Found Family; what could be better? Family vacations, gatherings, holidays. But what do these all have in common? The food! Whether it be Mr Mclean's homemade Black-Bean Soup, which we have the recipe for in Piper's installment of New Rome Living, or Ms Castellan's homemade pb & j's, we assume that the most popular of all, is always Ms Jackson's famous homemade blue cookies!

Every demigod must at least know of her famous blue cookies, for Percy is always raving about them, but not all have had the privilege to try one. But now they can!

What you need -

¾ cup (175g) of butter at room temperature

¼ cup (60g) of light brown sugar

½ cup (120g) of granulated sugar

2 large eggs at room temperature

1 teaspoon (5g) of liquid blue food dye, half it (so ½ teaspoon (3g) and ½ teaspoon (3g)), you will see why later

2 cups (470g) of all-purpose flour

1 teaspoon (5g) of sea salt

1 cup (235g) of chocolate chips, divided into ¾ cup (175g) and ¼ cup (60g), you will see why later

Once you have collected all of your ingredients, the rest should be easy, hopefully at least.

First you should preheat the oven to 355F (180C) and if you have a fan-forced oven, then it should be preheated at 320F (160C) instead.

Cream together the butter, brown sugar, and granulated sugar in a large bowl.

Then mix in half of the blue liquid food dye (½ teaspoon (3g)).

Once mixed, scoop half of the cookie dough into a separate bowl or glass and microwave on 100% power for 20 seconds. At 10 seconds, take it out and stir, then put it back in. The dough should have darkened, if not, put it back in for another 10 seconds.

Mix the dough back into the main bowl with the remaining cookie dough.

Then add in the eggs and remaining food dye.

Once mixed, slowly add in the flour

Make sure that all the flour is mixed in then add in ¾ cup of chocolate chips. Mix until fully combined.

Spray down a cookie sheet, then use a spoon to scoop cookie dough onto it.

If you want to, round the cookie ball out. Do not flatten them though, they will flatten on their own.

Place the remaining chocolate chips on the top and bake for 20 minutes.

If you followed these instructions, you should have a batch of Ms Jackson's famous homemade blue cookies!

(This was my batch. The recipe does make more cookies than this, I just had to half it because I did not have enough ingredients. And normally you would use normal chocolate chips, I just only had white chocolate chips when I made the batch.)

Original recipe from - https://www.inliterature.net/by-book/percy-jackson/2018/08/blue-chocolate-chip-cookies-percy-jackson.html/print/27891