Lessons learned

As part of our marketing efforts at Comfort Keepers, we bake homemade cookies and deliver them to our referral sources, clients & friends a couple times each year. So it was time again for the Comfort Keepers Spring bake off. In attendance were myself, my niece Kate (see post lucky 13), and my dear mother. 8 hours later with sore backs and hungry stomachs we managed to bake approx. 20 dozen cookies. Yes, I said TWENTY dozen cookies! We made butter toffee squares that melt in your mouth, we made chocolate snaps which were the perfect blend of crispy on the outside and chewy on the inside, we also whipped up a batch of orange squares which gave a sweet burst of citrus in every bite, and to top it all off, we made about 20 dozen hockey pucks. Now mind you, they were very pretty hockey pucks, in an array of pretty spring shapes and colors, but hockey pucks all the same. These were arguably the worst cookies ever produced out of K's kitchen. It was my fault...I take full responsibility. The recipe did not tell you how much flour to put in, just "add enough flour so that with flour you can easily roll out the dough". What kind of recipe is THAT? Around 6 1/2 cups later, I decided to called it quits. In retrospect, I think I should have topped off somewhere around 4- 4 1/2. As you can imagine, I was terribly upset, I mean all that hard work, wasted. But if you recall, I vowed to make March a month of "finding the good". So my sweet husband has gratefully come up with some other ideas for my cookies so all our efforts do not have to be wasted. 1.) Heat reflector tiles for the space shuttle 2.) Use in place of clay pigeons for skeet shooting 3.) With a little grout, they could make for an interesting back splash in say...a kids bathroom? 4.) Coasters 5.) Driveway pavers The list keeps growing, but I think you get the picture...

Happy SWEET Monday everyone.