Bits and Pieces: Cookies

February 20, 2005

Cookies

Today, I decided to bake some butterscotch oatmeal cookies. Cookies are something that I don't usually screw up.

But today was a slightly different day. I have been feeling fat (it's a female thing) recently. Volleyball games now interfere with my Sunday step class, and b/c of some retarded knee problems (why oh why), I've had to decrease the number of risers I use for step(poop). So not only have I been working out less, but I have been working out less strenuously.

So. Conclusion: I feel fat. Anyway. As I start the cookie making process, I realize that I am putting in TWO sticks of butter into my mix. TWO. See, I haven't made cookies in a long time, and I usually halve the recipe (= 1 stick), so this large amount of LARD doesn't usually shock me. But b/c I've been feeling fat, two large sticks of butter puts me into a slight frenzy (ie, "OMG, I'm going to be a lardass in the next five minutes. I'm going to bulge out of my pants and NEVER EVER fit into them again!!!") So, in my desperation to save my waistline, I decide that the *best* (note the sarcasm?) idea is to add extra flour. Oh, and more oatmeal too. So here I am with 1/4 cup more flour (so stupid idea) and 1/2 cup more oatmeal (not as stupid, but stupid). Let me tell you, extra flour makes it EXTREMELY hard to mix cookie dough (extra oatmeal doesn't help either, but I prefer to blame the flour). But I manage (giving self a huge blister at the same time) to mix it all together and make some cookies.

Well. They were supposed to be cookies. They uh...didn't melt in the oven. Actually, they didn't change shape AT ALL. What went in was what came out. I made some frankenstein variety of granola. Flour filled granola to be exact. And what's best? I have DOUBLE the amount of frankenstein granola than I usually would've made. And being the cheapass that I am? I'll prolly eat every single last one just b/c I don't want it all to go to waste.

Posted by szujin at February 20, 2005 11:33 PM

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I'm glad you didn't put the real amount in, since the extra 1/4T of butter per cookie would have certainly caused massive saddlebags.

(want to know how white flour turns into sugar and calories? :) )

Posted by: eduardo at February 21, 2005 10:08 PM

Silly Ginger. You've gotta keep in mind that you won't (hopefully) eat the whole batch of cookies at once. So those two huge sticks of butter are divided by however many cookies you are making, resulting in a much smaller dose per cookie.

As per Eduardo's question. Flour is a carbohydrate. Carbohyrates are essentially sugar molecules that have been re-arranged. Once you consume them, your body simply breaks them down into sugar and hence, energy.

Posted by: e1000 at February 23, 2005 01:36 PM

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