ICE IT!

Today has been a day of ICE... Ice on a tooth ache, Ice for a headache, Ice for a car sick little girl, and last but not least, ICE is now under my 4 broody hens.  ICE is good for everything.

When I say I "can't" I really can't!

I often tell people how I CAN NOT MAKE COOKIES... they laugh and say "whatever" everyone can make cookies. 

It lasts for 2-3 months then I start to believe all the others around me telling me that they don't believe me and that EVERYONE can make cookies.  So out comes the sugar, flour, chocolate chips and mixer.  I measure, mix, add ingredients, stir, everything you need to make a simple chocolate chip cookie. 

 

As I mix the cookie dough I think... oh that is a nice creamy mixture... this for sure is going to turn out.
 Then I add the flour, it says it will be stiff so I go with it...  I add the full amount of chocolate chips because I want to make sure I follow the recipe exactly.  I did add 1/4 cup LESS flour than it called for because it was looking really dry.  I scoop up the cookie dough and put it on the baking sheet.  It is so dry it falls apart.  I FOLLOWED DIRECTIONS!

 I had to smash the cookies down when they came out of the oven, they were still in hard little cookie scoop shape... what is wrong with my cookie making?
 These have all been pushed down with my hand... I can not make even simple chocolate chip cookies.  WHAT A WASTE of time and ingredients.  I am better off buying frozen cookie dough.

 

I don't want to waste the ingredients so I will try to add something to it, maybe another egg or some butter, it needs some moisture.  PS I USED THE RECIPE from the back of the nestle chocolate chip bag.  I want Christie WATT to see this because she was the last person who didn't believe me and I want her to believe... THAT I Jenny Rowser can not make cookies!