The lovely and talented AlbanyJane @ http://albanyeats.blogspot.com hosted a cookie swap this past Sunday.
I was a cookie swap virgin up until the 13th. I drove Sexybeast insane pondering what to bake, how to store it, making sure I could double a recipe, etc. The man deserves to be canonized to put up w/ me.
In the end I found the perfect cookie, oatmeal chocolate chip pecan. I was really nervous because #1 i don't bake and #2 I wanted everything to be perfect perfect perfect.
As I don't own a Kitchen Aid (I WANT!), I borrowed my mother's Sunbeam hand mixer, which she received as a wedding shower gift in 1968.
OK, so, dry ingredients mixed together, wet ingredients in a separate bowl. The mixing of the wet worked perfectly. I enlisted Sexybeast's help slowly putting the dry into the wet. Hmm... why is this 42 y/o mixer going slower and slower. At which I gave up and mixed by hand.
I had no parchment paper, so I substituted w/ aluminium foil, which worked like a charm.
1st batch in the oven, perfecto. 2nd batch, hmm 3 cookies weren't baked fully. 3rd batch, mostly raw.
I got mad and the stress leaked onto Sexybeast. It finally sunk in that perhaps I should stop opening the oven door so much.
We had a fabulous time at the home of AlbanyJane & her husband AlbanyJohn & the little foster kitties. I almost fainted from cuteness overexposure! She baked a personal fave, candy cane cookies. And lilimonster of http://underthecoppertree.blogspot.com was also in attendance w/ her nummy num Filipino cookies (I lost count how many Sexybeast scarfed down!) And met many other cool peeps and tasty treats to boot. Twas a good day.
All the stress and worry has prepared me for my 2nd swap o' the season at the office this Friday.
Making chocolate dried fruit cookies. Details to follow.
5 comments:
Cool! Swaps are always fun. I used to go to an ornament swap the 1st Sunday in December for years. Then the evil woman went insane & divorced the most wonderful man - we kept him in the divorce. My husband's best friend.
Sounds like you had fun! I'm going to my very first cookie-party-sort-thing this Saturday and I'm super nervous about cooking because I never do (I've only ever used my stove 3 times in the last 9 months!) so I volunteered to bring other stuff we need, like milk! Maybe next time I'll suck it up and just cook!
dijea: maybe she was a witch. they say witches can bake
GLT: 3 times a year! wow, you must eat a lot of salad :D but you know, sometimes it's good to in charge of the little things, like milk or cups
I am so glad you had a good time. We will have to hang out again! For serious, you guys are good people.
AJ: i'll send you an e-mail
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