Having fun going back to school? Anyone eaten any cake recently? Any muffins, cupcakes, donuts, cookies, cake pops, or chocolate mousses? If you have, then I suggest you go start a diet. I however do not need to do so at all. Since I moved, I haven't had time to bake, and even if I had, I didn't have the proper ingredients. So I think I should be stick-slim by the end of this month.
Just joking.
Buuuuuuuuuuut, some lady gave us this caramel turtle brownie mix!! I have been wanting to make it since she gave it to us, which was July 11. LOL, yeah, I know. What if I make that and take all the credit for measuring everything so precisely?
AHAHAHA.
No. I don't lie.
Not with brownies.
Not with anything that's a baked good. (Scratch burnt sugar cake, I HATE it.)
Anyway, today's post will feature the gems of the baked goods universe, (anyone got a shorter name? lol) or the BGU. Actually, a more accurate name for the BGU would be Heaven. So, drumroll please.
nom nom nom nom nom NOMMMMM
Cookies, the gems of Heaven!!!
Now that we're settled, I can begin talking.
#trollface
There are many different types of cookies. And by different types I most definitely do not mean something like sugar cookies as opposed to chocolate crinkle cookies. No sirree bob. First of all that would take forever. And second of all it would make me hungry. I'm fasting right now, so thinking about chocolate is making me be all like...
As I was saying, or was about to say... I mean different types like the different ways some cookies are made.
- Drop Cookies
- Refrigerator Cookies
- Cutout Cookies
- Shaped/Molded Cookies
- Filled & Garnished Cookies
- Bar Cookies
- Fried Cookies (Yeah, yuck)
- No-Bake Cookies
- Sandwich Cookies
And I'm like, "You've obviously never experienced the joy of baking before, dude."
Well, now I'll go into the history of all these types of cookies, and trust me, this won't be boring. :)
Eat a cookie if you DO get bored whilst reading. If not, then stay where you are.
DROP
I'm always thinking about bird turds when someone says 'drop.' I've never been pooped on, thankfully. You know what? Nobody has invented a recipe for Bird Turd Cookies yet. They've got Bird's Nest but not Bird's Turd. There's Unicorn Poo but not Bird's Turd.
What is wrong with this world - clearly something very wrong.
But, hey - who WOULD want to compare their food with body waste?
Actually, food DOES end up becoming waste.
But that's so totally beyond the point. Drop cookies are cookies that are made of firm batter, that is dropped from spoons or fingers onto the cookie sheet. From my experience, drop cookies are fairly frustrating to make, especially if you have a LOT of batter. You're just standin' there, dropping doughball after doughball on the cookie sheet. Believe me, it's not fun after a while. An example of a drop cookie is #everyonesfavorite, chocolate chip.
and yes i will be utilizing multiple hashtags and advanced vocabulary to appear intelligent since first impressions count
Allow me to entertain you with a small yet important piece of history.
The Story of the Chocolate Chip Cookie
Times were hard for everybody living in America at the time of the Great Depression, which began somewhere around the 1930's. Trying to find a good, solid job was comparable to looking for a needle in a haystack. It was nearly impossible for everyone to go to bed with a full stomach. However, during this terrible time, someone used her time wisely. Her name was Ruth Graves Wakefield.
Ruth Graves Wakefield was an innkeeper. She bought an inn, which used to serve as a 'gas station' for travelers in the 1700s. Later, Ruth and her family opened a lodge called the Toll House Inn. Ruth worked as the baker there.
One day, she was making a specific cookie recipe that required baking chocolate. As a substitute, she chopped up a bar of Nestle's semi-sweet chocolate bar. As Ruth mixed the chopped up chocolate bar into the dough, she thought, "I'm a genius! The chocolate will melt whilst these cookies are baking, and they'll turn out just like they would have if I'd had the correct baking chocolate!"
However, her high expectations dropped completely. The chocolate did not melt completely; it held its shape, loudly and proudly, and it dotted each cookie with a promise of deliciousness. News about the new cookie spread like melted chocolate. Nestle's Semi-Sweet Chocolate bar was sold rapidly. And in 1939, Nestle introduced Nestle Toll House Real Semi-Sweet morsels!!
And that is the story of the chocolate chip cookie. Who would've invented them, if Ruth hadn't? Maybe it would be me! ;)
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FUN FACT TIME!! *dramatic Thomas the Train song blares in the background*
Did you know that in the old times, 'round the 1700s, people called cookies 'cakes.'
REFRIGERATOR
Refrigerator cookies are one type I actually enjoy making, which is strange for me because refrigerating takes time and I'm a really impatient person. What do I enjoy about refrigerator cookies?
Well, here's the one and only reason.
I GET TO CUT EM BRO
I remember one of the first times I made a refrigerator cookie. I used the Cocoa Buttons recipe in this book
...
The Cocoa Buttons recipe is on page 17, paired with Poppy Seed Cookies.
I was making this recipe with my mom and my brother one day. The sky was gray and gloomy; we were bored. So we were like, "Hey, let's bake summin'!" So of all recipes, we chose cocoa buttons. We made the dough and rolled it into logs to freeze. The logs we made were definitely not round at all. They looked like... errr... well... like.... (for once I'm lost for words)
Hey, don't blame me. I was probably about 5 or 6 years old. And my brother was 2 years younger.
When we took the 'logs' out of the freezer, we cut them up into 'round' slices and poked holes in them with straws, to resemble buttonholes. Then we put them in the oven.
We took them out. They were burnt (although you couldn't really tell because they were dark brown). They were burnt because they were too small. Our logs should have been thicker. I was sad that they'd burnt.
A few days later, we had some people over. And we still had those cookies. The company took some. I was surprised at him because they tasted really nasty.
I can still remember that moment quite vividly. However, if it had happened to me now, I'd be laughing my bottom off. I wouldn't be sad at all.
Another time I made refrigerator cookies was in 2009. I had borrowed this amazing book from the library...
I loved this book entirely. It was the source of most of the baking knowledge I possess. My favorite section in that book was the one called Cool, Cool Cookies. They're called Cool, Cool for two reasons: They look cool, and they're made of dough that has to be cooled.
The first time I made this was.... with my sister.
Shameful, I know. But she was supposed to protect me from getting burnt.
We made the striped and checkerboard cookies. We used such beautiful pastel colors that my mom's legs went all wiggly. 'Cause that's what they do when she sees colors.
Actually, that's my grandma. Sorry mom!!
My mummy wrote a post on the cookies we made. Eye Candy
You can read it! Don't worry, my mom is equally funny. Just in... a mom way. ;)
And another time I made these cookies was sometime in either 2011 or 2012... let me check.
But let's get to the point. From all these useless experience stories I've wasted much time talking about, you probably have figured out that refrigerator cookies are made like so: The dough is rolled into a log or molded into a box, and then frozen for about 2-3 hours, or for a whole night. After the dough is done chillin', it's taken out of the freezer, cut into slices, and placed on a cookie sheet. And if you're following a recipe that lets you color the dough, you're in for some fun!!
CUTOUT
Another fun type to make!! I've been making cutouts for as long as I can remember. The last time I made some was.... er, sometime in May or April. April, I think.
Cutout cookies are what they sound like. Just make some dough, roll it out, and start making furious cuts all over. It's simple! And after baking, all the cookies look the same. It's so neat!!
#andthatsbasicallyit
#awkwardsilence
#notmuchtosayaboutcutouts
SHAPED/MOLDED
These cookies are a pain to make, but it's a fun pain. These are easy to explain. Just make some dough, mold it into something like your brother's head, and put it on the sheet. Fun, huh! Last time I made these was sometime in April, March, or May.
Wow, I have too many last times.
Anyway, I was making Brown Sugar Cookies with my sister. The dough was udderly delicious. Couldn't help myself in taking a bit. ;) Here's a video of the first time I made them. This video is an epic fail and an utter embarrassment, so I recommend watching it only if you want to make these. However, if you know me and you watch the video, don't you dare get back at me to make me feel even more terrible. If you do so, I'm going to turn you into a cookie.
Which, after some pondering, doesn't seem that bad.
Brown Sugar Cookies - MYARTNF
#epicfail #dontwatchthis #embarrassing
One time, my brother made some shaped cookies from that Ultimate Cookie Book I showed you earlier. He made the shortbread melts, which are on pages 96 and 97. These are utterly delicious, so you can go and make some now and stop reading all this.
Just kidding. I said to stay here.
FILLED & GARNISHED
Ah. Filled and garnished cookies.
I don't have much experience with these, for one reason: They're complicated. However I do remember one time I was making cookies with my sister. After they were done baking, we frosted them with pink and green frosting and sprinkles. They LOOKED amazing. But guess what? We tried 'em, and they tasted 100% awful. Know why? We mixed up the sugar with SALT.
I mean, who DOES that?!
Well, it was an honest mistake. We were young.
I one time made thumbprint cookies with my grandmother when she visited from overseas. I don't remember it much. That's all I can say.
And this is all I can say about filled and garnished cookies.
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Arright, I'm sorry to say, but I'm going to have to end here. Writing about those other cookies would take the whole rest of the day, and I've been writing for hours. Don't worry, inshaaAllah I'll continue this post tomorrow. I hope you enjoyed this, and please share! Thank you for reading!!
NOW you can go make something.
SOURCES
Chocolate Chip Cookie
Cookie Types
(Surprising huh. All that talk and only two sources? XD)
Happy baking!
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