Cooking Endeavor

I love the Spanish food here! Carman is an excellent cook but I still crave some American foods. Here are the top 5:

1. Chipotle Burrito- rice, no beans, steak, w/ guac (of course we went to London 3 months too early b/c they aren't getting one until April!)
2. Breakfast food- pancakes, crispy bacon, french toast, banana bread!
3. Moe's Billy Barou Nachos!
4. Chik-fil-a Nuggets and Polynesian sauce
5. Chocolate Chip Cookies

 As for the last one, I have been craving just an excellent Chocolate Chip Cookie! So I figured I could get a recipe offline that I use and make the cookies at Carman's. This was my adventure yesterday. I figured out which ingredients Carman already had and went to the store to buy the rest. The recipe I used, Mrs. Fields, called for baking powder and baking soda. Carman already had baking powder so I just needed the baking soda and brown sugar, vanilla extract, and the chocolate chips, most important ingredient! However, I could not find baking soda at the store anywhere. So I thought if I just had baking powder that would be ok.

I get back to the house and we start getting out all the ingredients and bowls and stuff. Carman was like do you need anything else? Well, I need things to measure the ingredients with and so she pulled out this scale where you measure the ingredients in grams on it. Of course I don't know how many grams is a cup and stuff. I told her I didn't know the grams I needed like a cup measuring and a teaspoon and stuff. So for the teaspoon she just pulled out a tiny, small spoon. And for the cup she just got a mug from the cabinet. So there was no actual measuring cups or anything. I just had to wing the whole recipe....

 

This is what I had to work with. 

Well I think I did a pretty good job at judging how much a cup and half a cup was. The dough didn't actually taste that bad. But then when I need to put my cookies in the over there were no degrees on the oven. It was just like setting 1-10 or you just turned it on and it was hot. I had no idea how hot it was or how long they needed to cook for. So i just put them in there and watched them. As I watched them however, they were not rising but flattening. I'm guessing because of the no baking soda. 

  

 

Cookies baking in the oven

So I took them out and they were sticking to the aluminum foil and they were a little crispier than I would have liked. They don't actually look like cookies they are more crumbs but they still tasted pretty good! Carman we sooo excited about them! She said they tasted sooo good and that I'm going to make her fat with these cookies! haha

 

The first batch was a little bit of a mess

However after the first batch it got better and they actually weren't all crumbs. They aren't the best chocolate chip cookies but they definitely hit the spot. It was a challenge but I was excited about my success! I'm going to bring them to school tomorrow and pass them out. We will see what everyone says! And maybe next time I make them I will have baking soda and would have found measuring cups by then! haha...

  

 

Final Product