Two Steps Forward, One Step Not So Forward
So tonight I thought, "I bet I could bake cookies! Children can bake cookies, after all, and I am at least as competent as an eight-year-old." I asked the Internet for a recipe that didn't involve anything not presently in my cupboard.
It is important to note that the baking ingredients in my cupboard are not quite mine. They were left by badger5, who, unlike me, is consistently capable of making delicious things come out of the oven. So the lack of familiarity means that the baking things and I sometimes fail to grasp each other's subtle nuances. Case in point, the box of unsweetened baking chocolate neglected to inform me that it is not, in fact, a reasonable substitute for semisweet chocolate chips, even after I (inexpertly) hacked the blocks up with a knife.
Another complication was the structural integrity of the dough itself. I started out trying to make proper cookies, but I ended up with a tray bake.
So now I have cookie bars that really aren't bad at all, aside from the occasional massive chunk of unsweetened cocoa. My experience so far has been pretty much *nom nom BLECH nom nom nom nom BLECH*.
It is important to note that the baking ingredients in my cupboard are not quite mine. They were left by badger5, who, unlike me, is consistently capable of making delicious things come out of the oven. So the lack of familiarity means that the baking things and I sometimes fail to grasp each other's subtle nuances. Case in point, the box of unsweetened baking chocolate neglected to inform me that it is not, in fact, a reasonable substitute for semisweet chocolate chips, even after I (inexpertly) hacked the blocks up with a knife.
Another complication was the structural integrity of the dough itself. I started out trying to make proper cookies, but I ended up with a tray bake.
So now I have cookie bars that really aren't bad at all, aside from the occasional massive chunk of unsweetened cocoa. My experience so far has been pretty much *nom nom BLECH nom nom nom nom BLECH*.