Good morning! This weekend my kitchen was the site of “The Great Batter Debacle
of 2013”. What’s that, you ask? “The Great Batter Debacle”
will go down in family history as the day I baked completely alone for the very
first time, and turned an epic fail
into
an epic recovery!
It started with a
simple request—could Krumbs and I bake cookies, from scratch using a recipe, completely by ourselves? After sharing some wild looks back
and forth, my parents agreed and Krumbs and I made our way
to the kitchen.
1.
Half a cup of butter? Check!
2.
Two eggs? Check!
3.
Blend
with blender? Hmm…note to
self—when you use a mixer, DO NOT lift the
beaters while they’re spinning.
When we finished
wiping egg and butter off our faces and
the cabinets
and the
counter top and the floor…AND,
when we’d changed our clothes
and put
on aprons, we were ready to follow the next steps.
4.
Add milk. Check!
5.
Add baking powder. Check!
6.
Add salt. Check!
7.
Add chocolate chips. Check!
8.
Roll into balls and bake at 350 for
ten minutes. Check!
Maybe we should
have noticed the batter was very soft and runny.
Maybe we should have re-read the recipe just one
more time…but we didn’t.
Could have, should have, would have…it was too
late once we put them in the oven. Before
long, we noticed the batter had melted into a huge liquid puddle
that was slowly oozing
to the edges of the cookie pan and onto the bottom of the oven—YIKES!
I raced to the oven
and pulled out the pan…without tilting it.
A voice drifted from the living room.
“How’s
it going in there?” Dad said. “It sure smells good!”
“Fine,” I yelled,
tilting the cookie sheet and pouring cookie batter ooze
into the mixing bowl. “We’re just absolutely fine!”
While I was doing
that, Krumbs was racing through the directions.
What did we do wrong?
Krumbs leaped up
and pushed the recipe to me and that’s when I saw it. We had forgotten a step. Right after “add salt” and right before “chocolate
chips” was another step—“add
two cups flour”.
Talk about epic failure…who forgets to add the flour
to a cookie recipe? We had to think fast
and fix this mess—FAST!
We quickly added two
cups of flour to our melted ooze. By
then, it really was melted because the hot stuff from the oven mixed with the
leftover batter and everything melted to a warm, sticky liquid.
Then, we mixed…using
the beaters…without pulling them out of the batter when the beaters were
moving. Next, we mixed more chocolate
chips into our now chocolate batter.
Last, we rolled the dough into balls and put the cookie sheets in the oven.
Eleven minutes
later, we removed our now “Chocolate, chocolate chip cookies”. We let them cool, put them on a plate and
presented them to mom and dad.
Guess what? The cookies were delicious! And that’s how we went from epic
fail to epic
recovery during the Great Batter Debacle of
2013. Take a tip from me, next time you bake remember to
check and re-check the recipe!
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