Cookies from the recipe on the package. They were very delicious, but came out in a thin sheet which filled the cookie sheet. Finally, after years of baking with the same results, she confessed that she always doubled the amount of butter called for in the recipe. Her motto was a bit of butter makes everything better!

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