Blueberry Reese’s Cookies (Based off of my Dad’s Concrete Mixer order)

Happy Father’s Day! My family is travelling this weekend, meaning baking was going to be a little hard for me to fit in. But no matter… I am not someone who is going to let a holiday pass without a treat to celebrate! So I made some cookies for the road. These cookies are a vanilla base with dried blueberries and Reese’s mixed in. AKA, they’re basically my Dad’s concrete mixer order in cookie form. Honestly, just smelling the dough smelled a lot like a concrete mixer. I took one bite and just thought… how had this idea not occurred to me sooner?

I have voiced my qualms with Father’s Day’s commercialization to my family many times before. Maybe my dad’s complaints about the way fathers are portrayed in media have wormed their way into my brain, but also, I was thinking some of it before then Just… if you’ve ever been at a loss as to what to get your dad for Father’s Day and dared to Google “Father’s Day gifts,” you’ve probably been met with 17 list compilations of grill accessories, beer coozies, steak-of-the-month clubs, or something called “the original bear paw meat shredder.“

“Hey Dad! I love you. You’ve really done a lot for me my whole life, both big and small. You lived your life for your kids before they could even comprehend. Here’s BEAR PAW MEAT SHREDDER!! I know you’ve always secretly wanted to have bear hands!” (???)

I will say, it’s not like Mother’s Day is much better in that department. If me and my siblings went by what the internet suggested, my mom would own upwards of 90 candles. The Father’s Day commercialization just feels a tad more aggressive. Maybe something to do with the bear claw shredders and lack of flowers…?

Then, there’s the cards! Which, thank goodness I make my own cards, because the grocery store has exclusively Variations on a Theme. The Theme being “You’re the #1 Dad! Because you fart all the time and own a toolbox!” I also saw a beer-pint shaped balloon in Cub the other day, as part of a Father’s Day display. Imagine getting your dad a balloon shaped like a pint of beer. Imagine getting your dad… any balloon?

I think some dads really do love tools, and beer, and fart jokes, and grilling shredded meat (?), and old cars, and every other stereotype. But some dads just like James Cook history and writing. My dad also does like beer! So he is not a lone circle in the Venn Diagram of dads. But what do you do if your dad doesn’t like beer??

So I think with Father’s Day, all you can do is celebrate your own father. Perhaps with personalized cookies and a concert at a jazz club. But, to each their own. You can also get him some bear paw meat shredders and a card that makes a fart noise when you open it!

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