{ 2008 04 01 }

Cookies

I love cookies. This weekend, I made oatmeal chocolate chip cookies, after not making any for a long time.

When I went to put in the brown sugar, I realized that it was one big lump. YARGH!

I wasn’t able to measure, so I might’ve gotten more sugar than usual. 1c ~ 1 not-quite-full box, right?

Anyway, after a minute in a moist paper towel in the microwave and another minute of Slasher-Movie-Action with a butter knife, I got it to the point where my KitchenAid was able to beat the sugar into submission with the butter.

Side effect: the butter and sugar mixture was much, much more creamy (I left it mixing while I went to the basement to move laundry) and the cookies came out much more flat.

I am constantly amazed at how much I can “adjust” a recipe and still get something tasty. (My snickerdoodle cookies are probably an even better example: JoC calls for like 1.5 c of flour, which makes buttery, flat, crinkly cookies, but I use like 4c to get puffball, nearly round cookies like my mom made for us. Whatever! They all taste good.)

Posted by Kat on Tuesday, April 1st, 2008, at 12:37 pm, and filed under cooking.

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