Any simple recipe can be messed up. Even though it seems baking cookies would be unlikely to qualify for this group, creating them from scratch may be difficult.
Over this past weekend, Ashley Kivikoski and I attempted to bake simple cookies from Mr. Funkhouser's “Funky Cooking” interim course. Due to the lack of ingredients, we decided to substitute two sticks of butter for one cup of shortening. This turned out to be a horrible mistake. To add on, we could only find one cookie sheet and therefore, used two cupcake pans instead. Again, this ruptured in utter failure. Not only did the cookies burn, but when they were cool enough to get off the trays, they stuck like glue. Now we not only had burnt cookies, but a rancid mess to clean up, too.
We managed to save some of the crumbs in a bowl that is currently occupying a space in my refrigerator. Moral of this story, never substitute ingredients for others if you don't have them.
By: Becky Welc
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