I Failed The Dreamwidth Litmus Test

[jpegghost]

One funeral later, I have the rest of today and tomorrow off. Yay! Time to devote it all to school or Animal Crossing.

Unlike the rest of Dreamwidth's userbase, I am terrible at baking. I can cook just about anything and do it well, but baking is too exact a science for me. Candy-making even more so.
I have been gleefully collecting recipe cards from my family for a while now because I enjoy the antiquity of recipe boxes, and a few days ago my cousin from the Austrian side of the family had unearthed some ancient cookie, kolachy, and stöllen recipes from my grandparent's basement. Alex immediately got excited for the spice cookies, and I warily accepted the task of ruining relations with my deceased grandmother.

Let me explain myself. The archaic card said I should roll those bastards into 'walnut sized balls' and put on a baking sheet. I don't eat a lot of walnuts. I don't know how big walnuts are. I never crack open a cold walnut with the boys. I put some circles on the sheet and when I pulled them out of the oven ten minutes later, they were all merging and i had to quickly divide them. They became square.
Beforehand, Alex grabbed a maybe-walnut-sized ball of raw dough, shoved it in his mouth, then proclaimed "It tastes like the old country!"

Thank you for your input, sir.

Regardless of my boyfriend's antics and my inability to foresee cookies spreading and morphing together like one large brick, they are extremely delicious and Alex and I have been shoveling them into our faces.

Comments

[alee_grrl]

Taste trumps looks when it comes to food. So if they taste good, then they aren't a failure.

My maternal grandmother was an amazing cook for the most part, and could even manage most baking. But the poor woman could not make biscuits, it was her one kitchen weakness. They would look perfect, but were so hard you could hammer nails with them. They were completely inedible.

I do okay with most simple baking, but stay away from some of the fussier things.

These cookies sound delicious. I love soft gooey cookies and ginger snaps. So having a softer version of a ginger cookie sounds divine. Thank you for sharing the recipe.

[jpegghost]

Haha, I don't even try with biscuits. I get the oven-ready ones from the store.

I watch people make fussier things, like macarons and I'm stunned! How! I understand it's trial and error, but it becomes exhausting.

I'm happy you like the recipe! Please tell me if you make them!