Well, this post is very much overdue to say the least. Anyway, the first part of the post is about my buddy bake with Tricia!! We met through a friend and knew immediately that we had to bake with each other. We finally got the opportunity a month or so ago to get together and bake, and since we hadn't been able to bake since long before, we decided to go HARD (bake multiple cookies)! We landed on Glazed Lemon S-Bends and Blueberry Cakelets. I couldn't decide if the cakelets really counted as a cookie, but they definitely tasted good enough to be considered a cookie and definitely worthy of making the blog. Tricia decided to add some yogurt morsels to the batter, and this turned out to be a great idea!! Anyway, the baking process was pretty typical of cupcakes for the cakelets, but kinda new for the s-bend cook
ies. They were the type where you have to pipe them out, so we had to use a plastic bag. This has always been questionable for me. I have tried piped cookies before but they
failed miserably because the bag just ripped and then it was just a block of dough, which I could have easily attained without a bag. Luckily, they had some pretty tough bags which ended up being strong enough to withstand the pressure. The cookies turned out great and because the lemon glaze turned out delicious as well, we decided to put it on the cakelets too. This also resulted in a tastebud explosion, as can probably be attested to by Rajiv, Aaron, and Ryan haha. Unfortunately, we did not have time for the third cookie that we had hoped to make, but soon enough, it will be baked!
The next bake happened to be the last bake in the old apartment (if it really counts as a bake). It was simply rice krispies with M&Ms in it. Good, yes, perhaps too many M&Ms, yes, but still delicious, nothing exceedingly new or exciting really, but mmmmmm, I love Rice Krispies treats.
The final part of this post is dedicated to possibly the worst bake of all time :( Luckily I wasn't alone and got to bake with a friend I met through Will, Natalia!! It all began with which cookie we were going to bake. EVENTUALLY, we decided to go to the store, just pick a candy, and put it in a cookie. I love peanut M&Ms so I thought we should make a cookie with them. And to spice it up we could add peanut butter and chocolate chip morsels...great idea right?? Well, turns out, though the idea was there, the recipe just wasn't happening. I haven't gotten quite good enough at baking to just guess all the ingredients (though I wish to someday), but it is due to the little experience I have that I would basically screw up the dough. We began with a basic chocolate chip cookie recipe. While I was going through the ingredients though, there was no salt, and I thought that that was required for chocolate chip. I cross-checked with two other recipes, and they had some, but for some reason, I decided to keep up with the first recipe because I felt like I had used it before, but I decided to add some salt. Anyway, the flour to liquid ratio or something ended up being way off, and the cookies turned out very cake-like and didn't taste much like a M&M Cookie. Unfortunately, I mass produced these cookies because they have been in high demand (lol), but unfortunately, I will not be able to distribute these, due to the fact that my baking rep would be ruined. So, ratings for the month of cookies
Blueberry Cakelets 8.5/10
Lemon-glazed S-Bend 8.5/10
Blueberry Cakelets with lemon glaze 9/10
Rice Krispies with M&Ms 7/10
Peanut Butter and Chocolate chip Peanut M&M cookies 3/10
Thanks for reading!!
