Anyone who knows me well knows that I am a not a baker. I have always been able to cook up a storm but bake........................no. I can not tell you how many times I have tried through out the years only to fail. This past year though, now that I have to watch my weight and my cholesterol level, I can bake cakes, cookies and pies and not burn them. An even have my newly baked goods come out darn good.
So tonight for New Years Eve I decided that I would bake Peanut butter Blossoms for Wayne and I. I thought that this recipe would take maybe 15 minutes for me to put together and then put in the oven. Then in 8-10 minutes I would have delicious cookies for us to eat. I certainly learned a lesson tonight. If a recipe calls for lots of ingredients with more then two steps to making it then it will not be a quick and easy recipe. By the time I was finished gathering up all of my ingredients, getting my measuring cups and spoons, and then started measuring every thing that needed to go into my bowl I was a little tired. Then the instruction called for each ingredient to be placed into the bowl in steps. Between each step there was a lot of mixing. Then .............................oh, I wont go on if you have ever made these cookies then you know what the next steps are. By the time I was through with the mixing, the placing of each cookie on the cookie sheet and put them in the oven. I stood and stared at the disaster in my kitchen. So now it was onto the clean up. I don't think I was halfway through the clean up when the timer went off letting me know that my cookies were now ready for me to stick a single Hershey kiss in each one. After doing so I had to at least try one cookie. I liked it. But no time to eat, time to clean up. When I was finished with all of the clean up from making the nicely looking cookies I was to darn tired to eat any more of them.
No they are not perfect looking but they really do taste good. However, next New Years Eve, I think I will skip the baking and buy a cake. :)
Happy New Years Day. I hope that 2009 will be a very good year for all of us.
Keep Smiling. :)
They look like perfect cookies to me and I hope today that you will find time to sit and have a cup of tea and one of your lovely cookies. Happy New Year to you, dear friend. I am enjoying your personal blog and didn't realize that you had Lupus. I am trying to get diagnosed with it, but no one seems to want to say that. Now we have no health insurance, so the process is over--all that is left is aching joints and miserable feeling. Thanks for sharing your life with us, Mary and may 2009 be very kind to you and Wayne and your family.
Cheryl
Posted by: Cheryl Sims | January 01, 2009 at 09:40 AM
ooh, one of my many faves! We should both be asleep. thanks for the link, this is what I was looking for!!
Posted by: Joan B | January 06, 2009 at 02:47 AM