In the holiday spirit, I printed a new recipe for cookies from one of those foodie sights out in the vast Internet. We really had not been eating too many desserts, unless you count the doughnuts I bought when the grands were here or the pecan pie I bought from the grocery two days ago or all that mint chocolate candy in the Tupperware. Anyway, I was thinking of Christmas cookies to take up to the city for Christmas Day, so we were not going to eat them all!
The recipe was for thumbprint cookies and would allow me to use up more of the abundance of persimmon jam we seem to have by putting a tiny dot in the hollow of the thumbprint. The recipe only required 5 ingredients, including the jam, so the work went easily. I watched them closely in the oven spread into thin flat spheres of sugar and butter with the ones in the back of the tray burning just a little on the bottom. The second batch did the same even though I turned the oven down 5 degrees and cut several minutes off the cooking time. Now I have two dozen thin almost burnt wafers of confection! They look nothing like the thumbprint cookies on the Internet.
Hubby is on the third/fourth day of a nasty head cold and he did not seem at all dismayed by my cooking disaster as he ate two of the broken ones just like the Cookie Monster does. I do not bake cookies as often as I used to, and maybe I am just out of practice. He is not out of practice on the eating, though.
Today I will drag out an older recipe that I have used in the past and make different and hopefully better cookies.
I am trying hard to limit my holiday indulgences, but that's hard, these days. Everywhere I look there is another tasty treat, and now my mouth wants it! :-)
ReplyDeleteI haven't made cookies since the grandkids were little and coming for their summer visits. and mostly didn't make them from scratch even then. I'm not a big cookie fan. I used to be until I went through menopause. don't really understand the connection but cookies just don't tempt me now.
ReplyDeleteBravo...and I am so sorry about the colds. We were fine until the Cherry Garcia, and the Chocolate/Brownie ice cream too. Then at work, one of the other slaves is a chef. Yesterday was a purple sweet potatoe pie with a coconut whipped dream topping. The library upstairs sent down one of those thousand piece boxes of Whitman Chocolates, and two other workers brought in brownies. LOL I am so glad I forgot the box of See's I was going to take. LOL So how is the weather. I watch it on TV as it roars over your heads.
ReplyDeleteI thought about decorating sugar cookies with the grandkids but changed my mind. We made playdough instead and they made presents for their Mom with it. No one ate it. :-)
ReplyDeleteThis is the reason they tell us not to plan a new recipe when having company, or if you absolutely have to have it come out right the first time. Best to experiment, and if it's a flop as this was, you have time to do something else. Better luck with the tried and true recipe!
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Often "new and improved" isn't. My cookie recipes are all old.
ReplyDeleteGet Well Wishes for the Cookie & Cold
ReplyDeleteAnd, for perfect cookies
I hope your happiness is up a notch or two today. My cookie recipes are all very old. The Milwaukee Settlement House Cookbook is the standard around here for a lot of generations.
ReplyDeleteA get-well wish for your husband. I too have been fighting a nasty cold, and mine just doesn't seem to want to go away.
ReplyDeleteMaybe more cookies is the cure?
ReplyDeleteI had great hopes for cookie baking this year. I've lost my touch as well. Cooked too long. Forgot ingredients. A mess. Last batch went smoothly -- and I've eaten way too many and I don't normally eat sweets. What is all this trying to tell me?
ReplyDeleteMerry Christmas to you.
I’ve stopped baking cookies cause I like what I make so much better than any I buy I eat too many if they’re in the house. Won’t have anyone dropping in so wontbneed to entertain.
ReplyDeleteA Nerry Christmas to you!
... and a Merry one, too!
ReplyDeleteAhh...never mind...you can say they are oven-cooked pancakes...and no one will be the wiser! :)
ReplyDeleteMerry Christmas to you and yours, Tabor...relax and enjoy. :)
I would have added more flour after that first tray fell flat. But now you know that recipe was a dud. I've often wondered if people deliberately post recipes with errors in them -- where's the satisfaction in that? I ask myself. Merry Christmas and a very Happy New Year! Your husband is a keeper for eating your failed thumbprint cookies. Mine would do that too, and remark, "They aren't bad; maybe a bit too brown, but not bad." (happily munching around his words...)
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