I found a wonderful-sounding cookie recipe the other day: Strawberry shortcake cookies. Doesn't that sound terrific, like a beautiful summery snack?
I had a bag of frozen strawberries left over from last year's crop, so I defrosted and drained them in anticipation of making the recipe. In fact, I quadrupled the recipe because that's how much frozen strawberries I had on hand.
The results were lovely.
The taste ... not so much. There wasn't anything really wrong with them, you understand. It's just that they were, well, cake-y. These were strawberry shortCAKE cookies and tasted cake-y. Not like cookies.
We tried to like them, we really did. But whereas cookies normally get eaten fairly briskly in this household, these seemed to just ... linger.
After a few days, I saw mold growing on them and decided enough was enough. I consigned the entire quadrupled batch to the composter.
Not recommended. Reminded me of this meme:
As Woody Allen said, “There's an old joke--two elderly women are at a Catskill mountain resort, and one of 'em says, "Boy, the food at this place is really terrible." The other one says, "Yeah, I know; and such small portions."
ReplyDeleteSigh, hate when we do that but I am sure we all have. Live and learn! God Bless and have a great day!
ReplyDeleteI'd probably try to re-tool the recipe to be more 'cookie' and less 'cake' -- but if you no longer have ingredients to spare, it is what it is. I hope your preferred composting biologicals enjoy them, at least.
ReplyDeleteTry icing them.
ReplyDeleteThis is why they invented chickens.
ReplyDeleteWe would take them to church! There are always hungry people there.
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