Today being a Sunday, I decided that I needed a break. I had just managed to escape from a horrific day at a campsite. Ah! The bugs! The only good thing about going to the campsite yesterday is that I had the most fantastic BBQ meat and I got some much wanted reading done. Anyways, against my parents' wishes, I escaped back home (in a friend's car); and it was pouring! Although I had told my parents that I would be fine alone at home...the mind is quite amazing at conjuring up frightening images and thoughts...In the end, I only went to sleep once the sun had risen and the freaking birds would not shut up.
Once I had woken up, it was well into the afternoon and I had not eaten for the past 26 hours. Therefore, I was going to make pasta but after boiling the water, I realized that the pasta was expired 7 months ago! Well, I scraped that idea and searched around the house. The only meal that I could eat was ramen (for those that do not know, ramen is instant spicy noodles). Let me make it clear that I am a disaster in the kitchen; So I somehow managed to ruin my noodles...I don't know where I went wrong. The directions are quite simple: 1) Boil the water 2) Put in the noodles, soup powder, and dry vegetable mix 3) Cook for 4~5 minutes 4) Add egg if desired. Somewhere I went wrong and ended up with a very soupy puffy thing.
I did manage to swallow half of it and then I gave up and decided to just throw it out. At this point I touched a centipede in the sink that I thought was a scrap of food. AAAAHHHH! Yes, the fifteen minutes afterward involved a lot of soap and a lot of scrubbing and a lot of hot water. I hope that the thing drowned in the hot water (it crawled down the drain).
So in the end, I settled for making some yum-o cookies. But, I was too lazy to measure everything out first...so that created a problem with my dough...which melted because of the butter...and I substituted the dark brown sugar with light brown sugar...so that may have also created a problem...and all my cookies weren't the same size...okay, so I had a lot of problems...but it worked out somewhat in the end! I still managed to get some type of disfigured flat glob thing that tasted great!
So in celebration of making some really great tasting cookies (no matter how ugly they were), my artistic piece for this entry is a list of questions to the ingredients that were required in the recipe.
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Dear Ingredients...
Oh! I Can't Believe It's Not Butter*! can I still use you like regular butter?
Do I still need you Mr. Salt when my fake butter is already salted?
Can I replace you Mr. Dark Brown Sugar with one Ms. Light Brown Sugar?
My dear Cake Flour and APF** how old are you both exactly?
Have you gone stale my dry Oatmeal?
Why do you both come in such large quantities when I only need a tsp. each of you Mr. Baking Powder and Mrs. Baking Soda?
Why must you chocolate chips come in ounces when I can't measure you in ounces?
Ms. Vanilla! Must you spill yourself all the time?
Try not to get your shells in my dough Mrs. Egg! And are you pregnant***?
Can't all of you mix together perfectly to give me a good dough?
Why must all of you bake into some thin flat bread thing instead of a thick fluffy cookie?
Does the cookie at least taste good?
*This is the name of the butter that I use. It's made of "Sweet Cream Buttermilk" with "no trans fat" and is "naturally cholesterol free". It is also made of 60% vegetable oil spread. There is some small print so I'm guessing that it's not all too good for you. And Buttermilk isn't really that much better than butter. It's still milk mixed with some type of acid (lemon or vinegar). Well, overall, these fake butter is better than eating real butter (since real butter is all cream)...
**APF is just an abbreviated form of All Purpose Flour - a flour generally used in all types of baking and cooking
***Have you ever bought organic eggs? This usually happens in organic eggs, but if you look at the eggs carefully, after you break them, sometimes there is a tiny speck of a black thing shaped like an embryo. You're technically supposed to scrap those eggs because the eggs have been fertilized. It's actually kind of gross. I suggest that you stop buying organic eggs if this happens often; it's recommended that you crack your eggs in a separate bowl before adding them to a recipe, just to check. Organic doesn't necessarily mean better.
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These are some pictures of my cookies…
This one is a picture of the first batch….some were eaten…
This one is of the second batch…the somewhat better ones…
And to emphasize how thin these cookies were…
That’s part of my finger… these cookies are like 0.5 cm…
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So, that was the end to my entry. These are the two videos that I watched to make the cookies. It's just really one video that is split into two parts. the ingredients are as follows...I just pasted directly from the little info box at the side of the video...
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Ingredients-- this will make about two dozen cookies
1/2 cup unsalted butter
1/2 cup white sugar
1/2 cup dark brown sugar
1/2 cup cake flour
1/2 cup all purpose flour
1 1/4 blended oatmeal
1 egg
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
4 1/2 oz of Hershey's chocolate bar ( the big bar is enough )-- if doubling this recipe, try another brand for the other chocolate, like Cadbury
6 oz of chocolate chips ( approx 1 1/4 cup ) semi sweet chocolate chips or a mix
VARIATIONS- you can also add 1/4 cup chopped nuts
you can also add peanut butter chips if you want
Bake ate 375 F for 10 minutes or 190 C for 10 minutes
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PART ONE
PART TWO
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ENJOY!
by Anna Choo
