After my first attempt at baking and the debacle that was, I waited a while to enter the realm of baking again. Why can't I ever learn from my mistakes? I had old bananas on the counter again so I made banana bread again. That came out fine (I think), no plastic in it.
Since tommorow night is Chanukah, I decided to be creative and make chanukah sugar cookies. Mind you, I have NEVER done this before. My mother brought over cookie cutters and I was pretty excited. So, I found a recipe for sugar cookies and decided use it. I mixed all the ingredients in my handy dandy KitchenAid mixer (Still looking great on the counter, by the way).
When that was done, I realized that I was never going to be able to roll the dough out to use the cookie cutters. I started to get a little despondent. I called my sister who actually knows how to bake (not better than her husband though). She told me I used a drop cookie recipe instead of a roll-out recipe. OK, whatever that means (I think I figured it out though, I do have a masters degree). So I decided, life gives you batter, make some cookies anyway. So I decided to "drop the batter" onto the cookie sheets. Well to make a long story short because I am probably going to be the only one reading this far the cookies did NOT come out. They all ran into eachother, looked and felt like sponges and tasted burnt and awful.
I am feeling a little helpless. I am planning on getting a real roll-out sugar cookie recipe and I will try again in a few days. Until then, my kids will have to suffer like all the other unfortunate children in the world and eat bakery chanukah cookies. Please don't call social services on me.
Posted by peninah at December 18, 2003 11:23 PMin case you don't read comments to old posts, there's something i want you to read in the "living through history" post.
Posted by: T at December 19, 2003 12:22 AMyou must take after your mother when it comes to baking!!
Posted by: bubby T at December 21, 2003 09:08 PM