a new version for us this year of our annual Santa's Whiskers cookies when I had too much to do and he offered to help. He followed the recipe, sort of. I was off doing something else and when it was time to add the flour, he grabbed what he thought was a jar of flour. Turns out he grabbed an unlabelled glass jar of 7-grain organic pancake mix--close, but not quite. The label fell off the jar last month and I hadn't replaced it yet, but no need to ask a question to make sure. Never mind that there were two full jars of flour--with labels--nearby. When it came time to add the vanilla, since it's an old recipe that's been smeared some over the years, he thought it read 2 T. instead of 2 t. A big difference in a Very Vanilla sort of way. He used half the sugar the original recipe called for, which is what I always do when I bake (that's my boy), but combined with the ultra-grainy Very Vanilla pancake mix flour, the cookie dough tasted nothing like they're supposed to and looked, as my husband put it, "too healthy." We haven't baked them yet, they're still in the freezer. Perhaps the dogs will think they're great dog biscuits and be enticed to come in at night for their yummy reward. Perhaps if Colorado will send some snow our way, we'll make a fresh batch of re-named Snowstorm cookies. [Disclaimer: To his credit, Spencer has baked cookies many times before this episode and they've been very delicious.]
Saturday, December 30, 2006
Healthy Cookies
Most of us have thoroughly experienced the abundance of being gifted at Christmas (or other December holidays--whatever you celebrate), and we've probably consumed more sugar than we usually would, at least we have at our house. Mostly. My oldest son, Spencer (decked out in a three-piece suit he purchased by himself for a recent high school band concert), made
a new version for us this year of our annual Santa's Whiskers cookies when I had too much to do and he offered to help. He followed the recipe, sort of. I was off doing something else and when it was time to add the flour, he grabbed what he thought was a jar of flour. Turns out he grabbed an unlabelled glass jar of 7-grain organic pancake mix--close, but not quite. The label fell off the jar last month and I hadn't replaced it yet, but no need to ask a question to make sure. Never mind that there were two full jars of flour--with labels--nearby. When it came time to add the vanilla, since it's an old recipe that's been smeared some over the years, he thought it read 2 T. instead of 2 t. A big difference in a Very Vanilla sort of way. He used half the sugar the original recipe called for, which is what I always do when I bake (that's my boy), but combined with the ultra-grainy Very Vanilla pancake mix flour, the cookie dough tasted nothing like they're supposed to and looked, as my husband put it, "too healthy." We haven't baked them yet, they're still in the freezer. Perhaps the dogs will think they're great dog biscuits and be enticed to come in at night for their yummy reward. Perhaps if Colorado will send some snow our way, we'll make a fresh batch of re-named Snowstorm cookies. [Disclaimer: To his credit, Spencer has baked cookies many times before this episode and they've been very delicious.]
a new version for us this year of our annual Santa's Whiskers cookies when I had too much to do and he offered to help. He followed the recipe, sort of. I was off doing something else and when it was time to add the flour, he grabbed what he thought was a jar of flour. Turns out he grabbed an unlabelled glass jar of 7-grain organic pancake mix--close, but not quite. The label fell off the jar last month and I hadn't replaced it yet, but no need to ask a question to make sure. Never mind that there were two full jars of flour--with labels--nearby. When it came time to add the vanilla, since it's an old recipe that's been smeared some over the years, he thought it read 2 T. instead of 2 t. A big difference in a Very Vanilla sort of way. He used half the sugar the original recipe called for, which is what I always do when I bake (that's my boy), but combined with the ultra-grainy Very Vanilla pancake mix flour, the cookie dough tasted nothing like they're supposed to and looked, as my husband put it, "too healthy." We haven't baked them yet, they're still in the freezer. Perhaps the dogs will think they're great dog biscuits and be enticed to come in at night for their yummy reward. Perhaps if Colorado will send some snow our way, we'll make a fresh batch of re-named Snowstorm cookies. [Disclaimer: To his credit, Spencer has baked cookies many times before this episode and they've been very delicious.]
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