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.

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Chip In Your Thoughts

I do my best to avoid Nestle brand products in protest of their ravaging of western Michigan’s groundwater. Click HERE for details in case you are interested in why you should buy a Hershey’s Krackel bar rather than a Nestle’s Crunch bar, besides the superior Hershey’s favor.

So, when Nestle announced a contest to find the most unique recipe for their semi-sweet chocalate chips, I was unmoved. Someone is going to win a year’s supply of chocolate chips and probably 50 extra pounds of fat in their ass for some weird receipe using chocolate chips in a mole sauce. Ugh, I hate that. This is how to eat chocolate …

chocolate chip eating gif

And if you must eat chocolate chip cookies, buy Chips Ahoy. They taste great and do not use Nestle chocolate chips. But stay away from this version …

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