Healthier Coconut M&M Cookies

Every year, my school does this thing called "J-Term" (short for January Term) where for the month of January we just take one class. It's pretty cool... If you get a good class. This year, mine was Weight Training and Nutrition. Overall, it wasn't too bad. There wasn't a lot of work, but in some ways that was bad because there was zero structure to the class. But we did learn a little bit about nutrition, so I started looking up different healthy recipes to make. I found a lot of healthy real food, but real food gets kind of boring after a while, you know? 

Eventually I stumbled across these cookies on Imma Eat That and thought they were perfect. And because we had some lovely coconut M&M's sitting around in the pantry just waiting to be used, I made these pretty quickly one day on impulse. Impulse bakes (is that the right word? bakings? baking sessions?) are normally the best bakes, in my experience. And these didn't prove me wrong.

Gingerbread House Cake

How soon after Christmas do you take your Christmas decorations down? Are you ready to toss the tree to the curb on Boxing Day, or are you one of those people that leaves it up until Spring Break? In our family, we're somewhere in between. We leave our decorations up through New Year's, but they're usually taken down and boxed up before we go back to school. We love ourselves some Christmas spirit...but we recognize that there are certain limits. Which you might find hard to believe, considering that we are posting a gingerbread house recipe on January 11th.

Fair point.