• Sugar Cookies
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    Cookie Quest 2.0

    Well guys, I bought flour, butter, white and brown sugar at Sam’s Club.  I guess it’s time to admit: I bake now.  This wasn’t always true about me.  I preferred cooking to baking because baking seems so final.  Like once that batter is in the oven, there’s no turning back.  If it sucks, it’s too late.  You’ve failed, might as well go live in a box because who can love you after a cake with crunchy edges and a completely uncooked middle?  Answer: no one.  Go sleep in the alley with the cats.  With cooking, you can taste and tweak as you go, it’s a little more forgiving.  Being failure-averse,…

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  • Gooey cookies
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    Cookie Quest 1.0

    “Chocolate chip cookies should be the worst cookie you make,” says my husband.  To my face.  While I’m awake and can hear him.  And he says this unapologetically as if it were a perfectly natural statement to make to the woman who just baked 2.5 dozen cookies for him (and me, let’s be real).  Granted, I had also just whipped up a batch of Breakfast Cookies, a healthy concoction held together with banana and almond meal whose only resemblance to actual cookies is the shape, so he was feeling a bit deceived at the time.  My initial reaction was of the “What on earth is the matter with you my…