Baking is Hard

As is typical of a teenager, my 15 year old daughter left a mess and headed to bed after she finished baking just enough chocolate chip cookies that she needed to take to school. I think she learned how to bake from watching The Muppets.

As I looked for a starting point to clean up, I saw she left batter. Well, baking cookies can’t be all that difficult, right? I may as well give it a go. This was representative of the result.

I placed the dollops of batter too close together, so I ended up baking a giant mega-cookie. While the outside was done, the inside was still soft and gooey. I cut away the perimeter of the monster cookie and tried to separate the inside into individual cookie shapes before baking longer. They were not your granny’s chocolate chip cookies.

Maybe if I had some musical inspiration I could have done better. Somehow I missed this song about chocolate chip cookies by Chip Chocolate from a decade ago.

That song is not really my cup of tea or glass of milk in this case, but it is clever. My preference is chocolate cake.

Maybe I should try that next time.

Or, I’ll just head to the store.