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So the story behind this photo is Sarah saying: "I need to think of something funny before I get my photo taken... Like Monkeys... In that tree over there... Having sex... And its funny!"

I said the other day that I would post the recipe for my cookies on here and I haven't done it yet so prepare for it below:
Ingredients:
9 T. butter (125 g.)
1/2 c. sugar (100 g.)
1 T. vanilla sugar or 1 tsp. extract
2 egg yolks
1 egg (50 g.)
2 c. flour (250 g.)
1 tsp. baking powder
1/4 tsp. salt
1/2 c. Nutella or chocolate nut spread
1/2 tsp. cinnamon
1/2 c. chocolate chips
1 tsp. butter
Preparation:

Mix cold butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in egg yolks, then egg and vanilla extract, if using.

Add flour, baking powder and salt and mix until the dough forms a ball. Wrap in cling wrap and refrigerate for 30 minutes.

Mix Nutella and cinnamon in a small bowl.

Form a ball with 2 teaspoons of dough by rolling it between the palms of your hands.

Place about 1/2 teaspoon of Nutella in the middle, then bring the edges of the dough up and around the filling and pinch closed.

Roll the dough again between your palms until a sphere is formed, then place on a parchment-lined cookie sheet. Repeat with remaining dough.

Bake at 350°F for 15 minutes in a preheated oven. Cool and decorate as follows:

Melt the chocolate chips and butter in the microwave on high in 15 second intervals, stirring after each 15 seconds. This should take about 3 intervals before the chocolate chips are smooth and hot.

Spoon the melted chocolate into the bottom corner of a sandwich bag. Close the bag. Cut off a very small corner of the bag and squeeze the chocolate through the hole to drizzle in an attractive pattern onto the cookies.

After the cookies have cooled, store them in an airtight tin between layers of wax paper. You may also freeze them.

SO yeah, that's the recipe for the cookies.

I watched the film Au Hasard Balthazar last night and it was really good. I constantly sympathised with the protagonist of the donkey rather than the human characters and I also did my conversation post too which went as follows:

Au Hasard Balthazar is quite distressing in places due to the different techniques that Bresson uses throughout the film. At many points the viewer is forced to sympathise with Balthazar rather than anyone else in the film mainly due to the sound effects and also the use of close up. The viewer is constantly being put behind bars and is made to sympathise with different animals and people within the film. The gaze that is received by the viewer from these others makes us feel like we are the one who are in captivity and hat it is not the animals and humans that we are viewing on the screen.