I have been growing out my hair for a solid two years now. I’ve never had long hair in my life. By long, I mean past my shoulders. Even when I was little, I always sported the bowl cut, thanks to my fashionista parents. Don’t believe me? See for yourself:
Yup, that’d be me in the middle with my two sisters by my side. Now that I’m old enough to make my own decisions, I caught on quickly to see that the bowl cut wasn’t coming back anytime soon (not that it ever was in) and that I needed a new hair-do… pronto. Let me tell you, growing out your hair is not an easy task.
I tried a couple years earlier growing out my hair, but gave into the sudden urge of chopping it all off… not to mention dying it blonde:
Now, I want to get a loose wave/spiral perm. Nothing too crazy, just to get some waves now that my hair is long enough. Problem is, my hairstylist doesn’t do perms! She’s AMAZING with everything else, though. So the question is: who do I go to? This is what I’m going for without having to curl it everyday:
Does anyone have any suggestions for a hairstylist to go to that can do a loose spiral perm in the LA area? Or anywhere by LA is fine, too. I don’t mind driving. A little change is good!
Which leads me to these cookies; I’ve baked many chocolate chip cookies, but this one’s changed just a bit. A little change to spice things up. The addition of salty pretzels is actually quite brilliant and I don’t know why I didn’t do it before. My boyfriend didn’t care much for them, saying that the other chocolate chip cookies are better, but I’ll leave that up for you to decide.
I used pretzels from this GIANT bucket from Costco. Everything in our house is from Costco, but that’s another story.
Recipe is from Sugar Cooking and makes approximately 24 cookies. Check out the dough!
Ingredients:
- 1 1/2 cups of all purpose flour
- 1/2 tsp. of salt
- 1/4 tsp. of baking soda
- 1/2 cup of butter at room temperature
- 1/2 cup of tightly packed light brown sugar
- 1/3 cup of granulated sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 cup milk chocolate chips
- 1/2 cup broken up pretzel pieces
Directions:
- In a separate bowl, mix together the flour, baking soda, and salt. Set aside.
- Beat the butter and sugars together until well blended. On low speed, slowly add the beaten egg and vanilla extract until combined.
- Add the flour mixture to the wet mixture until the batter comes together. Stir in the chocolate chips, and pretzels. Cover and refrigerate for at least an hour.
- Preheat the oven to 350F. Form the dough into balls and place on baking sheet. Bake for 10 minutes.
cookies and cups says
You are the cutest!!
Don’t have any hair advice for ya, but those cookies look phenomenal!
Avril Miller says
Chocolate and pretzels all together in one cookie…what a yummy idea!
Jennifurla says
Beautiful, both cookies and hair
Sarah B @ Bake + Bike says
Woww your hair is gorgeous!
I also used to rock the bowl cut as a child (my nanny would literally cut my bangs using a bowl) and have been growing it out for a while. I am useless with a curling iron, but I’ve always wanted wavy hair!
I love salty sweet desserts! I bet chocolate + pretzels + peanuts would be tasty?
Anonymous says
Kim!
Your bowl-cut hair made me laugh so much! I have short hair too and I am dying to grow it like yours! I, sadly, cannot recommend any good hairstylists to you because all my hairstylists are Korean women who say: “I cut it this short for you, ok? Ok.” Gotta love them.
windinthedoor says
Those look amazing.
I can’t take it anymore, I have to ask! How in the WORLD do you bake all of this deliciousness and still look so fabulous?!?!?!?!? It’s not fair!
Arlene says
Those look so delicious!!
Kaleidoscope Adventures says
These look so delicious! Salty and sweet things together always turn out amazing. Do you have any other ideas for recipes using that giant tub of pretzels?
sjp8987 says
These cookies might be the best ones I’ve ever had. I used salted butter and cut down the added salt by a little more than half. Thank you so much for posting this!
Anonymous says
look for a salon in LA (yelp!) that offers the digital perm. lots of them in k-town and little tokyo.
branny says
I made these today and they’re great!
kill-her-0ff says
I made these along with the soft baked chocolate chip cookies and they were both amazing!