Good Intentions

Intentions are important right? And having fun? Doing something for pleasure and not performance?

When I set out to make my very first batch of “Back to School Cookies” yesterday morning….I had all these things in mind.  I really wanted to make it special and make them from scratch, and try to be as good as a Mom of one of the blogs I read. She has her kids come home from school the first day and sit down and talk about school with the cookies baking in the oven, with a cold glass of milk.

Great idea! Love it!  How sweet of a tradition is that? I should copy it. Today.Immediately.

So Beauty and I baked up a batch for the boys and another one for her first day of school tomorrow. I goggled “Best Chocolate Chip Cookies Ever” and got a lot of hits and reviews. I carefully selected one…

 We turned up the music and got too it-dancing around and laughing. I thought in my head “This is fun-I should do this more often-look what I haved missed all these years by not baking back to school cookies!”

I should have known something was wrong when it called for 3 cups of flour and the creamy batter was quickly destroyed and looked like a bowl of creampuffs..or when the batter was so floury it was impossible to mix. Is there a big difference between baking soda and powder?

Anyways by the time I put them in the oven I was seriously worried but did not want to ruin this special time for my daughter.

In they go and after 10 minutes nothing seems to be cooking at all. Oven issues? Maybe they meant 20 minutes and not 10? Anyways it took 30 minutes to cook those large flower filled cookies…at which time the bottom burnt and they were hard as rocks. A lot of smoke also seeped through the stove and almost set of the smoke alarm. Is that normal?

When Bear got home minutes before I arrived he texted me “Had a great day at school! PS-why are the cookies burnt and hard?I love you mom though!”

So I stopped at Subways and picked up a dozen perfectly cooked ones and we still had our cookies and milk and laughed all together at my ones.

I left one for Hubby so he could see them and get a good laugh too and threw the other 40 out. He was rather sad as he said he likes burnt hard cookies ands that the middle tasted delicious. What a keeperJ

So I wasn’t too hard on myself on this one because the intention was there and we had fun. I was glad at least I wanted to bake something homemade and that I went for it despite my obvious lack of domestic skills (although usually I am a decent baker for the record!!!)

Next year…I am doing a practice run prior. Or Pillsbury.