Life lessons from Cookie Land Central – i.e. my house for the next 3 days.
1. DO take out your butter and eggs several hours before you begin. It allows for much easier mixing.
2. DO NOT – I repeat – Do NOT crack your egg so hard that it splits completely in half, dropping half the shell into your running KitchenAid that promptly shatters it and mixes it into 1c of butter and 1c of shortening.
3. DO ignore directions and go with your instincts on cookie size. Otherwise you end up with one GIANT cookie where 5 smaller ones were meant to exist.
4. DO NOT think that the fit of the bowl is “Good enough” to be a double boiler if it moves at all…the chocolate gets burnt and you get miserable.
5. DO make plans for a bigger kitchenm and then pretend you’re in it so the misery of no counter space seems far away while you’re trying to work under those conditions.
5. DO NOT forget to clean as you go…makes it much easier to get to the NEXT type of cookie.
6. DO make a complete list of ingredients needed and make SURE you have enough so that last minute supply replenishing isn’t required.
7. DO NOT forget to enlist the 10 year old to frost cookies so that once they are baked you can put your feet up and let them have the misery of frosting 10 dozen cookies.
I’m sure many more lessons are left to be learned…but we’re still on day 1 of cookie time!!
Fantastic list….seriously agree on #6. Although I did find out the hard way this week that yogurt can be substituted in a pinch for sour cream. Tasted great and I have to believe that I saved a few calories.
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Oh boy. Thank you so much for this list. I’m thinking of baking cookies myself here today. And was thinking of enlisting my 3yr old to help. Great tips 🙂
Love the advice! I’d add: use the right kind of butter. I ran out of butter sticks the other night and used a Country Crock type spread. Disaster! Flat and crunchy and funny-shaped oatmeal cookies.
They tasted good for breakfast, though!
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Great tips!
My list would add … do make sure you have ALL the ingredients BEFORE you start baking 🙂 Too many times I’ve started that kitchen aid only to realize I was out of a crucial ingredient.
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