Feb 20 2011
Cookie Monster
Hey! I just found something else I can’t do: bake cookies!
Notice that I didn’t say “make” cookies. My incompetence is even more impressive when you take into account that I was merely cutting pieces off logs of dough (made by my sister), applying them to a baking sheet, and putting them into the already heated oven.
Now you’re impressed, aren’t you?
The results were uniformly poor, though not in a uniform way. In fact, I should probably get extra credit for finding so many ways to make bad cookies. Some were discouragingly flat; others were lumpy; some were resolutely doughy in the center, while others were burned around the edges. Some were a winning combo of burned on the bottom while doughy in the middle. Some of them melted together during baking, so when I separated them, they had the odd look of having already been half eaten. Neatly eaten, but eaten all the same.
None of these beauty pageant problems would have really mattered to the exasperated bakers if we weren’t supposed to sell the damn things. Looking at the pitiful parade of cookies, it was pretty obvious that our only potential market was sugar-deprived elementary school students.
But it was a confectionery emergency. The cookies were to be sold at today’s Purge Party*, the annual fundraiser for Daisy Davis Pit Bull Rescue. Someone had promised to make 150 cookies for the sale, then backed out at the last minute, making it Megan’s problem. And I do mean problem.
I suggested that we make Rice Krispie treats. Although Megan objected that she had never made them, I assured her it was easy. So she raced down to the store, five bumpy miles each way, while I tended to the last batches of the saddest cookies in town.
She returned triumphant with shockingly expensive Rice Krispies ($7 a box, anyone?) marshmallows, and colorful sprinkles to make the finished product more festive. They turned out to be Suzy proof, and the day was saved. We also have enough unattractive cookies for the rest of our lives. Bonus!
*I can’t help it, but every time I hear this I picture a bunch of bulimics with balloons and noisemakers. It’s entirely possible that I will never grow up.
6 Responses to “Cookie Monster”
So glad that there is someone else out there that cannot cook cookies…….I have tried so may times, but each time disaster….
jx
Bad cookie makers, unite! 🙂
Blame the oven. It’s always the oven. Rice Krispy Treats are awesome, who doesn’t like a rice crispy square?!
…and I totally thought the same thing when I read the name of the party!
Can’t be good at everything, the fact that one tries is often enough to satisfy most but in this case I’m glad the Rice Krispy Treats or should I say Megan came to the rescue, always a great treat.
Suzy Homemaker?
Definitely NOT my forte! 😉