The time Meghan and I got together for a big Christmas baking spree, we began with all kinds of great ingredients and family recipes… and then Meghan decided to go all healthy on me and leave out half the sugar.. out of a cookie!? I mean, isn’t that why you eat cookies because of the sugar!?
So those didn’t turn out too well.
But we persevered.
At the end of our very long day of disasters I thought maybe just one more recipe. I had a craving for macaroons. Bucers in Moscow, Idaho has the best macaroons in the world but the proprietor will not give me her recipe so I found one on my own. It used sweetened condensed milk and lots of coconut, so much coconut that I needed to get another bag out of the freezer.
They came out of the oven and I was so craving the macaroons that I ate one right away and.. well, it tasted funny. Maybe because they were too hot. I let them cool, no, they still tasted bad. I thought I’d add more sugar and at that point Meghan was telling me to abandon ship what with adding more sugar, “Throw them out, mom, why waste more ingredients.”
Then I thought, maybe dipping them in chocolate would help, “No, mom, throw them out.”
I relented and in the end out of about twelve recipes we had one good batch of cookies.
After Meghan had left for home, I opened the freezer and it was then that I realized I had used parmesan cheese instead of coconut in the macaroons.
So this year I thought I’d go easy on myself, a recipe with about four ingredients to start with AND I would not attempt to double the recipe or anything.
- roll a ball, pat stamp in sugar, gently press on cookie
And KABOOM the cookie explodes on the cookie sheet!
OK, I have made this recipe before and this never happened, ever. So, I went back read the recipe very carefully to see if I was missing something or over did it with the flour or left out some liquid or didn’t add enough liquid or… Nope.
So, I scooped up the little mess and smashed it back into a ball and forewent the cute little pineapple print on the top. Just balls, maybe that would work. Not to be.
Baking did not help these poor things
Everyone will be home for Christmas and I think that cookie baking will be first thing on the ‘to do’ list.
Thank you for sharing this brief moment of failure. :) I especially enjoyed the mistaken parmesan for coconut as that sounds like an improvement to me, lol.
There will be better baking days ahead – enjoy!!
I remember that year. I was so exhausted from producing a lot of bad food that Eric took us out to eat that night.
I have some cookies that I can bring for Chistmas and they weren’t made by me so you know they have to be good.
Ha! I want spicy ginger bread cookies really badly. Like 8-months-pregnant-craving kind of want. So I’ll make those, and carmel corn!
I just finished making the Caitlin endorsed Chocolate Thumbprints…….they are everything she said and more….the combo of the salt and chocolate plus the honey in the ganache..a taste sensation!!!..Terri….I have had many episodes like you described today…MANY!!!
I am so glad that the cookie Caitlin recommended worked. Just maybe I will have to try that one too.
Wow! What a day! Kind of like the time I was talking to Meghan on the phone while mixing up a batch of Dutch Shortbread… Doubled the butter, but forgot to double the flower, as I recall. Not a good thing. Perhaps Meghan’s the common denominator? :-)
Elly, I think you’ve hit the nail on the head, it must be Meghan!!
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