christine's christmas bake-a-thon

the gingerbread was too sticky. when i tried to roll it out to cut out the cute little boy and girl shapes that i was planning, it stuck like glue to the cutting board (sucked up all the flour i had put down and kept sticking)so that even after i had scraped as much off as possible with a spatula, it took me forever to wash all the pasty flour and dough off the cutting board. i think i remember that flour and water make glue - yes, yes, they do!

not wanting to waste all that dough (it still tasted pretty good when i licked the spatula), i heaped it onto a baking sheet, rolled it out flat on there and stuck it in the oven.

now i have to tell you, and this isn't just an excuse for my poor baking, but our oven sucks. the seals around the door are just loose and flapping so the stupid thing is constantly having to adjust it's temperature to make up for the lost heat. the poor seal also means that the back of the over is much hotter than the front and i have to keep rotating the tray if i want things to bake evenely.

anyway, the ginger bread was dry and awful when it came out, but at least it wasn't as messy as before - the whole thing went cleanly into the trash in one toss.

next up were peanut butter cookies. perfect dough. MmmmmMmm! the first batch went in and then i got distracted folding laundry, forgot i had cookies in and burned them. they went into the trash on top of the gingerbread.

so at that point i was about 2 hours into my cookie-a-thon and had no surviving cookies to show for it.

the second batch of pb's worked out well - the only good cookies that i'd make all day.

last up were the ginger snaps (that i made in a hurry to replace the lost gingerbread). now these i know how to bake - they're my favorite and i bake them quite often. but this time, afraid of burning them (and having no cookies to give to corey for christmas! :) ) i actually undercooked them!

it's a good thing that i enjoy my more 'domestic' hobbies cause i'm definitely no good at them!!