January 10

Today we simply showed up and baked some cookies. The cookies my partner and I made were the peanut-butter cookies. They were extremely simple, but this was a good exercise to start the class with as it would help prepare us for what was coming down the road. It has been so long since I have made cookies from scratch that I had forgotten, so I enjoyed the opportunity to do it again and refresh my memory. I also learned a few little tricks along the way that I'm sure will serve me well in the future. Normally, I am not a huge fan of peanut butter (because I eat so much of it in high-school) but I really like the cookies that James and I made. I don't think we placed them right in the oven because some came out a little more done than the others. But overall, I was pleased with the result. My favorite was the really chocolate cookie. I'm not sure what it was called, but it had more of the consistency of a muffin or a small cake. We haven't been given the recipes so I can't remember all of the types or their names. I can however say that I also enjoyed the oatmeal cookies and the butter cookies. The chocolate chip cookies were really good too (although that is a given). It would have been interesting to see the difference if the second had turned out as it was intended (one was intended to be smaller but taller, while the other bigger but flatter). I do remember the sugar cookies being quite delicious (but chocolate chip will always win that battle!). And finally there were the cookies with the jelly on the inside. I could only imagine that those would be the toughest to make, but they were worth the effort because they were so Delicious. There may be a couple more that I am forgetting, like the snicker doodle, but I can say with all honesty that I enjoyed the whole bag!