a question i get asked often is “what do you do?”
after they laugh at my answer (“i’m unemployed”) people generally follow-up with “well, what do you do all day?”
the answer? i bake.
i bake a lot.
today, i got it into my head to make dark chocolate m&m cookies. see, anyone can make m&m cookies. but i thought it a rather stroke of genius to make ‘em with dark chocolate m&m’s.
this was my first foray into cookies from scratch. followed a decent-looking recipe. beat my sugar and butter and eggs and flour and such. added my m&m’s. then i baked a first batch — but they were too big and therefore too thin and the edges burnt while the middles stayed doughy. so they wound up in the scrap heap — in what i’ve been referring to as the cookie mush:
cookie mush
fortunately, the next batch of smaller cookies turned out much better:
good-lookin' cookies.
but i had some dough left over. so i tried an experiment and made a cookie loaf. that didn’t work out so well:
cookie loaf mush.
what a delicious adventure!
stay tuned for more madcap tales from the oven.
