Those always seem to be the days I try to bake cookies. Coincidence?
We picked strawberries last weekend (I should say mom picked me strawberries while I wrangled the girl as she tried to drag her white blanket through the fields) and I still had a lot left over after we made jam (again, mom made the jam). I found this recipe to make strawberry shortcake cookies.
Easy enough but I have issues with cookies. Out of two batches that make twenty-fourish cookies each I have 16 that are edible. That’s right. Not even half. The rest are burnt and eleven of those are on my kitchen floor cooling. I am trying to type this with one non-dominant hand as the other is on ice because I burnt the tips of my fingers as I tried to keep a falling cookie sheet from burning my bare legs and feet. I had an oven mitt on but I grabbed a cookie as the sheet slid down the front of the oven and It stuck to the mitt and burned through. Ay yi yi.
My cookies always burn, though not to this extent. The recipe calls for a 375 oven and I know mine runs hot so I turned it down to 350. I am sure the problem was my new dark cookie sheets. They are really shallow bar pans but they are bigger than my gold cookie sheets which take forever to make anything as you can only fit six cookies on one sheet. I think I need to just get some plain old silver ones and an oven thermometer.
Sigh. Well, the cookies I did get are really good and I would surely make them again. After I get new bakeware. And I have use of my right hand.
I wish I had some of those for my morning coffee!