The past few years I have been helping my mom bake cookies to give out as gifts. Last year it was my sister, her and I doing the mad cookie experiment. This year it was my mom, my aunt and I. it was fun, tiring but fun. And we made a lot of cookies...like 33 dozen or so.
We started around 7:30 am and my aunt and I left at 4, leaving my mom to finish baking the last few remaining trays. It is always an adventure baking with my mom. She does a few things like her rum cake really well but then it gets interesting. Like last year thinking one box of butter and one 5 pound bag of flour was going to be enough butter for the 10 different types she wanted to make.
This yeas she was a little bit better. I had warned my aunt ahead of time so we came with extra flour, butter, sugar and eggs. So when we arrived, my mom is already flustered with the sugar cookie dough as it is incredibly sticky. She didn't want to wait so she made a package of sugar cookies (I despise the package cookie mix but I digress). She was trying to roll out cookie dough on wax paper. Yes you read that right. Gotta love her. So I take over and the dough is really sticky...too sticky but I make it work and get about 3 dozen star shaped cookies cut out for her. Found out that she used tub margarine instead of stick butter for the recipe...which was the culprit.
See you never want to use tub margarine for baking if you can help it. If you have to use margarine always go for it in the stick form. It's the consistency in the tub stuff that makes it more sticky and spread more.
It became apparent at that moment that I was going to be in charge of making the cookie doughs, especially since I brought my KitchenAid mixer with me. That baby can whip through making cookie dough like there is no tomorrow. I swear I love my KitchenAid. I whip up a batch of vanilla wafer cookies and as we are baking them my mom brings out all these bags of chips that she wants to use in the cookies. The three of us start talking flavors and then my aunt and I talk Mom out of putting the butterscotch and peanut butter chips in the same cookie...see this is why I was in charge of making the dough.
By the end of the day we made:
3 dozen sugar stars
6 dozen vanilla wafer cookies
5 dozen chocolate chip, walnut and heath bar cookies
5 dozen chocolate chip and toffee cookies
4.5 dozen peppermint white chocolate cookies
4.5 dozen oatmeal butterscotch cookies
5 dozen peanut butter cookies with peanut butter chips
I like the oatmeal butterscotch cookies the best. I got the dough just right so they spread out lovely and came out almost like the oatmeal lace cookies.
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