We Like Making Our Own Stuff

I have been scouring my cookbooks and the Internet for recipes.  But not just any recipe; what I am looking for are scaled down recipes for my "evil pleasures"--mostly meaning things containing refined flour and sugar.  While I have drastically cut the amounts of these ingredients that I consume, I find nothing wrong in eating treats in moderation. However, it can be difficult to eat homemade goodies in moderation when a recipe makes enough to serve an army.  For instance, I wanted to make my husband a batch of molasses cookies.  Most of the recipes I looked at made around 4 dozen cookies.  This means 12 cookies for each of us, since we're a family of four--not exactly eating in moderation in my opinion! What I ended up doing in the end (since I could not find a recipe for a small batch anywhere ) was modifying a bigger recipe.  I was a little nervous about trying this, and I wasn't sure if it would turn out.  I reduced each ingredient to 1/4 of ...