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We had a party for my friend’s nephew today, it was exhausting work preparing for it. My friend and I made a fruit salad, a veggie tray and we made a tray of rice crispy treats…and I made my favorite chocolate chip cookies.
However, the cookies almost didn’t make it to the party. I made the first batch the day before yesterday. It was late by the time I started the project and perhaps my brain was half asleep. I also didn’t have my mom’s ever helpful supply of baking paraphernalia at my disposal and therefore had to make due with the stuff I could find. Between the two little “issues”, I somehow managed to screw up the error proof recipe….but didn’t realize it until I got the first tray out of the oven and had a taste…of salt with just a hint of chocolate. Not good at all.
Luckily yesterday I was able to bake another batch…being extra careful of how much salt I included…and this batch came out much much better. I’ve never done that with chocolate chip cookies though, hence the reason I like making them. You really can’t mess them up-or at least it would be really hard too.
Ah well. Perhaps once I begin working again I’ll go out and buy some baking equipment so when I bake again I’ll be fully prepared.
11 Comments
June 29, 2008 at 6:41 am
mmmmmmm…those cookies look delish! I made a batch of peanut butter ones the other day, the classics truly are the best.
June 29, 2008 at 3:20 pm
nothin’ like cookies to make you feel at home. congrats on your new digs.
June 29, 2008 at 3:51 pm
You can never go wrong kids and chocolate chip cookies, they LOVE them.
June 29, 2008 at 10:42 pm
Oh how I love homemade chocolate chip cookies!
June 30, 2008 at 7:35 am
Gotta love the classics and chocolate chip is one of my favs.. Yummy stuff…
June 30, 2008 at 8:20 am
oh i’m the same now i’m no longer at home: i really miss all the baking stuff my mother had around the place.
June 30, 2008 at 8:26 am
As easy as chocolate chip cookies are to make, I still get lazy and buy the dough already mixed so that all I have to do is either drop a spoonful of the dough on the tray or just cut-n-bake. But there’s nothing like a freshly baked chocolate chip cookie right out of the oven. I don’t let them cool, I like to break them open and see that melty chocolate.
July 1, 2008 at 10:24 am
Salty cookies eh? The picture looks yummy, where those the actual cookies?
When I was like 8 I made a cake, and didn’t stir it enough – when it came out all the egg had gone to the bottom of the pan – my poor and wonderful mother actually ate a piece and claimed it was wonderful! :0
July 1, 2008 at 2:49 pm
Okay. I don’t think I’ll be trying anything you cook. Not after writing a whole post about being allergic to mangoes and you coming along and telling me to enjoy eating them. Those chips in the chocolate are probably radioactive or something!
July 1, 2008 at 8:39 pm
Ah, a nice homebaked chocolate chip cookie with a big ole’ glass of milk would really hit the spot right about now!
July 2, 2008 at 3:28 pm
Oh man…..I want homemade cookies so bad! I am in cookie envy now!!