Now where should start? The end? Or the beginning? Doesn't matter, I guess, as right now as I sit here typing, I can say all my confidence has been shattered and my tastebuds ruined by today's endeavour!
Yes, I tried my hand at making cookies today, riding high on the confidence that I had since last week after my successful bread making. I had all the ingredients, I had the recipe at hand, I had the necessary tools, I had me. But what I didn't have was the discipline, and that vital in cookie making, I see now. The recipe was read, understood but not followed. Never improvise when you don't understand fully the nature of all your ingredients at hand, I supposed. I did just that and now faced the terrible consequence.
It was that atrocious, really. As I took at bite into one from the first tray out from the oven, I felt my tongue cringed. My tastebuds just went into overdrive, sending the word 'Eewwww!' to my head. The cookies weren't edible, at least for my standards. The taste of baking soda was simply too overpowering. Horrible, horrible cookies!
But I still had more mixture to go, to bake. Now that think about it now, sitting here with the cool living room without the pressure of baking, I should have stopped the baking then and remixed batter. Yes, I should have fixed the batter to make it better. But I didn't and now I'm stuck with 3 containers full of cookies, all with very strong baking soda taste.
So I'm scouring the internet to find ways to salvage the cookies. Redo, reuse, recycle the cookies. I don't want to just discard them into our cute little blue bin, and I know I definitely cannot share this with others, but I also know that I cannot eat them all, definitely not. Hopefully, there's something out there that can help me save these cookies from their impending waste.
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