Work was awful, time for cookies

I find baking very relaxing.  There is something very comforting of just turning off your brain, following a set of instructions, and creating something awesome at the end of it.  Today was a day that I realised the only thing for it was to have a vodka and soda, and bake cookies.

A modified recipe of a modification of a recipe made by my brother, these Work Was Awful cookies are a great base from which to tailor to your specific wants or needs.  A drop cookie recipe that spreads a little and forms a nice, rounded surface, these cookies are as low key or as spectacular as you want them to be.  They are soft, delicate, and infinitely nomable.

Work Was Awful Cookies

2/3 cup softened butter
3/4 cup brown sugar (lightly packed)
1/4 cup white sugar
2/3 cup almond meal
2 eggs
2 cups self-raising flour

Extras
Rose Petal Cookies; 1 teaspoon rose water essence, 2-4 tablespoons dried rose petals (I used rose buds from T2 used for Just Rose Tea, ripping the petals from the stems and crumbling them in my fingers.  It was very therapeutic.)
White Chocolate and Cherry Flavour; 1 teaspoon maraschino cherry flavouring, 1/2 teaspoon chocolate flavouring, 1/2 to 1 cup roughly chopped white chocolate, 2-4 drops Rose Pink food colouring.

Cream butter and sugars
Mix in almond meal
Add eggs and mix until combined
Add flour, 1/4 cup at a time
Drop walnut sized balls of dough 3-4 cm apart on a parchment lined cookie tray

Bake in a preheated oven at 190 C (375 F) for 10 minutes, or until brown at the edges.

You can ice them when cool if you are feeling fancy, or mash into your gob while warm.